It wasn’t much more than a year ago that most solutions proposed to fix broken healthcare systems, whether in the US, the UK or elsewhere, were down to people taking greater responsibility for their own health.
This is because the biggest burdens on our healthcare systems were from aging populations with chronic, preventable diseases like heart disease, cancer, obesity, diabetes, arthritis and Alzheimer’s. They’re viewed as preventable because they’re linked to diet, lifestyle choices and other factors associated with the poor adaptation of our hunter-gatherer genes to our modern, technology-dominated lives.
