The American healthcare system is on the verge of collapse. In my Emergency Room practice almost every bed is filled with obese, chronically ill fifty to eighty-year-olds with diabetes, heart failure, kidney disease, dementia, and multiple other problems. The growing number of Americans with these problems, who are kept alive only through expensive pharmaceuticals and invasive surgical procedures is ballooning and will eventually bankrupt the system.
Sadly, all of these problems are largely avoidable, but both doctors and patients lack the knowledge and will to implement the lifestyle and hormonal interventions necessary to prevent them.