Gary Brecka argues that Western medicine treats diseases after they develop instead of preventing them. Exercise works like a drug for chronic conditions, but prescribing it means prescribing community, since social connection drives people to actually move. Depression often starts with isolation and reduced mobility.
In Western medicine, we do great at treating the problem after somebody has diabetes, where we can treat it. But why not think about preventing that from happening in the first place? And we don't spend nearly enough time thinking about that and incentivizing it.
When you look at the broad data on status of healthcare in America, we don't realize what portion of our tax revenue is just going to support preventable chronic disease.
Exercise is a first-line drug. That's an exact example of the medicine of exercise. What we're really prescribing is community.
One of the first Signs of early depressive symptoms is people become more and more and more reclusive, less social interaction and less mobility.
It's really what motivation is, which is people want to connect and they want to help other people. It's so much better to have a community, and that's what I realized early on. Bringing people together was a way to harness motivation and to encourage motivation. That really made a big difference. When people have gotten accustomed to the sedentary lifestyle, how do you get them off their ass? That's the $100,000 question, and I'll give you two answers to that. Number one is Ultimate human.
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