Why has this narrative grown where we are identifying as sick more and more?

There's a quote that I'd like to highlight from the beginning of the book. You said, quote, somewhere along the blurred lines, illness has become who I am, an identity that has become home. And so my question for you is, why do you think that is the prevailing narrative for so many people today? Why do you think so many people identify as sick?

You know, we became a very progressive and modern civilization, and we've kind of severed our cord to the nature in which surrounds us as we've built an industrialized our lives, we have literally severed the cord from the innate truth of nature. And when we look at nature, that's why when we return to nature, whether we're watching a sunset by the ocean or in forest, almost all of us will immediately decompress. Like that sigh, that sense of home and belonging comes forward because the nature you're looking at is the nature in you. And when we tap into that with the nature within ourselves, then we're not latching on and seeking outside identity. We're always seeking some sort of