Low-grade anxiety, depression and inflammation precede chronic illness by 10 to 20 years. If you address that, you can prevent most chronic disease. If you also address sleep, managing stress, exercise, mind-body coordination and nutrition and move from anxiety, depression, hostility and anger to love, compassion, joy and equanimity—then your body shifts biologically.
Deepak Chopra, MD Founder, The Chopra Foundation and Founder, Chopra Global
Our brain, which basically interprets the universe for us, undergoes degeneration with age, which can be brought about by trauma, genetics and unhealthy lifestyles. But at the end of the day, you have to trigger inflammation in the brain to get the symptomology of disease that results from the massive killing of nerve cells.
Rudolph Tanzi, PhD Joseph P. and Rose F. Kennedy Professor of Neurology, Harvard Medical School
Half of the world’s population lacks access to essential health care services. Telehealth exploded during the pandemic, and it is helping to monitor people outside of the hospital. Insider Intelligence estimated 30 million U.S. patients will use remote patient monitoring tools by 2024—that’s about 28% higher than today.
Mehmet C. Oz, MD Emmy® Award-Winning Host, “The Dr. Oz Show” and Cardiothoracic Surgeon, NewYork-Presbyterian/Columbia University Medical Center
Joe Perry Lead Guitarist, GRAMMY®-Winning Songwriter and Co-Founder of the American Rock and Roll Band, Aerosmith You have to go to a place where you’re not afraid to go outside of the box – where you can feel free, cut loose and not worry about the consequences.
Renée Fleming Soprano; Arts and Health Advocate; Artistic Advisor, John F. Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts I have always known that music has an extraordinary effect on people. Over the years, countless people have come up to me and told me that my music has helped them deal with loss and illness. Music does affect our physical and mental health, and that’s now being proved by science.
Some 80% of heart disease is preventable through a healthy lifestyle. That’s why I ended up in preventive cardiology – cardiovascular disease is largely preventable.
Jacquelyn Kulinski, MD Director of the Preventive Cardiology Program and Associate Professor of Medicine, Medical College of Wisconsin
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