Common Sense Medicine

About the Book

There is no simple drug, medicine, or food that will fix the world’s health issues, but it would be an enormous step if we could just change the orientation from profiting off illness to its prevention. Getting there, as our cover illustrates, requires listening to wise men of the past—Hippocrates, Darwin, and Claude Bernard. Restoring the collective health of our political systems requires the same reorientation. We know how to prevent our problems. We know how to heal the cracks in our society. But as with health care, crises demand our attention, and we go to tactical treatments that are all too often not in our strategic interest. There is simple and beneficial information that all can understand and use to make our world healthier. If people have their fundamental needs met their next option is usually outward, to make their communities better. As wise and religious leaders tell us our materialistic and self-interested orientation is the problem. Draining the swamp of government means getting the money out; restoring our democracy, rescuing it from the current oligarchy.

We can make America healthy again through a commonsense approach to healing our cracks. One that will be as successful as Thomas Paine’s revolution in Common Sense. Truly, as he said in his pamphlet that rocked the world, “We have it in our power to begin the world over again.”

The radical changes must come from the people, as it did in 1776. Just as colonial Americans shared Paine’s revolutionary pamphlet with each other, you can share the ideas in this book with your friends, family, and communities. Knowledge is power, and when put to good use everyone benefits.