The Future of Health

We are at a crossroads. For more than a hundred years, despite all the “advances,” people’s health has only gotten worse: more and more chronic disease, more medicines, more sick children. The future of health can take two very different paths, and which one depends on us. This chapter is based on the work of A Midwestern Doctor.

The dark path

One path is to keep going as we are, but worse. It is the path of control: more medicines for everyone, from the cradle; messenger-RNA vaccines for everything; gene editing; and the idea of merging the human being with the machine (what they call transhumanism). In this future, medicine is run by the big pharmaceutical companies and by artificial intelligence, with digital medical records that watch everything, and you are kept dependent, believing you need a doctor and a pill for everything. That is medicine’s worst deception: making us believe we cannot be healthy on our own.

The bright path

The other path has already begun, and it is hopeful. People are waking up. The internet broke the monopoly of the lie: today a piece of propaganda is debunked in hours, and millions doubt what they used to swallow whole. Movements like “make America healthy again” (MAHA) and figures like Robert F. Kennedy Jr. are carrying these ideas into the government itself, something unthinkable not long ago.

On this path the buried cures return — DMSO, ultraviolet blood irradiation, energy medicine — and regenerative medicine advances: healing the “cell danger response,” using stem cells, and even getting the body to repair and regrow its own tissues. Health becomes personal and decentralized: each person with their own information, their local regenerative foods, and their tools to heal themselves.

And the most beautiful part: it is the reunion of ancient wisdom with modern science. What our grandparents knew — the sun, fasting, real food, salt, water — cutting-edge science is confirming. That is, precisely, the heart of this book.

Psychedelics and microdoses

One of the hottest and most argued-about subjects today in the world of longevity and rejuvenation is psychedelics, and in particular taking them in microdoses for mental health and well-being. The problem is that almost everything circulating is one person's story — what in research is called an "n=1" — or influencer advertising. Hard scientific data are scarce.

To change that, the Evipedia project published twenty evidence reviews on the most used psychedelics and their microdose protocols. Each review gathers up-to-date information on the substance: the possible benefits, the risks, the side effects and the contraindications.

The twelve substances and protocols they cover are: 5-MeO-DMT, Amanita muscaria, ayahuasca, DMT, ibogaine, ketamine, LSD, LSD analogues, MDMA, mescaline, psilocybin and THC.

What is interesting here is not just the list, but the method: they use cutting-edge artificial intelligence and a framework of their own that they call AI4L to distill the current state of the evidence for each intervention into a structured, transparent format that is continuously updated. On artificial intelligence in the service of health, see Chapter 25. You can consult it at https://evipedia.ai/psychedelics.

And here the five questions in Chapter 27 for reading a “scientific breakthrough” story apply to the letter: in a terrain full of enthusiasm and of people selling something, the five questions for reading a "scientific breakthrough" story are the best defense you have.

Note: almost all of these substances are illegal in most countries, and several are serious criminal offences. They are cited here because a serious review of the evidence exists, not as a recommendation: this book gives no doses, no protocols, and does not suggest you obtain them. You decide responsibly, and with your own country's law in front of you.

Building a parallel system

The healthy future will not come from above; we build it ourselves, outside the system. It is about creating things that do not depend on the pharmaceutical companies: local, regenerative food, networks of people who share what truly works, and ways to test and validate remedies without asking permission from those who profit from us staying sick. When those options exist, the old system will have to truly compete, and that is when everything changes.

What you can do

Do not wait for permission to be healthy. Take your health into your own hands: learn, try, and use the tools of this book. Care for your food, your sun, your sleep, your water and your minerals. Share what works for you with your family and friends: every person who wakes up helps change the course. The most powerful technology of the future is not a machine or a pill: it is a person who takes responsibility for their own health.

Longevity escape velocity

There is an idea worth knowing, because it changes how you think about old age entirely. It is called longevity escape velocity, and it describes the point at which, for every year you are alive, advances in medicine extend your life expectancy by more than a year. Once that threshold is crossed, life expectancy stops shrinking with age and begins to recede ahead of you. Aging would stop being a destiny and become an engineering problem: something that can be solved.

The term was coined by the British biogerontologist Aubrey de Grey in 2004, together with David Gobel of the Methuselah Foundation; at first they called it actuarial escape velocity. Ray Kurzweil, the inventor and engineer who popularized the idea, predicts we reach that point around 2033. Kurzweil holds that he is right about 86 percent of the time, though it should be said that this figure comes from his own assessment of himself, not from an independent third party.

Please apply here the five questions in Chapter 27 for reading a "scientific breakthrough" story. Longevity escape velocity is a reasonable and fascinating hypothesis, not an established fact; the dates in this field have moved many times, and there are serious gerontologists who consider it far too optimistic. Nobody should organize their life around a particular year.

But the practical point does not depend on Kurzweil getting the date right. If there is any chance that treatments which change the rules arrive within your lifetime, what matters most is getting there, and getting there in good condition. It does you little good for medicine to solve aging in 2033 if you arrive at that date with a ruined liver, a wrecked metabolism, and a dependence on eight medications. Seen this way, everything this book proposes —eating real food, moving, sleeping, removing the toxins, tending the relationship between body, mind and spirit— is also a very simple strategy: stay in the race long enough to find out whether the race is won.

In short

The future of health is not written. It can be a world of dependent, sick people, controlled by the pharmaceutical companies and the machines; or a world of free, healthy people, owners of their own bodies, uniting the best of the old with the best of the modern. The good news is that you do not have to wait: that healthy future can begin today, in your own home.

To learn more (sources in English)

Making each of us healthy again: https://www.midwesterndoctor.com/p/making-each-of-us-healthy-again

The year in review: MAHA's wins and the window we can't lose: https://www.midwesterndoctor.com/p/the-year-in-review-mahas-wins-dmso

Regenerative medicine and the cell danger response: https://www.midwesterndoctor.com/p/regenerative-medicine-and-the-cell