The New Normal Is Sick. And It’s Killing Us.

We’ve normalized being unwell, but it wasn’t always this way.

The choice is ours to make.

There was a time, within living memory, when feeling well didn’t require a prescription.

When kids could sit still without stimulants.

When adults didn’t start statins in their 40s.

When heart attacks in your 50s were a tragedy—not a routine calendar event.

It sounds like ancient history.

But it was the 1970s.

Back then, about 14% of adults had obesity.
Today, it's over 42%.

Chronic conditions in children were rare—under 3% by some estimates.
Now, nearly half of children have at least one, from asthma to ADHD.

Your average pantry didn’t revolve around products so engineered they're now classified as ultra-processed, making up over 60% of the American diet and designed to override hunger and hijack reward systems.

Wellness is weird.

That’s the problem.
We didn’t just get sicker—we got used to it.

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How Did We Lose the Plot?

Not in one dramatic moment.

We didn’t wake up one morning and decide, “Let’s engineer a society where most people feel exhausted, inflamed, anxious, and unwell.”

No.

It happened gradually.
A cereal ad here.
A pharmaceutical sponsorship there.
Portions up, sleep down.
Movement became optional.
Screen time became mandatory.

We built a world that is perfectly designed to create chronic illness.

And then we taught people to blame themselves for struggling in it.

The systems are misaligned.
The incentives are backward.
The cultural narrative is broken.

We don’t ask why everyone’s getting sicker.
We just ask which medication you’re on.

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Who’s to Blame?

We could say Big Food.
Or Big Pharma.
Or agricultural subsidies.
Or algorithm-driven attention economies.

And yes—they’re all in the room.

But so are we.

Not because we chose this.
But because we’ve stopped noticing it.

We treat chronic illness like bad weather.
Unfortunate, but inevitable.

But what if it’s not?

What if you’re not broken?
What if your body is responding exactly as it should…
to a world completely out of sync with human health?

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How Do You Stop the Tide?

You don’t fix the ocean.
You build a raft.

And you help others do the same.

You stop normalizing what’s killing us.
You start reclaiming what’s actually normal:

Waking up with energy.
Pooping without a prescription or requiring fiber in a pill.
Eating food that doesn’t come with a barcode.
Moving not for punishment, but for joy.
Going to bed without a battle.
Feeling stable in mood, clear in mind, strong in body.

These aren’t wellness luxuries.
They’re biological baselines.

And when we start treating them that way, something radical happens:

We stop managing disease.
We start healing from the root.

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This Isn’t About Discipline. It’s About Design.

Your mitochondria aren’t weak.
They’re overwhelmed.

Your hormones aren’t defective.
They’re adapting.

Your metabolism isn’t broken.
It’s confused—by inputs it was never built to handle.

But systems can be rewired.
Your body wants to heal.

Not through willpower.
But through rhythm.
Through nourishment.
Through small, consistent, defiant choices that say:

I remember what health feels like.
And I’m not settling for anything less.

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If you’ve read this far, it’s because something inside you remembers what health is supposed to feel like.

You’re not imagining the fatigue. The inflammation. The chaos disguised as “normal.”

You’re not alone. And you’re not broken.

But you do need a new compass.

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One healing habit at a time.

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Because the world won’t fix itself.
But you can build something better, starting with your next habit.

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