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Medicine

8+ hours of deep, uninterrupted sleep daily will do more for your health than most modern medicines.

1 hour of exercise daily will do more for your health than most modern medicines.

Other treatments which have been invariably effective for all of human history, yet rarely prescribed nowadays: direct sunlight, whole unprocessed foods, and human connection.

The most common diseases e.g. heart disease, hypertension, diabetes, Alzheimer’s have all been linked to a severe lack of one or more of the above. Why, then, do we dismiss the importance of these treatments and consider them “nice-to-haves”, rather than life-saving?