Dear Subscriber,
Here is some sobering news- not dissimilar to the canary in the coal mine.
My generation – Baby Boomers, are suffering worse health than the generation before us – the “greatest generation” which went through the depression!
This is NOT the first study to note this problem. The USA has fallen behind other countries in measures of health compared to other high earning countries. The measurements were based on: heart disease, hypertension, stroke, diabetes, arthritis, lung disease, cancers (not skin), depression, and cognitive impairments.
Now, according to the pundits, we ought to be in far greater “health” than our predecessors. After all, we live in the age of modern medicine, and courtesy of government measures, most everybody has access to “health” care. Many get government sponsored “free care” at your expense.
So, you would think that with the access to “health care” we would be in better health than our previous generation. But that is not the case, which should prove that more “health care” does not equate to better health. Rather, it should show that government tyranny, imposing ITS definition of “health care” has led to more chronic illness in the Boomers than the poor depression era generation. Need more evidence? The subsequent younger generations are faring even worse. They are falling ill even before adulthood with allergies, lung issues, obesity, chronic immune dysfunction, autism, chronic immune dysfunction, gender dysphoria, and more. But they have had even more access to “health care” with frequent baby visits, vaccination, drugs and more. With each succeeding generation, health status falls, even with the riches to get all the “health care” a tyrannical government wants for us.
The foregoing not enough for you? BMJ reported years ago that medical error (meaning medical care) is the 3rd leading cause of death. (https://www.bmj.com/content/353/bmj.i2139). Mainstream controlled media did not pick up on that one, or did I miss it?
Some 35 years ago, I wrote an op-ed for the Anchorage Daily News entitled “Remaining Ill with Bodies that Cannot Heal”. It closed with the following warning: “Until medicine addresses the three fundamental causes of disease, malnutrition, toxins and stress, we will pay more and get less, remaining ill with bodies that cannot heal.” Not tooting my horn. Just saying paradigms are slow to change and they snuff out dissent, as is clearly happening today, as people like me are totally ignored by the RULERS who have brought you this horror.
From what I can tell, one good way to stay in better health is NOT to accept “health care” the way government and industry have set up. Medicine has not one synthetic drug that cures any chronic disease, nor does it have anything to address the burgeoning intoxication of the environment, the horrible SAD diet, and it actually ramps up our stresses by literally getting in our face, sending people into a frenzy to perhaps drug it out with chemicals that can lead to chronic disease.
Let’s consider what the “greatest” generation did not have.
1. Dozens of vaccines to “protect” them from infection.
2. Most all foods that are laced with pesticides or chemicals. (Also consider Roundup or glyphosate).
3. Ubiquitous plastic particles to inhale or ingest (hormone disruptors or particulate irritants).
4. Synthetic petrochemical pharmaceuticals greeting them from cradle to adulthood
5. Onerous government controlling them from cradle to end of life.
6. Depleted soils (deficient minerals, an epidemic).
7. Junk and synthetic food bonanzas.
8. Lots of money for lots of empty calories.
9. Hormone disruptors (chemicals) everywhere. Fluoridated water.
10. Sexual identity crises.
11. No antibiotics (until the 1940’s) to destroy their gut.
12. Free hands out from government so that they did not have to labor (get exercise) for their meals.
13. Governments confiscating up to 50% of the fruits of their labor.
14. Non-stop TV commercials pushing chemical drugs to treat symptoms, rather than healing information. (We are one of the few nations in the world that permit this).
15. EMF everywhere.
16. Insurance or third-party carriers than only cover disease maintenance and not prevention or actual healing of the malady.
17. Endless non defensive wars hemorrhaging us. (We were attacked in WWII and it was the last time a semi legitimate Congress actually issued a Constitutional Declaration of War).
And, they did not have the epidemic of dementia we are suffering today, or statin drugs handed out like water.
I shudder to think of what the millennial generation will endure when they reach my age. I agree that modern medicine is miraculous for acute threats. That is why I enjoyed my time years ago as an emergency physician. But the overwhelming majority of “health care” is chronic disease maintenance. A total waste of resources, which we can see spiraling the entire nation into impoverishment.
The tyrannical government is not going to notice anything is wrong, except the few children who do not get vaccinated (but will blame them), and those who dare to question the chemical-based disease maintenance paradigm. But if that paradigm were so good, as the Progressives (who want to imprison you with universal “disease maintenance”) claim, why are “we paying more and getting less, remaining ill with bodies that cannot heal”? All of us, young and old, are to be literally strangled by the outcome of this.
Conclusion: My generation is the “canary in the coal mine” for the worth and effectiveness of the modern “medical” paradigm. I do not think it will change until it utterly collapses, which seems to be occurring in slow motion, as is the economy.
Please feel free to share this with the doubting Thomases. Its time to sober up our fellow Americans before we are all relegated to a physical life of misery starting from an early age.
To Your Excellent Health!
Robert Jay Rowen, MD
UNIVERSITY PARK, Pa. — Baby boomers are more likely to live with numerous chronic health conditions than earlier generations, according to new research from Penn State and Texas State University.
Study authors warn that the growing rate of multiple chronic health conditions (multimorbidity) among older Americans represents a real health threat to the nation. If it continues, this trend will almost certainly place increased strain on the well-being of older adults, medical infrastructures, and federal insurance systems. On a related note, the amount of Americans over 65 is projected to increase by an astounding 50 percent by 2050.
Researchers note that this isn’t the first study to indicate greater health deteriorationamong today’s older adults. Moving forward, they would like to see their findings help inform new policies addressing this nationwide issue.
“Even before the COVID-19 pandemic, we were beginning to see declines in life expectancy among middle-aged Americans, a reversal of more than a century long trend,” says Steven Haas, associate professor of sociology and demography at Penn State, in a statement. “Furthermore, the past 30 years has seen population health in the U.S. fall behind that in other high-income countries, and our findings suggest that the U.S. is likely to continue to fall further behind our peers.”
Study authors analyzed data on adults aged 51 years and older originally collected by theHealth and Retirement Study, which is a a nationally representative survey of aging Americans. Multimorbidity was measured by looking out for nine chronic conditions: heart disease, hypertension, stroke, diabetes, arthritis, lung disease, cancer (excluding skin cancer), high depressive symptoms, and cognitive impairment. Variations in the specific conditions driving generational differences in multimorbidity were also investigated.
Baby Boomers in worse health than Great Depression-era Americans?
Ultimately, researchers concluded that more recently born generations of older adults are more likely to live with more chronic conditions, and develop those issues earlier in life.
“For example, when comparing those born between 1948-65 – referred to as Baby Boomers — to those born during the later years of the Great Depression (between 1931 and 1941) at similar ages,” Prof. Haas adds, “Baby Boomers exhibited a greater number of chronic health conditions. Baby Boomers also reported two or more chronic health conditions at younger ages.”
Notably, sociodemographic factors also appeared to affect the risk of multimorbidity among all generations. Examples include race and ethnicity, whether the person was born in the U.S., childhood socioeconomic situations, and childhood health.
The most common conditions seen in adults with multimorbidity (across all generations) were arthritis and hypertension. Additionally, some collected evidence suggests both high depressive symptoms and diabetes contributed to the observed generational multimorbidity risk differences.
Study authors say there are multiple potential explanations for these findings.
“Later-born generations have had access to more advanced modern medicine for a greater period of their lives, therefore we may expect them to enjoy better health than those born to prior generations,” concludes Nicholas Bishop, assistant professor at Texas State University. “Though this is partially true, advanced medical treatments may enable individuals to live with multiple chronic conditions that once would have proven fatal, potentially increasing the likelihood that any one person experiences multimorbidity.”
Prof. Bishops adds that today’s older adults have had “greater exposure” to health risk factors such as obesity. Also, health issues are more likely to be diagnosed in older adults nowadays thanks to improvements in medical technology.
The study is published in The Journals of Gerontology.
Abstract
Objectives
Multimorbidity, also referred to as multiple chronic conditions (MCCs), is the concurrent presence of 2 or more chronic health conditions. Increasing multimorbidity represents a substantial threat to the health of aging populations. Recent trends suggest greater risk of poor health and mortality among later-born cohorts, yet we are unaware of work examining cohort differences in multimorbidity among aging U.S. adults.
Methods
We examine intercohort variation in MCC burden in adults aged 51 years and older using 20 years (n = 33,598; 1998–2018) of repeated assessment drawn from the Health and Retirement Study. The index of MCCs included 9 chronic conditions (heart disease, hypertension, stroke, diabetes, arthritis, lung disease, cancer excluding skin cancer, high depressive symptoms, and cognitive impairment). We used linear mixed models with various approaches to estimate age/period/cohort effects to model intercohort patterns in MCC burden. We also explored variation in the specific conditions driving cohort differences in multimorbidity.
Results
More recent cohorts had greater MCC burden and developed multimorbidity at earlier ages than those born to prior generations. The burden of chronic conditions was patterned by life-course sociodemographic factors and childhood health for all cohorts. Among adults with multimorbidity, arthritis and hypertension were the most prevalent conditions for all cohorts, and there was evidence that high depressive symptoms and diabetes contributed to the observed cohort differences in multimorbidity risk.
Discussion
Our results suggest increasing multimorbidity burden among more recently born cohorts of aging U.S. adults and should inform policy to address diminishing health in aging populations.
https://academic.oup.com/psychsocgerontology/advance-article-abstract/doi/10.1093/geronb/gbac070/6591182?redirectedFrom=fulltext&login=false
I have been weaning myself from the industrial medical complex for some time now. And yesterday I finally pulled the plug on my general practitioner of some 25 years. I canceled my biannual checkup when I realized the few issues I am dealing with I already know how to deal with them. As a side note, I had remained in a relationship with him should I end up in the hospital because he is well-regarded there. But now that hospitalists have taken over and the general practitioner can no longer visits his patients, there is no value in retaining the relationship.
I wonder if there is any chance all the environmental pollution could somehow be anti-aging. Okay, I guess not.
Something that should not be forgotten are the public and private campaigns to change our diets, based on the erroneous information, that lasted many decades. I'm referring to the high carbohydrate low-fat diets, and the vilification of saturated fats, including animal fats and tropical oils, which would then be replaceced by partially hydrogenated vegetable oil, which promoted cardiovascular disease at 13 times the rate of, say, tallow, lard, and palm kernel oil, (and other tropical oils such as coconut can actually be beneficial).
https://www.andyvance.com/mcdonalds-caves-to-bully-changes-french-fries-forever/