Microbiome Medicine Summit 2017 By Daniel Kraft, MD
Microbiome Medicine Summit 2017 By Daniel Kraft, MD
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Last year I wrote about the Microbiome Medicine Summit, which was not really a summit/conference but rather a collection of interviews with “nutrition specialists” and “microbiome experts” – some real, others not so much – conducted by Raphael Kellman, who has been trained as an MD but is very eager to believe and report on non-scientific statements involving the human microbiome. RK has been award the “Overselling the Microbiome” Award by Jonathan Eisen.
Most of the talks at last year’s Microbiome Medicine Summit provided very little science, a lot about “nurturing your microbes” , some crazy stuff, and lots of promotions to buy overpriced probiotic drinks, minerals, and self-help books. Even more telling, there were very few interviews with real microbiome experts or scientists.
I wrote about some of these talks in my blog posts from last year: Microbiome Medicine Summit with Deepak Chopra et al, part 2 with Donna Gates, part 3 with Ann Louise Gittleman, part 4 with Joseph Mercola, and part 5 with Larry Dossey.
This year, the Microbiome Medicine Summit returned in its second edition, with lots of new interviews, but basically the same strange mix of a tiny bit of science and lots of quackery, snake oil, alternative facts, and of course links to dubious websites selling products claiming to cure diseases. As in last year’s collection, most of these interviews were with nutritionists and holistic doctors. And again, most interviews were conducted by Raphael Kellman, who sometimes talks more than the person he is interviewing, and never, ever, seems to ask a critical question. The schedule can be found here.
I took on the (at times painful) task of sitting through several of these talks so that I could share with you what they were about. Some of these talks were not too bad, with lots of “feed your microbes by eating healthy” types of messages, but some were outright weird or even dangerous. I reported about these talks on Twitter and compiled the tweets and some responses on Storify.
Here are my reports on Storify.
What is health?
The word health refers to a state of complete emotional and physical well-being. Healthcare exists to help people maintain this optimal state of health.
According to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), healthcare costs in the United States were $3.5 trillionTrusted Source in 2017.
However, despite this expenditure, people in the U.S. have a lower life expectancy than people in other developed countries. This is due to a variety of factors, including access to healthcare and lifestyle choices.
Good health is central to handling stress and living a longer, more active life. In this article, we explain the meaning of good health, the types of health a person needs to consider, and how to preserve good health.
In 1948, the World Health Organization (WHO)Trusted Source defined health with a phrase that modern authorities still apply.
“Health is a state of complete physical, mental, and social well-being and not merely the absence of disease or infirmity.”
In 1986, the WHOTrusted Source made further clarifications:
“A resource for everyday life, not the objective of living. Health is a positive concept emphasizing social and personal resources, as well as physical capacities.”
This means that health is a resource to support an individual’s function in wider society, rather than an end in itself. A healthful lifestyle provides the means to lead a full life with meaning and purpose.
In 2009, researchers publishing inThe LancetTrusted Source defined health as the ability of a body to adapt to new threats and infirmities.
They base this definition on the idea that the past few decades have seen modern science take significant strides in the awareness of diseases by understanding how they work, discovering new ways to slow or stop them, and acknowledging that an absence of pathology may not be possible.
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