Abstract
The current SARS-CoV-2 (Covid 19) pandemic has been tragic but also instructional. It revealed the flaws in life-course health management that caused aging populations to lack resiliency, carry multiple inflammation-driven noncommunicable diseases and be evermore dependent upon medical/caregiver services as well as lifelong drug prescriptions. We have witnessed decades of medical symptom management for diseases like asthma instead of actual medical cures. The increased disease burden combined with underlying misregulated inflammation among the aged population created the tipping point for this pandemic.
Highlights
Healthcare’s PromiseTwenty first century healthcare has featured two major promises that when combined would move the world significantly toward a sustainable healthcare system
This paper describes the perspective of human diseases converging rather than diverging
The SARS-CoV-2 pandemic has revealed the price we must pay for embracing an unsustainable healthcare system that has allowed populations to go through life accumulating ever increasing numbers of noncommunicable diseases (NCDs), with a treatment plan desperate to manage more and more symptoms across multiple diseases, but with few if any, actual NCD cures
Summary
Healthcare’s PromiseTwenty first century healthcare has featured two major promises that when combined would move the world significantly toward a sustainable healthcare system. The proposed solution for a system that has resulted in more disease and medical needs rather than more health is the path toward sustainable healthcare: treating the patient as a multi-species human holobiont and pursuing a microbiome-first medical strategy to support long term health.
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