Unfortunately, that s what we frequently do. Our lifestyles are making us sick. And these lifestyles are defined by our culture. This means that our culture is making us sick by promoting damaging lifestyles. So long as we practice damaging lifestyles we will suffer from chronic, recurrent health problems, along with regular doctor visits, lifetime drug maintenance, and occasional surgeries.
Medicine claims ignorance as to the causes of our major diseases.
Since these powerful industries profit from treating disease, there is little energy being spent on discovering, or announcing, the causes. If you want to prevent or cure yourself of a health problem, it s up to you. Since the cause is usually in your lifestyle, it has to be up to you. But we can help. As medical anthropologists, we use medicine, anthropology, and biochemistry to discover the lifestyle causes of disease, solving medical mysteries that have baffled, and enriched, medicine.