Revival Strategy Plan: If a Pill Could Do This, It Would Be on Every Billboard in America
The solution to the healthcare crisis is not a pill.
It’s a plan. And it starts here.
By ChatGPT and Michael J Dziak
In the U.S., eight of ten deaths are caused by chronic diseases that are mostly avoidable. (CDC) They are bankrupting our healthcare system, devastating our families, and making us sick and tired.
What if you learned there is a way to prevent, treat, and even
reverse chronic disease – not with a miracle drug,
but with daily choices backed by decades of solid science?
The truth is, that solution exists.
It’s not locked in a lab.
It’s not awaiting FDA approval.
It’s sitting on your plate.
It’s in your community.
It’s at your fitness center.
It’s in your frame of mind.
Did you know that heart disease, the leading cause of death in the U.S., responds better to lifestyle changes than to most prescriptions on the market? (The Lancet)
So, what’s the problem?
What we’re facing is not a lack of innovation—it’s a lack of implementation. We can prevent, treat, and even reverse many of our most costly chronic conditions with tools as old as time: movement, connection, stress reduction, what’s on our fork, and most importantly—making health a priority.
This appeal is intended as a wake-up-call to rethink what most of us assume about medicine, health, and the systems we’ve built around them. Because if health is the goal, then we don’t need another pill.
We need a revival.
Proposing Five Tactics for a National Health Revival
We are proposing ten-year National Health Revival Challenge. With your help we can make the U.S. the 4th healthiest nation in the world by 2036.
This National Health Revival proposes bold, science-based proven strategies and actions. Each group of tactics is focused on key pressure points in our dysfunctional U.S. health system. Together, they are presented as a blueprint to heal a nation. Offered for consideration are these five tactics and strategies:
Tactic I. National Health Literacy
Health Revival Through Clinician Training, Education, and Public Literacy
Revival Strategy 1 – Integrating Nutritional Therapy Practices into medical board exams
Purpose: Reform medical education to treat nutrition as a front line clinical intervention.
Why this matters: Despite nutrition being one of the top risk factors for disease, fewer than 25% of U.S. medical schools offer a dedicated course on it. (Academic Medicine). View Strategy 1 BRIEF
Revival Strategy 2 – Creating a Health-Literate Nation Through Self-Health Credentials
Purpose: Equip every citizen—especially students—with the ability to understand, apply, and act on personal health knowledge.
Why this matters: Less than 22% of surveyed medical schools meet the minimum recommendation of 25 hours of nutrition education for medical students. (BMJ Nutrition) Health decisions should be as intuitive as reading a label. View the Strategy 2 BRIEF
Revival Strategy 3 – Restoring Psychiatric Health Through Food-as-Medicine Protocols
Purpose: Pilot a food-first standard of care for certain mental health conditions.
Why this matters: A wealth of research shows that diet affects mental health, including observational and epidemiological studies, prospective longitudinal studies, randomized controlled trials (RCTs), and meta-analyses. (Psychiatric Times) View the Strategy 3 BRIEF
Tactic II. National Health Reform
Health Revival by Accelerating Clinical Practice Transformation
Revival Strategy 4 – Slowing or Reversing 200,000 Chronic Diseases by July 4, 2027
Purpose: Show documented evidence that chronic disease prevention, suppression and reversal are routinely occurring in alternative medicine clinics.
Why this matters: If people don’t know this is possible, it isn’t. “Every institution that impacts your health makes more money when you are sick and less when you are healthy—from hospitals to pharma to medical schools, and even insurance companies.” (Casey Means MD | Heroic) Taking a pharma-first approach is not making an informed decision.
Review the Strategy 4 BRIEF
Revival Strategy 5 – Launching the American Health Restoration Medical Association
Purpose: Establish a not-for-profit professional association to unify, legitimize, and standardize alternative and integrative medicine.
Why this matters: Functional, lifestyle, and integrative medicine deliver better outcomes, but lack shared standards and advocacy. The ACLM has proven this model works (American College of Lifestyle Medicine).
Review the Strategy 5 BRIEF
Revival Strategy 6 – Providing Incentives for Reinventing Traditional Medical Practices
Purpose: Support and incentivize traditional clinicians in transitioning toward evidence-based, lifestyle-focused personal care.
Why this matters: Medical education in lifestyle medicine is…a necessary intervention to allow all health providers to learn how to effectively and efficiently counsel their patients toward adopting and sustaining healthier behaviors. (Sage Journals)
Review the Strategy 6 BRIEF
Tactic III. National Health Engagement
Health Revival by Scaling Population Engagement
Revival Strategy 2 – Creating a Health-Literate Nation Through Self-Health Credentials
(See Strategy I.2 above—this is relevant here for population engagement.)
Review the Strategy 2 BRIEF
Revival Strategy 7 – Accelerating Chronic Disease Recovery Through Support Groups
Purpose: Scale the proven power of peer accountability to transform lives between clinical visits.
Why this matters: Individuals who returned for follow-up assessment and entered the CHIP lifestyle intervention with elevated risk factors were able to maintain improvements in most biometrics for more than 3 years. The results suggest that the community-based CHIP lifestyle intervention can be effective in the longer term, even when delivered by volunteers. (BMJ Open) Review the Strategy 7 BRIEF
Revival Strategy 8 – Scaling Wellness Through Rapid Community Health Improvement X-Prizes
Purpose: Spur local innovation using know success models with national-scale potential.
Why this matters: The Blue Zones model shows that city- and community-level environmental changes can add years to lifespan (NIH Bookzone). Let’s use X-Prize models to find and reward what works. Review the Strategy 8 BRIEF
Tactic IV. National Health Outcomes
Health Revival by Aligning ROI with Population Health Outcomes
Revival Strategy 9 – Paying Workers Displaced by AI with a Self-Health Income Program
Purpose: Turn the economic disruption of AI automation into a national wellness opportunity.
Why this matters: NCBI review on global health economics (2023) found that population health improvements worldwide could generate up to US $12 trillion in economic benefits (≈8% of global GDP) by expanding employment, reducing premature deaths, and enhancing productivity. (PubMed Central) Review the Strategy 9 BRIEF
Revival Strategy 10 – Redefining Drug Approval Standards for Chronic Disease
Purpose: Shift regulatory focus toward health outcomes, not symptom suppression.
Why this matters: Lifestyle approaches have been shown to outperform medication in blood pressure measurement and hypertension status at 6 months. (JAMA Network) Let’s make that the new benchmark. Review the Strategy 10 BRIEF
Revival Strategy 11 – Using Drug Ads to Fund Alternative Medicine Awareness Initiatives
Purpose: Redirect a portion of pharma ad budgets toward public education encouraging proven lifestyle approaches.
Why this matters: Direct-to-consumer drug ad spending exceeds $8 billion per year (CSRXP). Perhaps it’s time to balance the scale with ads for known healing treatments. Review the Strategy 11 BRIEF
Tactic V. A National Dialogue
A Public Invitation to Offer Innovative Solutions
Revival Strategy 12 – Tell us What’s Missing
Purpose: Harvest untapped brilliance from thought leaders, clinicians, providers, and patients.
Why this matters: The NIH’s All of Us initiative shows that broader participation leads to better solutions https://allofus.nih.gov/. A health system built by many is one that serves all.
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Let’s have a health revival to bring back what works – then supercharge it.
A Century ago, Americans moved more, ate real whole foods, built strong communities, and rarely relied on pharmaceuticals for chronic disease. We can revive that mindset—then we can amplify it with AI, real-world data, and by making informed, empowered, responsible personal choices.
We are entering a new era where there’s a clear path to a National Health Revival. We’re not falling behind because of a lack of medical breakthroughs—we’re falling behind because we’ve failed to connect what we already know with how we can actually live.
The tools are here.
The urgency is real.
It’s time to close the gap between knowing better and living better. The important question is who will step up and help lead this revival?
Let’s have a revival!
Are you in?
Truth, Clarity, & the Fine Print
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