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In dictionaries, and even in the World Health Organization, health is a noun.  You might have health, lose health or regain your health. Health is an adjective, is healthy walk, healthy diet, healthy attitude. Health is also a fake adjective: … Continue reading →

What is health?  What is healthiness? What is unhealthiness?  Where does illness fit into this picture?  What about aging? What are medicines? What are healthicines? Are alternative medicines healthicines?  No, they are not. There are many definitions of health, few … Continue reading →

What is wellness? How does ‘wellness’ relate to healthiness and illness? There are many definitions of wellness.  In Healthicine we define wellness as the absence of disease. You are either ill, or you are well. Wellness is not healthiness. Illness … Continue reading →

Today, we have Evidence Based Medicine, Science Based Medicine, Data Based Medicine, Instinct Based Medicine, Patient Based Medicine, Experience Based Medicine, Functional Medicine, disease based medicine, hospital based medicine, pseudo-evidence based medicine, and a jokes: Seven Alternatives to Evidence Based Medicine, Crap Based Medicine?  What’s going on? What should medicine be … Continue reading →

Health is whole, illness is a hole in your health. – The Healthicine Creed It’s as simple to measure illness, as it is to measure a hole. We can measure the depth, the breadth, the growth rate, without reference to the … Continue reading →