✅ If we want to fight chronic disease we need to start early. ✅ Crispr is now approved for use in humans. ✅ The book that will teach you how to hate death. ✅ Sweden’s ”only longevity clinic”. ✅ Do you know how old your heart is? ✅ Look who just turned 191!

Early. That’s probably the most important - and, sadly, the most neglected - word in healthcare right now.

This is still the era of chronic disease and taken together they are the cause of death for most people. You think suicide, violence and accidents are huge problems in society? Well, let’s not have a tedious argument about that. Instead I will show you some numbers.

These are global figures. Most of you reading this don’t worry too much about the burgundy column on the right. It’s a good thing that we are so efficient at combatting infectious disease.

It means, however, that the blue boxes should be even bigger if we only took developed countries into account. By some estimates almost nine out of ten people in a country like Sweden will die from a chronic or noncommunicable disease (NCD).

To quote the World health statistics 2023 report:

Not seldom there is a striking omission in reports like the one I quoted above. When accounting for the causes of these chronic diseases we’re told that alcohol, tobacco or obesity is to blame.

So why is it that a chain smoking and morbidly obese 30-year-old that drinks too much has less risk of dying than the 85-year-old that has looked after their health all life long? What on earth could be the reason for that?