Achieving a viable equilibrium: exploring the connections between human health and the world we inhabit

Abstract

In recent decades, the Western medical establishment has become more cognizant of the connection between our environment and our health, a relationship Eastern medicine has respected for centuries. Throughout history, physicians, scientists, and scholars have postulated that the health of humans is dependent, at least in part, on the health of the planet. Objective data now exist that allow us to better understand this relationship so that we may work to continue to improve the health of individuals, communities, the human race, and the planet we inhabit.