Why Well Being Has a Future
Nov 4 · 5 min read
An invitation to Sages and Scientists Symposium, Crystal Bridges Museum, Bentonville Arkansas
By Deepak Chopra, MD
Despite a steady increase in life expectancy, medical science is facing diminishing returns. It has been estimated that every increase in lifespan since 1990 has resulted in only ten months of increased healthy life; the rest is only prolonged suffering and the decline of aging. Globally more people now die of so-called “lifestyle diseases” than from infectious diseases. Doctors cannot make choices about lifestyle; only the patient can…

