For the past several decades, our search for singular causes and singular therapeutic targets for the chronic conditions that plague our health care system has come up empty.

This includes, notably, both the search for the cause of and the treatment for Alzheimer’s disease.

For these conditions, there are no smoking guns or silver bullets, and progress will require us to instead think in systems, and deploy the appropriate analytical tools.

Links

The Ancestral Health Symposium

Related Models

Game Level vs. Source Code
Applying Systems Analysis To Human Health (conversation with Dr. Tommy Wood)