Tamen Haddad-Garcia

Saying that somebody is healthy or not is not really something that we should say, but it's more something that everybody needs to decide for themselves.

And that's a really important finding and life-saving insight that we should take with ourselves on a daily basis.

Well, that's the thing.

Health, if we understand it as the ability to adapt to the inevitable challenges that life presents us, if they're adapting to the challenges and if they're able to feel that they feel healthy, then that's...

That's up to them, right?

Because if we focus it on solely disease or biomarkers, then most of us would actually be ill, right?

So you could have somebody who runs Ironman and who trains for every single athletic competition and his peak performance and eats incredibly well, sleeps well, has low stress, but they wear glasses, right?

that would then deem them as ill, right?

Because they have an eye condition.

How can we say that somebody who has glasses, right, is healthy, but somebody who has an unhealthy or harmful behavior is not healthy?

There is the definition of health that was put forth by the WHO, which has been the main definition of health for decades, which is health is a state of complete physical, mental, and social well-being, and not merely the absence of disease or infirmity.

And this is clearly...

false, right?

Then none of us could be healthy based off of this premise, right?

If you have cavities, if you wear glasses, if you're a little bit stressed, if you need to go to the bathroom, you're no longer healthy.

You can't be healthy, right?

So Alex, Dr. Haddad, my co-author,

he challenged this definition and put out a call to redefine and reconceptualize health with the British Medical Journal.

And he gathered the best minds, the top experts, the top academics and scientists and communities around the world to challenge this definition and propose a new one.

And that's this one.