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The Highway to Health

A Roadmap to Better Wellness Through Awareness and Action

Dr. Tom O'Bryan

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Our current Administration is putting a tremendous amount of effort into bringing awareness to the American public, a cold “reality check” about the terrible results of health care in our country. I, for one, believe there is a sincerity behind this slogan “Make America Healthy Again” (MAHA), and I’m all for it. It’s extremely difficult to argue with these types of “Wait, What” numbers.



This graph shows that the U.S. spends more than twice as much on health care as most other countries, yet has by far the worst outcomes in terms of life expectancy.


Common “coffee talk” now includes food colorings affecting our children’s brain function, that the U.S. allows 72 pesticides that Europe bans, and high levels of toxic pesticides are found in 93% of Americans' blood/urine samples. “WAIT, WHAT”?


Ever back out of a driveway and say, “What’s wrong with this car? It’s moving backwards, but not very well,”? And then you realize, “Oh, the emergency brake is on.” Release the emergency brake and the car backs up just fine.


When is it ok for a child to eat food with atrazine on it? NEVER. What about pregnant women? NEVER. Atrazine is categorized as a hormone disruptor (throws your hormones out of balance) and is linked to various cancers. Many studies clearly show that maternal exposure to atrazine during pregnancy may be associated with:

  • Low birth weight and small head circumference in newborns. That means a baby’s brain does not develop to whatever their genetic potential may be.

  • Preterm delivery and intrauterine growth retardation. This means all of the baby’s organs do not develop in utero to their genetic potential.

  • Birth defects, including heart, urinary, and limb defects.

There are over 6,000 medical articles on atrazine and its many dangers. Atrazine is the second most commonly used weed killer in the US, and its residue is on our conventional fruits and vegetables (conventional means the common fruits and vegetables in supermarkets). “WAIT. WHAT”?

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And this one is not a “nice” topic, and certainly not coffee talk, but infant mortality rate in the U.S. is ranked 33rd out of the top 38 high-income, industrialized (OCED) countries. Awfully close to the very bottom. “WAIT, WHAT”?


“You MUST be exaggerating.” No, I’m not. Very good science shows us:

  • 74% of American adults are dealing with overweight or obesity.

  • Close to 40% of children are overweight or have obesity.

  • 52% of American adults have prediabetes or type 2 diabetes.

  • 30% of teens have prediabetes (this was 11% in 2002).

  • 1 in 36 children are on the autism spectrum (up from 1 in 150 in the year 2000). This number is 1 in 22 in California.

  • 34% of young adults have a mental, emotional, or behavioral disorder.

  • Incidence of early-onset cancers has increased by 79% in recent years.

  • Nearly one in two Americans is predicted to get cancer in their lifetime (41.6% chance). This is the first year America is estimated to have over 2 million new cases of cancer.

  • Autoimmune diseases are rising rapidly, with some studies showing rates rising 3-12% annually.

  • 18% of teens have fatty liver disease.

  • 20-25% of women are on antidepressant medication.

  • Early-onset dementia and Alzheimer’s disease have tripled since 2013.

  • American girls are starting puberty years earlier than they were in prior centuries, and are starting earlier than any other continent in the world.

  • Infertility is rising rapidly and unsustainably, with sperm counts declining 1% per year and infertility rates rising 1% per year.

  • The U.S. has the highest infant and maternal mortality rates of all high-income countries, despite spending much more than any other country (see graph above).

  • Life expectancy is seeing a sustained decline in the United States, driven by COVID-19, chronic liver disease, heart disease, and suicide.

  • 77% of young Americans are not able to qualify for military service due to health problems or drug use.

“WAIT. WHAT?”


Want to hear the good news in all of this gloom and doom? Every one of these conditions listed above can be addressed and reversed rapidly.


“WAIT. WHAT?” If this is true, why haven’t I heard about this before?

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The Centers for Disease Control (CDC) tells us that 14 of the 15 top causes of death are chronic inflammatory diseases. Every one of these conditions are driven by or worsened by the exact same thing: inflammation under the surface called low-grade chronic systemic inflammation (CSI), which is caused largely by our toxic ultra-processed food system, the toxins in our environment (air and water), and our increasingly sedentary, tech-driven, isolated, indoor lives. 


This CSI goes on for years under the surface and you have no noticeable symptoms. I refer to it as the “I feel fine” syndrome. We have been misled to believe that if we have no symptoms currently, we have no health issues going on under the surface. But if we think about it, we know that can’t be true. Cancer, or cognitive decline, does not develop in a week or a month. They develop over years. But who wants to think about that? 


Well, now, highly accurate tests are available to identify these mechanisms of disease years before there is ever a noticeable symptom.


Much easier to just listen to the medical system, with its multi-million dollar marketing showing us how happy we can be with any condition, if we just take this pill or that potion. The actors in the ads are paid “big bucks” to look happy, be buoyant because they’re taking the remedy (?) for the diagnosis you’ve received. No one listens to the narrator in the background of these commercials as he reads the dangers of the medication. We focus on the hope of being “happy and buoyant,” just like the person in that TV ad.


So, where does the inflammation come from that is “the fuel on the fire”? There are a number of triggers. There is no one cause of disease, there are usually a number of contributing “causes” to the diseases we develop. We’d like there to be one pill, one diet, one “thing”, to be healthy and prevent disease. The easier, the better. But that’s not how it works. There is, however, one root mechanism to disease, as far as I know, to every one of them, and that is inflammation. Remember, 14 of the 15 top causes of death are chronic inflammatory diseases.


Identify the triggers of inflammation in your body, reduce your exposures to those triggers, and watch your body get stronger and healthier.

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I spent 30 years in Chicago raising a family and treating thousands of patients. If you have a map of Chicago, it’s pretty straightforward on how to get around. But the map of Chicago will do you no good in San Francisco. The protocol your friend used to reverse their Hashimoto’s 

Thyroid Disease will not work for your thyroid problem. You need your own map, and identify your triggers of inflammation.


This first article in the Series sets the stage for the questions we need to ask, to read our own map, “where is my inflammation coming from”?


From insightful health analysis to expert guidance from Dr. Tom O’Bryan, leading wellness educator and author.


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