HEALTHY, NO MATTER WHAT

A provocative manifesto that teaches you how to take control of your own health, no matter your age or circumstances - from an innovative doctor and his philosopher daughter

Dr. Alex Jadad, teams up with his philosopher daughter Tamen Jadad-Garcia to guide us through the various approaches to health that redefine health as an ability to adapt and manage the inevitable challenges that life throws us and not a condition that always requires the intervention of the medical industrial complex or the healthcare systems that have developed over the last sixty years that don't have as much to do with health or care as they do with disease prevention.

In this accessible handbook Alex and Tamen show us how a change in framing will help us recognize the non-medical factors that can impact our health as we see it, from education to urban planning, employment to social networks. What if we developed an ability to adapt around such factors and become evaluators of our own health - we might find that we are healthier than we think.

This is not an argument against medicine as we have come to understand it, after all Alex is himself a world-renowned doctor, and if you break a leg or have cancer you still need the medical system. But what Alex and Tamen are doing is advocating a rebalance. When is enough 'medicine' in the conventional way we have come to understand it, enough? and when we do deal with the medical industrial complex, how should we be? What are the tools at our disposal, and within ourselves, that will help us adapt and thrive? HEALTHY, NO MATTER WHAT will put you in the driver's seat and help you recognize yourself as the most effective evaluator of your own health, regardless of cultural background of socio-economic circumstances.

With wisdom and empathy, Healthy No Matter What teaches you about how you are equipped to overcome practically any obstacle through your natural gift of adaptability, provides actionable pointers, and shows how and when to use the medical system, so that you can thrive, regardless of the twists and turns life may take.

Alex Jadad is a physician, philosopher, educator, and innovator. Jadad is a pioneer of evidence-based medicine, and creator of the Jadad scale, the most widely used tool to assess clinical trial quality worldwide. He leads large-scale efforts to shape the future of health, is an advisor to heads of states and multinational corporations, and author of eleven books.
Tamen Jadad-Garcia is an entrepreneur and philosopher who builds businesses and leads strategic projects with Fortune 500 companies in healthcare, consumer goods and technology. She is the author of scientific articles and books spanning end-of-life care, love, and the future of health.