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[AMBULANCE SIREN WAILING]

SARAY STANCIC: A code blue
is a medical emergency.

It's used in hospitals
and institutions

to alert when a patient
is in cardiopulmonary arrest.

A team
of healthcare professionals

rushes to
the patient's location

to administer
resuscitative efforts

to revive them.

Today in many ways,
it's our society
and healthcare industries

that need to be brought
back to life.

They need to be ushered
into a new era of awareness,

one that prioritizes
prevention and healthcare

over sick care.

Until then we're living a societal code blue epidemic.

Health care costs
in this country
$2.9 trillion per year,

and here's the scariest thing,

chronic illness accounts
for 86 percent of that money.

Fifty percent of Americans
live with at least
one chronic disease.

Fifty percent.

Two thirds of Americans
are obese or overweight.

Obesity is fueling
chronic illness.

I'm talking about diabetes,

cardiovascular disease,
heart attacks,

stroke, Alzheimer's disease.

We're really facing an epidemic,

really a crisis when it comes
to a chronic disease.

Thirty percent
of American adults

have either type 2 diabetes
or pre-diabetes.

Autoimmune disease rates
are skyrocketing.

Heart disease is
the No. 1 cause of death.

What we're doing now

is largely treating symptoms
of this epidemic.

Rarely are we getting
to the root cause of illness.

STEVEN ADELMAN:
I think the big problem
in health care,

we don't think
about behavior change
at the right time.

We think about it
when it's too late.

What if we spent
as much time and energy

thinking about
what makes people healthy

as we do thinking
about illness?

We are struggling as a field.

We all drank medical Kool-Aid.

Consumers have, doctors have.

You have a symptom,
you take a drug.

MICHELLE MCMACKEN:
What I really think we need

is a complete paradigm shift.

Well, lifestyle medicine
is, I think,

the most exciting trend
in medicine today.

ANA NEGRON:
Seventy to eighty percent
of our chronic illnesses

really can be arrested
and reversed.

Change our diets,
change our approach,
start exercising.

Every student that comes
across lifestyle medicine,

they get so motivated.
They're like,
"This is what I want to do."

MAN 2:
These simple changes can make
such a powerful difference.

NEAL BARNARD:
I'm hearing from a lot more
medical students who say,

"We want to learn about this."

CALDWELL ESSELSTYN:
Medicine is at the cusp

of what is truly
a seismic revolution in health.

Imagine if the news
were to break tomorrow.

There's a new drug available,
just approved by the FDA.

It's available
in bountiful supply.

It is shockingly inexpensive,

stunningly free
of side effects,

safe enough for children
and octogenarians alike.

And taken once daily
for the rest of your life

will reduce your risk
of ever getting

any major chronic disease
by 80 percent.

Who would not want
a prescription for this drug?

Lifestyle is exactly
that medicine

and all too few are taking it.

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PILOT: [OVER PA SYSTEM]
Make sure prior weather shift
distance is appreciated.

Flight attendants at this time, prepare the cabin for landing.

-[PA SYSTEM BEEPS]
-Now is a good time

to power down your larger electronic devices.

We will ask you to put away your devices in a few moments.

Small, handheld
electronic devices may be
used in airplane mode.

[SERENE MUSIC PLAYING]

STANCIC: I'm sort of
at this stage in my life

that I don't feel like
I have to prove anything

to myself or to anyone else.

I just do this
because I love it,

and I think it's amazing
that I can do it.

And the fact that I can climb

and make my way
over these big boulders