Arizona Statement

America is in the grip of a chronic disease epidemic that is eroding quality of life, shortening healthy lifespan, straining families and public finances, reducing productivity, and even affecting military readiness and national security. The current sick-care model—built around late-stage pharmaceutical and procedure-based intervention—is failing to deliver the health outcomes the nation needs.

Real public-health progress has never come from drugs alone. It has come from strengthening the foundations of health: clean water, sanitation, good nutrition, healthy environments, informed self-care, and access to effective preventive support. Yet today, outdated laws, distorted market incentives, and restrictive regulatory definitions too often block truthful health information, suppress innovation, and disadvantage lower-risk, evidence-based non-drug options.

Reversing this epidemic requires a new direction: restoring the free flow of truthful health information, expanding access to preventive and personalized care, modernizing outdated legal and regulatory definitions, and removing barriers that prevent nutrition- and other nature-based approaches from competing fairly on their merits.