Do you have running water in your house? Access to soap? Clean living conditions? If so, you’re likely NOT suffering or at risk for any of these
diseases of poverty. So this doesn’t have any bearing on your health whatsoever.
Which brings me to my second, and much more important, point.
While many other countries have drastically increased their standard of living too, they HAVE NOT experienced the same rapid increases in health and life expectancy.
Quite the opposite…
It turns out as most 3rd world countries modernize, they adopt modern bad habits too. The result? From the journal Globalization and Health,[9] “Worldwide obesity has more than doubled since 1980,” leading them to conclude, “rapid economic growth may actually cause health to get worse… followed by increases in disease and death."
These are known as disease of affluence…
The kind of diseases you, I, and the rest of America are very familiar with.
Now here’s what is interesting…
As South Korea has modernized, they have NOT fallen victim to these diseases of affluence.
In fact, in a study titled Understanding the Rapid Increase in Life Expectancy in South Korea, researchers found their hearts and circulation are actually getting stronger…
Even though they’re smoking more, drinking more, and exercising less than anyone else.
In other words, something is protecting these South Koreans.
And after observing them firsthand, I believe I know what their secret is.
It’s been around for more than 2,000 years. But only recently have clinical studies revealed its artery protecting power.
And it doesn’t take much.