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Project ARC Why it's Important

Neurological, psychiatric, autoimmune, and metabolic disorders impose a $10 trillion global burden on society and healthcare every year. Alleviating even 1% of that would free $100 billion every year that could be used to advance education, research, technology, healthcare, and productivity to accelerate solutions for the world's critical needs.

Stroke

There are over 795,000 stroke cases per year in the U.S. averaging $242,237 in lifetime costs each, totalling $192 billion USD per year, and over $721 billion USD per year worldwide. Over 101 million people are currently living post-stroke. Approximately 34% of global total healthcare expenditure is spent on stroke, making it THE most impactful disease in the world today.
Even 1% improvement in stroke rehabilitation would save nearly $2 billion in the U.S. and over $7.2 billion worldwide per year.

Neurological disorders

* over $1 Trillion in today's dollars.

Psychiatric disorders

Trautman, et al, 2016
* over $3.4 trillion today.
World Health Organization

Metabolic disorders

World Economic Forum and World Health Organization, 2013

Autoimmune diseases

American Autoimmune Related Diseases Association (AARDA) National Coalition of Autoimmune Patient Groups (NCAPG)
And these costs have been rising astronomically since the Pandemic.
See this April 2022 article:

Chronic Inflammation

These include:

Autoimmune Disorders, Cancer, Diabetes Mellitus, Chronic Kidney Disease, Ischemic Heart Disease, Neurodegenerative conditions, Non-Alcoholic Fatty Liver Disease (NAFLD) and Stroke.
Poor diet is the primary cause of Chronic Systemic Inflammation (CSI).
Resolving poor diet is confounded by the biofeedback between the gut, brain, and behavior.
A common example of this is over-eating to cope with stress. And, people tend to eat "comfort food" when stressed, which tend to be pro-inflammatory. The inflammatory response to foods, and over-eating, respectively induce stress that compels this destructive coping behavior and creates a vicious, addictive cycle. Meanwhile, many people are raised eating inflammatory foods and are simply unaware of the devastation their diet will produce over the years. Excess intake of sugar, refined grains, dairy, fried foods, alcohol and caffeine are some of the more well-known inflammatory and mood-destabilizing foods that people get hooked on early in life. And because their degenerative effects on people's health are often discounted as "just getting old" these habits remain unchecked when they could be curtailed to prevent advanced aging and degenerative diseases. Many of these foods develop biological dependency (addiction) while their habitual use -through learned coping associated with alleviating stress- creates psychological dependency. Foods associated with family, friends, community and positive memories further strengthen psychological dependency. These dependencies often coincide, making it extremely difficult to break habits that destabilize the body's homeostatic functions, which promotes disease, dysfunction and premature death. Psychological stress can also cause systemic inflammation in the body and be far more more difficult to resolve than simply changing eating habits. As an essential part of an integrative health lifestyle, ARC can help modulate these processes to enable the body & mind to self-regulate, reduce systemic inflammation, and naturally promote healthy behaviors that prevent and facilitate recovery from the cause of more than 50% of all preventable deaths and disease and the multi-TRILLION-dollar global economic burden of degenerative health conditions.