Preventive lifestyle choices can avert the growing incidence of disease.
2026 has not been a healthy year for Kiwis. An article in the NZ Herald entitled “Christchurch Hospital ED treats 14,582 patients in corridors in one year” highlights the unprecedented levels of illness that are being experienced in hospitals and medical centres around the country. Health NZ figures show that 14,582 patients were treated in corridors in the 2025-2026 financial year, up from 3,911 in 2022-2023 during the height of the pandemic. And that is in just one representative hospital. As we have been reporting, the ensuing 2026 winter season has involved even higher pressure, with record levels of St John ambulance call outs and overcrowded hospitals.
This is not just happening in NZ. An article in the UK Daily Mail headlines “Overcrowding and corridor care in A&E ‘killing around 550 patients in the UK every week’, study reveals” Alarmingly, the 134 A&Es involved in the study had an average occupancy rate of 175 per cent, meaning they contained almost twice as many patients as they were designed to hold. The chance of dying for more than 19,000 patients in NHS hospitals rose by one per cent for every 10 per cent increase in emergency department occupancy. Similarly, EU data released in April 2026 shows that one-in-four EU citizens were unable to access healthcare at some point during the preceding year with a similar number still left with unmet medical needs. In Canada, the median wait for essential medical treatment is 29 weeks, the longest wait time for thirty years.
The whole situation is not due to any one cause. Nor is it due to a fall in medical staffing levels, they have increased. The rate of illness has increased across the board. More people are falling sick. As a nation and around the world, countries are facing higher rates of cardiac illness, viral illness, strokes, cancers, respiratory illness, neurological illness, autoimmune and inflammatory conditions. Health ministers have failed to appreciate the depth of the crisis. Nor has Health NZ engaged meaningfully with the alarming statistics. Pouring more money into the health system on its own is not going to address it. Something more than lack of resources is at fault.
The increasing burden of disease is not just affecting older people, it is being felt across all age ranges. An article in the NZ Herald is entitled “More than 3300 bowel cancers detected after 3 million screening kits distributed“. The Health Minister wishes us to view this as a success, however the figures show that bowel cancer is now the leading cause of death among Kiwis under 50, whereas you have to be 58 years old to qualify for free screening. In other words, increased disease rates are outstripping the capacity of our health service to cope. A real success would have been a fall in cancer rates.
Risks created through common and even long standing medical interventions are themselves playing a role in the creation of disease. For example, a paper published on 23 September in the British Medical Journal is entitled “Contemporary menopausal hormone therapy and thrombotic disease: nationwide nested case-control study”. It studied the medical histories of 240,000 women aged 50-69 years in Denmark. It found with 95% confidence that oral Hormone Replacement Therapy (HRT) even at the lowest prescribed dose (<1mg per day) increased the risk of potentially fatal blood clots by 60%. Those taking more than 1mg per day additionally had an increased risk of heart attack (up 40%) and stroke (up 50%). This increased to 80% if HRT pills were taken for five years or more.
HRT is taken following menopause in an effort to reduce the risk of osteoporosis and bone fractures, but as is the case with many modern medicines, a more effective result can be achieved with improved lifestyle, exercise, diet and meditation that is entirely free of risk. In effect, HRT pills are attempting to reduce a risk to health but actually burdening women with far more serious risks to life. Prescription of HRT at menopause is routine. Unfortunately few doctors warn women of the risks. Behind this case is the increasing practice to prescribe medicines that have high levels of adverse effects and low effect sizes, when alternative safe, self-managed strategies are available without great cost to the health system. The list of risky medicines is a very long one—Statins, GLP-1, HRT, Ritalin, insulin, opioids, anticoagulants, etc. If taken together, the risks accumulate.
Aside from the burden of medical misadventure, something else is rapidly changing the health landscape. As we have been reporting, changes in food processing and pharmaceutical interventions have affected population levels of immunity. These changes have involved the introduction of biotechnology into food and medicine along with the increasing acceptance of significantly higher levels of risk. As a result, whole age cohorts have been exposed to serious health risks whose effects have been accumulating in the general population. We are now seeing the end result. Unless something is done immediately the statistical trends indicate the crisis will turn critical as we move into 2027.
Numerous studies have highlighted the risks of ultra processed foods and agricultural chemicals. As we reported in our article “Major Health Alert: the Extraordinary Genetically Modified Invasion of Our Supermarkets by Stealth, these risks have increased dramatically with the ubiquitous use of genetically modified microorganisms (GMMs) to produce synthetic ingredients, additives and food processing aids across the full spectrum of ready foods.
In medicine, the turning point came with the general use of mRNA vaccines for the first time in 2021. Everyone now knows that they didn’t work and didn’t deserve the name ‘vaccine’. They didn’t prevent infection, transmission or significantly reduce symptoms of Covid. They were heralded as a warp speed miracle, they would better deserve the name damp squib, except for the fact that they were dangerous. Our government and many others have now admitted that they caused cardiac issues, including for the young. 317,000 NZ teenagers were given the jabs and never warned of the consequences despite the government having been informed of the risks.
As we have reported previously, Health NZ has been studious ignoring and downplaying the extent of the problem ever since. Currently thousands of young people are being told they have ‘mild’ forms of carditis and advised to avoid strenuous exercise. They are also being told there is no need to worry because carditis (a name for various forms of heart inflammation) is very ‘common’ and will likely clear up after a course of medicine. Whereas before the pandemic forms of carditis were considered ‘rare and serious’ with long term consequences. The medicines being prescribed include NSAIDS, colchicine, interleukin blockers, corticosteroids, ACE inhibitors, beta-blockers, diuretics, immunosuppressants, antibiotics and antifungals all of which themselves cause serious adverse effects. This fills me with sadness.
Something has gone terribly wrong with our understanding of health. Seventy years ago the discovery of the molecular structure of DNA eventually led scientists and politicians to believe the cure of all diseases was just around the corner. Nobel Laureate Walter Gilbert, a pioneer in DNA sequencing, pronounced that “the results of the Human Genome Project will produce a tremendous shift in the way we can do medicine and attack problems of human disease”. In 1996, the NY Times summarised the prevailing mood by promising that “biotechnology would grant insight into human biology previously held only by God”. Instead, in 2026 we have arrived at an unprecedented health crisis whose probable causes remain unacknowledged and unaddressed. Gilbert’s optimism might have been tempered if he had read the words of the revered physicist Lord Kelvin who famously addressed the British Association for the Advancement of Science in 1901 saying “There is nothing new to be discovered in science now”. He was speaking just three years before Einstein published four papers that turned our understanding of physics on its head.
In fact there were unexplained phenomena and seeds of doubt circulating in the world of physics long before 1901 that were being ignored or swept under the carpet. We are now at such a moment. The failure of mRNA vaccines and the severe complications associated with any alteration of the functioning of the human genome are red flags which point squarely to the incompleteness of the genetic paradigm of life. Biotechnology has ignored consciousness and bypassed any understanding of bio-quantum fields. In doing so it has failed to understand life. The result is a health crisis that is beginning to engulf the mental and physical health of entire populations.
At this stage half measures will not suffice. In times of war the whole population has to pull together to focus on those things that can avert defeat and disaster. In wartime people find themselves in novel situations doing jobs they never expected to undertake. Just so now. To avert the crisis we will have to pull together as a nation. A new paradigm of life is waiting in the wings. This involves a return to a more natural approach. Fortunately at least one political party, on the ballot in November, that could gain enough votes to share power, has decided to back a sensible, evidence-based reform of our health system using proven cost effective strategies to address our health crisis. This is very timely and very welcome, but giving your vote is not the only or even the most effective thing you can do. Governments introduce policies slowly. At this time, personally adopting improved diet, exercise routines, and meditation, and helping everyone to appreciate the values of these effective natural approaches to health will help reverse the ill effects of any prior poor health and food choices. It can help protect your family from the looming health crisis in 2027.
