Project Origins

Preface

—— Standing at the Crossroads of Civilization

Humanity is in an unprecedented paradox: our medical technology seems to be advancing by leaps and bounds, but the overall health status of humanity is facing severe challenges. As co-founders of HHPF, we must honestly face the current systemic crisis. The birth of HHPF is not to patch up the old medical building, but to reshape the underlying logic of human health based on a deep insight into the following five dimensions of crisis.

Part I: Five Systemic Crises (Current Situation and Pain Points)

We use a panoramic perspective to conduct an exhaustive analysis of current human health dilemmas from five dimensions (MECE principle): efficacy, industry, society, ethics, and cognition:

1. Medical Efficacy Challenge: "Ineffective Confrontation" with Chronic Diseases

Although modern medicine has made remarkable achievements in trauma emergency care, it has shown obvious limitations in the face of chronic non-communicable diseases (NCDs) such as cardiovascular diseases, cancer, diabetes, and sudden epidemics.

• Current Situation: Chronic diseases have become the main cause of human death, and current treatment methods mostly stay at "indicator control" rather than "fundamental cure."
• Reflection: Mainstream Chinese and Western medicine still lack thoroughly effective solutions in the field of chronic diseases. This forces us to reflect: Has the underlying methodology of modern medical and health philosophy deviated? Shifting from "fighting disease" to "building health" is the primary work to solve the problem.

2. Industry Structure Dilemma: The Game Between Commercial Interests and Life Values

The medical industry has fallen into a profound ethical dilemma—when curing diseases and saving lives becomes a simple business operation.

• Contradiction: The economic benefits of medical institutions often rely on patients' re-visit rates and the usage of drugs and consumables, which naturally conflicts with the patient's interests of "quick cure and reduced recurrence."
• Consequences: This structural contradiction has led many cheap, efficient, non-patented natural therapies and technical means to be marginalized due to lack of commercial moats, or even have no survival place at all.
• Issue: How to find a new balance between medical public welfare (protecting basic human rights) and medical and health service commercialization (maintaining industrial momentum) is a social issue that HHPF must solve.

3. Social Livelihood Pain Point: The Unbearable Weight of Life

Health crisis is evolving into a global economic and social crisis.

• Macro Level: The fiscal expenditure on medical and health care by governments around the world is growing exponentially, becoming a huge fiscal black hole, and has not been accompanied by a proportional improvement in national health indicators.
• Micro Level: "Poverty due to illness, returning to poverty due to illness" has become a lingering nightmare for ordinary families. One person's serious illness, the whole family suffers. In the current system, having a healthy, happy, and natural death in old age has become a luxury for the vast majority of people.

4. Iatrogenic Harm: The Invisible Threat of Over-treatment

We must face up to the reality of "iatrogenic harm" which cannot be ignored.

• Current Situation: Under defensive medicine and interest-driven, over-examination, over-medication, and over-surgery are rampant.
• Cost: Many patients do not die from the disease itself, but from side effects caused by radical treatment and immune system collapse. Returning to the medical ethical bottom line of "Primum non nocere" (First, do no harm) is urgent.

5. Limitations of Cognitive System: The Dual Opposition of Fragmentation and Vagueness

The existing mainstream medical cognitive model has natural blind spots:

• Mainstream Western Medicine: Tends to fragmented mechanism, regarding the human body as a combination of parts, with more and more specialized departments, often seeing the trees but not the forest, ignoring the overall systematicness of life.
• Mainstream Traditional Chinese Medicine: Although it has a holistic view, some theories appear simple, vague, and general in inheritance, making it difficult to standardize and quantify, limiting its universal promotion.
• Missing Puzzle: Natural therapy and psychotherapy, which truly have preventive and healing potential, have long been in the marginal zone due to the lack of an integration mechanism, failing to exert their due value.

Part II: Paradigm Revolution in the Great Health Industry

Faced with the above five dilemmas, improvement is no longer helpful, and we urgently need a Paradigm Shift. HHPF advocates reconstructing the health industry from the following three dimensions:

1. Revolution in Thinking Mode: From the mechanical thinking of "fighting disease" to the systems thinking of "adapting to life."
2. Revolution in Theoretical Framework: Break through the barriers between Chinese and Western medicine, establish a life system theory based on first principles, and integrate effective therapies worldwide.
3. Revolution in Practice Standards: From "drug-centered" to "people-centered," establish new medical standards that are efficient, cheap, and harmless.

This is not only a deepening of theory, but also an integration of therapies and a transformation of models.

Part III: Health Civilization Upgrade in the AI Era

The turning point has arrived. We are at the singularity where big data and AI intelligence reshape the world, which provides the technical implementation foundation for HHPF's vision.

1. Awakening and Inclusiveness of Health Cognition

In the past, medical knowledge was locked in ivory towers, with a huge information gap. In the AI era:

• Decentralization: Health and medical knowledge will no longer be in the hands of a few experts or doctors, but will be transformed into a universal knowledge system through large models to serve the public.
• Cognitive Upgrade: Big data allows everyone to clearly understand their own life data, making it possible to awaken health cognition.

2. Redefinition of Doctor Roles: From "Repairmen" to "Coaches"

• AI as Infrastructure: Artificial intelligence will undertake the screening, comparison, and basic diagnosis of massive data, becoming the "new infrastructure" of great health.
• The Return of Humans: The core value of doctors and experts will shift from simple "treating diseases" to "health coaches". They will use AI tools to provide individuals with full-life-cycle health planning, psychological support, and lifestyle interventions.

3. Upgrade of Human Health Civilization

HHPF firmly believes that with the universalization of health education and the deep application of AI technology, we will usher in a leap in human health civilization: From "passive medical care" to "active health"; From "drug dependence" to "awakening self-healing".

This is the origin of the Human Health Plan Foundation (HHPF) project — using paradigm revolution to solve the problems of the times, and using intelligent technology to benefit human health.