Discussed in this episode are the following issues related to the health crisis sweeping the earth like a noxious plague:What does it mean to be healthy?The epic breakdown of human healthThe name given for this breakdown of healthDefinition of metabolic syndrome3 Maxims for optimum healthEpisode References:Definition health from a systems biology standpoint: https://www.cell.com/cell-metabolism/fulltext/S1550-4131(17)30092-XLeading causes of death in the US: https://www.cdc.gov/nchs/fastats/leading-causes-of-death.htmObesity rates in the US: https://www.cdc.gov/obesity/data/adult.htmlPrevalence of diabetes in the US: http://www.diabetes.org/diabetes-basics/statistics/Heart diseases statistics in the US: https://www.cdc.gov/heartdisease/facts.htmCriteria for Metabolic Syndrome: https://www.ahajournals.org/doi/abs/10.1161/CIRCULATIONAHA.109.192644?url_ver=Z39.88-2003&rfr_id=ori%3Arid%3Acrossref.org&rfr_dat=cr_pub%3DpubmedSelected metabolic syndrome rates worldwide: https://bmcpublichealth.biomedcentral.com/articles/10.1186/s12889-017-4041-1  Sleep cleans the brain: http://science.sciencemag.org/content/342/6156/373Effect of stress on human health: https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3380124/pdf/dmj-36-207.pdf