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NEW YORK CITY

WE HAVE NEEDS

When a need goes unmet long enough,

we get sick.

6 in 10 adults live with at least one chronic illness,

and 4 in 10 are managing two or more (CDC, 2026).

Globally, 7 of the 10 leading causes of death

are lifestyle-based diseases (WHO, 2024).

Your hardware.
Movement, diet, and sleep. We evolved to move, yet we have engineered physical activity out of our daily lives (e.g., DoorDash). We evolved to eat from the Earth, but we are eating food mostly made by machines. We evolved to sleep ~ 1/3 of the day, but we don’t.
Today, nearly 3 in 4 American adults are classified as overweight or obese (CDC, 2026) and nearly 1 in 3 U.S. adults consistently get less than 7 hours of sleep per night (CDC, 2026).
The mind. Thankfully, the conversation around mental health has significantly expanded, normalizing common experiences like depression and anxiety, but as a society, we are struggling.
Nearly 1 in 4 American adults live with a mental health condition, yet over half go completely untreated (SAMHSA, 2026).
Every emotion is valid; an emotion is a message from the within that a need isn’t being satisfied.
Humans did not evolve to be solitary. Our super power is our ability to cooperate with each other.
1 in 2 adults live with chronic loneliness, creating a health toll equivalent to smoking 15 cigarettes a day (U.S. Surgeon General).
A fish cannot be healthy in dirty water. A human can’t burpee, meditate, and medicate away polluted air, water, and cruelty.
Ikigai. The Japanese word for life-purpose.
Why are we here? We each need to be able to answer this question for ourselves. Research on the longest living humans indicate purpose as one of their nine common lifestyle characteristics (Buettner, 2008).