TOWARDS A NEW BIOMEDICAL AND SOCIAL MODEL
Welcome to our pre-launch site.
Full launch: expected 2023
We are Global-Well, a global initiative of independent scientists and well-being professionals. By means of articles, literature reviews, podcasts, documentaries, masterclasses, webinars, e-books, and other content we give you access to unbiased, reliable knowledge in an engaging, supportive online community.
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We aim to serve you with an INDEPENDENT and UNBIASED platform. As for such, we ethically refrain receiving money from large organisations and companies that could influence our project.
As a brand new start-up with a global aim, we are dependent on your contribution to make chance possible. With a little gift you can support our worldwide team to continue working on the Global-Well platform, to be launched September 2022.
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PUBLIC LAUNCH STATEMENT
Mission: Pioneering a new era of optimal well-being and health for everyone on this planet.
3 KEY MESSAGES:
- Health belongs to the people, yet the current narrow biomedical approach shifted sociological, psychological, and welfare models towards healthcare dependency
- Optimal health and well-being is the goal and should be facilitated by a new societal model refraining from excesses that lead to socioeconomic misuse.
- High-level scientific information facilitates societal and personal resilience.
There is an urgent need for a new public health culture promoting more health and well-being. A whopping 90% of our diseases arise from interactions between social, physical, and psychological aspects of our lives. So a pill will no longer resolve the issue.
“UNWELL? HERE’S A PILL”
We believe that everyone deserves to be healthy and happy. It’s a basic human right, and yet, most of us struggle to get there. What happens if you feel unwell?
You go to a doctor for a quick fix, and pills or a treatment are prescribed. If that doesn’t take away your symptoms, you’ll see another doctor…
What if you could learn how to relieve your disease, moreover, prevent disease, aiming for a long-term solution?
Take control, change your lifestyle and increase longevity!
YOU ARE THE SOLUTION
You’re not to blame. The problem lies within our modern healthcare system. It became hyper specialized, examining body parts, instead of appreciating you as an holistic human being.
You’ve been taught to look for external help.
But deep down you know that you have the ability to heal and transform yourself.
All you need is the right knowledge at your fingertips and a critical, supportive network to make informed decisions towards optimal health and well-being.
TIME FOR CHANGE
It’s time to rethink the way we take care of ourself. The corona crisis has more than ever revealed the cracks in the current biomedical health model.
Global-Well entails a new integrative and holistic model on health and society. We ensure access to curated, unbiased, peer-reviewed, reliable knowledge, in an easily digestible way. Our aim is to bring you all the key findings you need in making a well-informed decision on your path to a healthy mind, body, and soul.
ENGAGING COMMUNITY
It all starts with you. Together, we stand stronger. That’s why Global-Well is more than an information hub of independent scientific knowledge. It’s a community that facilitates a worldwide collaboration between like-minded people, guided by renowned scientists and well-being specialists. We provide a new bottom-up approach where you, your family, and your friends regain control of your life, and well-being.
What Do You Expect From Healthcare?
Ever wondered if treatments, and drugs you received were the optimal choice? Was the proposed approach underpinned by the latest evidence?
Take control of your health! We update you on the latest evolutions and insights in medical care. You want us to investigate a certain topic? Let us know.
Food As Medicine
Many of us claim to eat healthy, but do you really know what your body needs? Do you really know what’s in your food? Discover medicinal recipes, forbidden cures and forgotten herbs from around the world.
Did you know that in some parts of the world, it is forbidden to inform people about the true effects of natures wonders? Natures provides, and that’s a fact.
Why is intermittent fasting such a trending topic? What can we learn from Ayurveda? How does your food affect your mood? What eating habits are actually harmful, instead of beneficial?
Which food myths do you want to see debunked?
Your Community, Your Health
Exercise Is Medicine
This motto summarises the main theme in numerous research studies. Exercise can prevent some diseases, ease the symptoms of others, and even reverse some chronic conditions.
Ready to dive into the evidence of the most recent studies with us?
Holistic Vision
Everything in nature is connected in some way.
The mind and the body are not two separate entities, although they are often treated that way. Physical health and emotional health are intimately intertwined in what’s known as the mind-body connection.
Our chemistry and biology impact our mood and emotions, as well as thoughts and beliefs.
All of these factors combined play a major role in influencing our mental and physical health.
Find out how you can help healing yourself and others.
Mental Health = Mental Wealth
In many Western countries, even before the corona crisis, societies got struck by a mental health epidemic of burnouts, depressions, and anxiety disorders.
One in four people in the world are prone to be affected by mental disorders at some point in life.
These mental disorders are the leading causes of ill-health and disability worldwide.
How do you keep your mind sane?
Global-Well will provide you with the latest insights in helping you reach a sense of coherence, in developing coping strategies and resilience.
Facilitating Think Tanks
We invite you to become part of a global think tank in analysing the current biomedical and societal model.
What are the advantages and disadvantages of globalisation? Are policies made to facilitate you as person or are you refrained in self-development? Where are the checks and balances to safeguard your future as an independent human being?
Under the umbrella of Global-Well, scholars, researchers, and field-experts will share their realistic solutions, to shape a better society for all, rising from the ashes of the old systemic model we live in today.
We want your input!
If you would like our Research Academy to explore or dig into certain Biomedical or Societal topics, click the button below and drop us a line.
We will pass your question on to our scientists and will be happy to have them working for you.
With love!
Absence of Decent Scientific Information Can Destabilise Society
Throughout history, crises have often been the harbingers of social change. And so it will be with the corona crisis. The biomedical and socio-political reaction to this challenging event has shown lack of decent scientific underpinning in many cases. The majority of countries launched discourses based on inadequate or insufficient scientific evidence. As the crisis progressed, the divergence between science and the implemented approaches became more and more apparent. The latter translated into resentment leading to worldwide protests.
With the rise of the internet, we have seen the emergence of many health information beacons. They attempt to inform the general public. However, we often notice objectivity or conflicts of interest with pharma or other industries. This can lead to absurd situations. For example, evidence shows us that a vast array of medication hardly contributes to improving symptoms. And yet, they are still prescribed ‘en masse’.
History has proven many medical scientific innovative processes take up to 15 years reaching health practitioners. Important information often remains hidden in the ivory towers of academics. Given healthcare providers have little time following up on the latest insights, this hardly ensures best practices.
Key Benefits of the Global-Well Platform
“How healthy are you?” What improves your well-being? Who is responsible for your (mental) health? Why is a good life-work balance important to you? Let us all find answers by regaining responsibility for treatments you see fit. Take back the ability to self-manage your health and well-being.
Strengthen your knowledge about diseases, and how to address them. Work towards a shared decision making process with your healthcare professionals involved. By entering a well-informed dialogue, you can make a substantiated informed decision.
Engage and contribute with other peers worldwide in reshaping the current biomedical model. Intrinsically, you will become part of changing the socio-economic fabric of our world.
We identify this platform as more than a virtual community. Global-Well facilitates a worldwide collaboration created by and for citizens guided by renowned scientists throughout your journey. We can all make a contribution reflecting your personal and professional experiences. So let us help you build a community where you and others take the lead in setting up programs on a local community level.
Let integrative/holistic science be your guide towards optimal well-being. The results of our common efforts can be transcribed in policy recommendations aimed at official bodies. Our goal is to change society towards a prosperous well-being and health for everyone on this planet.
Global-Well Is Looking For You!
As you might have noticed, our project is still in a startup phase. In the background our team is busy writing articles, making video and audio content and brainstorming like crazy.
We are looking into expanding our team with (independent) scientists, health professionals, and researchers sharing an holistic perspective on integrative health and/or have a keen interest in tackling the social determinants of health.
Looking for an internship where you can help rethink health and society and gain valualble experiences along the way?
Become An Ambassador
Are you as enthusiastic as we are? Do you feel an urge to contribute, but you don’t know how? Building a new world does not just happen overnight. Help Global-Well in your way, no matter how small your contribution is, we need you to spread the word! How? Let’s catch-up and meet!
As an early adaptor you are on your way becoming an official Ambassador!
Sign up today and be the first to be informed about novelties that will be rolled out in the future.
OUR VISION
BRIDGE THE GAP BETWEEN YOURSELF AND THE BIOMEDICAL, PSYCHOLOGICAL AND SOCIOLOGICAL KNOWLEDGE
As early as 1977, George Engel called for a biopsychosocial model. It evaluates the patient’s bodily symptoms, along with the social and psychological reality. For example, a patient’s weaker immunity may also be influenced by recurrent stress.
A few years later, Aaron Antonovsky developed the Salutogenic Model of Health in guidance to a novel health promotion strategy. His term was derived from the Latin word ‘Salus’, meaning health and the Greek word ‘Genesis’ referring to the ‘origin’. It became known in science as the ‘Origin of Health’. Antonovsky was one of the first academics to notice stress was one of the driving forces behind developing a broad range of diseases and stepped away from the classical approach of looking at the disease (Pathogenesis)…
Antonovsky looked at all contributing factors which may turn into stress-inducers. These stress components are well described in science as determinants influencing the physiological working of the body. His aim was to use resources to strengthen resilience and coping behaviour. The ultimate goal is reaching a ‘Sense of Coherence’, facilitated by three elements known as ‘comprehensibility’, ‘manageability’ and ‘meaningfulness. Simply put: understanding what contributes negatively to your health, manage this and create a meaningful life.
You, as a curious human being, may crave for independent, evidence-based, up-to-date, and state-of-the-art information. We integrate all evidence, also from non-classical Western medicine to help you decide which approach may suit you best.
Global-Well provides this information in written and audible comprehensible language. This will be offered to you in different ways: scientific analysis, reports, podcasts, masterclasses, interviews, lectures, summits, and aggregated content.
DEBUNKING PHARMACOLOGICAL AND BIOMEDICAL MYTHS USING SCRUTINIZING, SUBSTANTIATED EVIDENCE WILL BE A STEP TOWARDS CHANGE.
Global-Well works as a two-way street establishing an interactive platform for you to interact with peers and the scientists involved. Members can, as such, help determine the agenda of researchers. You will be able to participate in a virtual think-tank, building towards a new patient-oriented integrative and holistic health-model that should lead to international policy recommendations. We help you engage in health asset-based community development that starts and grows from your initiatives within your local ecosystem.