Ethics and social importance of the Linus Pauling Prevention Center
Medicine as a moral mission
The core of medicine is care. Not just for the sick person, but for the full human being in his totality: physical, psychological, social and existential. Preventive, lifestyle and nutritional medicine are not optional or luxurious, but essential in an ethically based model of care. After all, what is medicine worth if it makes no effort to prevent suffering wherever possible?
At the Linus Pauling Prevention Center, we recognize our duty to prevention as a moral component of good medical practice. We believe that ignoring scientifically based preventive options – such as nutritional interventions, micronutrient optimization, epigenetic modulation, exercise counseling and stress management – is a shortcoming in patient care as well as care for the common good.
A response to the societal health crisis
Our society is facing a pandemic of lifestyle-related chronic diseases. Cardiovascular disease, type 2 diabetes, metabolic syndrome, depression, obesity and neurodegeneration are largely modifiable. And yet prevention is still often undervalued or written off as “non-medical.”
We consider it our social mission to fill this gap with a new, scientifically sound, ethically supported approach. An approach that is at once personal, structural and sustainable.
By helping people stay healthy longer, we also take pressure off the overburdened healthcare system. We contribute to reducing health gaps and inequalities. And we provide tools for an aging population that not only lives longer, but also lives well for longer.
At the Linus Pauling Prevention Center, we recognize our duty to prevention as a moral component of good medical practice. We believe that ignoring science-based preventive options – such as nutritional interventions, micronutrient optimization, epigenetic modulation, exercise counseling and stress management – is a shortcoming in patient care as well as in the care of the common good.
No medical consumption, but medical awareness
The Linus Pauling Prevention Center is not a commercial healthcare product, but a medical ethics practice. We sell no packages, no panaceas and no shortcuts. What we offer is time, attention, depth and scientific seriousness – with the goal of empowering people to take co-responsibility for their health, based on knowledge and guidance.
So our approach does not call for more medical consumption, but for more medical awareness – in both patient and physician.
Working together on forward-looking medicine
We want not only to help individual patients, but also to shift a stone in the river of medicine. By showing that things can be different: that a doctor can be more than a symptom-fighter, and that a consultation can mean more than a prescription.
We invite fellow physicians to help build a new chapter in medicine: one in which prevention, lifestyle and ethics are not peripheral phenomena, but the core of a model of care that truly serves people and society.