The Run: Moving Natural Medicine Forward, was founded to dramatize and publicize the urgent need for all Americans to take massive action and transform our nation’s health and spark a movement on Main Street America.  Dr. Dennis Godby, nephew Jonas Ely, and two sons, Isaiah and Jeremiah, took the drastic steps, of each running an average of 30 miles per day- - to bring attention to, and raise awareness how lifestyle choices and natural medicine is “the cure” to optimizing health for which we have been waiting! The Run 2012 is already scaling to become an even greater, needed part of Americana.

• “Because of the increasing rates of obesity, unhealthy eating habits and physical inactivity, we may see the first generation of children that will have a shorter life expectancy than their parents.” – Surgeon General Richard Carmona, 2004
• One in three American children born in 2000 will develop diabetes if they adopt the nation’s inactive and overeating lifestyle.  For Hispanic children, the odds are even worse: 1 in 2 children will develop diabetes if we do not change our current system of living (K.M. Venkat Narayan, MD, from the CDC in Atlanta).
• What is especially tragic in the nation’s declining health is that it is mostly our own chosen lifestyles that are killing us –  not bad luck or poor genes!

The cure for most of our nation’s health epidemics does not lie in finding “the cure” in a pill, but in prevention and altering our lifestyles.  If America is to reverse this catastrophic trend of a sickening America, a paradigm shift in thinking is required - starting with individuals taking responsibility for their health!