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The New Science of Living a Longer, Healthier, More Vital Life

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Joining forces with two leading scientists, New York Times bestselling author Deepak Chopra offers a quantum leap for improving our physical and mental health.

In an unprecedented collaboration between three of today’s most powerful minds, Deepak Chopra, M.D., teams up with physicist Jack Tuszynski, Ph.D., and endocrinologist Brian Fertig, M.D., to bring readers a visionary work that delves into the innovative world of quantum science and shows how unlocking its secrets can revolutionize how we live and age—and, ultimately, how we can eradicate disease. The key is the quantum body.      

Unlike our physical body, which is subject to aging, injury, and decay, the quantum body exists on a sub-atomic level and is the infinite, invisible source of everyday reality that affects your thoughts, feelings, sensations, and biological responses. Without your quantum body, there is no physical body. And this lack of awareness of the most crucial part of ourselves negatively impacts our lives every day. 

Through a powerful combination of prescriptive exercises and innovative research into the quantum world, the authors unveil seven breakthroughs that will revolutionize the future of everyone’s well-being. Central to this revolution is a groundbreaking understanding of metabolism—the way our cells process energy—that promises to challenge our understanding of modern medicine as we know it.

Though all too familiar in the physical world, Alzheimer’s, type 2 diabetes, cancer, and heart disease do not exist at the fundamental level of quantum reality. By harnessing the power of the quantum body, we can significantly improve our physical and mental well-being, including supporting healthy cell, tissue, and organ function, boosting immunity, promoting mental resilience, and expanding our understanding of what it means to live a happy and purposeful life.

In this groundbreaking book, Chopra, Tuszynski, and Fertig show you the way by unveiling the “real” reality of your body and mind as never before and providing a vision for a tomorrow that is already here.
“Allied with an emergent cosmology of an essentially living and meaningful Universe, this revelatory and timely book is a profound guide to empower our collective healing and conscious evolution.” —Jude Currivan, PhD, cosmologist, author of The Cosmic Hologram and The Story of Gaia, and cofounder of WholeWorld-View

“An excellent, reader-friendly book that will leave you inspired.” —Amit Goswami, PhD, theoretical quantum physicist and author of (with Valentina R. Onisor, MD) The Quantum Brain, The Quantum Re-enchantment of the Reality You Live, and Quantum Integrative Medicine

“Deepak Chopra has taken heat from skeptics like me for his riffs on quantum theory. But I found his latest book, which links the quantum realm to our innate powers of self-healing and spiritual growth, inspiring.” —John Horgan, science journalist and director of the Center for Science Writings at Stevens Institute of Technology

Quantum Body is a rare exposition of truths, a work of deep knowledge, practical steps for life as well as reality in its most encompassing aspect.” —Menas C. Kafatos, Fletcher Jones endowed professor of computational physics and director of the Institute for Earth, Computing, Human and Observing (ECHO) at Chapman University

“Quantum Body is, at the very least, an intriguing work that cannot be cavalierly dismissed. And its relevance to our lives cannot be overestimated.” —Bernardo Kastrup, PhD, author, philosopher, computer scientist, and executive director of Essentia Foundation

Quantum Body brings readers up to date on what the latest science says about quantum biology and its application to medicine.” —Michael Shermer, publisher of Skeptic magazine, presidential fellow at Chapman University, and author of Heavens on Earth

“Drs. Chopra, Tuszynski, and Fertig present a profound vision of life that offers us a radically integrative understanding of our bodies, our consciousness, and our place in the universe. Melding medical science, quantum physics, and spiritual wisdom, this book will bring you to ‘aha’ moments that will forever change the way you experience yourself and the world.” —Dr. Robert Waldinger, clinical professor of psychiatry at Harvard Medical School, director of the Center for Psychodynamic Therapy and Research at Massachusetts General Hospital, and director of the Harvard Study of Adult Development

“Your body is a ripple in the quantum field. The quantum field is a miracle in the quantum universe, and then also your body is a miracle. This is what this book is telling you. After reading Quantum Body, you will never treat your body in the same way again.” —Ervin Laszlo, author of Science and the Akashic Field and The Great Upshift

Quantum Body deftly weaves recent discoveries from physics and biology with ancient insights from spirituality to provide practical advice for maintaining a healthy body and a balanced mind.” —Donald D. Hoffman, PhD, professor of cognitive science at the University of California, Irvine, and author of The Case Against Reality
© Jeremiah Sullivan
Deepak Chopra, MD, founder of the Chopra Foundation and Chopra Global, is a world-renowned pioneer in integrative medicine and personal transformation. Chopra is a clinical professor of family medicine and public health at the University of California, San Diego, and serves as a senior scientist with Gallup Organization. He is the author of more than ninety books, including numerous New York Times bestsellers. Time magazine has described Dr. Chopra as “one of the top 100 heroes and icons of the century.” View titles by Deepak Chopra, M.D.
Jack Tuszynski, PhD is a quantum physicist and professor of oncology in the Department of Physics at University of Alberta. He holds five United States patents, has published over 500 refereed journal papers, 60 conference proceedings, twelve research monographs, and twenty book chapters. He has served on the editorial boards of thirty scientific journals and has been an Associate Editor for the Frontiers Collection of the Springer Verlag, Heidelberg. View titles by Jack Tuszynski, PhD
Brian Fertig, MD is a diabetes & metabolism specialist and endocrinologist, as well as the author of “Metabolism & Medicine,” a two-volume series detailing a scientific approach for predicting and preventing disease through an understanding of metabolism within the human body using a framework of physics, physiology, and medicine. View titles by Brian Fertig, MD

Dr. Deepak Chopra shares new science for living a longer, healthier, more vital life

How Well-Being Got Stalled


We are all living a paradox that needs to be unraveled. At the level of the quantum body, existence is perfect. A flow of creative intelligence organizes everything without making any mistakes. There is no aging, sickness, or death. The quantum field ripples with vibrant energy that is inexhaustible. The paradox comes about when you shift your gaze to the everyday world, which is rife with imperfection. Aging, sickness, and death befall everyone. The DNA that controls every life process makes mistakes. People live with problems for which they can find no creative or intelligent solutions.

The solution to this paradox has eluded human beings for millennia, but consciousness keeps evolving and, as it evolves, partial solutions have appeared. Well-being involves creative solutions in more than one dimension of life.

Physical well-being exists if you are able to live a long life in good health.

Mental well-being exists if you retain clear, sharp thinking.

Psychological well-being exists if you are happy, of which a major component is being free of anxiety and depression.

Spiritual well-being exists if your life has higher purpose and meaning.

There are specialists in all these areas (doctors, psychotherapists, life coaches, ministers, priests, and rabbis), and none of them are physicists. The quantum revolution hasn’t reached the complex issue of well-being. A physicist has a right to say, “That’s not my job,” but the larger issue is that the connection between the quantum field and everyday life hasn’t been made.

In the preceding chapter we’ve made the connection intellectually. Our aim was to get rid of the question mark in a simple diagram.


Quantum Body-->   ?   --> Physical Body


Now you know that creative intelligence removes the question mark. The connection between the quantum body and the physical body is a flow of creative intelligence that sustains everything in existence. The quantum doesn’t inhabit a microscopic world totally apart from everyday life. The quantum field lies at the foundation of the world. With this big idea in mind, we need to erase another question mark.


Perfection-->   ?   --> Imperfection


If the quantum world runs perfectly at the level of quarks, electrons, atoms, and molecules, what happened to create the imperfections of everyday existence? We can divide the question into the major parts of well-being.


Physical well-being


The baseline for physical well-being is life span. For centuries this was a gloomy subject (a famous quotation from the English philosopher Thomas Hobbes held that life in the state of nature was “nasty, brutish, and short”). Modern life span has greatly improved on Nature. According to the U.S. Census Bureau, the average American male in 1960 could expect to live 66.6 years; by 2015 this had increased to 77 years. For women the jump went from 73.1 years to 81.7 years.

The pandemic reversed this trend, reducing the average life span from 79 to 77–78 years, but life span as a raw number isn’t all that useful. During the pandemic, American health span—the period of life spent in good health without chronic disease or disability—continued to increase. By 2019 the average health span had increased to 66 years. Yet from a different viewpoint that’s a very discouraging number. It implies that more than a decade of chronic disease or disability will be endured before a person dies.

In fact, health span faces all kinds of obstacles. The biggest is the gap between white, educated, well-to-do Americans and those who do not have these advantages. Next comes modern medicine, ironically, which can keep chronically ill people alive longer than ever. A dramatic instance is the chance of dying from a stroke. Between 1975 and 2019 deaths from strokes in America declined dramatically. For women, 88 stroke deaths per 100,000 decreased to 31; for men the decrease went from 112 to 39.

Unfortunately, being kept alive after suffering a stroke doesn’t mean that your health span has improved. Only 10 percent of people fully recover from a stroke (almost always from a mild stoke). With proper rehabilitation treatment, improvements will show up in more patients than before. Around 25 percent have only minor impairments and 40 percent have moderate impairments that require special care, which can be expensive and difficult for both patients and caregivers.

It is theorized that life span could feasibly reach age ninety-five, and right now the elderly are the fastest-growing sector of the population. This gives rise to a terrible vision of a crippled and demented population of seniors. Already many households find themselves taking care of Alzheimer’s patients who have nowhere else to go. One study estimates that taking care of someone with dementia reduces the caregiver’s life span by five to eight years.

To put it briefly, the gap between life span and health span is enormous. Physical well-being has run into a dead end. You are trapped in a life-span lottery that determines who will age healthily in a random, unpredictable fashion.


Mental well-being


The normal state of mental well-being is a clear mind that thinks sharply. What people fear as they age is two great enemies: memory loss and dementia. This is a case where fear has outstripped reality. After age sixty-five, about 40 percent of Americans experience some memory loss, and this is typically minor enough so that everyday life goes on normally. More optimistic research holds that 80 percent of the elderly essentially haven’t suffered meaningful memory loss.

Rates of dementia are marginally declining. The good news is that the rates are much lower than one might gather from popular media. The World Health Organization estimates that only 5–8 percent of people over sixty-five live with dementia, and almost three-quarters of those are over seventy-five. American estimates seem to be worse, but these figures are probably due to better measurements. Around 10 percent of Americans over sixty-five live with Alzheimer’s.


Psychological well-being


The perception that we live in troubling times isn’t wrong. The Gallup Organization, which has done worldwide polling on how happy people are, found in 2022 that there was more unhappiness, worry, dissatisfaction, and mental struggle than ever before in its research. The lockdown period of the pandemic sharply increased everyone’s stress. One result was a rise in divorces and domestic abuse. There were also increases in depression and anxiety, but the rise and fall of those numbers is misleading.

Whether in the best of times or the worst of times, depression and anxiety are at epidemic levels already. There is no cure for either disorder, especially in chronic cases (mild bouts of depression tend to improve on their own). The only recourse, when it comes to mainstream therapeutic options, is to prescribe drugs that alleviate the symptoms. Couch therapy can bring about lasting improvements but is too time-consuming and expensive for any but the most privileged. Literally billions of dollars are being thrown at an insoluble problem just to put a better face on it. In cases of mild to moderate depression, for example, the leading antidepressants struggle to do better than placebos.

Psychology is complex, and one can toss out statistics that don’t help the situation. Nearly one in five American adults live with mental illness, but by other estimates more than twice that number have some kind of psychological problem and should seek help. The psychotherapy community says that 75 percent of people who go into therapy receive some benefit, but a somewhat notorious study showed that people on the waiting list to see a psychiatrist improve more than when they actually see one.

Even the baseline for normal happiness is deeply in doubt. The study of human psychology followed a medical model for a long time, meaning that the focus was on sickness and how to relieve it. Only in recent decades has the field of positive psychology emerged, which looks at how to optimize happiness. But there is no consensus except perhaps the gloomy one that happiness is difficult to achieve and temporary once you do achieve it.

People are very bad at predicting what will make them happy in the future. “If I only had X” is unreliable, whether X is a baby, more money, a better job, or the perfect spouse. Even when these objects of desire are attained, people don’t experience the boost in happiness that they expected, and sometimes not at all. Being the parent of a newborn baby is one of life’s most stressful experiences for the first year. One-third of lottery winners eventually declare bankruptcy and 70 percent go broke. The burden of winning a huge windfall often leads to a diagnosable condition known as Sudden Wealth Syndrome. Its symptoms include depression, paranoia, social isolation, uncertainty, and shock. In the worst cases, the person suffers an identity crisis. The answer to the question “Who am I?” is a shock to the system when you suddenly find yourself rich.

In short, happiness is an age-old mystery that modern life hasn’t solved and that modern stress has made worse.

About

Joining forces with two leading scientists, New York Times bestselling author Deepak Chopra offers a quantum leap for improving our physical and mental health.

In an unprecedented collaboration between three of today’s most powerful minds, Deepak Chopra, M.D., teams up with physicist Jack Tuszynski, Ph.D., and endocrinologist Brian Fertig, M.D., to bring readers a visionary work that delves into the innovative world of quantum science and shows how unlocking its secrets can revolutionize how we live and age—and, ultimately, how we can eradicate disease. The key is the quantum body.      

Unlike our physical body, which is subject to aging, injury, and decay, the quantum body exists on a sub-atomic level and is the infinite, invisible source of everyday reality that affects your thoughts, feelings, sensations, and biological responses. Without your quantum body, there is no physical body. And this lack of awareness of the most crucial part of ourselves negatively impacts our lives every day. 

Through a powerful combination of prescriptive exercises and innovative research into the quantum world, the authors unveil seven breakthroughs that will revolutionize the future of everyone’s well-being. Central to this revolution is a groundbreaking understanding of metabolism—the way our cells process energy—that promises to challenge our understanding of modern medicine as we know it.

Though all too familiar in the physical world, Alzheimer’s, type 2 diabetes, cancer, and heart disease do not exist at the fundamental level of quantum reality. By harnessing the power of the quantum body, we can significantly improve our physical and mental well-being, including supporting healthy cell, tissue, and organ function, boosting immunity, promoting mental resilience, and expanding our understanding of what it means to live a happy and purposeful life.

In this groundbreaking book, Chopra, Tuszynski, and Fertig show you the way by unveiling the “real” reality of your body and mind as never before and providing a vision for a tomorrow that is already here.

Praise

“Allied with an emergent cosmology of an essentially living and meaningful Universe, this revelatory and timely book is a profound guide to empower our collective healing and conscious evolution.” —Jude Currivan, PhD, cosmologist, author of The Cosmic Hologram and The Story of Gaia, and cofounder of WholeWorld-View

“An excellent, reader-friendly book that will leave you inspired.” —Amit Goswami, PhD, theoretical quantum physicist and author of (with Valentina R. Onisor, MD) The Quantum Brain, The Quantum Re-enchantment of the Reality You Live, and Quantum Integrative Medicine

“Deepak Chopra has taken heat from skeptics like me for his riffs on quantum theory. But I found his latest book, which links the quantum realm to our innate powers of self-healing and spiritual growth, inspiring.” —John Horgan, science journalist and director of the Center for Science Writings at Stevens Institute of Technology

Quantum Body is a rare exposition of truths, a work of deep knowledge, practical steps for life as well as reality in its most encompassing aspect.” —Menas C. Kafatos, Fletcher Jones endowed professor of computational physics and director of the Institute for Earth, Computing, Human and Observing (ECHO) at Chapman University

“Quantum Body is, at the very least, an intriguing work that cannot be cavalierly dismissed. And its relevance to our lives cannot be overestimated.” —Bernardo Kastrup, PhD, author, philosopher, computer scientist, and executive director of Essentia Foundation

Quantum Body brings readers up to date on what the latest science says about quantum biology and its application to medicine.” —Michael Shermer, publisher of Skeptic magazine, presidential fellow at Chapman University, and author of Heavens on Earth

“Drs. Chopra, Tuszynski, and Fertig present a profound vision of life that offers us a radically integrative understanding of our bodies, our consciousness, and our place in the universe. Melding medical science, quantum physics, and spiritual wisdom, this book will bring you to ‘aha’ moments that will forever change the way you experience yourself and the world.” —Dr. Robert Waldinger, clinical professor of psychiatry at Harvard Medical School, director of the Center for Psychodynamic Therapy and Research at Massachusetts General Hospital, and director of the Harvard Study of Adult Development

“Your body is a ripple in the quantum field. The quantum field is a miracle in the quantum universe, and then also your body is a miracle. This is what this book is telling you. After reading Quantum Body, you will never treat your body in the same way again.” —Ervin Laszlo, author of Science and the Akashic Field and The Great Upshift

Quantum Body deftly weaves recent discoveries from physics and biology with ancient insights from spirituality to provide practical advice for maintaining a healthy body and a balanced mind.” —Donald D. Hoffman, PhD, professor of cognitive science at the University of California, Irvine, and author of The Case Against Reality

Author

© Jeremiah Sullivan
Deepak Chopra, MD, founder of the Chopra Foundation and Chopra Global, is a world-renowned pioneer in integrative medicine and personal transformation. Chopra is a clinical professor of family medicine and public health at the University of California, San Diego, and serves as a senior scientist with Gallup Organization. He is the author of more than ninety books, including numerous New York Times bestsellers. Time magazine has described Dr. Chopra as “one of the top 100 heroes and icons of the century.” View titles by Deepak Chopra, M.D.
Jack Tuszynski, PhD is a quantum physicist and professor of oncology in the Department of Physics at University of Alberta. He holds five United States patents, has published over 500 refereed journal papers, 60 conference proceedings, twelve research monographs, and twenty book chapters. He has served on the editorial boards of thirty scientific journals and has been an Associate Editor for the Frontiers Collection of the Springer Verlag, Heidelberg. View titles by Jack Tuszynski, PhD
Brian Fertig, MD is a diabetes & metabolism specialist and endocrinologist, as well as the author of “Metabolism & Medicine,” a two-volume series detailing a scientific approach for predicting and preventing disease through an understanding of metabolism within the human body using a framework of physics, physiology, and medicine. View titles by Brian Fertig, MD

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Dr. Deepak Chopra shares new science for living a longer, healthier, more vital life

Excerpt

How Well-Being Got Stalled


We are all living a paradox that needs to be unraveled. At the level of the quantum body, existence is perfect. A flow of creative intelligence organizes everything without making any mistakes. There is no aging, sickness, or death. The quantum field ripples with vibrant energy that is inexhaustible. The paradox comes about when you shift your gaze to the everyday world, which is rife with imperfection. Aging, sickness, and death befall everyone. The DNA that controls every life process makes mistakes. People live with problems for which they can find no creative or intelligent solutions.

The solution to this paradox has eluded human beings for millennia, but consciousness keeps evolving and, as it evolves, partial solutions have appeared. Well-being involves creative solutions in more than one dimension of life.

Physical well-being exists if you are able to live a long life in good health.

Mental well-being exists if you retain clear, sharp thinking.

Psychological well-being exists if you are happy, of which a major component is being free of anxiety and depression.

Spiritual well-being exists if your life has higher purpose and meaning.

There are specialists in all these areas (doctors, psychotherapists, life coaches, ministers, priests, and rabbis), and none of them are physicists. The quantum revolution hasn’t reached the complex issue of well-being. A physicist has a right to say, “That’s not my job,” but the larger issue is that the connection between the quantum field and everyday life hasn’t been made.

In the preceding chapter we’ve made the connection intellectually. Our aim was to get rid of the question mark in a simple diagram.


Quantum Body-->   ?   --> Physical Body


Now you know that creative intelligence removes the question mark. The connection between the quantum body and the physical body is a flow of creative intelligence that sustains everything in existence. The quantum doesn’t inhabit a microscopic world totally apart from everyday life. The quantum field lies at the foundation of the world. With this big idea in mind, we need to erase another question mark.


Perfection-->   ?   --> Imperfection


If the quantum world runs perfectly at the level of quarks, electrons, atoms, and molecules, what happened to create the imperfections of everyday existence? We can divide the question into the major parts of well-being.


Physical well-being


The baseline for physical well-being is life span. For centuries this was a gloomy subject (a famous quotation from the English philosopher Thomas Hobbes held that life in the state of nature was “nasty, brutish, and short”). Modern life span has greatly improved on Nature. According to the U.S. Census Bureau, the average American male in 1960 could expect to live 66.6 years; by 2015 this had increased to 77 years. For women the jump went from 73.1 years to 81.7 years.

The pandemic reversed this trend, reducing the average life span from 79 to 77–78 years, but life span as a raw number isn’t all that useful. During the pandemic, American health span—the period of life spent in good health without chronic disease or disability—continued to increase. By 2019 the average health span had increased to 66 years. Yet from a different viewpoint that’s a very discouraging number. It implies that more than a decade of chronic disease or disability will be endured before a person dies.

In fact, health span faces all kinds of obstacles. The biggest is the gap between white, educated, well-to-do Americans and those who do not have these advantages. Next comes modern medicine, ironically, which can keep chronically ill people alive longer than ever. A dramatic instance is the chance of dying from a stroke. Between 1975 and 2019 deaths from strokes in America declined dramatically. For women, 88 stroke deaths per 100,000 decreased to 31; for men the decrease went from 112 to 39.

Unfortunately, being kept alive after suffering a stroke doesn’t mean that your health span has improved. Only 10 percent of people fully recover from a stroke (almost always from a mild stoke). With proper rehabilitation treatment, improvements will show up in more patients than before. Around 25 percent have only minor impairments and 40 percent have moderate impairments that require special care, which can be expensive and difficult for both patients and caregivers.

It is theorized that life span could feasibly reach age ninety-five, and right now the elderly are the fastest-growing sector of the population. This gives rise to a terrible vision of a crippled and demented population of seniors. Already many households find themselves taking care of Alzheimer’s patients who have nowhere else to go. One study estimates that taking care of someone with dementia reduces the caregiver’s life span by five to eight years.

To put it briefly, the gap between life span and health span is enormous. Physical well-being has run into a dead end. You are trapped in a life-span lottery that determines who will age healthily in a random, unpredictable fashion.


Mental well-being


The normal state of mental well-being is a clear mind that thinks sharply. What people fear as they age is two great enemies: memory loss and dementia. This is a case where fear has outstripped reality. After age sixty-five, about 40 percent of Americans experience some memory loss, and this is typically minor enough so that everyday life goes on normally. More optimistic research holds that 80 percent of the elderly essentially haven’t suffered meaningful memory loss.

Rates of dementia are marginally declining. The good news is that the rates are much lower than one might gather from popular media. The World Health Organization estimates that only 5–8 percent of people over sixty-five live with dementia, and almost three-quarters of those are over seventy-five. American estimates seem to be worse, but these figures are probably due to better measurements. Around 10 percent of Americans over sixty-five live with Alzheimer’s.


Psychological well-being


The perception that we live in troubling times isn’t wrong. The Gallup Organization, which has done worldwide polling on how happy people are, found in 2022 that there was more unhappiness, worry, dissatisfaction, and mental struggle than ever before in its research. The lockdown period of the pandemic sharply increased everyone’s stress. One result was a rise in divorces and domestic abuse. There were also increases in depression and anxiety, but the rise and fall of those numbers is misleading.

Whether in the best of times or the worst of times, depression and anxiety are at epidemic levels already. There is no cure for either disorder, especially in chronic cases (mild bouts of depression tend to improve on their own). The only recourse, when it comes to mainstream therapeutic options, is to prescribe drugs that alleviate the symptoms. Couch therapy can bring about lasting improvements but is too time-consuming and expensive for any but the most privileged. Literally billions of dollars are being thrown at an insoluble problem just to put a better face on it. In cases of mild to moderate depression, for example, the leading antidepressants struggle to do better than placebos.

Psychology is complex, and one can toss out statistics that don’t help the situation. Nearly one in five American adults live with mental illness, but by other estimates more than twice that number have some kind of psychological problem and should seek help. The psychotherapy community says that 75 percent of people who go into therapy receive some benefit, but a somewhat notorious study showed that people on the waiting list to see a psychiatrist improve more than when they actually see one.

Even the baseline for normal happiness is deeply in doubt. The study of human psychology followed a medical model for a long time, meaning that the focus was on sickness and how to relieve it. Only in recent decades has the field of positive psychology emerged, which looks at how to optimize happiness. But there is no consensus except perhaps the gloomy one that happiness is difficult to achieve and temporary once you do achieve it.

People are very bad at predicting what will make them happy in the future. “If I only had X” is unreliable, whether X is a baby, more money, a better job, or the perfect spouse. Even when these objects of desire are attained, people don’t experience the boost in happiness that they expected, and sometimes not at all. Being the parent of a newborn baby is one of life’s most stressful experiences for the first year. One-third of lottery winners eventually declare bankruptcy and 70 percent go broke. The burden of winning a huge windfall often leads to a diagnosable condition known as Sudden Wealth Syndrome. Its symptoms include depression, paranoia, social isolation, uncertainty, and shock. In the worst cases, the person suffers an identity crisis. The answer to the question “Who am I?” is a shock to the system when you suddenly find yourself rich.

In short, happiness is an age-old mystery that modern life hasn’t solved and that modern stress has made worse.