Any biologists or doctors out there?

What is the purpose of studying biology or medicine? What should be the goal of studies in human biology?

Now that I have had the experience of raising children, seeing many people develop illnesses they can’t get out of, Corona times and chronic pain and ageing in myself, I think that the goal should be to understand and educate about how to maintain a healthy body that doesn’t develop chronic issues and that can recover quickly from injuries and invading microbes.

How much of the studies in biology and medicine are enabling that?

Has understanding food in terms of carbohydrates, fats, proteins, vitamins, minerals made it easier to maintain health? Are today’s human populations in better health than those from two generations back? We have characterised molecular pathways, we can describe enzyme reactions at the atomic level, we can see how the genetic material replicates itself and engineer it, we have made fancy drugs and targeted therapies. We can say that the body has issues with something called glucose when it has diabetes. Cholesterol does this, and XYZ does that. Has the incidence of diabetes, heart issues, cancer increased or decreased over the last decades while all this profound knowledge came to us?

Has modern medicine managed to reverse any chronic issues?

In my opinion, it has only managed to manage the symptoms.

What do you think about it? Please share you opinion with me.