Raba said that faith healers tend to be well versed in Ayurveda, a field of indigenous medicine that focuses on lifestyle habits such as diet and fitness.
In addition to what he felt would be explosive costs, Emanuel also argued against personalized medicine by observing that behavioral and lifestyle changes like diet, smoking and exercise, which account for 40% to 60% of all disease, are far likelier to have an impact on longevity and health-care affordability than genetics and thus should be the center of focus.