This is great but I still am bothered by the notion of health as something someone does as a reaction to an existing problem, maybe even after it has gotten to a crisis.
This is the beauty of kava: yes it can treat but it's amazing at preventing.
Yeah, you can shrink a tumor with it prolly but how much better if you can prevent it in the first place! You have insomnia but how about you drink kava and never get insomnia in the first place? It can treat anxiety very well but it works like a charm to prevent it even better. I do not believe kava can treat or cure depression but I do strongly suspect it is efficient at preventing depression, especially first time episodes of depression. Thing with depression is it's like heat injuries. If you never have it, chances are pretty low you'll get it, but once you do have it, your odds of getting a second episode go way up, then after a second your odds of a third go up even more and eventually it's just a chronic cycle of on again off again. Why not use kava and other techniques of mental hygiene to keep people off that conveyor belt in the first place.
Honestly, I think the gov't should make high quality kava available for free, like school lunch programs and putting vitamin D in milk and fluoride in tooth paste.
I think kava's effects in general mental hygiene are probably extremely far-reaching, that we're only just beginning to scratch the surface here. It doesn't just make me peaceful, calm, happy, etc, it also helps me be more focused, more productive, sleep even better, eat better, have better weight, its pain relief helps me work and workout harder. Ultimately I think it makes me a nicer person and also happier. And I enjoyed all of that before kava, but kava made everything even better, in ways I never imagined possible.
Sigh..... I love kava.