Prevention is not a service provided by statutory health insurance and only in exceptional cases by private health insurance. The state is failing in its most fundamental duty: the obligation to maintain the health of its citizens. In the increasingly dire health policy environment, the longing for prevention and anti-aging has developed into a megatrend. The truly decisive principles are based on a genuinely fascinating realization. Evolution has put the greatest effort not into us humans, but into the world of plants. Unlike us, plants cannot evade dangers. They must protect themselves from herbivores, viruses, bacteria, and fungi, as well as from night frost and heat stress, and harmful UV radiation, all on their own. They achieve this in a highly intelligent manner, utilizing more than 70,000 bioactive substances that they produce themselves.