A continuum illustrates the continuous relationship between parts of a topic or idea from one of its extremes to the other. Health Care’s continuum illustrates the relationship between palliative care and health promotion. Even further, disease management and fitness optimization are the opposing interventions of this relationship. Our current health care system provides world-class treatments for pulling patients from the brink of death. However, non-communicable disease continues to raise and claim the lives of millions each and every year. We must address our health promotion and fitness optimization strategies to reverse this trend. Understanding the foundations of health is a great place to start this reversal.