What do you work for?No. 69

Health is the Starting Point of Life

The second article of our manifesto binds our whole business into one idea: "Health is the starting point of life. Health is not the absence of illness. It is the strength to hold dreams, take on challenges, and live each day smiling.

That is why we encompass beauty, wellness, food, education, work, and community — all exist to enrich life and deliver smiles." Why does a cosmetics company make health foods and look toward food, agriculture, education? The seemingly scattered businesses connect through this definition.

"Not sick" is too narrow: a body that moves without dreams, numbers normal but no daily laughter — we refuse to call that health. To build the full state — dreams, challenge, smiling days — skincare, nutrition, learning environments, and workplaces all become our work. Define health broadly, and business boundaries dissolve.

Are you "healthy" by this definition today?

What do you work for?

— Tomoki Nagano, Chairman & CEO, INSTINCT BIO TECHNICAL COMPANY (NASDAQ: BIOT)

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