Dr. Barry Baines

involved in public health and community health for a long time.

And, you know, from my perch, I was more in the weeds in a sense, you know, that frontline seeing patients.

And prevent, you know, my perspective is that prevention is always the catch word for managing your health, but it's changed in a way

over time that offers both opportunities for people to manage their health better.

But the flip side of that is, is that the information can be so number one could be so overwhelming.

Okay, that

It's one thing to go to a grocery store and have to pick one of three different salsas for your chips.

And it's another thing when you go in and there's like 100 jars.

It's like it's overload and you get paralyzed at making decisions.

But when we were kicking this around to talk a little bit about managing your health,

the thing that came to mind is, you know, stuff that comes in the area mostly of what's called primary prevention.

And I think actually we should probably nail down some definitions just so that our listening audience, you know, has a sense that when we talk about prevention, prevention, prevention, there's primary prevention, secondary prevention, and tertiary prevention.

And I'm going to,

kind of give a brief definition for this, and please jump in if I stumble on one of these.

But primary prevention is where you actually are able to prevent an illness or disease from ever happening.

And so, you know, one example that's, you know, an easy one or used to be easy, but has now socially and politically has become a hot potato.

You get a vaccine for polio and you never get polio.

You get a vaccine for measles, you never get measles.

OK, that's.

Yeah, right.