Dr. Barry Baines

Exactly.

That, that's a big, that's a big part of it.

And I'm going to delve into that because that's, that's the one that's, I don't know, I guess appeals to me the most because it has the most, the biggest impact if you could prevent something from happening.

you know, before it even gets there.

And then secondary prevention really focuses on early diagnosis and interventions of an illness.

So the example I'll give is that if somebody, through regular checkups, let's say it determines that they have adult onset diabetes, okay,

then you can really intervene early to do both lifestyle changes and medications to help control it so that the disease really doesn't continue to get worse and worse, where then you move into all the problems that you get from diseases over the long term.

And the tertiary prevention is where you're really trying to limit disability and death.

Right.

Right.

So it's circular in that sense.

Yeah.

Yeah.

Yeah.

And, and so what I'd like to do is if I can, is to get up on the soapbox for just a few minutes and, you know, and, and talk about in the primary prevention area.

And that's the other thing is that things that you could do to prevent disease from, from ever happening.

Also,

follow through with if you have an early diagnosis of the disease, these things can help to slow progression, etc.

And even in the later stages, these are sort of like the fundamental building blocks.

And it's like the scaffolding of how to manage your health.