Dr. Barry Baines

And this is not even getting into

you know, medicines, pharmacology, which plays a big part as well, not so much in primary prevention, but in secondary and tertiary prevention.

But I just, you know, put together my smallest that's, let's see, I think it's, yeah, I wanted to say it was like the, you know, the

the dirty half dozen here, but I, it looks like I only have put down five things.

I could probably come up with six.

Harry can help me.

But, but some of these things are so basic and they, I would like to decomplicate it.

Because some, you know, as an example, exercise, well, let me give you the list.

Exercising.

Attention to nutrition or eating, eating well.

getting enough sleep, and then having social relationships, this idea of being with other people.

And then another one, which is supposed to be worse than smoking, is if you sit too much during the day, just not sitting or getting up every hour.

And so the way I want to make this less complicated is that

When people hear exercise, exercise covers such a broad swath of what you can do.

And very often just taking a walk for 10 minutes has an impact.

And you do that three times a day.

You do that every day.

It's amazing the managing your health benefits that it has, not only physically, but also mentally.

And then the nice thing about the Twin Cities, it was cities that were designed to have green space, like within six blocks of just about every house where you live.

And taking a walk and walking like in a park with green space also is very good for your mental health as well.