Tamen Haddad-Garcia

And one way to assess your health and the best way of doing it is by asking the question of self-rated health, self-reported health.

So the question is very simple.

In general, how would you rate your health?

Excellent, very good, good, fair, or poor?

I mean, you can answer now if you would want even.

And I mean, I would invite the listeners to do the same thing.

And essentially, you can divide the answers, like the answers have different implications.

If you answer excellent, very good, or good, that's considered positive.

So that's what I was talking about before, that people can have these diseases and maybe identify themselves with these diseases, or the healthcare system can say that they're ill, but they can still say that their health is excellent, very good, or good.

But then at the same time, there's the group of fair or poor.

And this is what we call negative health.

And rating your own health as negative can actually indicate that you have a triple higher risk of dying earlier than your peers who say that their health is positive.

And I mean, it's really shocking that there's actually evidence from a study from 2022 from the US that showed that people who rate their own health as poor are likely to live 23 years less than those who consider their health as excellent.

So it's really important to remember that you have a lot of power in terms of understanding your health and rating your health and that that actually matters a lot.

And it's separate from whether you have a disease or not.

It's almost like asking yourself, do you like this restaurant?

Or did you enjoy this restaurant?

Or how would you rate this restaurant?

You wouldn't say that your rating is wrong, right?

It's your evaluation.