Stan, Clarence, Barry, and the Health Chatter team tackle a deceptively simple question: How do you manage your health?In this episode, the team reflects on the many factors - big and small - that shape personal health management, from daily habits and self-care to navigating healthcare systems and making lifestyle choices.Tune in for a lively discussion that will leave you thinking about your own approach to health and how small changes can make a big difference.Join the conversation at healthchatterpodcast.comBrought to you in support of Hue-MAN, who is Creating Healthy Communities through Innovative Partnerships.More about their work can be found at https://www.huemanpartnershipalliance.org/
Chapter 1: What is the main question about health management addressed in this episode?
Hello, everybody. Welcome to today's show on Health Chatter. And the subject is how do you manage your health? And we're only going to have the Health Chatter crew talk about this. It'll be an interesting discussion for sure. We've got a great crew, as always, that help us make these shows successful and interesting and get them out to you, the listening audience.
Maddie Levine-Wolf is helping us today with the recording, also does background research for us. Aaron Collins will be with us shortly, does background research. Deandra Howard, Matthew Campbell is our production master who gets the shows out to you with a little music attached to it.
And then of course there's Sheridan Nygaard who helps us with research and also transcribing the shows on our website. My partners in crime here are Clarence Jones, And also Dr. Barry Baines, who should have some interesting insights today for today's show on managing your health. So thank you to everyone, your great colleagues and friends. Human Partnership is our co-host sponsor for our shows.
Chapter 2: How do personal circumstances influence health management?
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Also, if you have questions or comments, feel free to check us out there as well. So again, healthchatterpodcast.com. So today's show, like I mentioned, how do you manage your health? And I was thinking about this, about Two months ago, I said, God, you know, that would be just an interesting question because I'm sure that we all manage our health differently to a certain extent.
And I also have a feeling that it's a function of age. Also, I believe it's a function of whether or not you have a particular medical condition that you're dealing with. either acutely or chronically.
Chapter 3: What are the different types of health prevention discussed?
But regardless, we're in this mode of managing our health. So, Barry, I'm going to let you kind of kick it off a little bit and just say, okay, look, what's the story here? It's like you're a doc. You've seen patients, you know, all your career. And what is it about managing our health?
Well, I'd say it is a lot to talk about, and so I'm going to ask you and Clarence to give me the high sign if I'm, you know, when you want me to stop.
Okay, I just did.
No, I mean... Go ahead. You know, because at once, and with, I mean, both of you have been... 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
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Chapter 4: How can primary prevention strategies impact health outcomes?
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.
And there's another aspect to primary prevention, too. I mean, like wearing your seatbelt.
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Chapter 5: What role does technology play in managing health?
Yes. Right. Okay. So, I mean, it's, it's not always medically or health perspective altogether, but it's behavioral.
Yeah, right. 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.
And that's, you know, the secondary I remember in the public health field, we define that as diagnosis and treatment that included screening.
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Chapter 6: How important is social support in health management?
Right.
And then tertiary prevention includes the aspects of rehabilitation. And, you know, what's interesting about the levels of prevention is they're kind of circular. It's like, okay, let's just say for argument's sake, you've had a heart attack. Okay. And you've lived through it. And then you do everything, you know, medication-wise, rehab-wise. Why? To prevent another heart attack. Okay.
So it's very circular. So the rehab and the medication becomes almost like a primary prevention for for the possibility of another episode.
So it's circular in that sense. Yeah.
Chapter 7: What are some practical tips for maintaining a healthy lifestyle?
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. 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.
Chapter 8: How can individuals take charge of their health management?
Because some, you know, as an example, exercise, well, let me give you the list. Exercising.
Okay.
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.
So, you know, it doesn't have to be, you know, pumping iron, you know, five times a week and running a marathon every other day. I mean, you can get involved in more activities, but there are a lot of different activities. And it's the biggest thing is finding something that you like. And just find something that you like.
Not if you're, you know, your best friend, you know, likes to be on Stairmaster for three hours a day, but that might not be your thing. That wouldn't be my thing, you know.
You know, so as we talk about exercise, here's one question that I, or a comment that I have about it. I wonder whether people in general, the reason that they might be more negative about on exercise is that they don't see the immediacy of it. Okay.
Okay.
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