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"The expression is meaningless," Tom says. Indeed the term is a relic of a time when the Internet was still something special, evoking a separate space distinct from our real life, an independent, secretive world that you entered and then exited again.

Tom and his friends just describe themselves as being "on" or "off," using the English terms. What they mean is: contactable or not.

Order Potassium Citrate Online Now, We're still humans with 200,000 years of ingrained behaviors that only changed to a sedentary lifestyle in the past 100 years or so. So we need real human to human interactions to encourage us to fight our modern conveniences, move, and eat food, mostly plants. This isn't sexy. It's low-tech. It's real relationships with family, friends, and local professionals trained in behavioral modification.

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So go local, embrace low-tech, maximize real relationships, and make it sexy. This will be the future of effective healthcare in a community. Our life expectancy has almost flatlined compared to the explosive growth in the last 100 years. We don't think anyone wants to live as a 90 year old for 40 years. If doctors want to be just as effective in the next 100 years as they were in the past 100, we'll have to focus on optimizing happiness and satisfaction with life in the healthiest years of our lives...and not simply prolonging life.

(photo by me of Grant and his wife Amanda in his backyard in London...taken with my iPhone).

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  • http://twitter.com/jonathanpberger jonathanpberger

    William Gibson: “The future is already here, it just isn't evenly distributed.”

    There are an *ENORMOUS* number of ppl whose health needs to improve basic, 19th or 20th century ways. (Michael Pollen's built a career elucidating them). There's a *lot* of unsexy work to be done. But let's not write off the sexy stuff as fickle or trendy. Moore's-law-based norm-changing new modes of living and health will lead the way.

  • http://twitter.com/SusannahFox SusannahFox

    I admit it, I clicked through b/c of the word “sexy” in the headline. I've been talking with some other people about how they want to make good health sexy, not a chore. I love that you're not only talking about it, but doing something about it. Meantime I'll keep trying to measure it in my research and sparking up discussions, feeding that passion for facts & evidence that I personally think is sexy.

  • Grant

    Susannah, “sexy” certainly comes in many forms! And making leading people by inspiration in health is the best/only answer (we think anyway). It will take leaders who can define the “new cool”. If you find nice linkups to help us make this stuff come alive then that would be great

  • http://twitter.com/ThatScottGuy Scott Kozicki

    There certainly is a place for the improved marketing of better health. This is happening, somewhat, as I noticed that more and more of my peers are eating local, organic food. Cooking for themselves more. Riding their bikes. Trying to strike a better work/life balance. Not scientific data there, but observation. All of these things are influenced by larger trends I think (green movement, cost of energy, the economy, etc) and not necessarily wrapped in a message of “this is what we need to do to foster better health”. There's no spokesperson out there (save Lance Armstrong, hardly effective at this point for most people) extolling the virtues of working hard for better health. It's not “cool”. It's not “sexy”. Everyone knows that our celebrities are flawed, imperfect, photoshopped avatars. They don't *work* to be beautiful and healthy. They buy that on the shelf at the store. They're more exciting now because they ARE just like us. Flawed, drunk, stoned, struggling, imperfect humans.

    All of this to say that what's needed to break beyond the typical “5%” of self-selecting early adopters are incentives. Incentives are far more powerful than technique. I've argued for a long time that the best incentive is cash. The Biggest Loser proves the dynamic every week. But if you scaled that to a large population across micro-choices (“pay ya $5 to not light up today!”), then you'd have the largest swath of adoption and change. Why shouldn't you share in the value that you're creating by improving your own health? Why should you only have to pay for the decline of everyone else's health? Does this dynamic remind you of anything?

    Sure, you need marketing and there's always that ~20% of everybody that won't do anything no matter what it is, but that's not important right now. To bend the trend enough, we don't need everyone to sign up, we just need radical change in how we reach enough people.

  • http://twitter.com/ThatScottGuy Scott Kozicki

    Oh, and I've always loved Gibson's quote, because it's true, but that truth cuts both ways, as you'll see in this data: http://paul.kedrosky.com/archives/2010/08/bmi_i…

  • http://www.nursingideas.ca rdjfraser

    Dean Ornish talks a lot about change, and the lack of efficacy of high tech healthcare interventions. I am amazed at what I saw in intervention radiology, stents are cool. However, 90% of patients have recurrent health problems that are not fixed by the stent, which is exactly what you are talking about. Life choices that aren't sexy, eating vegetables and taking time to workout (what I am currently avoiding), are hard to do. Relationships, whether with family, friends, spouse, trainers, therapists or any other relationship that enforces healthy choices has a much better and potentially longer lasting effect than the high-tech.

    That said, I think it is time to run to the gym.
    Rob

  • http://blog.jayparkinsonmd.com/ Jay Parkinson, MD

    Hi Rob! Thanks for commenting. Keep it up…that's what keeps you feeling young no matter how old you get. At least that's what my 90 year old grandfather says.