How do you encourage people to participate with a health regimen?
In the beginning the goal is to get patients to get used to measuring activity and not to focus on the outcome, says Samir Damani, MD, CEO of MD Revolution.
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But if you get people to just lose two pounds of visceral fat from their waist, I mean, you're talking about billions of dollars of savings
to the health care system. [MUSIC PLAYING]
You don't focus on the outcome. You don't focus on the actual task of eating healthy or eating right.
What you focus on-- the first thing we tell them, don't worry about anything. Get used to just measuring. First month, just measure what you're doing.
That's it. Measure your steps. Measure your heart rate. And don't worry about results. And then all of a sudden, they start doing that thing.
And you start sending them messages. Hey, try exercising a little more. And all of a sudden when you start seeing your data,
you start doing things because you're just getting used to the behavior of tracking. So once you get to the use of behavior tracking, if somebody gives you some guidance,
you automatically migrate towards changing those things because you realize it's not dramatic.
In many instances it's subtle. And those subtle changes-- if you look at population health, there are these stories that if you just get people to lose
three pounds-- I mean, three pounds of visceral fat. And we know BMI is a terrible predictor of anything. Two people can be same BMI yet have completely different body
fat percentages. But if you get people to just lose two pounds of visceral fat from their waist, I mean, you're talking about billions of dollars of savings
to the health care system. So we're talking about population health management. And on an individual basis like you and I,
we might tweak it for performance. But for the larger population, it's somebody who's never measured anything and doesn't even realize what they're putting in their mouth
or what they're doing on a daily basis. [AUDIO LOGO]
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