Why Don't We Do More to Prevent Illness?

Why Don't We Do More to Prevent Illness? (0:37)

Preventative medicine has been shown to improve health outcomes, but not many people live healthy lifestyles that keep illness at bay. In this video, HealthMaker Mark Liponis, MD, explains why we often fall short in trying to live healthier.

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The challenges with the holistic approach to health and prevention are really human behaviour, and that is we as humans, we have behaviors that we need to control, the drive to eat, the drive to go copulate with everything the drives to fight, the drives to injure the drives to steal all these things that are sort of natural drives.

We have to learn how to control, and human behavior is the toughest element when it comes to prevention. Certain things are out of our control your genes for example, and that sort of but our behavior, we can control to a certain degree.

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About Mark Liponis, MD

A top expert in alternative and complementary medicine, Mark Liponis, MD, is the corporate medical director at Canyon Ranch. He explains how a holistic approach to health and wellness can help prevent chronic diseases like diabetes.

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Why Don't We Do More to Prevent Illness?