Increase Our Energy - Solve Health Care Costs

On Monday I was with some researchers from Johnson & Johnson talking about our heath care crisis. Much of our crisis is invisible. For instance, this number really blew my mind…

The current estimate for the annual productivity lost due to preventable illness is $1 trillion dollars a year.

That’s about the same as any health care cost of any new plan or that is being discussed for ten years. The cost of our lifestyle has reached unbelievable proportions. I’m here at the Human Performance Institute looking at health care’s ultimate answer.

80% of chronic illnesses are preventable and most of the causes of the chronic illnesses are simply bad lifestyle choices.

We know how to live, we just don’t. How we eat, how we don’t exercise, and how we don’t sleep makes us very vulnerable to our bodies breaking down. We also don’t do a very good job recovering from stress. HPI’s secret is that they know how to change that behavior permanently. Their evidence is pretty overwhelming. The underlying premise is that most people don’t change their behavior because they don’t have the energy to. We’re simply too tired to exercise, too tired to think positive thoughts, and too tired to interact with each other in positive ways. We’re just too tired to do anything that isn’t really easy, and it’s in that choice of doing something easy that we make ourselves sick.

So it all begins with how to increase your energy. HPI seems to have found a way. If we can simply get more of us taking better care of ourselves because we have the energy to do it, things might change. The best way to solve the cost prices in health care is to get a whole lot healthier!