Take Back Your Health: Reversing Diabesity - Community Based Medicine
Mark Hyman, MD
Format: Video of Slides

Recent evidence demonstrates the power social networks (or lack thereof) and community have to create health or disease. The holy grail of health care is the lack of capacity to create sustainable lifestyle and behavior change. Both the content of care driven by a systems/functional medicine roadmap, and the delivery models of care must change in order to reverse the tsunami of chronic disease including heart disease, diabetes, dementia and cancer, and to stem spiraling health care costs. Dr. Hyman will explore a powerful new social experiment developed within the faith based community for sustainable wellness, and other novel models for decentralizing health care through community based small groups and disruptive models of clinical care that drive the double revolution needed for people to take back their health. The first revolution is changing the content of care and nature of health information accessed by both professionals and citizens, and the second revolution is harnessing the power of community to address our chronic disease epidemic.