Short transcript of a conversation (YouTube video) about health behavior and lifestyle medicine. Speakers discuss the banking metaphor of “temporal disconnect” — people prioritize present comfort over saving for future health — and emphasize lifestyle medicine and immediate optimization: making people feel vibrant today to motivate sustained change.
There's this concept in banking I learned from the bankers. It's called temporal disconnect. In the banking and finance world, it means that on average they can't get anybody to save $10 for their future. Right? If we're feeling fine today, it's good enough today. We can't bank the health for the future.
I think this whole term lifestyle medicine is a term that I've really fallen in love with because rarely if you've ever gone to see a physician do they ask you anything about your lifestyle. You have all these consequences going on and no one ever says how are you sleeping? Or walk me through your day. So where do you start with them? How does that assessment look for you?
So what I try to do is help people identify what it's going to take to feel amazing today, not just fine. I want you to feel vibrant today because that, my friend, is addictive. If I can make you feel optimized today, that is why you'll come back.
