And we manage it all the time.
Consciously or unconsciously.
Systematically or erratically.
When you take responsibility for your health, you start making your own risk management decisions. Whether you are aware of it or not.
If you let a doctor take the lead on your health decisions, they assess risk for you.
Doctors are always weighing the potential benefits of a particular treatment against the potential risks. That is part of what we ask them to do, as medical experts.
You don’t need to be a medical expert to know how to manage risks relating to the interventions you undertake to improve your health.
You just need to be systematic. I’ll tell you how!
Risk Management for Health
When we take responsibility for our health by engaging in nutritional and lifestyle interventions, we can manage risk for the actions we decide to take. And the actions we decide not to take.
Because there can be risk in inaction, too.
We can also consider risk when deciding whether to include (or exclude) pharmaceutical or other therapies as part of our health management strategy.
Start with Questions
Start the process by asking the following questions: Continue reading