Twice a month, Dr. McBride is trying something different. She will talk directly to you — sharing advice and top-line thoughts about the most important health issues she sees.

On this 13-minute episode, Dr. McBride explains the practical framework she created to help patients conceptualize their health, integrating medical evidence, the patient’s story, and real life.

Dr. McBride calls it the FOUR “I”s

• Information & data = the elements of our health that we can measure and see.

• Inputs = everything that we put into our health ecosystem.

• Infrastructure = the vehicle (i.e., the skeleton) that drives us through life.

• Insight = the process of laddering up from self-awareness to acceptance to agency over our health and well-being.

Helping people connect the dots between their own four “I”s lays the groundwork for improved physical and mental health.

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Join Dr. McBride every Wednesday for a new episode of Beyond the Prescription.

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