Community Support Importance

I mean this could include support from professionals, community or peers or fellow dentists? I think that the community where I live, I think they do a really good job of providing a variety of activities no matter the season. And I don't think that I would ask anything more of our health care providers than that they encourage things like the the smart habits of, you know, whether it's vaccinations or, you know, staying home when you're sick or, you know, avoiding people when they're sneezing and coughing all over the place, you know, those kinds of things. But I'm not sure that there's anything else that can be imposed on people unless they feel like it's their choice to do it. Sure. And do you set yourselves any personal goals for your health during winter? And if you do so, what are they and how do you go about reaching them? I think the only thing I do is try to keep on doing it because I know winter is my least favorite season. My goal is just to maintain what I've been doing through that season and anticipate what's coming next. Sure. And if you could give someone advice about staying healthy in the winter, what would you tell them based on your own experience? I would say the main thing for me would be to, because you're not going to get the same kind of rewards from nature that you usually get. I think I depend more heavily on socialization during those months for my own mental health. And it's even easier for people not to get up and go when it's dark outside, or when you would have to drive in the ice to get together with other friends. you know, we're fortunate to live in an age when you can always pick up the phone and call somebody and I I just think that the older we get the more important those ties are, you know, I See people retreat into themselves