Healthcare is one of the biggest line items on any employer’s budget, yet most business leaders get almost no training in how to manage it. Dr. Adam Brown sits down with his former attending, Dr. Kristi Artz, to talk about the white paper they just co-authored, Teaching the Business of Healthspan with Lifestyle Medicine.

Dr. Artz is board-certified in emergency medicine and lifestyle medicine and serves on the board of the American College of Lifestyle Medicine. She and Adam make the case that healthcare costs aren’t just an HR problem. They’re a strategic risk that tomorrow’s leaders should learn to manage in business school.

Dr. Lara Zibners brings her own questions (and a hypothetical 55-year-old with a WHOOP), and the three get into:

• The growing gap between healthspan and lifespan, and why Americans now spend more than a decade in poor health
• How lifestyle medicine differs from functional medicine, longevity clinics, and wellness influencers
• Clinical evidence that intensive lifestyle programs can put type 2 diabetes into remission
• Why employer wellness programs often fall short, and what “dosing” lifestyle intervention actually means
• The $18,500 per employee that employers spend on health coverage every year

Read the white paper: https://www.abighealth.com/white-papers/healthspan