What do you know about Lifestyle Medicine?🌿
Lifestyle Medicine:
- is a branch of medicine that focuses on maintaining optimal health and preventing, treating, and even reversing chronic illnesses throughout a person’s life (Philips, 2020).
- is a rapidly growing field that looks at lifestyle-related factors that contribute to diseases and seeks ways to modify those factors in order to increase life expectancy, reduce the burden of chronic illnesses, and improve the overall quality of life (ACLM, 2023).
- addresses different pillars of lifestyle, including (ACLM, 2023; ELMO, 2023):
- nutrition
- physical activity
- stress management
- restful sleep
- social connection
- avoidance of risky substances
- It emphasizes using lifestyle interventions as the primary approach to treating conditions like heart disease, type 2 diabetes, and obesity (ELMO, 2023).
