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Lifestyle Medicine

Non-urgent advice: What is Lifestyle Medicine?

Lifestyle medicine is a branch of healthcare that focuses on preventing, managing, and even reversing chronic diseases by making changes to daily habits and lifestyle choices. It emphasizes evidence-based interventions in areas such as nutrition, physical activity, sleep, stress management, substance use, and social connections. The core idea behind lifestyle medicine is that many chronic conditions, such as heart disease, diabetes, obesity, and hypertension, can be improved or avoided through healthier lifestyle habits, without necessarily relying on medication or invasive treatments.

Adopt a nutritional whole food plant-predominant diet

Encouraging a balanced, plant-based, and nutrient-dense diet, often focused on whole foods, while reducing processed foods, refined sugars, and unhealthy fats.

Incorporating Physical Activities

Promoting regular exercise tailored to an individual’s fitness level and abilities, with recommendations typically aiming for at least 150 minutes of moderate exercise or 75 minutes of vigorous exercise per week.

Manage Stress with Meditation

Teaching techniques to manage and reduce stress, such as mindfulness, meditation, yoga, or deep breathing exercises. We do better for everyone when we look after ourselves.

Rejuvenate through Sleeping

Emphasizing the importance of adequate sleep for overall health and providing strategies for improving sleep quality and duration. Lack of sleep makes us function inefficiently

Socialize and keep those connections alive

Encouraging strong, supportive relationships, social interactions, and community engagement, which are important for mental and emotional well-being. Loneliness is a scourge of modern-day living and has a massive negative impact on health. Friends offer companionship, increasing one’s sense of belonging, purpose increasing personal happiness, which promotes feelings of self-worth and coping with trauma and avoid unhealthy lifestyle habits. 

Avoid Substance Abuse

Addressing the reduction or elimination of tobacco use, alcohol consumption, and other substances that negatively affect health. Acceptance of our excesses is often the first step in reducing our dependence on these habits.

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