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Everything you need to know about lifestyle medicine

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Everything you need to know about lifestyle medicine

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  1. Everything you need to know about lifestyle medicine Lifestyle medicine can assist you in answering various questions and make the required changes to improve your health, manage or eliminate chronic conditions. It also reduces your reliance on medication and life your healthiest life. It is an approach to healthcare that promotes the use of health behavior change as the primary way to prevent and treat several conditions. Here are some things that you need to know about lifestyle medicine. Lifestyle medicine Lifestyle medicine professionals can show you how to use personalized lifestyle changes to prevent and treat various diseases and health problems. It uses science-based, therapeutic lifestyle changes to prevent, treat, and reverse chronic diseases, rather than first or only using medications. For practicing lifestyle medicine, evidence-based prescribing Lifestyle Medicine is a critical tool. Lifestyle medicine can be the best and most effective treatment because unhealthy lifestyle choices are responsible for 80-90% of chronic diseases. Who can benefit from lifestyle medicine?

  2. Usually, every people can benefit from making healthier lifestyle choices. Especially people with chronic diseases can benefit more than others. Some chronic diseases like ● Diabetes ● Crohn’s disease ● Autoimmune diseases ● Hypertension ● Heat disease ● High cholesterol ● Irritable bowel syndrome (IBS) ● Ulcerative colitis ● Obesity A foundation for growth Lifestyle medicine is broken down into six pillars of a healthy lifestyle and refined over years of research and application. The six pillars are: ● Sleeping better ● Eating whole, lean protein for good health and plant-based foods. ● Relationship formation and maintenance ● Unhealthy habits Tobacco and others must be neglected ● Physical activity should be increases ● Using healthy coping strategies to manage stress What is a lifestyle medicine physician? A lifestyle medicine physician is specially trained in healthy lifestyle factors like nutrition, sleep, exercise, substance abuse, stress management, and more. A lifestyle medicine physician empowers and educates individuals with tools to change their behaviors. They also help you and teach you to take control of your health. Benefits of lifestyle medicine

  3. With the use of lifestyle medicine, patients can see an enhanced quality of life. With lifestyle medicine, an individual can enhance areas in their life like relationships, social skills, and physical health through exercise, managing stress, nutrition, and sleep. Lifestyle medicine has also been shown to minimize healthcare costs. It makes changes in the way you drink, eat, move, and relate to others can minimize the amount of time you spend with a doctor. It looks at the whole person to discover the best course of action for preventing and healing mental and physical problems. By doing this, one can minimize several chronic diseases that cause millions of deaths each year. Lifestyle medicine is cost-effective and can be implemented right away. By following lifestyle medicine, you can start making good and positive changes as soon as today. The lifestyle focus of lifestyle medicine As you have seen above, there are six essential lifestyle elements in lifestyle medicine. From that six elements, nutrition and exercise are the main two elements that optimize health, treat, prevent and often reverse conditions, social connection, and more. All those pillars of lifestyle medicine indicate that the emphasis is on the whole person’s health. By focusing on these pillars, your body is beautifully synchronized and capable of healing. As a prescription for pharmacotherapy, lifestyle medicine prescription will be held to the same

  4. standard. So you don’t have to worry about anything that negatively affects your health. Wrapping it up Following lifestyle, medicine is completely about personal preferences. Lifestyle medicine helps to shape medical education and practice in the future as well. It gives excellent control over your health and motivates you to seek a healthier and quality of life.

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