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An alliance that champions lifestyle medicine as a catalyst for longevity

The American College of Lifestyle Medicine and Blue Zones® are building healthy communities together.

We come together with a united vision of a nation and world made of healthier, stronger, and more resilient communities. This partnership combines proven, powerful methods inside and outside hospital/clinic walls to ignite transformation of our current broken healthcare system. Our mutual promise is to improve individual and population health, reining in the epidemic of chronic disease and the 90% of all healthcare spending that is tied to the treatment of conditions rooted in unhealthful lifestyle behaviors.

Let us keep you informed about the ACLM and Blue Zones partnership developments. Indicate your interest here.

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THE OPPORTUNITY

This is just the beginning…

1. Blue Zones Certified Clinicians

We are establishing a network of Blue Zones Certified Clinicians. The opportunity to earn recognition as a “Blue Zones-Certified Physicians” or “Blue Zones-Certified Healthcare Practitioners” will be unveiled in early 2025. This is available exclusively to clinicians who have already earned  certification in the field of lifestyle medicine by the American College of Lifestyle Medicine (ACLM), the American Board of Lifestyle Medicine (ABLM), or the International Board of Lifestyle Medicine (IBLM). Learn more about the certification prerequisite to begin your journey toward Blue Zones Certification.

Lifestyle Medicine Certification

2. The Center for Lifestyle Medicine Innovation

A special project of ACLM, The Center will serve as a hub for research, innovation and thought leadership with Blue Zones recognized as the exclusive founding partner. The Center has emerged out of a convergence of the Blue Zones Institute and ACLM’s current activities in research, practice advancement, and innovation. The Center’s work will advance evidence-based knowledge, quality care delivery, and innovative practice models, propelling the field toward our vision of a world where lifestyle medicine is the foundation of all health and healthcare.

Research and Innovation

3. Community Impact – Training at FQHCs

A nation and world filled with blue zones hotspots is the vision of this partnership. We are on a mission to create communities that support the adoption of healthy lifestyle behaviors, with ALL physicians and medical professionals trained and equipped to support the eco-system of health. All of this while achieving the quintuple aim and delivering equitable, whole person care. Blue Zones is proud to join as an Impact Partner in support of ACLM’s National Training Initiative. This program is providing training and certification to one primary care provider at each of our nation’s 1,400 federally qualified health centers (FQHC).

National Training Initiative

Together, Blue Zones and ACLM are leading the charge to revolutionize the way healthcare is delivered and experienced with a shared vision of healthier, stronger, and more resilient communities across the United States and around the world.

“I have been thrilled with Humana’s partnership with the ACLM to provide accessible lifestyle medicine training for all of Humana and Centerwell’s employed healthcare professionals and our network clinicians. This whole-person approach to care empowers and enables our clinicians to invest in the patient relationship and moves us from an acute, episodic sick care model of care to true care for health and longitudinal maintenance of holistic wellbeing, ultimately delivering on better health outcomes, quality of life, and longevity. I know this new partnership between ACLM and Blue Zones will elevate our clinicians’ training even further and advance the evidence base on best practices – which is vital in helping shape the future of healthcare.”

Kate Goodrich, MD, Chief Medical Officer at Humana

“This partnership is a powerful response to the health inequities that health center patients and so many others in underserved communities face every day. Chronic diseases disproportionately impact medically underserved communities, and we need innovative approaches and training to support our clinicians in addressing them. As a strategic partner of ACLM, we’re heartened to see them partner with Blue Zones to help improve our healthcare workforce’s readiness to combine lifestyle medicine with evidence-based population health initiatives to achieve true community transformation.” 

Amanda Pears Kelly, Executive Director of the Association of Clinicians for the Underserved (ACU)

“In my book, Prevention First: Policymaking for a Healthier America, I emphasize the need to mobilize the entire community ecosystem to take proactive steps in both preventing disease and promoting health. This convergence of Blue Zones and the American College of Lifestyle Medicine represents an ecosystem approach unlike any other. This starts with our physicians and medical professionals being trained in both lifestyle medicine—which  includes prescribing food as medicine—and Blue Zones principles. This isn’t a red issue or blue issue. ACLM and Blue Zones’ goal is to educate and empower all people to take far greater control of their health destinies, with a keen focus on addressing lifestyle-related chronic disease health disparities.”

Anand Parekh, MD, Chief Medical Advisor of the Bipartisan Policy Center

“I applaud the innovative partnership between the American College of Lifestyle Medicine and Blue Zones as it creates precisely the synergy between the medical profession and the communities in which they practice that is sorely needed to truly alter the unsustainable trajectory of chronic disease and associated spending. Physicians and other medical professionals trained and certified to practice lifestyle medicine are the final missing piece in Blue Zones’ incredible track record of success transforming communities so people live longer and better.”

Richard Carmona, MD, MPH, FACS, the 17th Surgeon General of the United States and Distinguished Laureate Professor at the University of Arizona

“As a steadfast champion for community health and well-being, I am thrilled to see the partnership between Blue Zones and the American College of Lifestyle Medicine,” said Betsy Price, mayor of Fort Worth, Texas, from 2011 to 2021. “By merging Blue Zones’ longevity research with the evidence-based practices of lifestyle medicine, we’re laying the foundation for a future where well-being flourishes in our communities and individuals are empowered to live their healthiest, happiest lives. A community where residents have more life in their years not just years in their life!”

Betsy Price, Former Mayor, City of Fort Worth

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