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Joining forces to change community health and clinical care for generations to come

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 and clinic walls to ignite transformation of our currently 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.

How are Blue Zones and ACLM fulfilling this promise?

Advocating for more healthcare professionals to join the fastest-growing medical specialty in the U.S. by pursuing lifestyle medicine certification. The steps to becoming certified in lifestyle medicine as a physician and health professional are outlined here.

Become Certified

Add recognition and longevity science to your diplomate status with the Blue Zones Certification Course – expanding your therapeutic skills in lifestyle medicine to build connections outside clinic walls.

Take the Course

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.

Blue Zones is proud to be an Impact partner in support of ACLM’s National Training Initiative. This program is providing training and certification to primary care providers at each of our nation’s 1,400 federally qualified health centers and community health centers (FQHC/CHC).

Learn about the National Training Initiative

Apply Blue Zones Insights in Your Clinic and Community

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Live better. Lead better. Learn from the world’s longest-lived cultures.

Created in partnership between the American College of Lifestyle Medicine and Blue Zones, the Blue Zones® Certification Course for Physicians and Health Professionals brings decades of longevity research to life, offering practical, evidence-based strategies you can use in clinical and community settings to help people live better, longer.

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What makes this Blue Zones course distinctive?

Blue Zones Certification signifies your commitment to lifestyle medicine and strengthens your professional identity, demonstrating that you bring scientific knowledge and practical skills informed by the lived wisdom of the world’s longest-lived populations. It also connects you to a global network of peers integrating Blue Zones principles into their work and community—a collective approach that reflects what the original blue zones regions teach: people live better, longer when they do it together.

learn

Explore the research and gain applicable tools to apply the principles within the blue zones – regions where people live longer, healthier lives.

Empower

Look beyond one-to-one interventions to establish connection with your environment – helping to make the healthy choice the easy choice.

Be Recognized

Strengthen your professional identity by aligning with a mission-driven, evidence-based approach to well-being.

Lifestyle Medicine Certification

While anyone can take the Blue Zones Certification Course, the opportunity to earn recognition as a “Blue Zones Certified Physician” or “Blue Zones Certified Health Professional” is available exclusively to clinicians who are certified in lifestyle medicine as diplomates (DipABLM/DipACLM/DipIBLM). If you’re currently pursuing lifestyle medicine certification, you may enroll now and earn the Blue Zones Certified designation once certified.

Become a Lifestyle Medicine Diplomate

Build a Foundation in Lifestyle Medicine

We encourage learners to continue their journey in lifestyle medicine through additional coursework from the American College of Lifestyle Medicine (ACLM). Deepen your understanding, expand your skills, and take the next step toward earning your lifestyle medicine certification—the recognized credential in therapeutic lifestyle medicine.

Foundations of Lifestyle Medicine Board Review Course

30 HR CME/CE/MOC

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Nutrition for Prevention & Longevity

3 HR CME/CE/MOC

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Religion and Spirituality in Lifestyle Medicine

1 HR CME/CE/MOC

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Lifestyle Interventions for Treatment and Remission of T2D and Prediabetes in Adults: Clinical Practice Guideline

3.75 HR CME/CE/MOC

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Amanda Pears Kelly

Executive Director of the Association of Clinicians for the Underserved (ACU)

“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.” 

Anand Parekh, MD

Chief Medical Advisor of the Bipartisan Policy Center

“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.”

Kate Goodrich, MD

Chief Medical Officer at Humana

“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.”

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