Lifestyle medicine (LM) is an evidence-based medical specialty that uses therapeutic lifestyle interventions to treat, reverse, and prevent chronic conditions, including cardiovascular diseases, type 2 diabetes, and obesity.
It is a vast, innovative field of medicine that’s experiencing rapid growth. LM supports behavior changes through the six interconnected pillars of lifestyle medicine: optimal nutrition, physical activity, restorative sleep, stress management, connectedness, and risky substance avoidance. With therapeutic goals of health restoration and medication de-escalation, lifestyle medicine offers hope and healing for clinicians and patients.
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