Whole-person Medicine
Whole-person medicine combines the best of modern medicine with lifestyle medicine to provide the full range of treatment options for long-term health conditions.
Lifestyle Medicine
Lifestyle Medicine is a global medical discipline that uses well-researched interventions to help people to make and sustain lifestyle changes. These lifestyle changes have been found to not just prevent but treat and even put into remission, long-term conditions such as Type-2 diabetes, obesity, high blood pressure, depression, anxiety and metabolic liver disease.
You can read more about Lifestyle Medicine with the UK's leading clinician educational organisation, The British Society of Lifestyle Medicine.
The Lifestyle Medicine Assessment
Doctors trained in Lifestyle Medicine make the usual medical assessment but in addition assess:
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diet quality and timing,
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sleep quality,
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mental wellbeing,
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exposure to harmful substances,
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activity levels,
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nature connection,
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meaning & purpose in life,
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relationship challenges.
Assessments can also involve
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fitness testing,
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nutritional status assessments,
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body composition analysis,
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blood testing,
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use of wearable data (CGM etc),
A Global Medical Discipline
Global lifestyle medicine
