The only solution to prevent and reverse chronic diseases.
Most of the widespread chronic diseases in our world today can be prevented or even reversed and put into remission, a state where the patient does not need the drugs anymore. And this is possible through a complete change of lifestyle. This has created a new field in medicine, called lifestyle medicine.
It is therefore a new paradigm in healthcare, one that combines the best of conventional treatments, such as drugs and surgery, with the power of integrated lifestyle changes.
All healthcare professionals are faced with high levels of frustration when dealing with chronic diseases. We all get depressed when our patients’ conditions get worse over the years and we have to constantly intensify the treatment. Medications do not always help and if they do, they mostly only temporarily control the problem and most of the time we are forced to follow an escalation of treatment, which means more medication, with more side effects.
Lifestyle medicine has as its primary method for treating chronic conditions, therapeutic lifestyle interventions. It achieves this by targeting patients with evidence-based behaviour change strategies and can help them acquire permanent habits in key areas, like diet, exercise, sleep, smoking cessation.
Since these have led us to the chronic condition. These and not the ‘bad’ genes that we can’t change anyway. These are what we’re going to change, I’m order to treat once and for all our conditions.