Lifestyle Medicine is the use of evidence-based lifestyle therapeutic intervention - including a whole-food, plant-predominant eating pattern, regular physical activity, restorative sleep, stress management, avoidance of risky substances and positive social connection - to prevent, treat and often reverse chronic disease.
The key to the delivery of lifestyle medicine is the ability to help people make sustainable lifestyle changes through behavioural change management techniques.
Lifestyle medicine is the foundation of conventional medicine and almost all clinical practice guidelines for the top chronic disease support Lifestyle Medicine as the first line of treatment.