Part 4: Lifestyle Medicine

Lifestyle medicine focuses on altering a client’s problematic lifestyle to prevent and treat chronic conditions. This can include the utilization of behavioral, emotional, environmental, and medical principles to assist clients. Lifestyle medicine emphasizes six pillars: (a) diet focused on whole foods and plants, (b) regular physical activity, (c) healthy and consistent sleep, (d) stress management, (e) avoidance of drugs and alcohol, and (f) positive social relationships. This training provides an overview of lifestyle medicine, benefits of a lifestyle medicine-informed approach, and different populations addressed by lifestyle medicine research. Empirically based research findings will be highlighted throughout this training.