How Lifestyle Medicine Physicians Treat Patients
By focusing on lifestyle interventions, physicians seek to improve their patients’ health and prevent future illnesses.
Lifestyle medicine uses three main modalities to promote wellness:
1. Nutrition
2. Physical activity
3. Stress management
“Every single physician should be an expert in lifestyle medicine,” she says. “We all need to engage conversations on lifestyle determinants of health with our patients.”
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How to Reduce Stress
Follow our 10 simple tips to help manage and reduce your stress levels.
Avoid, or at least reduce, your consumption of nicotine and any drinks containing caffeine and alcohol. Caffeine and nicotine are stimulants and so will increase your level of stress rather than reduce it…