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Lifestyle Medicine Should Be Your Medicine
The pillars of lifestyle medicine are nutrition in the form of a predominantly plant-based, whole-food diet; regular physical activity or exercise; restorative sleep; stress management or stress reduction; positive social interactions and connectivity with other people; and finally, the avoidance of toxic substances. The important differentiating factor is that these pillars are really based on research in a number of different disorders — primarily cardiovascular disease, diabetes, and heart disease — but are really applicable to human health in general.
As physicians, we’re meant to be healers. We’re telling other people almost all day long how to be healthy, exercise more, etc., and trying to help them incorporate these things in their lives. But as physicians or other healthcare professionals, do we actually apply these things in our own lives?
I do, as much as it is possible in the world I have created in an office where I talk and do these things all day. I understand that this is not possible for most people. To be clear – it is not the end goal that is the only goal; reaching the goal through small changes in my behavior and life choices in a way that is constructive without being critically limiting to myself or others is how I intend to reach it. This is what I teach my patients.
These things have led me to explore some broader views of medicine that can help us all to live our own healthiest lives, and our patients to incorporate these measures. That was really the motivation for me to learn more about these approaches.
None of these things are new, per se. We all know that a healthy diet, exercise, and a healthy body are very important. What I think differentiates this is the focus on putting these lifestyle measures at the center. It’s not just something we mention in the last 2 minutes of a visit or when patients are leaving through the door, almost as an afterthought. Instead, you probably want to start with these things.
Not NO SUGAR; start with LESS Sugar
Not NO Meat; start with LESS Meat and more substitutes
Not NO Snacks and Chips; Less Snacks and Chips and better choices when I do eat these things.
Not NO Alcohol; LESS Alcohol
Not EXERCISE all the time; Exercise more often and with more flexibility.
Once a choice is made to make better choices, easing into it by LESS bad choices and MORE good choices makes it easier to choose more and better choices in the future.
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