Lifestyle medicine aims to prevent, treat, and even reverse chronic illnesses across all stages of life and it recognises that you yourself are the key to these changes.
The approach works by providing you with the knowledge and tools to manage your own health. The key areas (which are sometimes referred to as pillars) of lifestyle medicine include:
- Healthy eating
- Being physically active
- Improving sleep quality
- Managing stress effectively
- Maintaining healthy relationships
- Avoiding harmful substances
Lifestyle medicine also considers wider influences on your health, such as social and economic factors, and uses proven techniques to help you make and sustain these changes over time.
Making positive changes to your habits
If you could make one positive change to your lifestyle, what would it be? Watch the video below – you might be surprised by what others want to change. It’s not always about giving things up – it’s about doing things differently, changing the way you see things and being open to doing some things differently.
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You can read more about each of the areas of lifestyle medicine in the dedicated sections at the top of this page.
