Lifestyle Medicine

Lifestyle medicine helps you treat, manage, or, potentially, reverse chronic diseases like Type 2 diabetes. At N-of-1 Medicine, the highly trained lifestyle medicine specialists offer whole-person primary care with a highly personalized twist in their Santa Monica, California, offices. With nutrition, exercise, stress management, and other effective methods of lifestyle management, you can turn your health around. Call the Los Angeles-based office or use the online appointment maker to learn more now.

What is lifestyle medicine?

Lifestyle medicine focuses on the tremendous power of lifestyle changes as the basis for treating, managing, — and, in some cases, reversing — chronic disease. 

Heart disease, Type 2 diabetes, and obesity are three of the common diseases that lifestyle medicine can help with. But, it also supports people with sleep disorders, mental health conditions, and many other conditions that affect whole-person health. 

How does lifestyle medicine work?

Lifestyle medicine focuses on wellness pillars including:

Nutrition

Nutrition counseling helps you modify your diet to remove or cut down on the foods that contribute to chronic illness, such as heavily processed foods with high levels of saturated fat and sodium. 

Changing to a plant-predominant and whole food diet can help you feel satisfied and energetic while helping treat, prevent, or reverse conditions like Type 2 diabetes. 

Physical activity

Physical activity gets your heart pumping and helps build stamina, resiliency, and overall health and wellness. 

It also works alongside diet and medication to help drop excess weight in a medical weight-loss program. 

Stress reduction

Stress can cause or worsen mental health, sleep disorders, heart disease, immune system problems, and many other health conditions. Due to these harmful tendencies, stress-management techniques are a key pillar of lifestyle medicine. 

Stress management can also help enhance your general well-being. 

Restorative sleep

Many people don’t realize just how much poor sleep affects their attention span, mood, and general health. You can learn how to improve your sleep hygiene and get truly restorative sleep. 

This, in turn, can boost your mood, focus, and energy and can even improve blood sugar levels and reduce hunger. 

N-of-1 Medicine approaches lifestyle medicine from a whole-person perspective, so your treatment plan also includes help in other areas like social connection and smoking cessation.

Lifestyle medicine is designed for your age, abilities, and needs. 

Do I need lifestyle medicine?

Lifestyle medicine is often prescribed for people struggling with chronic conditions or those who are at risk for them. Preventive care is the main focus of your primary care at N-of-1 Medicine because it can pinpoint potential chronic conditions and help you avoid them. 

Since preventive care is for everyone, lifestyle medicine can be too. Whether you want to hone your health or manage your disease, lifestyle medicine can help. Book your appointment online or phone N-of-1 Medicine today.