Research Review of Lifestyle Medicine Six Pillars™

Many times colossal diseases like diabetes, heart disease, and high blood pressure (strokes, kidney disease) are the product of poor lifestyle choices. Lifestyle Medicine is a medical evidence-based approach used to prevent, suspend, and reverse diseases that are directly related to lifestyle choices. We talk with physicians who specialize in lifestyle medicine. They show the power of lifestyle medicine in medical research and how to apply it to your life. In addition, we talk with epigeneticists about lifestyle medicine. Epigenetics is the biological study of how your lifestyle, behaviors, stress, and environment can cause changes that affect the way your genes work. Unlike genetic changes, epigenetic changes are phenotypes or reversible and do not change your DNA sequence, but they can change how your body reads a DNA sequence which makes them replicable and can even be inherited by the next generation. Several lifestyle factors have been identified that might modify epigenetic patterns, such as diet, obesity, physical activity, tobacco smoking, alcohol consumption, environmental pollutants, psychological stress, and working on night shifts. In this course, you learn how, what, and why to use lifestyle medicine. You will become an expert on lifestyle medicine learned from expert physicians and scientists.