Lifestyle medicine is a branch of medicine which has as goal to maintain optimal health and to prevent, treat and reverse chronic illness across all life stages. The health interventions used in lifestyle medicine include evidence based behavioral strategies, while considering equity and sustainability, to enhance self-management skills for optimizing nutrition, sleep hygiene, stress management, social connection, sexual health and fertility, physical activity and minimizing substance use and environmental exposures.
*as adopted by the ELMO Scientific Council
The goal of LM is to improve life quality and wellbeing through working on 8 pillars, that are components of our health future
- nutrition,
- sleep hygiene,
- stress management,
- social connection,
- sexual health and fertility,
- physical activity
- minimizing substance use and environmental exposures
