Lifestyle Medicine
Prevent, Treat, and Manage Chronic Disease
Lifestyle medicine focuses on the prevention, treatment and management of chronic diseases through lifestyle interventions. This is especially critical since the CDC now reports that 6 in 10 American adults have at least one chronic disease.
Lifestyle Medicine has six main pillars:
Diet and Nutrition
Physical Activity
Stress Management
Restorative Sleep
Avoidance of risky substances
Social Connection
Other factors we take into account at Forum Health Akron, is environmental toxins and cognitive decline.
In contrast to conventional medicine, which primarily focuses on treating symptoms of diseases, lifestyle medicine aims to address the root causes of these conditions. By addressing underlying lifestyle factors, it has been shown to improve overall health outcomes and reduce the need for medications or invasive procedures.
At Forum Health Akron, our lifestyle medicine protocol may include:
- Nutritional evaluation – To determine nutritional deficiencies
- Hormone evaluation – To uncover hormonal imbalances
- Advanced cardiac testing – To predict cardiovascular disease much earlier than standard testing.
- Genetic testing – To understand your health and disease risks
Contact us today to see if Lifestyle Medicine is right for you!
