AIM OF LIFESTYLE PROGRAM
• Lifestyle program is aimed at arresting or reversing chronic conditions such as obesity, high cholesterol, high blood pressure, diabetes, non-alcoholic fatty liver disease and metabolic syndrome.
Lifestyle program will help you decrease your risks for chronic conditions.
It will also help you to:
• Feel better
• Have more energy
• Sleep better
• Improve your mood
• Decrease pain
• Enjoy life more
• The treatment is tailored to individual’s requirements’.
The program includes :
• Consultation with a Lifestyle physician
• Consultation with an appropriate Specialist if needed
The treatment revolves around the Risk factors that may be reduced or Eliminated like :
• Poor diet
• Lack of exercise
• Obesity
• High blood pressure
• Raised blood cholesterol
• Stress
• Smoking
• Excessive alcohol intake
LIFESTYLE MEDICINE CONSULTS
INTEGRATING SCIENTIFIC EVIDENCE INTO PRACTICE :
Changing your lifestyle habits will be the primary way of treatment and managing your chronic diseases. The goal is to work with you to create a personalized lifestyle self-care plan that you can implement and sustain.
Lifestyle medicine consultant will
• Take a detailed personal, family and medical history.
• Learn more about you, your dietary, exercise and sleep habits and your sources of stress and the ways to cope with it.
• Assess your health concerns and evaluate your symptoms.
• Order any necessary tests
• Your personalized treatment plan will be based on your health history, symptoms and current lifestyle.
• After your consult, you will know how to follow your lifestyle self- care plan.
• If necessary, specialists referral will be done.
WHO SHOULD VISIT LIFESTYLE PHYSICIAN?
If you have been diagnosed with non-communicable diseases like Type 2 diabetes, high blood pressure, high cholesterol or obesity, Lifestyle clinic is for you. These chronic conditions can leave you feeling fatigued, sleep deprived and in constant pain. They also significantly increase the risk of death and disability. Don’t let another year go by without taking charge of your health. Seize the opportunity to feel better, look better, enjoy greater energy and feel more relaxed.
Balanced thinking – see/perceive/interpret things in a way that empowers you to be an over comer rather than a victim.
Thinking pattern can control the way chemicals are secreted which make you feel a certain way or other. Balanced thinking can turn on the chemicals which keep body in good health.
Balanced thinking – see/perceive/interpret things in a way that empowers you to be an over comer rather than a victim.
Thinking pattern can control the way chemicals are secreted which make you feel a certain way or other. Balanced thinking can turn on the chemicals which keep body in good health
Drink enough water for your body size. Adequate hydration is essential for optimal functioning of the body
Drink enough water for your body size. Adequate hydration is essential for optimal functioning of the body.
Breathe well enough to ensure optimal oxygen levels for the body cells to function optimally.
Deep breathing helps in releasing chemicals which lower the blood pressure and relieve the stress. Go ahead and breathe deep. Regular exercise ensures that your body is adequately oxygenated.
Disease occurs when any of the elimination pathway is clogged up. If things which are meant to be out, stays in, then you get sick.
Get peaceful, enough and deep sleep everyday.
A lot of your body’s restorative and growth processes take place while you sleep.
Keep one day a week to rest your body and mind.
Inadequate sleep can cause weight gain and health hazards.
No man is an island. Be in a stable relationship and be a part of support system that helps you maintain a good habit.
It does more than giving strength to bones and teeth.
It has a role in functioning of every cell in your body and boosts your immunity. Get your vitamin D levels checked as deficiency can make you feel ‘tired all the time’.
Gut is often referred to as ‘second brain’. Hippocrates, father of medicine said many years ago, that all diseases begin in the gut. Unhealthy gut can cause variety of diseases like irritable bowel syndrome, obesity, Dm, heart disease, constipation etc., Your gut contains about 100 trillions of bacteria 85% are probiotics- healthy bacteria which are responsible for 75 – 80% of your immunity. They feed on prebiotics which is one reason why veggies are good for you. Frequent antibiotic consumption, diets high in processed carbohydrates, low in fibre, stress can alter the balance between good bacteria(probiotics) and bad bacteria, and lead to all sort of health problems.
