Lifestyle Medicine
When Medicines Multiply: Garth’s Story of Polypharmacy and the Power of De-Prescribing
When most people think of medicine, they imagine it as the answer to their health problems. And often it is, especially in emergencies. But in chronic illness, the story can look very different. Too often, one prescription leads to another, then another, until the very medicines meant to help become part of the problem. This…
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How Lifestyle Changes Helped Johan Overcome Anxiety… Without Medication
Anxiety can be debilitating and exhausting. It steals your energy, clouds your thinking, and can make even small decisions feel overwhelming. For some people, medication is the right path. For others, practical lifestyle changes can be life-changing. This is the story of Johan, and how a series of simple, targeted changes helped him regain his…
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How Helen Took Control of Her Asthma: A Real-Life Story of Lifestyle Medicine
When Helen, a vibrant woman in her late forties, discovered trail running, it opened up a whole new world for her. She loved being in nature, breathing fresh air, and the camaraderie of training with a group of like-minded women. But as much as she loved it, she noticed something wasn’t right. Helen often found…
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How Lifestyle Changes Can Transform Allergy and Respiratory Health
When seven-year-old Celine walked into my consultation room with her parents, she was a bright, sweet child, but she looked exhausted. Her parents were worried and desperate. An ear, nose, and throat specialist had just advised them that she urgently needed surgery to remove her tonsils and adenoids. It wasn’t a new problem. For more…
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A case study of how lifestyle intervention improves cholesterol
In the video, I share a case study to demonstrate the tremendous power lifestyle intervention has to improve cholesterol and other risk factors for heart disease as well as how it can save people from the horrible side effects of medications. With lifestyle medicine, we can increase healthspan, the years you are happy and healthy!…
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3 things I learnt from my lifestyle transformation
In this video, I share my journey with lifestyle transformation and the three things I learnt.
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I am passionate about Lifestyle Medicine, here is why!
I love to support and help people make the healthy changes and sustain them in the long term, so that you enjoy a better quality of life, so that you are happier. This is the power of lifestyle medicine!
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Watch to find out why I chose to specialise in lifestyle medicine
People often ask me why I chose to go into lifestyle medicine, rather than another speciality. Watch to find out how my personal experience shaped my decision.
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What is the difference between a lifestyle medicine doctor and a dietician
My patients are sometimes confused when I explain to them that I am a lifestyle medicine practitioner. They think that I am a doctor who’s also a nutritionist or a dietician. Now this is not the case. I have a significant amount of nutritional knowledge and I have postgraduate training in dietetics specific to…
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Watch to learn how lifestyle changes can improve and even reverse PCOS
Watch and learn from a case study on how lifestyle changes can improve and even reverse Polycystic Ovary Syndrome (PCOS). Case studies shared are for education and illustrative purposes. They are a combination of several patients’ journeys. To protect the privacy of the patients, the names have been changed and some of the events and…
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What makes a lifestyle medicine doctor different from a normal general practitioner?
What makes a lifestyle medicine doctor different from a normal general practitioner? Well, first of all. I am a general practitioner. That’s my undergraduate training, but I specialized in lifestyle medicine. I followed a postgraduate degree program lasting three years, and I did a full master’s thesis on a specific lifestyle intervention. So it’s the…
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Lifestyle medicine is backed by science
It’s time to bust a myth about lifestyle medicine. Many people think that because the interventions that I prescribe often are lifestyle modifications, dealing with nutrition or exercise or sleep improvements, that what I am practicing is not real medicine. Lifestyle medicine goes to the root cause of the disease or the medical condition,…
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Aren’t all doctors trained in lifestyle related conditions?
A question I get often from my patients who come to see me because I am a lifestyle medicine practitioner, is aren’t all doctors trained in lifestyle related conditions? And the truth is, yes, all doctors are trained. To understand conditions like high blood pressure, high cholesterol, gout, osteoarthritis, type two diabetes, all doctors have…
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Is Lifestyle Medicine Real Medicine?
There is a misconception that lifestyle medicine is not real medicine. Now, I’d like to make this very clear when a doctor like me specializes in lifestyle medicine we go through rigorous postgraduate level training in all the aspects of healthy living, nutrition, physical activity, sleep, science, psychology, social connectedness, unhealthy substance exposure and managing…
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Is Lifestyle Medicine real medicine?
People often ask me whether lifestyle medicine is real medicine. Now listen closely. Lifestyle medicine is the only medicine because how you live your life impacts on your health now as well as your health in the future. If you look at mainstream medicine, traditional medicine, where you see a health condition and you…
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What are the aspects of Lifestyle Medicine?
Lifestyle medicine is a specialized field of medicine in the same way that a gynaecologist specializes in women’s health. A lifestyle medicine doctor specializes in those aspects of lifestyle that have an impact on your health and wellbeing. We look at nutrition, exercise, sleep, stress, psychological factors, your social connectedness, as well as exposure to…
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What is a lifestyle medicine doctor?
What makes a lifestyle medicine doctor different from a normal general practitioner? Well, first of all. I am a general practitioner. That’s my undergraduate training, but I specialized in lifestyle medicine. I followed a postgraduate degree program lasting three years, and I did a full master’s thesis on a specific lifestyle intervention. So it’s the…
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What is Lifestyle Medicine?
This is a new specialty in medicine. The same as doctors can specialize in pediatrics or orthopedics or surgery. Doctors can now specialize in a field called lifestyle medicine. We have realized that how we live our lives, the food we eat, the routine we have, our physical activity, our sleep habits, our social connections,…
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