Top 3 Tips to Reverse or Manage Osteoporosis

  If you or anyone you know has suffered a complication from osteoporosis, you will understand what a painful and potentially debilitating condition it is. There are genetic risk factors for osteoporosis but did you know that lifestyle factors play a massive role in preventing and managing osteoporosis?  It is possible to improve your bone…

Read More

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!…

Read More

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…

Read More

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,…

Read More

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…

Read More

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…

Read More

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…

Read More

Building Resilience

This month, I will be sharing practical strategies used in Positive Psychology that you can use to feel happier and more enthusiastic for life. Today we will look at the skill of resilience! You can cultivate the skill of being able to bounce back after being knocked down. Resilience is the ability to thrive despite…

Read More

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,…

Read More