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 prescribe a medication for that. What happens is that you end up living with the side effects and the consequences of taking that medication. And so as an example, we end up treating stomach ulcers with a medicine that impacts on your vitamin absorption.

Then you end up having to take extra vitamins in order to deal with a consequence of the medication to treat your problem instead of going to the root cause of the issue, and this is really what lifestyle medicine does, is it goes to the underlying cause of the medical problem. And if we can correct that naturally by making healthier choices.
Then we don’t end up relying on medications and chemicals to deal with the symptoms of the problem. So lifestyle medicine is the ultimate specialty in medicine because we deal with the root cause.