Posts Tagged ‘Lifestyle Medicine’
The day your legs decide your future
One moment you’re walking through the house like you’ve done a thousand times before… and the next, you’re on the floor, staring at the ceiling, heart thumping, trying to work out what just happened. A fall is rarely just a fall, particularly in people who have celebrated many birthdays. In older adults a simple fall…
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What Does It Mean to be Fat-Adapted? The Science of Becoming an Efficient Fat-Burner
One of my students nearly blew a gasket after my midday Zumba class the other day. She asked me: “What do you eat for breakfast? I need that recipe so I can have the same energy as you!” When I explained that I prefer to exercise in a fasted state, and that my last meal…
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How Fast You Walk Can Predict How Long You’ll Live
When we think of fitness, we often imagine high-intensity workouts or hours in the gym. But there’s one simple, accessible activity that says a lot about your health… walking. More specifically, your walking speed. We’ve all noticed it: People who walk with a spring in their step seem younger, more energetic, and healthier. On the…
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Case Study: Why Under-fuelling Could Be Holding You Back From Your Ultra-Marathon Goals
Meet Sarah, a 38-year-old accountant, mother of two lively kids, and a determined recreational athlete. She came to see me because she was feeling frustrated and exhausted. Sarah had set herself the ambitious goal of running her first ultra-marathon. She was a seasoned runner, and she wanted to challenge herself so she signed-up for a…
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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…
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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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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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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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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…
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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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