Posts Tagged ‘Video’
Learn how social connection affects your health
Watch the video to learn how your social connectedness impacts your health. Having a rich and active social life improve physical and mental well-being and is associated with longevity.
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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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Why good sleep is important for your mental health!
Watch this one minute video to learn more.
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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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Choose your ‘hard’
A lady brought her daughter to see me… The child was having major behavioural issues at school. Distracting other kids, misbehaving, generally causing mayhem. The Mom sat in my office looking desperate and powerless while her child was ripping the place to shreds… Scratching in my drawers, scribbling on my wall, tearing pages out of…
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