Q&A: How to integrate lifestyle medicine in primary care

Healio November 16, 2023
By Emma Bascom and Meagan L. Grega, MD, DipABLM, FACLM

Key takeaways:

• A new consensus statement provides a roadmap for integrating lifestyle medicine into primary care settings.
• The first step to integration is learning about the pillars of lifestyle medicine.

The American College of Lifestyle Medicine has recently published an expert consensus statement outlining best practices for implementing lifestyle medicine in primary care.

The expert panel that developed these practices define lifestyle medicine as “a medical specialty that prevents, treats and, in some cases, reverses chronic disease by utilizing six pillars of active intervention that promote a predominantly whole food, plant-based dietary pattern, adequate physical activity, restorative sleep, stress management, positive social connections and avoidance of risky substances,” Meagan Grega, MD, DipABLM, FACLM, first author of the consensus...

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