Lifestyle medicine is an emerging discipline that focuses on nutrition, physical activity, sleep, stress management, social connections, and avoiding risky substances.
How we build our mindsets is the most important change you can make. It sets you up for continued growth, development, and improvement.
We know you’ve heard this too many times - eat your vegetables and fruit. But allow us to share with you WHY this really matters.
Fibre is the unsung hero that can help us stabilize blood glucose and cholesterol, and also keep us regular. But most of us get way too little of it. Let’s change that.
Whole and less processed foods are those that have not gone through significant processing. Processing can remove healthy components of food while adding chemicals and other substances that can impact health. Aiming to reduce (even a little) the amount of processed food you eat is a great way to improve your health.
No matter your age, strong scientific evidence exists to support the benefits of physical activity on our happiness, brain health (cognition and mood), plus exercise can improve or reduce the risk of most chronic diseases such as heart disease, type 2 diabetes, stroke, and some cancers.
Fats are critical for our function. Try to optimize unsaturated fats for optimal health
We spend 1/3 of our life sleeping. There are ways to help back sleep restorative to improve health and give you the focus and energy to achieve your personal and health goals.
Emotional health is about how you feel and how you make others feels. It has tremendous health impacts and is important for how you perceive life.
Our beverage choices can have a bigger impact on our health than many people appreciate. We will explore ways to optimize hydration.
Micronutrients have critical roles, but you need to have the right amounts to get the health benefits.
