The Practice of Lifestyle Medicine- Virtual

Virtual:

  • American College of Lifestyle Medicine
    "ACLM is the medical professional society providing quality education and certification to those dedicated to clinical and worksite practice of lifestyle medicine as the foundation of a transformed and sustainable healthcare system." With videos to watch and readings to learn from, the ACLM website is a great resource for all who are either starting to learn about Lifestyle Medicine, or are already experts in the field.
  • Institute of Lifestyle Medicine at Harvard
    "A non-profit professional education, research, and advocacy organization, the ILM is uniquely positioned to ignite clinican involvement in lifestyle medicine. The ILM offers the following services: Training for health professionals wishing to improve their personal lifestyle choices so that they can be more effective role models for their patients." That includes tools for behavioural change and a Culinary course.
  • Introduction to Lifestyle Medicine for patients 
    American College of Lifestyle Medicine's informative slides about "prevention, treatment, and reversal of Disease" through Lifestyle Medicine.
  • Dean Ornish’s program and research
    The Ornish Lifestyle Medicine page provides research on nutrition, stress management, fitness, and love and support, along with reversal programs to help "undo" heart disease. The heart disease reversal program is currently available virtually and is covered by medicare.
    Dr. Dean Ornish and colleagues are even researching if there are ways to "undo" early stages of Alzheimer's disease through lifestyle medicine.
  • Lifestyle Medicine Foundation Webinars
    The non-profit organization Lifestyle Medicine Foundation provides various webinars on how changing your lifestyle can help with issues such as back pain, hypertension, diabetes, ADD, cardiovascular disease, even cancer, and so much more. There are almost 400 webinars in total for over 38 diseases.
  • The Nutrition Source from Harvard School of Public Health
    An excellent website from Harvard School of Public Health provides basic information about various food groups, such as proteins, fats, and carbohydrates, their sources and qualities, as well as information about managing cravings, healthy diets, and fitness for adults and children. Also includes easy to follow healthy recipes.
  • Dr. Saray Stancic – The Power of Lifestyle Medicine
    Dr. Stancic is a physician who specialized in infectious disease and who developed mutliple sclerosis in her third year of residency. She has utlized all the tools of lifestyle medicine in her journey to healing that is well described in the movie Code Blue. Dr. Stancic's website details the work she has done and is continuing to do for Lifestyle Medicine. She has a book, gives many talks, and provides resources including her newsletter. She is a passionate advocate for lifestyle medicine.
  • Dr. Terry Wahls
    "Dr. Terry Wahls was dependent on a tilt-recline wheelchair for four years until she reclaimed her health using a diet and lifestyle program she designed specifically to restore her cellular health—she now pedals her bike to work each day."
    The Wahls Diet App available here
  • Integrating Lifestyle Medicine into Medical Education
    LMEd provides open access, evidence-based Lifestyle Medicine curricular resources to build knowledge, skills and advocacy in clinicians for the prevention and treatment of lifestyle-related chronic disease.
  • Ardmore Institute of Health
    Ardmore Institute of Health's vision is to work for a future where healthy lifestyles will be the preferred method to prevent, treat and reverse chronic diseases such as diabetes and obesity.
  • Whole Health Library
    Whole health is an approach to health implemented at the VA, focusing on  awareness,  self-care and patient empowerment with main focus on lifestyle: nutrition, activity, sleep and relationships.
  • Online Resources to Share With Patients (fullplateliving.org)
  • Lift Project- Rochester Lifestyle Medicine Institute
    10 weeks to learn to uplift your outlook, health, and mood.
  • Rochester Lifestyle Medicine Institute
    Rochester Lifestyle Medicine Institute helps people overcome the biggest medical challenges they face by going to the root cause of health: how we live
Last Updated
02/01/2023