Dr. Dawn Mussallem, a board-certified lifestyle medicine physician, says her commitment to healthy lifestyle behaviors gave her a sense of empowerment while undergoing cancer treatment and enabled her to maintain vitality. Discussing lifestyle behavior is an important part of the care Dawn Mussallem, DO, DipABLM, provides for her patients at…

A team of health experts in the St. Luke’s Health System Lifestyle Medicine Department helped Deena Clark make lifestyle behavior changes that relieved her body’s stress. Deena Clark had type 2 diabetes, cirrhosis of the liver and chronic fatigue when she discovered the lifestyle medicine program at St. …

Terri Schon felt like the only one without a role in her breast cancer treatments. Until she discovered lifestyle medicine and shared medical appointments. Terri Schon’s cancer diagnosis in 2019 left her with a nagging question she will never answer. Why? Cancer didn’t run in her family. She had no…

“It reminds that I didn’t become a doctor simply to prescribe medicine or procedures but to help and heal people,” says Dr. Raquel F. Harrison. Dr. Raquel F. Harrison is an emergency medicine physician for Yale New Haven Health. If you had asked me three years ago if I was burned out as an emergency department physician, I would have said no. …

The growing burden of non-communicable chronic disease in the military has been called a threat to U.S national security. The Air Force is incorporating lifestyle medicine into its health systems to improve readiness and to optimize warfighter capabilities. — A quiet threat to United States national security is infiltrating the health and wellness of the brave men and women who serve. The growing epidemic of chronic disease in the U.S. has not spared the armed forces, where almost 66 percent of service members are considered to be either overweight…

Mayo Clinic nephrologist and genetics researcher Dr. Stephen Turner discovered lifestyle medicine late in his career. That didn’t stop him from becoming one of its most passionate advocates. — Nephrologist Stephen Turner, MD, DipABLM, says he spent most of his career at the renowned Mayo Clinic practicing medicine exactly how the health care system expected him to practice it. “Tests, drugs and procedures,” Dr. Turner said. …