Lifestyle Medicine

Lifestyle Medicine uses evidence-based information to assist patients in implementing healthy lifestyle choices. Lifestyle medicine enables individuals to be part of their own health care and to play an active role in managing and even reversing chronic illness and disease.

WomenMD uses lifestyle therapeutic approaches to prevent, treat, or modify chronic disease.

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Through the delivery of lifestyle medicine we are able to help people make sustainable lifestyle changes. The team facilitates group lifestyle sessions where patients set lifestyle goals and create action steps they can take immediately, allowing them to walk in the direction of health.

This approach includes “a predominantly whole food, plant based diet, regular physical activity, adequate sleep, stress management and behavioural change techniques.

Chronic intensive lifestyle modification is critical for your path to pain-free and disease free living. Optimal nutrition, stress reduction, mindful living, and physical activity is your prescription.

Living a healthy lifestyle is medicine.

+ Metabolic Syndrome

WomenMD Lifestyle Medicine is the first Primary Care team-based Lifestyle intervention in patients with metabolic syndrome in Victoria, British Columbia.

Metabolic syndrome is a health crisis hiding in plain sight.

Canadians are struggling to lead healthy lifestyles. The result is a growing prevalence of chronic conditions like diabetes and heart disease.

The good news is that family doctors can detect metabolic syndrome and treat it with a proven regimen of diet and exercise.

Metabolic syndrome (MetS) is a health disorder that, left untreated, greatly increases the risk of many chronic illnesses. MetS is diagnosed when a patient has three of the following conditions:

High blood pressure (≥ 130/85 mm Hg, or receiving medication), high blood glucose levels (≥ 5.6 mmol/L, or receiving medication), high triglycerides (≥ 1.7 mmol/L, or receiving medication), low HDL-cholesterol (< 1.0 mmol/L in men or < 1.3 mmol/L in women), large waist circumference (≥ 102 cm in men, 88 cm in women; ranges vary according to ethnicity). According to a 2014 study published in Chronic Diseases and Injuries in Canada, 19.1% of all canadian adults — nearly 1 in 5 people — meet this diagnosis. Most people are unaware of it.

For more information please refer to the following links:

https://www.metabolicsyndromecanada.ca/

https://www.changebc.net/