Ask your doctor to “prescribe” these six “pills” for a longer and better life

For better or worse, they don’t come as pills, but these 6 underprescribed lifestyle medicines can lead to a better and longer life.

Lifestyle medicine is the clinical application of healthy behaviors to prevent, treat and reverse disease. 

More than ever, research underscores that the “pills” today’s physician should be prescribing for patients are the six domains of lifestyle medicine: 

1. whole food plant-based eating, 

2. regular physical activity, 

3. restorative sleep, 

4. stress management, 

5. addiction reduction or elimination, 

6. and positive psychology and social connection.

Read the article at The Conversation: They don’t come as pills, but try these 6 underprescribed lifestyle medicines for a better, longer life.

The Conversation helps foundations and Universities disseminate scientific studies, like our recent paper Prioritized Research for the Prevention, Treatment, and Reversal of Chronic Disease: Recommendations From the Lifestyle Medicine Research Summit.  

For more on Lifestyle Medicine research view the Lifestyle Medicine Research Summit videos and slide decks.  

Related grant: Lifestyle Medicine Research Agenda Summit