What is lifestyle medicine and how can it help patients?
Talking General Practice
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Is There Evidence That Lifestyle Medicine Really Makes a Difference?
There's a definite association between lifestyle and health, I think everybody accepts. lab-based studies on the cellular mechanisms that explain why and how are very exciting now. The idea of chronic inflammation underlying many of our long-term conditions is also getting people excited. But what us clinicians want to know is what interventions actually work. We're starting to see randomized controlled trials of lifestyle interventions that we never saw before. It worries me that it's going to be hard to find funding for this type of intervention.
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