Is Lifestyle Medicine actually medicine, or is it wellness advice with a doctor attached?<\/p>\n
I hear a version of this question often. It\u2019s a fair one. Because unlike in the US, Lifestyle Medicine isn\u2019t yet a formally recognised specialty in Germany, so there\u2019s no established shorthand for what it is.<\/p>\n
It\u2019s an evidence-based clinical discipline that treats nutrition, movement, sleep, stress and other everyday factors, as part of a patient\u2019s medical history and treatment plan. And it\u2019s a structured part of conventional medicine, not a substitute for it.<\/p>\n
I trained as a general surgeon, and I\u2019m currently completing my Lifestyle Medicine accreditation through the British Society of Lifestyle Medicine (BSLM). The consultations are long, the plans are written down and the goal is the same as any other branch of medicine: a measurable improvement to your health.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
Is Lifestyle Medicine actually medicine, or is it wellness advice with a doctor attached? I hear a version of this question often. It\u2019s a fair one. Because unlike in the US, Lifestyle Medicine isn\u2019t yet a formally recognised specialty in Germany, so there\u2019s no established shorthand for what it is. It\u2019s an evidence-based clinical discipline […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-102","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lifestyle-physician.com\/articles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/102","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lifestyle-physician.com\/articles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lifestyle-physician.com\/articles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lifestyle-physician.com\/articles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lifestyle-physician.com\/articles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=102"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.lifestyle-physician.com\/articles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/102\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lifestyle-physician.com\/articles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=102"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lifestyle-physician.com\/articles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=102"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lifestyle-physician.com\/articles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=102"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}