RESOURCES FOR REVERSING CHRONIC DISEASE

America's Lifestyle Medicine Heroes

In this RESOURCE SECTION we highlight the work of researchers and practitioners who use food, lifestyle, and environment in the clinical setting. Some practitioners focus on preventing disease, some on supporting patients undergoing conventional treatments (integrative), and others use food, lifestyle, and clean environments more therapeutically, as essential elements for treating and reversing disease.  We explore these approaches in greater detail in a future post, “The Many Faces of Medicine”.  

While all lifestyle-based clinicians help make wellness local, it is the therapeutic use of food, lifestyle, and environment that most directly integrates clinic, home, and field.  These practitioners focus on repairing gut health and metabolic function, identifying and resolving root causes of disease through personalizing testing and treatment protocols.  Clinical progress has been made in diabetes, heart disease, multiple sclerosis, Alzheimer’s and cognitive decline, cancer, mental illness, brain injury, autism, and more.  

Please note that using food and lifestyle as medicine is and has been applied by many practitioners for a long time.  Most famously, the father of medicine, Hippocrates, in 400 BC. In this RESOURCE SECTION, we will highlight one or more of the most current and established clinical efforts in each major disease category.   

First up: America’s leading illness – HEART DISEASE