Preventing and reversing heart disease with lifestyle is not new. Individual physicians have been working with patients and writing about their approaches for some time.
Here we offer awareness of the research and clinical work of Dr. Dean Ornish (Undo It With Ornish | Ornish Lifestyle Medicine), whose persistent efforts over almost four decades have resulted in a clinically proven program offered in 17 states (as of 2022) and reimbursable by Medicare under “Intensive Cardiac Rehabilitation”; some insurance companies have gone further and expanded their coverage of the Ornish program to include those with risk factors for coronary disease, prostate cancer, and diabetes.
The four pillars of UNDO IT WITH ORNISH are nutrition, stress management, fitness, and love and support. These pillars can each be made locally accessible when a community chooses to ‘live well locally”.
Do you know someone with heart disease who has used a lifestyle approach to radically change their health?
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