Most Americans know that diet and lifestyle are key to preventing disease. What is less widely known is how essential these elements are in helping treat and reverse chronic disease.
Actually reversing heart disease, or dementia, or autism, or autoimmunity requires addressing root causes. It means finding and changing the things that created the illness. As lifestyle medicine practitioners assess what has gone wrong with metabolism and with the body’s innate ability to self-correct and self-heal, treatment means engaging with many factors - from foods, movement, and toxins to stress, trauma, beliefs, and more. This requires changes in the way we live daily life and paying attention to the spaces where we live and work.