Lifestyle Medicine in Colorado SPrings
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Strata Med is here to help with lifestyle medicine – your daily habits surrounding sleep, stress management, substances, social connections, physical activity, and nutrition directly affect your vitality and longevity. Your choices have an enormous impact on your health. If that sounds like a lot of work or feels overwhelming, you are not alone. Change is hard! But our concierge program is designed to dedicate time to YOU and your needs.
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What to Know About Lifestyle Medicine
When you hear the term “lifestyle medicine,” you might not know what to think. It could mean a lot, and “lifestyle” has even become a bit of a buzzword.
Strata Med wants you to know that we take lifestyle medicine very seriously — it’s not a buzzword here! Lifestyle medicine studies the effects of the following factors on your physical and mental health:
- Sleep
- Stress management
- Substances
- Social connections
- Nutrition
- Exercise
These six pillars of lifestyle medicine help you build a personal relationship with your health by focusing on your daily choices and how they impact your well-being.
Strata Med teaches you practical strategies to modify your behavior with a holistic approach. We call these your biopsychosocial dimensions of health and illness. In lifestyle medicine, we aim to seek out and identify the sources of disease rather than treating ongoing symptoms. Current evidence indicates that the majority of chronic diseases, such as cardiovascular disease, Type 2 diabetes, can reduce risk drastically of developing these chronic conditions.
It’s the truth — by focusing on preventing rather than reversing disease, you’ll experience better health outcomes and lower healthcare costs.
The Six Pillars of Lifestyle Medicine Explained
Strata Med focuses on the six pillars. These include:
Restorative Sleep
Seven to nine hours of quality sleep each night can improve energy, attention span, mood, and insulin sensitivity as well as impact appetite and food cravings.
Stress Management
Managing stress reduces anxiety and depression and can even affect immune dysfunction, inflammation, oxidative stress and aging. Strata Med will teach you mindfulness and relaxation techniques that are applicable to your daily life.
Positive Social Connections
Building strong social connections benefits your physical, mental, and emotional health. Supportive relationships are essential for healthy people.
Avoiding Risky Substances
It’s time to eliminate the use of tobacco, nicotine, and excessive alcohol. You’ll have reduced risks of chronic disease and just feel better!
Regular Physical Activity
Most people know that consistent exercise boosts your physical health, but did you know it also improves your mental health?
Optimized Healthy Nutrition
A whole food, plant-forward diet can prevent and treat chronic illnesses by reducing inflammation, controlling weight, and improving insulin sensitivity and blood pressure. It’s an essential part of lifestyle medicine.
How Lifestyle Medicine SupportS Your Health Journey
Lifestyle medicine focuses on what’s important to you. During your initial consultation, we ask about your values and how your current health and lifestyle either support or interfere with living the life you want most.
Most of all, we are here to help you implement lifestyle changes with resources and follow-up visits either in the office or via telehealth.
Strata Med takes pride in our SMART (Stress Management and Resiliency Training) Course. This evidence-based program was created at The Benson-Henry Institute for Mind Body Medicine at Massachusetts General Hospital to help participants regain control and build resilience through mind-body principles and self-care interventions.
During the course, you will be challenged to set weekly goals within the pillars of lifestyle medicine. It’s a prime opportunity to develop new habits in a supportive setting with structure and accountability.
The Interconnectedness of Lifestyle Changes
We like to say that the pillars of lifestyle medicine intersect and become synergistic. That means that making a positive change in one pillar springboards you to improvements in another. While starting out is never easy, change is possible!
Frequently Asked Questions About Lifestyle Medicine
Because our concierge doctors are pioneers in lifestyle medicine, we’ve asked them to share the answers to some frequently asked questions.
What exactly is lifestyle medicine and how can it improve my life?
Lifestyle medicine focuses on improving sleep, stress management, nutrition, exercise, and social connections. By making positive changes in these health pillars, you can prevent and even reverse chronic diseases and just feel all-around healthier.
According to the latest research, changes in lifestyle choices can have a significant impact on the development of Type 2 diabetes, cardiovascular disease, cancer, and even the progression of early dementia.
How does a lifestyle medicine concierge physician help me change my habits?
The first step is to understand who you are, what drives you, and what your individual strengths are. Then we uncover what’s most important to you in life and examine how your current health and health behaviors intersect with what you value. If your current health and health behaviors are not leading you in the direction you desire, we collaborate with you to create a personalized approach. By providing reliable information and resources to help you set achievable goals, you can align your behaviors with your values and create positive change!
Is it true that lifestyle medicine can really help prevent chronic diseases?
Yes! Backed by research, lifestyle medicine has been shown to help prevent and can even reverse many chronic diseases. That’s why Strata Med prioritizes identifying and treating the root causes of disease rather than treating symptoms.
What makes Strata Med’s approach to lifestyle medicine different from other practices offering it?
Strata Med is unique because of the diversity of specialists working together in the interest of the patient. Our team of professionals includes conventionally trained medical doctors and advanced practice nurses, naturopaths, chiropractors, acupuncturists, medical massage therapists, registered dieticians, and certified exercise trainers. We combine the best of modern medicine with ancient wisdom and practices to care for you - body, mind, and spirit. In addition, we don’t just tell you what you should do, we provide the space and the spark to ignite positive change. With our on-site fitness center, stress management classes, weight management program, and weekend wellness retreats, you can find the support and accountability you need.
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Lifestyle Medicine + Strata Med = Healthier You
You can achieve whatever health goal you want, no matter your starting point. Let’s transform you with Strata Med lifestyle medicine in Colorado Springs. Contact our office today and ask to speak about this program.