About this episode

Dr. Padmaja Patel discusses the implementation of lifestyle medicine to address chronic health conditions through personalized lifestyle plans.

“As an internist, we are always focusing on risk factors. Instead, in lifestyle medicine, we are focusing on root causes.” We’ve heard this before – nutrition, exercise, sleep, stress, toxins, community – so it should be no surprise that these are also the six pillars upon which lifestyle medicine is based. The difference is that in this discipline, these six pillars are the prescription for how we deal with chronic health conditions. Our guest today, Dr. Padmaja Patel, talks about how she implements these factors into clinical medicine so that patients leave with a precise, personalized lifestyle plan. The goal? Put chronic conditions in remission. Padmaja Patel, MD, FACLM, DipABLM, CPE is a board-certified internist and nationally recognized physician leader specializing in Lifestyle Medicine, Whole-Person Health, and value-based care transformation. She currently serves as President of the American College of Lifestyle Medicine (ACLM) and Chief Medical Officer of Nudj Health, an ACLM-certified Lifestyle Treatment Program focused on scalable, evidence-based lifestyle interventions.

People in this episode

Host: Zeev Neuwirth

Guest: Padmaja Patel

Topics covered

• lifestyle medicine
• chronic health conditions
• personalized lifestyle plan
• nutrition
• exercise
• whole-person health

Keywords

• lifestyle medicine
• chronic conditions
• nutrition
• exercise
• personalized care
• health transformation

Mentioned in this episode

Organizations: American College of Lifestyle Medicine, Nudj Health

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