Lifestyle Medicine University of Thessaly

Overview

Lifestyle Medicine at University of Thessaly is defined as the integration of modern lifestyle practices into evidence-based medicine while incorporating health promotion, non-communicable disease (NCD) prevention and chronic disease management Lifestyle Medicine applications aim to drastically reduce the growing and unviable costs of the health system, to lower NCD risk factors or to provide support for chronic therapies.

Key facts

Lifestyle medicine is a branch of medicine which has as goal to maintain optimal health and to prevent, treat and reverse chronic illness across all life stages.

The health interventions used in lifestyle medicine include evidenced based behavioral strategies, while considering equity and sustainability, to enhance self-management skills for optimizing nutrition, sleep hygiene, stress management, social connection, sexual health and fertility, physical activity and minimizing substance use and environmental exposures.

The eight pillars are:

1. Nutrition

2. Physical activity

3. Sleep hygiene

4. Stress management

5. Substance use

6. Sexual health and fertility

7. Social connection

8. Environmental exposure