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Podcast: Creating a New Healthcare
Episode: Episode #219 A Lifestyle Prescription with Padmaja Patel
Description: “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...