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Total Lifestyle

Total Lifestyle uses lifestyle medicine to work with School Communities, Businesses and with individuals looking to develop their personal health and wellbeing.

Your health and the health of your community is the most important thing your posses. In the modern world it is easy to become disconnected with this fact and distracted by claims society is making about the path to happiness.

Total Lifestyle can transform your wellbeing by bringing your environment into alignment with your evolutionary biology. Your body knows how to keep you healthy – it just needs the right support!

Lifestyle Medicine

Lifestyle medicine is rapidly growing branch of medicine that is evidenced-based and person centered. It brings together the commonsense approach that has been missing in modern management of chronic health.

Lifestyle medicine is both preventative and a treatment for most of the mental and physical health conditions of our modern times.

Lifestyle Medicine focuses on the 6 key pillars of; healthy eating, mental wellbeing, physical activity, healthy relationships, sleep and minimizing harmful substances. When these are in ‘balance’ in your life then your body’s systems can start to auto correct and function at their optimum leading to you feeling at your best.

‘Lifestyle Medicine is evidence-based, clinical care that supports behaviour change through person-centered techniques to improve mental wellbeing, social connection, healthy eating, physical activity, sleep and minimisation of harmful substances and behaviours.’
British Society of Lifestyle Medicine

The 6 Pillars

Healthy Eating

Lifestyle Medicine supports people to reduce consumption of ultra-processed foods by teaching the knowledge and skills required to follow healthier eating patterns of people's own choosing.

Mental Wellbeing

Lifestyle Medicine teaches proven techniques to reduce stress and help people with relaxation. Practitioners support people to find purpose in life and improve health through connection with nature.

Healthy Relationships

Lifestyle Medicine supports people to develop and sustain healthy and meaningful relationships and increase social connection to reduce stree and promoted both physical and mental health.

Physical Activity

Lifestyle Medicine supports people to choose ways they could incorporate more physical activity in their lives, as well as reducing time spent sitting down.

Minimising Harmful Substances

Lifestyle Medicine supports people to stop smoking, reduce excessive alcohol consumption, avoid addictive substances and behaviours such as gambling or harmfully excessive internet or social media use.

Sleep

Lifestyle Medicine supports people to achive good quality sleep and avoid behaviours which can impair sleep quality.

A Root Cause Approach…

Environment

  • Sleep
  • Movement
  • Food
  • Stress
  • Purpose/ Community

Systems

  • Cardiovascular
  • Respiratory
  • Nervous
  • Muscular
  • Endocrine
  • Skeletal
  • Gut

Inflammation

  • Chronic illness
  • Diabetes
  • CV disease
  • Anxiety
  • Depression
  • ADHD
  • Allergies
  • IBS

Health = Wholeness

Health is concerned with ‘flourishing’, not just a ‘lack of disease’.

  • Freedom (to live the life we value and value other people)
  • Ability (to avoid harm and have ability to bounce back)
  • Duty (to look after ourself and our planet)
  • Expectation and Experience (be decent and expect decency)

Our Environment Has Changed…

Technological advances, increase in structured time/ less play, more time indoors, less sleep, less social contact, more ultra processed food, more environmental pollutants, etc

Our systems are trying to cope but it is not surprising we have increasing levels of difficult behaviour and health issues.

Can we create environments more aligned with behaviours that nourish us?

What has worked…

Awareness

Motivation

Small Steps

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