About this course
Lifestyle Medicine is an increasingly crucial element to transforming disease care systems to healthcare systems. Current medical services are unable to restore health because they do not address root causes.
In this course, you will learn the deficiencies within traditional Western Medicine and more effective lifestyle based treatment protocols used to prevent and treat chronic diseases of lifestyle.
You will learn about lifestyle medicine based treatments for the following chronic diseases:
- Prostate and Colorectal Cancer
- Osteoarthritis/Gout/Fibromyalgia
- Multiple Sclerosis/Rheumatoid Arthritis/Inflammatory Bowel Diseases
- Irritable Bowel Syndrome/Fructose Intolerance/Non-Celiac Gluten Sensitivity
- Depression/ Anxiety
- Polycystic Ovarian Syndrome and PCOS Associated Infertility/ Anovulatory Bleeding
- Pregnancy
- Menopause/Osteoporosis
What you’ll learn
- Recognize the core competencies of Nutrition, Tobacco Cessation, and Alcohol and their interaction with chronic diseases
- Explain the difference in efficacies of traditional treatments vs. lifestyle based treatments
- Identify effective lifestyle based treatment protocols used to prevent and treat chronic diseases of lifestyle
Professional Certificate in Lifestyle Medicine
Prerequisites
Lifestyle Medicine Fundamentals and Lifestyle Medicine Treatments of Chronic Disease – Part 1 (recommended)
Who can take this course?
Unfortunately, learners from one or more of the following countries or regions will not be able to register for this course: Iran, Cuba and the Crimea region of Ukraine. While edX has sought licenses from the U.S. Office of Foreign Assets Control (OFAC) to offer our courses to learners in these countries and regions, the licenses we have received are not broad enough to allow us to offer this course in all locations. EdX truly regrets that U.S. sanctions prevent us from offering all of our courses to everyone, no matter where they live.
Meet your instructors
Amanda McKinney
About this course
Lifestyle Medicine is an increasingly crucial element to transforming disease care systems to healthcare systems. Current medical services are unable to restore health because they do not address root causes.
In this course, you will learn the deficiencies within traditional Western Medicine and more effective lifestyle based treatment protocols used to prevent and treat chronic diseases of lifestyle.
You will learn about lifestyle medicine based treatments for the following chronic diseases:
- Hypertension
- Hyperlipidemia
- Angina/ Atherosclerosis
- Type II Diabetes/ Obesity
- Liver Disease
- Kidney Disease
- Alzheimer’s Disease
- Breast Cancer
What you’ll learn
- Recognize the core competencies of Nutrition, Tobacco Cessation, and Alcohol and their interaction with chronic diseases
- Explain the difference in efficacies of traditional treatments vs. lifestyle based treatments
- Identify effective lifestyle based treatment protocols used to prevent and treat chronic diseases of lifestyle
Professional Certificate in Lifestyle Medicine
Prerequisites
Health Informatics Technology in Population Healthcare Analytics (recommended)
Who can take this course?
Unfortunately, learners from one or more of the following countries or regions will not be able to register for this course: Iran, Cuba and the Crimea region of Ukraine. While edX has sought licenses from the U.S. Office of Foreign Assets Control (OFAC) to offer our courses to learners in these countries and regions, the licenses we have received are not broad enough to allow us to offer this course in all locations. EdX truly regrets that U.S. sanctions prevent us from offering all of our courses to everyone, no matter where they live.
Meet your instructors
Nicholas King
About this course
In this course, you will explore the core Lifestyle Medicine principles that form the foundation of this emerging field of patient care and learn why the application of lifestyle medicine is needed.
Lifestyle Medicine involves the use of evidence-based lifestyle therapeutic approaches, to prevent, treat, and, oftentimes, reverse the root causes of lifestyle-related, chronic disease that’s all too prevalent.
This course will review the role of oxidative stress, microbiome, and epigenetic as root causes of chronic disease and how environmental factors contribute. We will also explore the core lifestyle principles of exercise, sleep, and stress management.
What you’ll learn
- Define the key concepts of Oxidative Stress, Microbiome, and Epigenetics
- Identify the role that the Oxidative Stress, Microbiome, and Epigenetics play in human health
- Recognize the interaction of exercise with our overall health
- Recognize how sleep and stress management interacts with our overall health
- Comprehend how the physical environments impact chronic diseases of lifestyle
Professional Certificate in Lifestyle Medicine
Prerequisites
none
Meet your instructors
