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

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.