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The Role of Lifestyle Medicine in Reversing Early Chronic Disease

Edge Family Medicine

Chronic diseases such as type 2 diabetes, hypertension, and obesity can be effectively managed—and even reversed—through the six pillars of lifestyle medicine: nutrition, physical activity, restorative sleep, stress management, social connection, and avoidance of harmful substances. Why Act Now?

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What Is Nutrition Counseling and How it Can Help You Achieve Your Weight Management Goals

Dr. Michael Bazel

Unlike one-size-fits-all diet plans, nutrition counseling focuses on your individual needs. It provides individuals with coping skills to replace these behaviors with healthier alternatives. Nutrition counseling demystifies these needs and ensures that individuals consume the right nutrients.

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How to manage GLP-1s in the hospital

Today's Hospitalist

“You want someone who can monitor patients’ side effects and have a longitudinal relationship with them.” If you have to hold a GLP-1 agonist for more than the dosing schedule in patients with diabetes, get an endocrine consult for an alternative diabetes treatment.)

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Caring for the Unrepresented: A Podcast with Joe Dixon, Timothy Farrell, Yael Zweig

GeriPal

These individuals may become unrepresented, meaning they lack the capacity to make a specific medical decision, do not have an advance directive for that decision, and do not have a surrogate to help. How should we care for unrepresented individuals in inpatient and outpatient settings? Why not use the older term unbefriended?

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Substance Use Disorder in Aging and Serious Illness: A Podcast with Katie Fitzgerald Jones, Jessica Merlin, Devon Check

GeriPal

We start off the conversation by talking about whether patients with cancer and cancer pain are really that different, and their paper that was just published on January 11 th in JAMA Oncology showing that substance use disorder is not uncommon in individuals with cancer. Jessie: Exactly. Eric: Which brings us to an article. Katie: Yeah.

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