Lifestyle corrections in modern medicine - Message for modern medical practitioners

Latest research and  accepted understanding of the role of lifestyle in a growing number of disease conditions, being modern medical practitioners it is time to think how to encourage and support healthy lifestyle modulations in our patients to reduce the need for medication and surgical interventions for lifestyle diseases.

As a medical practitioner I have in particular focused on counselling patients for correcting lifestyle to improve the efficacy of results in my patients. In my practice and study  it was found that relatively the safest, more effective and practical interventions were in the areas of nutrition, physical activity and reducing the toxic exposure of body. The evaluation of patients’ health and  various health parameters provided by current diagnostic tests was surprising and promising.

As we all know, whether it is nutrition, physical activity or body care products, it is practically very difficult to counsel the patient and for the patient to distinguish and follow the advice. Therefore generally it is  difficult to get consistent and reproducible effects by lifestyle corrections. To this end I started with an understanding of our current medical education and its focus on lifestyle diseases and the present context of lifestyle corrections in modern medical practice to develop a standard protocol for lifestyle optimization with reproducible results including the three major aspects of lifestyle - nutrition, physical activity and reduction in toxin exposure.

I recognized that as we specialize in our modern medical practice our focus is rightly on saving lives which we are becoming more and more successful by the day. Now, there is a relatively greater opportunity for patients as individuals to play a more proactive role in managing themselves to prevent disease and help overcome it by actively engaging in clinically supervised lifestyle correction.

With advances in modern medicine growing in areas of diagnosis, medication and surgical intervention a corresponding advance utilizing the latest knowledge in science and medicine in  counselling and correction of lifestyle with corresponding support will go a long way in making modern medicine even more beneficial and effective. It will  help to reduce the stress on our healthcare system which is stretched to the limits and often is not able to satisfy the demands.

Equally important modern medicine practitioners will be  contributing to maintaining the health of the patient throughout their lives rather than when the patient is only facing a health issue. This will ensure preventive care to be more effective as well.

The advances of modern medicine in prevention of communicable diseases which was a game changer can be repeated in the case of lifestyle related diseases as well with great effect.

Here the role of the family practitioner/ general practitioner comes to the forefront as the foundation on which modern healthcare can make the greatest difference to the population.

In an age where sustainable health care  and responsible health care are gaining prominence as we see the western model of health care becoming unsustainable when faced with the huge and growing requirements, especially with respect to lifestyle diseases.

We as modern medical practitioners will have to play a more active role to devise ways and means that will help to improve our healthcare system as well as make it more universally available with minimal need for medication and surgical intervention.

My  treatment protocol which has been provided to the patients is basically a lifestyle optimization protocol focusing on providing optimal nutrition, physical activity and protection from toxin at cell level developed by myself and my associates. There are no drugs involved in it. The goal of this approach is to optimize lifestyle and thereby optimize health and minimize the use of medications and surgery in health care.