Keeping eyes in focus: A Lifestyle Medicine approach to eye health maintenance Lifestyle Medicine is concerned with preventing, treating and reversing lifestyle-related diseases through nutrition, physical activity, sleep, mental wellbeing and the avoidance of risky substances1. When we think about lifestyle-related diseases, usually the big killers such as heart disease, cancer and diabetes come to mind. […]
Ready for retirement? A Lifestyle Medicine approach to optimising this time of life Introduction Many people have romantic notions about retirement. They may have the perception they’ll be embarking on a permanent weekend or suddenly have time to do the things they’ve always wanted to and ‘saved up’ for. Yet many people have immense difficulty […]
Taking Lifestyle Medicine to work What do we spend about 90, 000 hours doing on average during our lifetime? More than 13 years consecutively or about 15% of our total lifetime? And for many of us, it currently occupies more than half of our waking hours? The answer is work. Since work comprises an essential component […]
Harnessing the potential of neuroplasticity Wellness is as much in our minds as in our bodies. In fact, it is through our brains that we perceive unwell symptoms, not the diseased body part. Neuroscience research is affirming that our brain processes aren’t set in concrete and even with increasing age we have the opportunity to […]
