New article represents the first time this term has been used in the peer-reviewed medical literature.

July 24, 2013

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Capturing the term 'personalized lifestyle medicine'

A Personalized Lifestyle Medicine article has been abstracted by the National Library of Medicine and is now listed in PubMed. This represents the first time this term has been used in the peer-reviewed medical literature as far as the institute can determine. 

The Personalized Lifestyle Medicine Institute hopes that this is the start of gaining more recognition in the general medical community for the positioning of personalized lifestyle medicine going forward.

Abstract
Public health recommendations for lifestyle modification, including diet and physical activity, have been widely disseminated for the prevention and treatment of disease. These guidelines are intended for the overall population without significant consideration for the individual with respect to one's genes and environment. Personalized lifestyle medicine is a newly developed term that refers to an approach to medicine in which an individual's health metrics from point-of-care diagnostics are used to develop lifestyle medicine-oriented therapeutic strategies for improving individual health outcomes in managing chronic disease. Examples of the application of personalized lifestyle medicine to patient care include the identification of genetic variants through laboratory tests and/or functional biomarkers for the purpose of designing patient-specific prescriptions for diet, exercise, stress, and environment. Personalized lifestyle medicine can provide solutions to chronic health problems by harnessing innovative and evolving technologies based on recent discoveries in genomics, epigenetics, systems biology, life and behavioral sciences, and diagnostics and clinical medicine. A comprehensive, personalized approach to medicine is required to promote the safety of therapeutics and reduce the cost of chronic disease. Personalized lifestyle medicine may provide a novel means of addressing a patient's health by empowering them with information they need to regain control of their health.

 

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