Personalized lifestyle medicine: relevance for nutrition and lifestyle recommendations. 2013

Deanna M Minich, and Jeffrey S Bland
Personalized Lifestyle Medicine Institute, 800 Fifth Avenue, Suite 4100, Seattle, WA 98104, USA. deannaminich@plminstitute.org

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.

UI MeSH Term Description Entries
D008019 Life Style Typical way of life or manner of living characteristic of an individual or group. (From APA, Thesaurus of Psychological Index Terms, 8th ed) Lifestyle Factors,Life Style Induced Illness,Lifestyle,Factor, Lifestyle,Life Styles,Lifestyle Factor,Lifestyles
D002908 Chronic Disease Diseases which have one or more of the following characteristics: they are permanent, leave residual disability, are caused by nonreversible pathological alteration, require special training of the patient for rehabilitation, or may be expected to require a long period of supervision, observation, or care (Dictionary of Health Services Management, 2d ed). For epidemiological studies chronic disease often includes HEART DISEASES; STROKE; CANCER; and diabetes (DIABETES MELLITUS, TYPE 2). Chronic Condition,Chronic Illness,Chronically Ill,Chronic Conditions,Chronic Diseases,Chronic Illnesses,Condition, Chronic,Disease, Chronic,Illness, Chronic
D004035 Diet Therapy Adjusting the quantity and quality of food intake to improve health status of an individual. This term does not include the methods of food intake (NUTRITIONAL SUPPORT). Diet Therapy, Restrictive,Dietary Modification,Dietary Restriction,Restriction Diet Therapies,Restriction Diet Therapy,Restrictive Diet Therapies,Restrictive Diet Therapy,Diet Modification,Therapy, Diet,Diet Modifications,Diet Therapies,Diet Therapies, Restriction,Diet Therapy, Restriction,Dietary Modifications,Dietary Restrictions,Modification, Diet,Modification, Dietary,Restriction, Dietary,Therapy, Restriction Diet,Therapy, Restrictive Diet
D006801 Humans Members of the species Homo sapiens. Homo sapiens,Man (Taxonomy),Human,Man, Modern,Modern Man
D057285 Precision Medicine Clinical, therapeutic and diagnostic approaches to optimal disease management based on individual variations in a patient's genetic profile. Individualized Medicine,Predictive Medicine,P Health,P-Health,Personalized Medicine,Theranostics,Medicine, Individualized,Medicine, Personalized,Medicine, Precision,Medicine, Predictive,Theranostic
D040242 Risk Reduction Behavior Reduction of high-risk choices and adoption of low-risk quantity and frequency alternatives. Risk Reduction,Lifestyle Risk Reduction,Behavior, Risk Reduction,Behaviors, Risk Reduction,Lifestyle Risk Reductions,Risk Reduction Behaviors

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