Browsing: Lifestyle

Mental health has become one of the defining public health challenges of our time. While counselling and medication remain important components of treatment, healthy lifestyle choices can promote mental wellbeing and complement professional care

Lifestyle medicine is an increasingly important specialty that helps prevent and manage obesity and other chronic diseases. The foundation of lifestyle medicine is helping patients incorporate sustainable healthy habits into their everyday lives. 

How many times have you been in bed, staring up at the ceiling and thinking, ‘Why can’t I fall asleep?’ Well, there may be multiple lifestyle factors at play that indicate why you’re struggling to drift off. Here, we asked six sleep experts about the habits they avoid before bed. 

Dear Doctors: I just finished a tough year in grad school, and my diet hasn’t been that great. I know your gut microbiome has a lot to do with good health, and I want to get mine into better shape. I’m thinking about probiotic capsules, but it’s confusing. How do you know which ones to…