What is Lifestyle Medicine?

Healthy longevity is not just living longer, but living in better health. It is having a healthier lifespan, a longer ‘youth-span’. It is synonymous not just with good health and a long life, but with happiness, confidence and purpose. It is the key to healthy ageing.

Shyamala, The Lifestyle Medicine Physician

We offer…

Bespoke medically-led consultations

Specialised plans and prescriptions

Multi-disciplinary coaching programmes

WHAT IS LIFESTYLE MEDICINE?

Lifestyle Medicine is a medical speciality, with a unique approach to ensure ‘healthy longevity’. Based on sound scientific evidence, lifestyle medicine integrates positive lifestyle habits into modern medicine to promote good health and wellbeing. Mentored changes in lifestyle habits prevent chronic disease – a 21st century epidemic – treating and reversing some conditions. We work in four domains: “EAT”, “MOVE”, “REVIVE”, and “SLEEP”, to find bespoke lifestyle approaches for your ‘healthy longevity’ – working synergistically and in parallel with other branches of medicine.

HEALTHY LONGEVITY

Today we can and do live longer than ever before. But do we live better? Current evidence shows otherwise. Those 20th Century advances which led to our longer lives have also promoted a new medical epidemic: chronic disease with low well-being. Chronic fatigue, low energy, poor skin reduce our well-being and heart disease, cancer, diabetes and Alzheimer’s limit our function and impede our enjoyment and productivity. Many of these health problems emerged out of our changed lifestyles and now impact heavily on our lives. In the last two decades observational studies and robust research have shown that lifestyle medicine techniques prevent, and may reverse, these conditions.

80% of chronic conditions can be avoided by adopting holistic multi-disciplinary lifestyle measures. Moreover, 90% of the time lifestyle modifications can override genetic factors causing ill health.

The geographic ‘Blue Zones’ are living evidence of ‘healthy longevity’. Originally identified by the Italian epidemiologist, Gianni Pes and Belgian demographer, Michel Poulain, these five isolated geographical areas have been found to have a significantly higher than average number of healthy Centenarians! They are living proof that specific healthy lifestyle habits, a clean environment and strong community can affect healthy longevity.

Lifestyle Medicine is where science meets well-being

Shyamala

LIFESTYLE MEDICINE AT THE JONATHAN BRITTO CLINIC

At The Jonathan Britto Clinic our evidence-based, holistic methods combine medicine with tasty nutrition, fun – fitness, psychology and mindfulness to ensure health, wellbeing and confidence throughout life. These disciplines sit well with our aims to promote confidence in both appearance and function throughout life. The challenge to the Lifestyle Medicine Physician is more than just identifying the problem and prescribing the intervention. Our mentored programmes often involve breaking life-long unhealthy habits and changing deeply held attitudes and beliefs. Most difficult of all, they have to be maintained, in the face of busy lives, multiple commitments and social and environmental temptations. This is where Lifestyle Medicine at the Jonathan Britto Clinic sets itself apart from other medical specialities and ‘wellness’ practices; this is medicine, evidence – based and with measurable metrics of success!

Our multi-disciplinary team provides mentored coaching, at your own pace, to ensure our clients are able to effect and maintain the lifestyle changes that will bring benefit in the areas of “EAT”,’MOVE’, ‘REVIVE’, and “SLEEP’….

OUR ETHOS

YOUR BEST LIFE, for LONGER

We bring you scientific, evidence-based, sustainable, environmentally-friendly and life-long change of lifestyle for a happier, healthier you.

We treat you individually with bespoke assessments and personalised programmes, recognising that everyone’s challenges and strengths differ.

We understand the importance of community and the power of education – our retreats, challenges and blogs allow everyone to participate, learn and forge positive relationships.