Discover lifestyle medicine
Lifestyle is the cornerstone of health
Lifestyle medicine has six evidence-based pillars including a whole food, plant-forward diet, regular physical activity, restorative sleep, social connections, stress management, and avoidance of addictive substances. Lifestyle medicine prevents and reverses chronic conditions including diabetes.
Lifestyle Medicine Education
Confidently engage in conversations on lifestyle medicines - safe and breakthrough medicines. Overcome concerns such as:
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"I didn’t learn about lifestyle medicine in school"
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"I can’t get my patients to change"
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"I don't have time to discuss lifestyle medicine"
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"I don’t trust allied health professionals in my practice"
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"I can’t address social determinants of health"
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"I don’t have data on my patients’ lifestyles in the EHR"
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"My patients can’t access their lifestyle data on mobile"
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"I don’t know how to bill for lifestyle medicine and health coaching"
Wellcoaches and the American College of Lifestyle Medicine bring your team a self-paced Lifestyle Medicine course delivered by experts in the main lifestyle medicines that prevent, delay or ameliorate chronic diseases – physical activity, nutrition, sleep, emotional well-being, and brain health.
Your patients discover their path to well-being
Coaches help people change when change is hard. So will you and your clinical team.
We deliver training in coaching basics and burnout prevention for the whole team in primary care and other clinical practices. We train, certify, mentor, and support lifestyle medicine coaches. Health and well-being coaches, Aka lifestyle, medicine coaches apply evidence based protocols for one-on-one and group programs.
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The Wellcoaches protocol has twenty-three peer-reviewed papers showing statistically significant improvements across many biometrics and measures for over 30,000 patients. Two primary care based coaching interventions demonstrated a sustained weight loss of 5-7% of body weight at 24 months.
Coaching for Lifestyle Medicine
Address patient challenges with a Lifestyle Medicine Coach
Adding a coach to your team will deliver the attention and expertise your practice needs to support your patients in health-giving lifestyles and over-coming concerns such as:
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"My doctor doesn’t have time to talk about lifestyle"
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"My doctor doesn’t understand how my situation affects my health"
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"My doctor doesn't know much about lifestyle"
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"I want to talk about what matters to me"
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"I need help with my weight, not just tests and pills"
Wellcoaches is the pioneer and trusted leader in training health professionals as coaches. Since 2002 we have trained more than 16,000 coaches in 50 countries. Help your patients fire up their motivation, build their confidence, and apply their creativity with a skilled coach who is an expert in lifestyle medicine. Now, Wellcoaches and the American College of Lifestyle Medicine have defined the standard for the lifestyle medicine coach combining coaching competencies and lifestyle medicine education.