LINKS
Organisations
Australasian Lifestyle Medicine Society (ASLM) – improving the health and wellbeing of all Australians and New Zealanders through Lifestyle as Medicine
American College of Lifestyle Medicine (ACLM) – a society of medical professionals united to reverse chronic disease using evidence-based education
American College of Preventative Medicine (ACPM) – a professional medical society dedicated to the practice of preventive medicine; improving the health and quality of life of individuals, families, communities, and populations through disease prevention and health promotion
Australasian College of Nutritional and Environmental Medicine (ACNEM) – educating medical and healthcare practitioners in the principles and practice of integrative medicine, with a focus on nutritional and environmental medicine
Doctors for Nutrition (DFN) – championing the role of plant-based nutrition as a powerful tool in disease prevention and care
Physicians Committee for Responsible Medicine (PCRM) – dedicated to saving and improving human and animal lives through plant-based diets and ethical and effective scientific research
International Society for Nutritional Psychiatry Research (ISNPR) – supporting the generation of high quality evidence for nutritional approaches to the prevention and treatment of mental disorders
Nutrition Resources
Nutrition Facts – a science-based non-profit organization founded by Michael Greger, M.D. FACLM, that provides free updates on the latest in nutrition research via bite-sized videos, blogs, podcasts, and infographics (excellent resource)
Recipes
Doctors for nutrition – free healthy plant-based recipes
Plant Plate – eat plant-based on a budget – “Whole Food Plant Based eating on $5 per day”
Forks over Knives – free healthy plant-based recipes
Cooking Courses
Rouxbe – “Introduction to Plant Based Cooking” and the professional “Plant Based Pro Certification” courses
Forks over knives cooking course
Healthy Living Programs
CHIP program – an intensive lifestyle medicine intervention intended to prevent, arrest and even reverse disease
ELIA Lifestyle Medicine Centre – Evidence-based Lifestyle Medicine consultations, programs, and interventions that address the root causes of chronic illness
Health Retreats
Cedarvale Health and Lifestyle Retreat – live in health retreat with a Lifestyle Medicine approach supporting people’s journey to improved health, well-being and hope for the future
Lifestart Retreats – live in health retreats around the world with the same focus as Cedarvale
Lifestyle Medicine Health Professionals
Dr Caldwell Esselstyn – presently directs the cardiovascular prevention and reversal program at The Cleveland Clinic Wellness Institute
Dr T Colin Campbell Centre for Nutrition Studies – promotes optimal nutrition through science-based education, advocacy, and research
Dr John McDougall – was a physician, speaker, and best-selling author who taught the importance of a whole food, starch-based diet in order to halt, reverse and heal chronic disease
Dr Dean Ornish – Ornish Lifestyle Medicine remains the only program scientifically proven in peer-reviewed randomized trials to prevent and often reverse the progression of heart disease. This may also include significantly improving cognition and function in many patients with early-stage Alzheimer’s disease
Dr Joel Kahn – whole food plant based cardiologist who passionately lectures throughout the country about the health benefits of a plant-based anti-aging diet inspiring a new generation of thought leaders to think scientifically and critically about the body’s ability to heal itself through proper nutrition
Dr Columbus Batiste – interventional cardiologist and “The Healthy Heart Doc” – https://drbatiste.com/
Drs Dean and Ayesha Sherzai – “The Brain Docs” overseeing “The Alzheimer’s Prevention Program” in Loma Linda
Dr Saray Stancic – expertise in internal medicine, infectious diseases and lifestyle medicine. She is a passionate advocate for change in healthcare by advocating for a shift in how we train physicians, placing greater emphasis on prevention and health preservation rather than solely on disease management
TED Talks
Dr Michael Greger – Food as Medicine
Dr Caldwell Esselstyn – Making Heart Attacks History
Dr T Colin Campbell – Why is the science of nutrition ignored in medicine?
Dr John McDougall – The Food we were born to eat
Dr Doug Lisle – The Pleasure Trap
Healthy Longevity
Blue Zones – Dan Buettner identified the five original blue zones – the places in the world with the healthiest, longest-living populations, including Okinawa, Japan; Sardinia, Italy; Nicoya, Costa Rica; Ikaria, Greece; and Loma Linda, California
Sleep/Relaxation
Gentle Night Rain 12 HOURS – 12 hours of continuous rain sounds for sleeping with dark screen and no advertisements
Peaceful Harp Music Ambiance – the musician wrote that it is his “hope that this music will bring a peaceful atmosphere to your surroundings; that you can relax in the sounds of the 528 Hz music”