1.1. Lifestyle Medicine Origins, Evolution & Relevance in the Age of Chronic Disease

This class should focus on framing Lifestyle Medicine as the essential clinical answer to the modern epidemic of chronic, lifestyle-driven disease. It traces its evolution from ancient wisdom to a formal, evidence-based specialty designed to treat the root cause of today's most common illnesses.

1.2. The Lifestyle Medicine Solution

Focuses on using evidence-based lifestyle changes—like nutrition, movement, sleep, and stress management—to prevent, treat, and even reverse chronic disease.

2.1. Why Don't People Eat Healthier

Focuses on the psychological, social, cultural, and environmental barriers that prevent healthy eating, despite widespread knowledge of its benefits.

2.2. A New Holistic Approach To Change Bad Diet Habits

Focuses on addressing the emotional, social, and behavioral roots of unhealthy eating to support lasting, positive dietary change.

3.1. Good Fat vs Bad Fat

Focuses on the science of dietary fats, distinguishing between healthy and harmful fats, and their impact on inflammation, heart health, and overall well-being.

3.2. Cholesterol friend or foe?

Focuses on understanding the different types of cholesterol, their roles in the body, and how lifestyle factors influence heart health.

4.1. Active Living: Strategies for Integrating Movement into Your Daily Routine

Focuses on practical, sustainable ways to incorporate physical activity into everyday life to improve health and well-being.

4.2. Exercise is Medicine

Focuses on how regular physical activity prevents, manages, and treats chronic diseases as effectively as many medications.

5.1. The Science of Sleep

Focuses on the biological rhythms, brain processes, and health impacts that make sleep essential for healing and daily functioning.

5.2. Building Your Sleep Toolkit

Focuses on evidence-based lifestyle habits and environmental changes that support deeper, more restorative sleep.

6.1. Lifestyle Tips for Dealing With Anxiety & Fear

Focuses on practical lifestyle strategies—like movement, sleep, mindfulness, and connection—to manage anxiety and fear naturally.

6.2. When Does Stress Become Dangerous

Focuses on identifying when stress shifts from manageable to harmful, and how chronic stress impacts physical and mental health.

7.1. Evidence-based strategies to reduce the consumption of risky substances

Focuses on proven, practical interventions to reduce use of tobacco, alcohol, and other harmful substances through behavioral, clinical, and policy approaches.

7.2. Personalized Approaches to Tobacco-Related Health Challenges

Focuses on tailoring tobacco cessation strategies to individual needs, preferences, and social contexts for more effective outcomes.

8.1. The Biology of Belonging: How Connection Shapes Your Health

Focuses on the physiological impact of loneliness vs. strong social ties on the brain, heart, and immune system.

8.2. Building Your Social Fitness: A Practical Guide to Deeper Connections

Frames the solution as a form of "fitness" that can be trained, focusing on practical, skill-building exercises.

9.1. The Habit Toolkit: Designing Your Environment for Success

Focuses on the external work and practical skills: habit stacking, trigger management, and setting up your physical and social environment to support your goals.

9.2. The Mindset for Change: Understanding Motivation & Overcoming Barriers

Focuses on the internal work: identifying your 'why', understanding ambivalence, and recognizing the mental roadblocks that stop you.

10. 1. The Science of Reversal: How Lifestyle Heals Insulin Resistance

Focuses on the core physiological problem, explaining how specific lifestyle choices directly impact cellular function, blood sugar, and metabolic health.

10. 2. Your Daily Reversal Plan: Building a Sustainable Routine

Focuses on the practical "how-to," helping participants create a personalized daily and weekly plan that integrates all the necessary lifestyle changes.

11. 1. Beyond the Gut: How Your Microbiome Shapes Your Brain, Mood, and Immunity

Focuses on the fascinating outcomes of a healthy gut. This class would explore the gut-brain axis, the connection to mental health, and how a balanced microbiome is essential for a strong immune system.

11. 2. The Microbiome Reset: A Practical Plan for Gut Health

Focuses on the actionable solution, providing a clear guide to incorporating probiotics, prebiotics, and other lifestyle factors like sleep and stress management to restore gut balance.)

12.1. Shifting from individual blame to systems thinking in healthcare

Focuses on moving beyond patient blame to address the social, environmental, and systemic factors that shape health outcomes.

12.2. Micro-Practices, Macro Impact: Lifestyle Change that Sticks

Focuses on simple, evidence-based daily habits that create lasting lifestyle change and measurable health benefits.