British Society of Lifestyle Medicine

Lifestyle Medicine is a modern medical discipline providing solutions to the challenge of our declining health and over-stretched health-care systems.

Want to do your bit for our planet, but find it difficult to incorporate it into your practice? 🌲🫁 Not to worry - Our Health Our Planet have some fantastic resources available for you in-practice: their content covers from what is Climate Change, how it is a health crisis, and how your actions will make a difference 🙌 They also have some fantastic downloadable resources that you can pop around your workplace, or share with others, to get them involved in the movement! 🌲🫁 Their website below, or in our bio, here 🔗 ⤵️ https://lnkd.in/e-X-b8jh 🌐 www.bslm.org.uk #SustainableHealth #EcoFriendlyPractice #ClimateActionNow #HealthAndEnvironment #GreenLivingTips #EcoConsciousLiving #SustainableWorkplace #ClimateChangeAwareness #EcoHealth #PlanetFriendly

We are excited to kick off the European Lifestyle Medicine Summit in beautiful Alicante!☀️ The event, organized by the Spanish Institute of Lifestyle Medicine - Instituto Español de Medicina de Estilo de Vida and the British Society of Lifestyle Medicine, is held under the auspices of the European Lifestyle Medicine Council. In today's welcome address, Dr. Jose Luis Palma-Gámiz from the Spanish Institute of Lifestyle Medicine highlighted the critical role of lifestyle in shaping a healthier future for Europe. We have three days ahead filled with inspiring discussions, expert presentations, and invaluable networking opportunities. Let's work together to drive positive change in health across Europe! #LifestyleMedicine #HealthForAll

We’re so delighted to present to you the third event in our series of events, BSLM's Reaching Underserved Communities Symposium! 🏘️ 🤝🧬 Join us for this one day MSK Study Day, held online on the Tuesday 12th November, where the symposium aims to showcase the way our many Members are finding ways of ensuring lifestyle medicine gets to some of those underserved communities 🏘️ This webinar is free to attend and open to all from Clinicians and practitioners working with these areas to patients interested in using lifestyle medicine to manage and prevent chronic illness.All those registered will receive the recording post event 🤝🧬 Does that sound like just the thing you need to equip you? 💭🧬 Make sure to grab your tickets now via the link below (or in our bio) ⤵️🔗🎟️ https://lnkd.in/euMH2mpb We’d love to see you there! 👋 🌐 www.bslm.org.uk #LifestyleMedicine #LMandMSK #BSLM #HealthcareProfessionals #OnlineSeminar #RealLifeExamples #HealthcareEducation #Learning #LifestyleChanges #MSKStudyDay

It’s great to see the MDU discussing the discipline of Lifestyle Medicine, the RCGP GP with extended role in Lifestyle Medicine framework and the ways you can become accredited including the British Society of Lifestyle Medicine Core Accreditation. They’ve described some of the definition of Lifestyle Medicine; “Lifestyle medicine is an evolving speciality within medicine. It focuses on using evidence-based techniques to support behaviour change, and lifestyle interventions to prevent and manage chronic disease.” However, the most important and exciting aspect of Lifestyle Medicine practice is supporting people to achieve sustained, drug-free chronic disease remission i.e. depression, Type-2 diabetes, metabolic liver disease, obesity, hypertension remission. Trials suggest this is achievable with multicomponent intensive lifestyle programmes. My clinical experience suggests this can be done using lifestyle medicine clinicians, group clinics, health coaches, social prescribers and mental health workers. 👉It’s this practice of supporting remission that needs indemnity the most as it involves careful down-titration or supported withdrawal of medications and deprescribing. British Society of Lifestyle Medicine Royal College of General Practitioners The MDU MDDUS

🔔 🧬 🇪🇸 Are you ready to have your first peek at our joint event, European Lifestyle Medicine line up? 🇪🇸 🧬 🔔 We're delighted to introduce to you our Day 1 line up at the European Lifestyle Medicine Symposium! 📢 The details are for our Educating Healthcare Professionals session Date 📆 - Wednesday the 9th of October (Day 3) Time ⏰ - 8.30am-10am Chair 🗣️ - Chair Dr Rob Lawson The speakers are: 🗣️ Dr Fraser Quin (BSLM)🗣️ 💬 Dr Pedro Gonzalez (SILM)💬 🗣️ Alicja Baska MD 🗣️ And the session concludes with a panel discussion 💭 & the details are for our are: Date 📆 - Wednesday the 9th of October (Day 3) Time ⏰ - 10.30am - 12.30pm Chair 🗣️ -Dr Fraser Quin The speakers are: 🗣️ Wojciech Zgliczyński🗣️ 💬 Candan Kendir OECD Health Analyst 💬 🗣️ Raymond Gemen 🗣️ See more of the conference line up here! 🇪🇸 🔔🔗⬇️ https://lnkd.in/epWBZv2k #ELMS #EuropeanLifestyleMedicineSymposium #LMinEurope #BSLM #SILM #LifestyleMedicine #LMEvent #SpeakerReveal #HealthConference #MedicalEvent #PublicHealth #HealthcareProfessionals #MedicalEducation #HealthTalks #HealthcareLeaders #HealthcareInnovation #SpanishLM

The link between food and mood is profoundly significant. I’m delighted to have been invited by Culinary Medicine UK CIC and Food and Mood Academy to the London Nutritional Psychiatry event. 👉a packed event:clinicians want to learn about this effective and safe treatment tool 👉we have to come together to ensure that the science of food and mood doesn’t take the usual 17 years to enter practice. So much can be done, simply and quickly. 👉we need to improve our food systems to enable better access to good quality food British Society of Lifestyle Medicine The Food Foundation The Royal College of Psychiatrists Royal College of General Practitioners Kamila Hawthorne Bite Back Fran Bernhardt

🔔 🧬 🇪🇸 Wondering what day 2 of the European Lifestyle Medicine will bring? 🇪🇸 🧬 🔔 We're delighted to introduce to you our Day 2 line up at the European Lifestyle Medicine Symposium! 📢 The details are for our Skills Required for LM session Date 📆 - Tuesday the 8th of October (Day 2) Time ⏰ - 9am-10.30am Chair 🗣️ - Chair Dr Fraser Quin The speakers are: 🗣️ Simon Matthews 🗣️ 💬 Prof Fraser Birrell 💬 🗣️ Yohana de Gracia Hils. 🗣️ And the session concludes with a panel discussion 💭 The details are for our Socio-Economic, Environmental Determinants of Health Session are: Date 📆 - Tuesday the 8th of October (Day 2) Time ⏰ - 11am- 12.30pm Chair 🗣️ -Dr Pedro Gonzalez The speakers are: 🗣️Dr Rupa Joshi 🗣️ 💬 Dorota Kumar 💬 🗣️ Prof Dr Maria Hopman🗣️ And the session concludes with a panel discussion 💭 The details are for our Mental Health in Europe Session are: Date 📆 - Tuesday the 8th of October (Day 2) Time ⏰ - 2pm-3.30pm Chair 🗣️ -Prof Rob Thomas The speakers are: 🗣️Helena Garcia Llana 🗣️ 💬 Simon Matthews 💬 🗣️Dr Pedro Gonzales 🗣️ And the session concludes with a panel discussion 💭 And the details are for the final session of the day, Food Environment Session are: Date 📆 - Tuesday the 8th of October (Day 2) Time ⏰ - 4pm--5.30pm Chair 🗣️ -Alicja Baska MD The speakers are: 🗣️Prof Labros Sidossis 🗣️ 💬 Roberto Volpe 💬 🗣️Maria Kindelan 🗣️ And the session concludes with a panel discussion 💭 See more of the conference line up here! 🇪🇸 🔔🔗⬇️ https://lnkd.in/epWBZv2k #ELMS #EuropeanLifestyleMedicineSymposium #LMinEurope #BSLM #SILM #LifestyleMedicine #LMEvent #SpeakerReveal #HealthConference #MedicalEvent #PublicHealth #HealthcareProfessionals #MedicalEducation #HealthTalks #HealthcareLeaders #HealthcareInnovation #SpanishLM

Sugary/energy drinks must carry a health warning on the label around max daily limits just like alcohol. Lucozade toxicity? Coca-cola poisoning? I have seen too many cases of Type-2 diabetes being entirely caused by sugary beverages - once stopped, no Type-2 diabetes (literally within weeks or days). Also others where people, driven by thirst caused by raised blood sugar they quench with sugary drinks driving rapidly worsening Type-2 diabetes. Again, often reversed upon stopping sugary drinks and other sources of free sugar. 👉 Acute sugar toxicity should be a diagnosis we can record and lay squarely at the feet of the sugary drink industry. 👉 One example - someone presenting unwell following drinking daily 4x500ml bottles of Lucozade made by Lucozade Ribena Suntory and a litre of coca-cola made by The Coca-Cola Company. 👉 The max daily advised limit of “free sugars” is 30g/day. In this example daily consumption is around 128g just from free sugars 👉 This is not an unusual level of consumption in my experience as a GP who asks routinely about sugar sweetened beverage and eating habits. We need better labelling, raised awareness amongst the general public and their clinicians as well as government action to limit the sales of these products. People consuming this much sugar don’t need insulin, they need support to with sugary drink addiction. The Food Foundation Bite Back The Jamie Oliver Group Henry Dimbleby Fran Bernhardt Health Protection Agency (UK) British Society of Lifestyle Medicine Christoffer van Tulleken Rt. Hon. Wes Streeting MP Dr David Ludwig, MD Robert Lustig Dariush Mozaffarian Kevin Hall

🔔 🫑🥒🥬 🥑 For World Food Day yesterday, we have a blog piece for you! 🥑 🥬 🥒 🫑🔔 We've popped up our topical piece, which is very topical after our BSLM24 theme and conference, on "Technopathology and the rise of the ‘dumbphone’ – going against the grain when it comes to smart phones for kids" 💬 “The impact on children’s health and ability to learn is severe, low iron levels in a child’s diet reduces concentration and impacts on a child’s sleep, this is just one example of the impact of a poor nutritional intake. The stress from food insecurity often leads to anxiety and emotional difficulties. " Read the entry via the 🔗 in our bio, or here! ➡️ https://lnkd.in/eBkR8nzX 🌐 www.bslm.org.uk #BSLM #LifestyleMedicine