Public health recommendations for lifestyle modification, including diet and physical activity, have been widely disseminated for\r\nthe prevention and treatment of disease.These guidelines are intended for the overall population without significant consideration\r\nfor the individual with respect to one�s genes and environment. Personalized lifestyle medicine is a newly developed term that\r\nrefers to an approach to medicine in which an individual�s health metrics from point-of-care diagnostics are used to develop\r\nlifestyle medicine-oriented therapeutic strategies for improving individual health outcomes in managing chronic disease. Examples\r\nof the application of personalized lifestyle medicine to patient care include the identification of genetic variants through laboratory\r\ntests and/or functional biomarkers for the purpose of designing patient-specific prescriptions for diet, exercise, stress, and\r\nenvironment. Personalized lifestyle medicine can provide solutions to chronic health problems by harnessing innovative and\r\nevolving technologies based on recent discoveries in genomics, epigenetics, systems biology, life and behavioral sciences, and\r\ndiagnostics and clinical medicine. A comprehensive, personalized approach to medicine is required to promote the safety of\r\ntherapeutics and reduce the cost of chronic disease. Personalized lifestyle medicine may provide a novel means of addressing a\r\npatient�s health by empowering them with information they need to regain control of their health.
Loading....