About StopChronicDisease.com
Helping stop chronic disease with lifestyle medicine: doctor, diet, exercise, & other healthy habits to feel better
Welcome to a whole community of doctors and patients who are reversing risk factors and reducing chronic disease development simply by making smart changes to daily habits. It’s called “lifestyle medicine” and it’s a prescription for longer, more satisfying living.
Get Help. Share Your Story. Enjoy Living.
Here you can connect with health care professionals specifically trained to help you put lifestyle medicine into practice — giving a healthy charge to your eating, exercise, and stress-reducing habits.
You’ll also make connections with patients with similar health challenges and learn how they’re getting back on the road to health.
Find the professional and personal help you need to reclaim your life from the threat of chronic disease.
Ask questions. Get moral support. Learn, share, and feel better. All right here. So you can get back to enjoying life to the fullest.
Connect with Others Struggling with Chronic Disease
This unique community is made up of people who know what you’re going through. They’re learning how lifestyle medicine can help them live better through improved health.
Together you can share the troubles of chronic illness and the triumphs of managing it better—and getting back into life.
Here you can meet people like:
- Tom Allen, who was struggling with high blood pressure and pre-diabetes. After working with a lifestyle medicine plan from his doctor―diet, exercise, and stress management―Tom lost 45 pounds. "I went through two new belts!" said Tom. He no longer takes any medication for his high blood pressure.
- Kimberly Hicks, who was overwhelmed by pain and fatigue. Taking care of her children, ages 1 and 5, just about felt like torture. Since Kim’s chronic pain and celiac disease got better through changes in her eating habits, supplementation, and activity, she can finally enjoy being a mother of two.
- Marilyn Hemingway, whose biggest daily challenge was worrying about her husband and helping him deal with his type 2 diabetes and high cholesterol. Now that his diabetes and cholesterol are under control through nutrition and exercise, she can't wait to take off for the cruise in Alaska they've planned…and see his fitter physique back in the tuxedo she bought him years ago.
Connect with Professionals Who Can Help You
No other online community offers this unique opportunity to learn what doctors and scientists are discovering with lifestyle medicine.
See how they’re using these techniques to help people reduce chronic diseases risks and reclaim health.
Watch their videos, ask them questions, and find a local practitioner in your area.
Here you can also meet professionals like:
- David Hancock, MD and Kenneth Browning, DO—doctors who’ve made a commitment to integrate lifestyle medicine into their practices. As a result they’re rewarded by seeing hundreds of patients recapture healthier, more enjoyable lives through strategic lifestyle changes.
- Jacob Kornberg, MD—a research clinician who works at the Metagenics® Functional Medicine Research CenterSM in Gig Harbor, Washington. He communicates with practitioners and lifestyle medicine research scientists to help find the most effective therapies for patients.
Lifestyle Medicine Works Wonders
Lifestyle medicine is backed by substantial research, as well the thousands of real life stories of people who have taken control of their health. (You can see some of their lifestyle medicine success stories here.)
Lifestyle medicine can help manage chronic diseases and illnesses, such as:
- Type 2 diabetes
- Metabolic syndrome
- Cardiovascular disease
- Osteoporosis
- Fibromyalgia
- Plus many other conditions
- American Diabetes Association
- American Heart Association
- World Health Organization
- U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention
Unlike Most Diets or Fitness Plans
Lifestyle medicine is a comprehensive approach designed for success. Unlike many fitness or nutrition coaching programs, lifestyle medicine therapies are supervised by a variety of licensed health care practitioners who can help you manage symptoms of serious health concerns while you transition to a healthier you.
Well-designed lifestyle medicine programs include regular coaching and evaluations to help you stay on track. Your health team may adjust your prescriptions, supplements, diet, and fitness plans as your body changes.
Supervised by Well-Trained Professionals
Clinics that offer lifestyle medicine have staff members with special training on the latest ways to use nutrition, exercise, and other lifestyle therapies to combat chronic disease risk with a more patient-centered approach to wellness.
They also have access to the latest research in order to make recommendations to help you get better. And they may even offer—or help you locate—other therapeutic services to help reduce pain, improve mobility, or reduce stress.
Lifestyle Medicine Starts Here…With You
When you join StopChronicDisease.com, you can find a lifestyle medicine professional near you. And you can take part in the discussion. At StopChronicDisease.com both patients and health care professionals contribute their insights and stories through blogs, videos, and commentaries.
StopChronicDisease.com is sponsored by Metagenics, Inc., a global life sciences company focused on reversing chronic illness and improving health. Founded in 1983, the company serves tens of thousands of health care professionals and more than a million patients worldwide, and holds over 40 proprietary patents for use in nutraceuticals, medical foods, and pharmaceuticals. Today, Metagenics continues its leadership role by successfully merging the disciplines of nutritional genomics, functional medicine, and lifestyle medicine programs to find solutions to society’s most pressing health concerns. Metagenics is headquartered in San Clemente, CA. For more information, please visit metagenics.com.
About StopChronicDisease.com
Get the support you need from this unique online community that connects patients and doctors. Together we're working to reverse chronic illness with lifestyle medicine.