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Lifestyle Medicine

Lifestyle, the Environment and Preventive Medicine in Health and Disease

Michael Sagner (Herausgeber)

Buch | Softcover
620 Seiten
2026 | 4th edition
Academic Press Inc (Verlag)
978-0-443-15727-1 (ISBN)
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Lifestyle Medicine: Lifestyle, the Environment and Preventive Medicine in Health and Disease is an adjunct approach to health practice that seeks to deal with the more complex modern determinants of chronic diseases – primarily lifestyle and the environments driving such lifestyles- in contrast to the microbial ‘causes’ of infectious disease. This 4th edition includes significant new materials and updated existing content to reflect new scientific findings in the field of preventative medicine.

The aim of the book is to reduce the burden of chronic diseases by harnessing technology and by having a better understanding of environment-biology interactions, evidence-based interventions, and the underlying mechanisms of chronic diseases. The new edition is greatly expanded to cover major chronic diseases as well as infectious diseases. Led by top experts in the field, the editors provide a framework to promote and facilitate multi-stakeholder collaboration with an orchestrated common language and an integrated care model to increase the population’s heath span.

The book provides, the latest research updates on the pathophysiology of preventable diseases, Clinical updates on interventions for practice, Public health update Precision Medicine / Systems Biology approach to prevention for clinicians and Interdisciplinary aspects for allied health professionals

This book is essential to healthcare professionals who want to: understand the potential of preventing diseases; understand how to maintain health and well-being; understand the implications of preventable diseases for society and individuals; understand lifestyle aspects in the prevention and treatment of diseases.

Michael Sagner, MD is a medical doctor specializing in sports medicine and preventive medicine. He is also a certified fitness trainer and certified sports nutritionist. He is founding head of several international projects focused on clinical chronic disease and risk factor treatment and prevention. Michael Sagner is actively involved in scientific research in the field of preventive medicine and has developed the ‘cell to community’ approach, which aims at connecting basic research, clinical medicine and public health to address chronic diseases. His research interests are the underlying mechanisms and causes of chronic diseases and interdisciplinary approaches in clinical treatment. His research considers the complex interactions within the human body in light of a patient's lifestyle, genomics and environment.

Section I. Background and Basis for the Role of Lifestyle Factors in Chronic Disease Prevention and Treatment
1. Introduction to the Role of Lifestyle Factors in Medicine
2. The Epidemiology of Chronic Disease
3. A “Germ Theory” Equivalent Approach for Lifestyle Medicine
4. A Structure for Lifestyle Medicine
5. Everything You Wanted to Know About Motivation (But Weren’t Intrinsically Motivated Enough to Ask)
6. Self-Management in Lifestyle Medicine
7. Overweight and Obesity

Section II. Lifestyle and Environmental Determinants of Chronic Disease
8. Nutrition for the Nondietitian
9. Fluids, Fitness, and Fatness
10. Behavioral Aspects of Nutrition
11. Physical Activity
13. Stress
14. Dealing With Worry and Anxiety
15. Depression
16. Happiness and Mental Health
17. Technology-Induced Pathology
18. To Sleep, Perchance to … Get Everything Else Right
19. Health and the Environment
20. Meaninglessness, Alienation, and Loss of Culture/Identity (MAL) as Determinants of Chronic Disease
21. Preventing and Managing Injury at the Clinical Level
22. Rethinking Chronic Pain in a Lifestyle Medicine Context
23. Understanding Addictions
24. Medicines
25. Relationships, Social Inequity, and Distal Factors in Lifestyle Medicine

Section III. Other Issues for Lifestyle Medicine
26. Sex and Lifestyle
27. Lifestyle and Oral Health
28. Lifestyle and Environmental Influences on Skin
29. Lifestyle-Related Aspects of Gastrointestinal Health

Section IV. The Future of Health
30. The Next Chapter

Erscheint lt. Verlag 1.9.2026
Verlagsort San Diego
Sprache englisch
Maße 191 x 235 mm
Gewicht 450 g
Themenwelt Naturwissenschaften Biologie
ISBN-10 0-443-15727-8 / 0443157278
ISBN-13 978-0-443-15727-1 / 9780443157271
Zustand Neuware
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