Lifestyle Medicine: Blue Zones Of Soulful Data, Stories, And Social Networks

The beauty in these Power 9 lie in the soulful data-stories- that personify and showcase the potency of lifestyle medicine practices while inspiring, motivating, and encouraging health-promoting and longevity-enhancing behaviors. These personal success stories of the impact of lifestyle medicine must be heard for it is my fear that the majority may never have stories at all. Stories of purposeful movement, energizing nourishment, stress-free thoughts, and sleep-thriving nights. Lifestyle medicine, with its bountiful resources, provides a wide array of prescriptions that assist us in leading a healthier, more sustainable lifestyle. Although most prominently known for its exercise and nutritional components, lifestyle medicine encompasses and provides a diverse range of solutions for achieving optimal health and longevity while collaborating with feet and fork approaches. Lifestyle medicine, as such, provides us the self-care and preventive gateway for purposeful movement, wholesome, nutritious consumption, a clear and stress-free mind, and sleep-nourished bodies. This gateway creates a platform of using what we already know- data, trends, best practices, resources- to transform our lives for the better while adding years to life and life to years. We no longer need to overreach for quick fixes or wait around for gimmicks that promise everything short of a return or value on investment. How can we, then, make use of the soulful data present in lifestyle medicine practices to attain such desirable behavior change? Here’s to soulful data. Here’s to stories that make an individual and population-based impact. Here’s to happier, healthier, and more stress-free lives filled with diverse lifestyle medicine practices!