The Transformative Power of Lifestyle Changes and Supportive Community PDF
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The Transformative Power of Lifestyle Changesand Supportive Community Ben Brown, M.D. Medical Director: Ornish Lifestyle Medicine Associate Clinical Professor of Medicine University of California, San Francisco Healthways My Background Associate Clinical Professor at University of California San Francisco Medical Director: Preventive Medicine Research Institute - OrnishLifestyle Medicine. Started non-profits IM4Us and BRCP (now Community Partners International). My Medical Training People Don’t Change Heart Disease is Not Reversible You Can’t Lower Cholesterol Much With Diet. You Can’t Lengthen Telomeres You Can’t Reverse Prostate Cancer Time Travel: 1994 I am a resident I’m working in Burma Bill Moyers Dean Ornish MD The Reason I went into Medicine… Optimal Lifestyle Program Nutrition Stress Management Moderate Exercise Support Optimal Lifestyle Program Eat Well Stress Less Move More Love More Lifestyle as treatment, as well as prevention. 7 Right idea, Right time Convergence of Forces Limitationsof high-tech approaches are more well-documented Power of intensive lifestyle changes are more well-documented Payment by diagnosis rather than procedure in Affordable Care Act (e.g., ACOs, IDNs, medical home) Patients are asking for options. A meta-analysis of all 8 randomized trials of stents (7,229 patients) found “no evidence of benefit for prevention of death, nonfatal MI, unplanned revascularization, or angina.” —Arch Intern Med. 2012 Feb 27;172(4):312-9.
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