Lifestyle Medicine is an evidence-based discipline which aims to empower and support people to maintain optimal health and wellbeing across all life stages, by preventing, managing, and reversing avoidable lifestyle-related diseases. 

In order to enhance complete physical, mental, emotional, and social well-being, Lifestyle Medicine focuses on assisting patients, using supported behaviour change skills, to influence their individual determinants of health. This can be achieved by the following interventions, such as eating healthily, being active, sleeping well, fostering and improving social relationships and connectedness, managing stress, and avoiding exposure to harmful substances. 

Lifestyle Medicine requires a multidisciplinary, multi-system approach, which embraces and works alongside other interventions such as health coaching, self-care, self-management, social prescribing, group consultations and the application of digital health technology. 

Lifestyle Medicine, as a bridge between clinical medicine and public health, 

has a wider responsibility to recognise upstream determinants of disease to promote population and planetary health. This will reduce the economic burden of lifestyle-related diseases, health inequities and tackle poverty. 

This requires a qualified lifestyle medicine team approach and recognition that one discipline or health profession alone cannot meet all health needs.