Lifestyle Medicine for Chronic Diseases
A special issue of Metabolites (ISSN 2218-1989). This special issue belongs to the section "Endocrinology and Clinical Metabolic Research".
Deadline for manuscript submissions: 28 February 2025 | Viewed by 81
Special Issue Editors
Interests: metabolic syndrome; lifestyle medicine; physical activity; nutrition; primary care
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Dear Colleagues,
Lifestyle Medicine is a branch of medicine focused on the prevention, treatment, and reversal of chronic diseases through structured and intensive lifestyle interventions. It emphasizes the role of healthy behaviors in managing and improving health outcomes via patient education and behavioral counseling to make sustainable lifestyle changes. It primarily includes six pillars: healthy nutrition, regular physical activity, stress management, sleep hygiene, avoidance of risky substances, and healthy relationships and social connections. Lifestyle medicine can be particularly effective in managing and preventing chronic diseases such as metabolic syndrome, cardiovascular disease, type 2 diabetes, obesity, hypertension, mental health disorders, and cancer prevention, among others. By focusing on these pillars of health, healthcare providers aim to empower patients to take an active role in their health, leading to a better quality of life. Metabolomics provides a snapshot of the metabolic state of an organism and can be used to assess the impact of lifestyle habits on health. This includes monitoring dietary intake with biomarkers of nutrients and diet quality assessment, tracking physical activity with exercise metabolites, assessing stress biomarkers, and examining metabolites involved in sleep regulation, particularly in the management of chronic diseases. Although several markers exist to monitor lifestyle medicine, biomarkers are mainly associated with a specific chronic disease (e.g., glycated hemoglobin for diabetes). Unfortunately, when a healthcare provider wants to assess the lifestyle of a patient, the most reliable tools are often questionnaires. As of 2024, it remains challenging for healthcare providers to measure the specific metabolomics variables in humans to capture lifestyle habits, and clinical outcomes, and implement these in clinical practice. Research is needed on how metabolomics measurement can be integrated into lifestyle medicine for chronic disease management. Therefore, in this special issue, we invite you to discuss lifestyle medicine for chronic disease.
Dr. Caroline Rhéaume
Dr. Abu Hena Mostafa Kamal
Guest Editors
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Keywords
- lifestyle medicine
- chronic diseases
- metabolomics
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