Personalized Medical Care
for Lasting Transformations
We help women and their loved ones use lifestyle approaches to manage the stresses of career, pregnancy, family and menopause that impact your health. Minimize medications, doctors’ appointments, invasive tests, and treatments.
We believe in evidence-based strategies and personalized support
tailored to your unique needs.
Serving CA & NJ
Personalized Medical Care for Lasting Transformations
We help women and their loved ones use lifestyle approaches to manage the stresses of career, pregnancy, family and menopause that impact your health. Minimize medications, doctors’ appointments, invasive tests, and treatments.
We believe in evidence-based strategies and personalized support
tailored to your unique needs.
Serving CA & NJ
What is Lifestyle Medicine?
Lifestyle Medicine is a medical specialty that uses therapeutic lifestyle interventions as a primary modality to treat chronic conditions such as cardiovascular diseases, type 2 diabetes, and obesity. Evidence-based, whole person prescriptive lifestyle change is used to treat and even reverse such conditions. Applying the six pillars of Lifestyle medicine—a whole food, plant predominant eating pattern, physical activity, restorative sleep, stress management, positive social connections and avoidance of risky substances—also provides effective prevention for these conditions.
How Can Lifestyle Medicine Help Me?
Preparing for and Thriving during and after Pregnancy
While prenatal care is important, optimizing your health before pregnancy is the best foundation for you and your baby. We will support your changing body during pregnancy, continue to stand beside you throughout breastfeeding, and are here while you are learning to balance your own health with caring for your growing family.
Synching up Family Wellness
Whether you are negotiating healthy approaches to living with a partner or trying to establish healthy patterns for a growing family synching values and goals and agreeing on constraints like time and budget are critical. Let us help you create a plan for the whole household to support each other in your daily activities.
Mid-Life
As we enter our late 30s and beyond, new health challenges often begin to emerge—such as increased aches and pains, gradual weight gain, and rising blood pressure or blood sugar levels. For women, additional considerations like perimenopause and menopause can also come into play.
While these changes are common, they are not inevitable. With the right knowledge and sustainable habits, many long-term consequences can be prevented or minimized. Adopting a lifestyle medicine (LM) approach—emphasizing healthy nutrition, regular physical activity, effective stress management, and restorative sleep—can make a powerful difference. For some women, thoughtful pharmacological management of perimenopausal or menopausal symptoms may also play an important role in supporting overall health and quality of life.
Time to take stock
Using substances such as alcohol or marijuana/other drugs can be a pleasurable part of life. However, sometimes our lives become too centered around this use, and it’s important to step back for both ourselves and our loved ones. In addition to considering the impact of substance use on our lives, reflecting on our family's health history can further motivate us to make positive changes. Facing up to a family history of cancer and cognitive decline can be another powerful motivator. Despite recent advances in gene editing, most of us have to live with our genetic predisposition to disease, but we can still modify many risk factors and lower our risks substantially.
New or Looming Diagnosis
Lifestyle Medicine interventions have been shown to prevent, treat, and in some cases even lead to remission or reversal of diabetes, high blood pressure, obstructive sleep apnea, and high cholesterol. These interventions have also demonstrated benefits in managing other chronic diseases, including improvements in inflammatory and autoimmune conditions, as well as cognitive function.
Not at goal or too many meds?
Struggling with getting your blood sugar, blood pressure or cholesterol under control despite taking medications? Hoping to avoid taking more medications or even eliminate some of the ones you currently take? This is exactly where lifestyle changes can really work. Cutting medication numbers and costs is within your power!
