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Your lifestyle is the way in which you live your life. It sounds simple but, there are many factors involved in a lifestyle and they vary from person to person. This is because attitude, perceptions and viewpoints. Lifestyle can include your habits, your passions, and even your hobbies. It is every component that exists in your life, creating your style of life. This may seem simple enough, but it eventually leads to the question: what is lifestyle medicine?

The American Psychological Association reports the latest statistics on stress in America. The top causes of stress include work, money, health, relationships, poor nutrition, media overload and lack of quality sleep. This means coping strategies may be able to help you manage your stress!

Check your Omega-3 score for brain function and anti-inflammation. You should be getting about 2.6g of these essential fatty acids at least 3 times/week.

Rest, relaxation, a good night’s rest. It sounds so simple, yet millions of people find it difficult to achieve. In fact, 50 to 70 million people report having a sleeping disorder. Insomnia is the most common sleep disorder, which is the inability to fall asleep or stay asleep.

It’s Fall and all the things we love about the Fall are falling into place as they should. The leaves are turning on the trees, all foods are created with apples or pumpkins, you’re able to wear jeans and sweaters, and of course, it’s football season.

Stress – everybody has it. Even the ones who think they are not stressed, have stress. Maybe they manage stress better than you. Maybe they define stress differently. Maybe they are in denial.

Life can be stressful. Even if we don’t feel it is stressful, there are factors that play into our lifestyle that can make us feel tired, worn out, or just not ourselves. If you were to stop and take a hard look at all the responsibilities you must maintain in just a single day, you may recognize you have more reasons for stress than you thought.

Yoga therapy has been around for many years. It has been proven to help with many different physical and mental ailments. The Primary Care Companion for CNC Disorders reported on ten studies that evaluated how yoga therapy helped psychiatric disorders.

According to American Sleep Association (ASA) statistics, between 50 and 70 million people have a sleep disorder. This could mean anything from not being able to fall asleep, to waking up throughout the night, or even suffering from sleep apnea. This also means people are falling asleep during the day, drowsy driving, and possibly dozing behind the wheel.

Hormones are not something that can vary from high to low. They need to be in perfect balance. If not, you may begin to experience negative health symptoms. Hormones deliver important messages to certain parts of the body. They are produced in glands, travel through the blood stream and talk to the cells in the body, telling them how to function properly.