Lifestyle: The Foundations of Functional Medicine

Lifestyle: The Foundations of Functional Medicine is organized by The Institute for Functional Medicine (IFM).

Release Date: November 8, 2022
Last Reviewed Date: August 31, 2022
Termination Date: August 31, 2025

Description:
Lifestyle: The Foundations of Functional Medicine™ online course provides clinicians with the foundational information, tools, and techniques to implement successful, sustainable lifestyle-based therapeutics in any clinical practice. Lifestyle-based therapies offer a key point of leverage for improving health and clinical outcomes.

Explore the evidence-base for lifestyle-based interventions. Through interactive and detailed modules, you will learn how social determinants of health and other factors such as sleep, nutrition, exercise, stress, and social relationships affect various organ and biological systems. Lifestyle: The Foundations of Functional Medicine offers the clinical insight and tactical skillset to design personalized lifestyle interventions that appropriately address the root causes of chronic disease. Guiding patients towards  meaningful, sustainable changes in their health behaviors has the potential to optimize their health today, and help reduce disease risk and burden in the future.

Topics:
• Functional Medicine Basics
• Modifiable Lifestyle Factors
• Nutrition

Learning Objectives:
• Key foundational information about the impact of lifestyle—including sleep and rest; exercise and movement; nutrition; relationships; stress management; and behavior modification—on health and well-being.
• How to design lifestyle interventions that appropriately address the causes of chronic conditions and dysfunction.
• Tools and techniques to personalize lifestyle interventions and meet each patient where they are.
• How to improve patient engagement with lifestyle treatments and the important factors in making lifestyle changes sustainable, improving their resulting outcomes.