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Lifestyle Medicine Treatments of Chronic Disease – Part 1

Offered By: Doane University via edX

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Nutrition & Wellness Courses Disease & Disorders Courses Diabetes Courses Hypertension Courses Chronic Disease Management Courses Lifestyle Medicine Courses

Course Description

Overview

Lifestyle Medicine is an increasingly crucial element to transforming disease care systems to healthcare systems. Current medical services are unable to restore health because they do not address root causes.

In this course, you will learn the deficiencies within traditional Western Medicine and more effective lifestyle based treatment protocols used to prevent and treat chronic diseases of lifestyle.

You will learn about lifestyle medicine based treatments for the following chronic diseases:

  • Hypertension
  • Hyperlipidemia
  • Angina/ Atherosclerosis
  • Type II Diabetes/ Obesity
  • Liver Disease
  • Kidney Disease
  • Alzheimer’s Disease
  • Breast Cancer

Taught by

Amanda McKinney

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