In light of recent events, we believe Lifestyle Medicine to be part of the solution. In order for society to thrive, flourish and be healthier than ever before.
Before the recent covid-19 pandemic, people were running at unprecedented speeds, work loads and levels of stress.
Everyone was meeting more deadlines than humanly possible, some traveling half way across the world for work on Friday and back home on Saturday to be with family.
Does that sound unsustainable?
That’s because it is.
In 2019, according to the American Psychological Association (APA), more than three-quarters of adults co-exist with emotional symptoms of stress.
And what stress look like?
APA states that headaches, changing sleeping patterns and feeling fatigued are one of the main symptoms.
However, due to covid-19, we were made aware, through hitting almost a complete STOP sign, that we are not invincible.
We all have a burnout point and, just maybe, we were all about to reach it.
Now is the perfect time to better our lifestyle choices.
Now is the perfect time to discover lifestyle medicine.
Now is time to learn how to live in this “new and innovated society”.
So, what is lifestyle medicine?
Lifestyle Medicine looks at all aspects of a person’s lifestyle: from healthy nutrition, exercise and stress management, to having a healthy relationship with yourself and others.
Considering various chronic diseases and illnesses induced by bad lifestyle choices, lifestyle medicine draws conclusions, on how to better one’s choices, in order to decrease negative setbacks of an unhealthy lifestyle.
By bettering aspects of one’s lifestyle, there can be vast results in mental and physical health in the long run.
There are many reasons as to why a person gets illnesses; however, many hardly ever question how it could be affected by the lifestyle choices themselves take every single day.
Lifestyle Medicine aims at understanding which choices taken in an individual’s lifestyle may be the cause of certain chronic illnesses.
There is a grave need, now more than ever, of a way to prevent chronic illnesses, which could, one day, be the reason of a more severe reaction to viruses, such as covid-19.
According to Susan Benigas, executive director of the American College of Lifestyle Medicine, this form of medicine has the aim to “identify and eradicate the root cause of disease” (Erblat, A. 2019)
The need for lifestyle medicine
As a globe, we now have to be more aware of not only imperative hygiene procedures, but also our own physical and mental health, more than ever before.
Now, more than ever before, we need to be health conscious, we need to have healthy habits and routines. To make sure we can live better and stronger than ever before.
Now, more than ever before, we need to be aware of what in our life causes us stress, causes us to not be happy and healthy and makes us be a lesser version of ourselves.
Lifestyle medicine allows each individual to “self diagnose” one’s own life, and views where there can be changes done, in order to live happier and better.
We have been acquainted with ourselves more than ever during this pandemic. It is time to be the ones in charge of our lives, decisions and habits.
In order to then one day look back and see how far we have travelled, health conscious lifestyles have to be apart of our daily lives.
Why Orbis lifestyle?
Some may still be asking: why is it so important for people to be crucially aware of their lifestyles now? And we at Orbis Lifestyle are here to answer that very question.
At Orbis Lifestyle, being one of the first lifestyle medicine brands, we aim at bettering individuals lifestyles. This way, forms of chronic diseases and bad lifestyle habits induced illnesses can be reduced, if not eradicated.
We provide you with innovative and top of the line products to aid bettering 6 pillars: nutrition, exercise, stress management and relaxation, anti-aging, relationships and environment.
We pride ourselves on being so much more than an e-shop platform. We make sure that doctors vet each products extensively before even being to be considered to put online.
As a visitor, you are able to learn more about lifestyle medicine itself, the partners we have, be apart of the “lifestyle medicine movement” we truly dream to create.
We provide an educative online platform, an e-shop, and community to be apart of!
There is so much more to learn about lifestyle medicine, and we are here to provide that to everyone on this earth.
Now more than ever before, we need to live life at 360°!
*The 4 being not smoking, a body mass index lower than 30, doing 3.5 h/wk or more of exercise, and adhering to healthy dietary principles. (Arch Intern Med., 2009)
