Lifestyle Medicine Program
Change the way you live. Change the direction of your health.
Our physician-led Lifestyle Medicine program helps you understand the everyday factors influencing your health and gives you practical support to make changes that can last.
Through medical guidance, lifestyle education and whole-person support, we help you turn health information into healthier everyday living.
What Is Lifestyle Medicine?
More of your health is within reach than you may think.
Lifestyle medicine focuses on the everyday behaviours that can influence health and chronic disease.
Alongside appropriate medical care, we look at nutrition, physical activity, sleep, stress, relationships and other aspects of daily life that can shape long-term wellbeing.
At LHI, this care is physician-led, evidence-informed and designed around the whole person.
Conditions We Address
Lifestyle medicine can make a difference.
Many chronic conditions are influenced, in part, by how we live. Our program works alongside your existing medical care to help address modifiable lifestyle factors affecting your health.
LHI does not claim to cure or reverse these conditions. Please speak with your physician about whether lifestyle medicine is appropriate for your circumstances.
The Six Dimensions
Health happens in everyday life.
Our approach looks beyond a single diagnosis to the everyday patterns that influence how you feel, function and live.
Nutrition
Learn practical approaches to eating that support metabolic and long-term health.
Movement
Build physical activity into everyday life in ways that are realistic and sustainable.
Sleep
Strengthen sleep and recovery as foundations for physical and mental health.
Mental Wellbeing
Understand stress, develop healthier responses and create greater mental peace.
Connection
Strengthen relationships and social support that can make healthy change easier to sustain.
Purpose
OptionalExplore meaning, purpose and, when desired, the spiritual dimensions of health and wellbeing.
Your 12-Week Journey
More than information. A guided journey toward better health.
- 01
Understand
Meet with an LHI physician to review your medical history, medications, relevant laboratory results, lifestyle and health goals.
- 02
Plan
Identify the lifestyle changes that may have the greatest practical impact on your health.
- 03
Learn & Practice
Participate in structured lifestyle medicine education and begin putting healthier behaviours into practice.
- 04
Support
Build consistency through clinical guidance, education and accountability.
- 05
Reassess
Review your progress, reassess relevant health measures and determine your next steps.
The LHI Difference
We treat health as something you live.
Your health is more than a diagnosis, laboratory result or prescription.
It is also shaped by what happens between medical appointments—what you eat, how you move, how you sleep, how you respond to stress, the people around you and the sense of purpose that guides your life.
Lifestyle Health Initiative brings these pieces together through physician-led care designed for the whole person.
Evidence-Informed
Grounded in lifestyle medicine and modern medical care.
Physician-Led
Your health journey is guided by qualified medical professionals.
Whole-Person
Body, mind, relationships, purpose and spiritual wellbeing matter.
Getting Started
Ready to begin?
Participation begins with a referral from your family physician or primary care provider.
Interested in the program?
We'll show you what to discuss with your primary care provider and how to request a referral.
Get StartedReady to refer a patient?
Use our secure electronic referral pathway to send your referral directly to Lifestyle Health Initiative.
Refer a Patient