In society today, we often experience and hear about tremendous amounts of stress throughout daily life. From constant media stimuli and poor sleeping habits to unhealthy eating patterns and lack of movement, stress can build up in the body and deliver debilitating consequences. This month, our Pivio experts are highlighting how adoption of lifestyle medicineContinue reading “Advantages of Lifestyle Medicine: Stress Management”
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5 Key Advantages of Implementing Lifestyle Medicine Practices
Lifestyle medicine is a powerful tool that more and more medical professionals are “prescribing” for their patients to live healthier, higher quality lives. This month we are featuring five of the many advantages of implementing lifestyle medicine practices, and how this implementation can provide drastic positive improvement for all lives. 1. Prevent, Halt, & ReverseContinue reading “5 Key Advantages of Implementing Lifestyle Medicine Practices”
PIVIO – Addressing the Public Health Crisis
We celebrate National Public Health Week (NPHW) in April as a time to come together and recognize the critical advancements made in public health, while shedding light on important current issues that we are still facing. One of those serious and imminent issues is chronic disease. This month, our Pivio experts are highlighting what isContinue reading “PIVIO – Addressing the Public Health Crisis”
Optimal Nutrition: What Does It Mean?
You’ve likely heard about many of the diet trends that are popular these days – Keto, WeightWatchers, Nutrisystem, South Beach, Paleo, Atkins – the list goes on. The reality is that with all of these diet programs available it is overwhelming to know where to start, and what programs really can be beneficial for health.Continue reading “Optimal Nutrition: What Does It Mean?”
Partner Testimonial: Integrated Gastroenterology Consultants
In the spirit of expressing love and gratitude this month, we are featuring another fantastic partner that has joined the Pivio experience: Integrated Gastroenterology Consultants (IGIC). Providing comprehensive, patient-centered gastroenterology care, the expert IGIC team addresses all aspects of gut health in the Merrimack Valley and Southern New Hampshire. Joining as a Pivio partner inContinue reading “Partner Testimonial: Integrated Gastroenterology Consultants”
Committing to Health in the New Year
Happy New Year! We know for many a new year brings resolutions and goals for personal and professional achievement. That’s why this month our experts are sharing tangible recommendations for sticking to resolutions, as well as guidance on how the six pillars of lifestyle medicine are the ideal tenets to follow when recommitting to health. Continue reading “Committing to Health in the New Year”
Celebrating the Wins While Supporting Healthy Lifestyles
As the end of the year is just a few weeks away, now is a time when many organizations celebrate and recognize their teams. Our Pivio experts have recommendations and insights around how these enjoyable and important celebrations can occur while still supporting those on healthy lifestyle paths. Importance of Social Connection At Pivio, oneContinue reading “Celebrating the Wins While Supporting Healthy Lifestyles“
Pivio Thought Leadership: Lifestyle Medicine Interventions with Type 2 Diabetes Patients
Staying at the forefront of research and discovery is critically important to all of us at Lifestyle Medicine Institute (LMI). We are proud that many of our Pivio experts are published researchers, offering significant contributions to the lifestyle medicine community. Recently our Medical Director, Dr. Salvatore Lacagnina, DO, DipACLM, was a featured author in anContinue reading “Pivio Thought Leadership: Lifestyle Medicine Interventions with Type 2 Diabetes Patients”
Insights from Pivio Leaders
Hear from Pivio Leaders Dr. Salvatore Lacagnina & Dr. Charles Abraham on helpful tips and tricks to implement for a more healthy, sustainable lifestyle.
Fighting Inflammation with Lifestyle Medicine
Most, if not all, chronic diseases are linked to inflammation – commonly defined as the immune system’s response to an irritant. Inflammation can take many forms, particularly in the joints, including redness, swelling, pain and stiffness. It can also be short-lived (acute) or long-lasting (chronic). The encouraging news is that lifestyle medicine – and aContinue reading “Fighting Inflammation with Lifestyle Medicine”