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DoaneX: Lifestyle Medicine Treatments of Chronic Disease – Part 1

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Learn specific lifestyle medicine treatment protocols for a variety of chronic diseases, such as breast cancer, diabetes, and heart disease.

Lifestyle Medicine Treatments of Chronic Disease – Part 1
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Lifestyle Medicine Treatments of Chronic Disease – Part 1

About this course

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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

At a glance

  • Institution: DoaneX
  • Subject: Medicine
  • Level: Intermediate
  • Prerequisites:
    None

What you'll learn

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  • Recognize the core competencies of Nutrition, Tobacco Cessation, and Alcohol and their interaction with chronic diseases.
  • Explain the difference in efficacies of traditional treatments vs. lifestyle based treatments.
  • Identify effective lifestyle based treatment protocols used to prevent and treat chronic diseases of lifestyle.

Who can take this course?

Unfortunately, learners residing in one or more of the following countries or regions will not be able to register for this course: Iran, Cuba and the Crimea region of Ukraine. While edX has sought licenses from the U.S. Office of Foreign Assets Control (OFAC) to offer our courses to learners in these countries and regions, the licenses we have received are not broad enough to allow us to offer this course in all locations. edX truly regrets that U.S. sanctions prevent us from offering all of our courses to everyone, no matter where they live.

This course is part of Lifestyle Medicine: Improving the Future of Health Care Professional Certificate Program

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