Type 2 diabetes affects over 37 million Americans — but what if our standard treatment paradigm is all wrong?

In this episode, Dr. Meagan Grega shares the science and strategy behind lifestyle medicine, a fast-growing movement that uses food, sleep, movement, stress reduction, and social connection to treat and even reverse chronic disease.

Dr. Grega is the co-author of the first-ever Clinical Practice Guideline on Lifestyle Interventions for Type 2 Diabetes and a lead author of ACLM’s Expert Consensus Statement on lifestyle medicine in primary care. She co-founded the Kellyn Foundation, where she helps families across Pennsylvania access fresh food, grow gardens, change lifestyle and improve their health together.

You’ll learn:

• How fat in your muscles causes insulin resistance — and how to reverse it
• What makes behavior change stick
• Why doctors don’t prescribe lifestyle medicine — and how that’s changing
• How community-based programs and school gardens are transforming lives
• New Clinical Guidelines and Expert Consensus on treating diabetes with lifestyle interventions

📚 Resources:

• Free CME course: https://lifestylemedicine.org/education-certification/course-catalog/
• Kellyn Foundation: https://www.kellyn.org/
• Dr. Grega’s TED Talk: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=efGa8QD8pU4
• ACLM Clinical Practice Guideline: https://journals.sagepub.com/toc/ajla/19/2_suppl
• ACLM Expert Consensus Statement: Lifestyle Medicine for Optimal Outcomes in Primary Care: https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/full/10.1177/15598276231202970

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