Lifestyle Medicine and Lifestyle Prescriptions® Research

Lifestyle Medicine, Health Coaching and Lifestyle Prescriptions® has been extensively research. Here’s a selection:

• Lifestyle Medicine
  • Dr. Dean Ornish, considered the grandfather of Lifestyle Medicine, and his Preventive Medicine Research Institute could demonstrate in double-blind studies the direct relationship between lifestyle modifications (nutrition, stress management, fitness, social support) and diseases and our body’s ability to stop and reverse up to 80% of chronic health issues. Here are some of their findings:
    • Telomerase
    • Telomeres
    • Weight Loss
    • Gene Expression
    • Cholesterol
    • Prostate Cancer
    • Blood Pressure
    • Heart Disease
    • Depression
    • Diabetes & Pre-Diabetes
    • Outcomes & Cost-Savings

• • Emotions and Health
    • List of research projects related to emotions and their affect on our body
    • Energy Psychology Research
    • Human Emotions on the Onset of Cardiovascular and Small Vessel Related Diseases.   
    • Differences in anxiety among patients with early- versus late-onset Alzheimer’s disease.
  • Other Stress-Social-Health related Research Studies
    • Pain and Emotions: A Psychosocial Review of Current Research
    • 75 to 90 percent of visits to primary care doctors may be related to stress, only 3 percent receive stress management
    • Stressful life events, personality, and health: An inquiry into hardiness.
    • Stress and the Individual Mechanisms Leading to Disease
    • Stressful life events: Their nature and effects
    • Prospective Study on Occupational Stress and Risk of Stroke
    • Life events, stress, and illness
    • The Somatic Symptom Scale (SSS-8) A Brief Measure of Somatic Symptom Burden
    • Improving Physicians’ Interviewing Skills and Reducing Patients’ Emotional Distress

• Lifestyle Prescriptions® University research of the Art and Science of Self-Healing and Organ-Mind-Brain Anatomy
  • Aisling Killoran, Lifestyle Prescriptions® Infertility Health Coach Specialist – The Effect Of Emotions and Stress On Fertility
    Aisling demonstrated that Lifestyle Prescriptions® Root-Cause Analysis & Health Coaching has a statistically significant improvement in health outcomes.
     In her study, out of the six case studies, four women who were medically diagnosed with unexplained infertility and were trying to become pregnant for over two years, are now pregnant and two have yet to become pregnant.
  • Jane Oelke, ND, PhD, LPHCS – Beliefs Affecting Chronic Pain Responses 
    This study was created for the objectives to study belief patterns and their relationship to the location of chronic pain.
     Thought-provoking associations between the top two belief patterns, the level of pain, and the symptoms that make it worse were found.
     The beliefs that “I am not strong enough” and “I have too many responsibilities.” correlate to the ability to control situations and the ability to deal with chronic pain.
  • John Rhodes, Lifestyle Prescriptions® Asthma Health Coach Specialist
    In a small research study John could show the following results using Lifestyle Prescriptions® Root-Cause Analysis & Self-Healing Protocols:
     40% of participants were able to stop using asthma medication altogether (confirmed by their GP).
     80% of participants had Final Peak Flow measurements corroborating their breathing improvement.
  • Empirical evidence of Lifestyle Prescriptions® Health Coaching practitioners demonstrated and documented with over 1,000 client cases
  • Establishing evidence-inspired reference materials based on empirical data like the Organ-Mind-Brain Connection Charts and the searchable online directory listing 150+ organ tissue with 2,000+ symptoms