Lifestyle medicine focuses on enabling a healthy lifestyle to prevent and treat chronic conditions. Lifestyle medicine is based on the scientific evidence which is constantly emerging about how a healthy lifestyle can be an incredibly powerful tool for positively affecting our health and wellbeing.
Stress is often perceived as a negative reaction, but it isn’t necessarily a bad thing. Our ability to feel stress has traditionally generated a physical reactive response. When we feel stressed, our body believes it is under attack and shifts to what is commonly referred to as ‘fight’ or ‘flight’ mode, causing a release of a mix of hormones and chemicals.
It’s so encouraging the way mental health is now being taken more seriously in society and in the workplace. Businesses providing support to their staff with well-being isn’t just the right thing to do but it also makes business sense.