Precision Medicine in Lifestyle Medicine: The Way of the Future?

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2020-03-01
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Precision medicine has captured the imagination of the medical community with visions of therapies precisely targeted to the specific individual’s genetic, biological, social, and environmental profile. However, in practice it has become synonymous with genomic medicine. As such its successes have been limited, with poor predictive or clinical value for the majority of people. It adds little to lifestyle medicine, other than in establishing why a healthy lifestyle is effective in combatting chronic disease. The challenge of lifestyle medicine remains getting people to actually adopt, sustain, and naturalize a healthy lifestyle, and this will require an approach that treats the patient as a person with individual needs and providing them with suitable types of support. The future of lifestyle medicine is holistic and person-centered rather than technological.

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precision medicine, genomics, epigenetics, microbiome, caloric restriction, genetic risk score, individual support, social connectedness
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Gray, I. D., Kross, A. R., Renfrew, M. E., & Wood, P. (2020). Precision medicine in lifestyle medicine: The way of the future? American Journal of Lifestyle Medicine, 14(2), 169-186. doi:https://doi.org/10.1177/1559827619834527

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