Lifestyle Medicine in the COVID-19 Era

Abstract

Despite the devastation caused by the COVID-19 virus, I believe there is a silver lining in its lessons for lifestyle medicine physicians. The COVID-19 pandemic has caused many people to stop and think about how precious life is and take proactive measures to preserve it. Therein lies an important lesson for lifestyle medicine physicians and other health care workers. While the COVID-19 pandemic has rightly caused all of us to focus on acute measures to preserve life, there are other pandemics in the United States and around the world, which may seem less visible but are at least as deadly or more than the COVID-19 virus.