This session explores how healthcare leaders across Texas are transforming the future of medicine through the power of lifestyle medicine. Against the challenges of chronic disease, clinician burnout, and health inequities, Texas is emerging as a national leader in driving practical, prevention-focused solutions that put patients and communities first.
The panel highlights innovative strategies already making an impact—such as food as medicine integration, community-health system partnerships, and lifestyle-focused medical education—offering a blueprint for scalable, sustainable change.
By combining evidence-based clinical programs with community connection, Texas innovators are showing that it’s possible to improve outcomes, lower costs, and expand equitable access to care—all while inspiring a new vision for the future of healthcare.
00:00 Introduction
08:15 Overview of Lifestyle Medicine in Texas
25:00 The Transition from Sick Care to Healthcare
54:30 Lifestyle Medicine in Public Health
1:09:45 ACLM Resources
1:12:30 Q&A
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The American College of Lifestyle Medicine (ACLM) is the medical professional society for physicians and other professionals dedicated to clinical and worksite practice of lifestyle medicine as the foundation of a transformed and sustainable healthcare system.
Lifestyle medicine is a medical specialty that uses therapeutic lifestyle interventions as a primary modality to treat chronic conditions including, but not limited to, cardiovascular diseases, type 2 diabetes, and obesity.
Lifestyle medicine-certified clinicians are trained to apply evidence-based, whole-person, prescriptive lifestyle change to treat and, when used intensively, often reverse such conditions. Applying the six pillars of lifestyle medicine—a whole-food, plant-predominant eating pattern, physical activity, restorative sleep, stress management, avoidance of risky substances, and positive social connections—also provides effective prevention for these conditions.
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