Lifestyle medicine in Austin, TX

Living your best life starts with assessing your lifestyle. Lifestyle medicine, as the name suggests, focuses on your daily habits and routine to help you live your healthiest and best life. If you’re looking for lifestyle medicine in Austin, TX, you’ve come to the right place. Rooted Femme is a women’s health concierge practice that considers your entire health picture from your nutrition to your social life to help you master your health and show up fully in every aspect of your life.

What is lifestyle medicine?

Lifestyle medicine is an evidence-based approach to medicine that focuses on prevention and treating conditions and chronic diseases through healthy lifestyle habits. By treating and tending to the root cause of preventable diseases, Dr. Stubbs does much more than just managing symptoms.

What are the benefits of lifestyle medicine?

Did you know that 80% of chronic diseases are caused by poor health and unhealthy life choices? Lifestyle medicine gets down to the core of these preventable chronic diseases: lifestyle. The main benefit of lifestyle medicine is that you will live a healthier, happier life. However, you’ll also experience serious cost-savings when you consider the medical care you’re avoiding by the healthy choices you’re making today.

Throwing medication at diseases and only seeing a doctor when you’re ill simply isn’t the way to go about leading a healthier life. Leading a better, happier life starts with a healthy lifestyle and a preventative mindset.

What does lifestyle medicine treat or prevent?

Lifestyle-related chronic diseases make up a large portion of healthcare spending. This should not be the case. Treating these chronic diseases are placing massive strain on the healthcare system and contributing to a decline in your care. Lifestyle medicine aims to prevent lifestyle-related conditions by implementing sustainable lifestyle changes that focus on health and wellness in all aspects of your life.

The conditions lifestyle medicine can help prevent include but are not limited to:

Hypertension
Heart disease
Stroke
Type 2 Diabetes
Obesity
Osteoporosis
Some forms of cancer
And more!

Diabetes and heart disease especially can be hard to treat with medicine but more easily managed with lifestyle changes.

What does lifestyle medicine focus on?

The components of lifestyle medicine really encompass the entire picture of your wellbeing. At Rooted Femme, you and Dr. Stubbs will work specifically on making the best choices for you and your health goals by tending to:

Nutrition

The saying *you get out what you put in* is one of the foundations of lifestyle medicine. The foods that you eat turns into energy to power and empower you. Thus, lifestyle medicine focuses on changing your diet to a largely whole, plant-based diet that is high fiber and nutrients, including things like dark leafy greens, nuts, beans, seeds, high-protein, and low-fat meat like salmon. Why? Because the better you put in, the better you get out.

Stress Management

Constantly high levels of cortisol put your body under massive stress and can cause large fluctuations in heart rate and blood pressure as well as affect sleep patterns. This kind of fluctuation and/or constant level of stress has serious long-term ramifications on your wellness. Dr. Stubbs will help you recognize stressors and develop coping mechanisms or stress reduction techniques to help you lower the baseline levels of stress in your life and, ultimately, to help you *feel* better.

Sleep

Lack of sleep or quality sleep can put strain on your immune system as well as cause irritability, depression, short term memory issues, and a reduction in response times. This isn’t healthy, and, frankly, it can be dangerous. Dr. Stubbs will help you identify behaviors or conditions that impact sleep so that you can be the most well-rested version of you. The well-rested you is the well you.

Exercise

There are so many benefits of exercise. You feel better, feel more empowered, feel stronger--you are stronger! You should be exercising roughly 150 minutes 5 days a week. Dr. Stubbs is committed to working with you to develop a sustainable routine.

Relationships

The people in your life are, understandably, a huge part of your life and your wellness. Your home and social environment, then, is treated as a part of treatment with lifestyle medicine. Dr. Stubbs will work with you and offer counseling for your relationships.

Substance abuse

It’s no secret that the use of mind- or mood-altering substances can have a negative impact on your lifestyle. Be it caffeine, nicotine, alcohol, or illicit substances, Dr. Stubbs will work with you to manage substance use or abuse to optimize your wellness and have a truly healthy lifestyle, mind, body, and soul.

How and why does lifestyle medicine work?

Lifestyle medicine is an evidence-based approach to medicine that treats the cause of diseases, not just symptoms. Although Dr. Stubbs may prescribe medication to manage diseases, they will play a supplementary role in your treatment. Because this approach to women’s health considers the entire picture of your health and wellness, you will be able to be healthier and happier by developing sustainable lifestyle habits that support overall health and wellness.

The healthy habits that you develop allow your body to maximize its immune response and normal function. However, this means that lifestyle medicine is a commitment. Because lifestyle medicine is predicated upon developing healthy, sustainable habits, it requires you to personally invest in yourself and the willingness to make the necessary changes to step into the healthiest, happiest version of you.

Lifestyle medicine at Rooted Femme

Women’s health done differently is women’s health tailored specifically to you. At Rooted Femme, Dr. Stubbs is the best lifestyle medicine provider in Austin, TX for everyone who would benefit from a women’s health provider. Becoming your healthiest, happiest self is possible with the help of a specially qualified guide. From chronic disease management to evidence-based preventative recommendations, Dr. Stubbs will give you the care you need to be as healthy as possible and stay that way.

Register with Rooted Femme today to be on your way to the healthy, happy life you deserve! Call Dr. Stubbs at (512) 920-2414 to schedule your initial consultation.