British Society of Lifestyle Medicine

BSLM is a community of healthcare professionals committed to a new approach to healthcare based on the emerging discipline of lifestyle medicine. Our members include primary and secondary care clinicians, allied and public health professionals, scientists, educators and researchers. We're united by a shared commitment to lifestyle medicine, as an effective, evidence-informed approach to preventing, managing and treating lifestyle-related chronic conditions. We want to reframe healthcare to focus on the lifestyle factors which are the root cause of most chronic illnesses. We support positive behaviour change and improved public health education. The six key pillars of lifestyle medicine are: physical activity and exercise, diet and nutrition, sleep, stress reduction and mental health, harmful substance reduction or cessation, eg tobacco, drugs and alcohol, and healthy relationships. We also believe change is needed at the societal level - to address the 'upstream' causes of chronic, lifestyle-related disease such as deprivation, health inequality, social isolation and a lack of hope. We are an independent, charitable organisation with no religious or political affiliations. All our work is driven by science and informed by evidence.