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Doane University

Lifestyle Medicine Treatments of Chronic Disease – Part 1

Doane University via edX

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Overview

This course will soon be retired. Last day to enroll is November 17 at 2025 at 00:00 UTC.

Lifestyle Medicine is an increasingly crucial element to transforming disease care systems to healthcare systems. Current medical services are unable to restore health because they do not address root causes.

In this course, you will learn the deficiencies within traditional Western Medicine and more effective lifestyle based treatment protocols used to prevent and treat chronic diseases of lifestyle.

You will learn about lifestyle medicine based treatments for the following chronic diseases:

  • Hypertension
  • Hyperlipidemia
  • Angina/ Atherosclerosis
  • Type II Diabetes/ Obesity
  • Liver Disease
  • Kidney Disease
  • Alzheimer’s Disease
  • Breast Cancer

Taught by

Amanda McKinney

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