Reversing Diabetes: The Promise of Lifestyle Medicine With Dr. Meagan Grega
Biomedical Frontiers: Stories with Innovators in Healthcare · Dasha Tyshlek
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Show Notes
Type 2 diabetes affects over 37 million Americans — but what if our standard treatment paradigm is all wrong?
In this episode, Dr. Meagan Grega shares the science and strategy behind lifestyle medicine, a fast-growing movement that uses food, sleep, movement, stress reduction, and social connection to treat and even reverse chronic disease.
Dr. Grega is the co-author of the first-ever Clinical Practice Guideline on Lifestyle Interventions for Type 2 Diabetes and a lead author of ACLM’s Expert Consensus Statement on lifestyle medicine in primary care. She co-founded the Kellyn Foundation, where she helps families across Pennsylvania access fresh food, grow gardens, change lifestyle and improve their health together.
You’ll learn:
- How fat in your muscles causes insulin resistance — and how to reverse it
- What makes behavior change stick
- Why doctors don’t prescribe lifestyle medicine — and how that’s changing
- How community-based programs and school gardens are transforming lives
- New Clinical Guidelines and Expert Consensus on treating diabetes with lifestyle interventions
📚 Resources:
- Free CME course: https://lifestylemedicine.org/education-certification/course-catalog/
- Kellyn Foundation: https://www.kellyn.org/
- Dr. Grega’s TED Talk: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=efGa8QD8pU4
- ACLM Clinical Practice Guideline: https://journals.sagepub.com/toc/ajla/19/2_suppl
- ACLM Expert Consensus Statement: Lifestyle Medicine for Optimal Outcomes in Primary Care: https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/full/10.1177/15598276231202970
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Production Team:
Director & Host: Dasha Tyshlek, StratCraft www.strat-craft.com
Executive Producer: David Chen, Managing Director & Instructor of Engineering Design
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Produced on behalf of: Wallace H. Coulter Center for Translational Research at University of Virginia