"Integrating Lifestyle Medicine in Patient Care" with Kristi Artz, MD

from The Whole Health Cure · host Kristi Artz, Sharon H. Bergquist, Krystyna Rastorguieva

Kristi Artz, MD, diplABLM, is a practicing board certified Emergency Medicine specialist since 2006, ABLM certified diplomat 2018 and Lifestyle Medicine specialist 2021. She serves as Medical Director of Lifestyle Medicine at Spectrum Health in Grand Rapids, MI. She is an Advisory Board member for Health Meets Food and is a Certified Culinary Medicine specialist since 2017. She is the physician lead for Spectrum Health’s Culinary Medicine program. Dr. Artz led the strategic development and implementation of a comprehensive lifestyle medicine department at Spectrum Health with a focus on virtual care delivery, value-based cost reduction modeling and medical education. Dr. Artz believes in the value of educating current and future physicians in the practice of Lifestyle Medicine and truly meeting patients where they are at in order to encourage and facilitate positive health behavior change in their lives.In this conversation we discuss the role and the place of lifestyle medicine in patient care. Dr. Artz shares her experience with integrating innovative models and approaches in her practice at Spectrum Health. We talk about lifestyle-focused care, how it can help and what it consists of, touching on health pillars such as nutrition, movement, sleep, stress resiliency. Dr. Artz describes some of the programs she leads, including culinary medicine program, group visits, classes, supervised fasting and fasting mimicking diet, and talks about her patients' experience and success they have seen. Tune in to learn more! For more information please visit: - Lifestyle Medicine practice at Spectrum Health: Lifestyle Medicine Practice | Spectrum Health - Online registration page for Lifestyle and culinary medicine consumer programs: Spectrum Health System (onlineregistrationcenter.com) - Connect with Dr. Artz on social media. This podcast is brought to you by Emory Lifestyle Medicine & Wellness. To learn more about our work, please visithttps://bit.ly/EmoryLM

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Kristi Artz, MD, diplABLM is the Medical Director of Lifestyle Medicine at Spectrum Health in Grand Rapids, MI. She is an Advisory Board member for Health Meets Food and is a Certified Culinary Medicine specialist since 2017. In this conversation we discuss the role and the place of lifestyle medicine in patient care. Dr. Artz shares her experience with integrating innovative models and approaches in her practice at Spectrum Health. We talk about lifestyle-focused care, how it can help and what it consists of, touching on health pillars such as nutrition, movement, sleep, stress resiliency. Dr. Artz describes some of the programs she leads, including culinary medicine program, group visits, classes, supervised fasting and fasting mimicking diet, and talks about her patients' experience and success they have seen. We do a deeper dive in the benefits of fasting, who can benefit from it and where to start. Tune in to learn more! This podcast is brought to you by Emory Lifestyle Medicine & Wellness. To learn more about our work, please visit https://bit.ly/EmoryLM

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