The Personalized Lifestyle Medicine Institute: The Professional Meeting Ground for Ideas, Collaboration, and Breakthroughs in Health
Our Mission: Transforming health care through personalized lifestyle medicine Our Vision: To be the global leaders in the promotion of personalized lifestyle medicine Our Website: www.plminstitute.org
“While others debate arcane legal points and the philosophical slippery slopes pertaining to the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act, Topol instead writes about how ‘a propitious convergence of a maturing Internet, everincreasing bandwidth, nearubiquitous connectivity, and remarkable miniature pocket computers in the form of mobile phones’ are taking physicians and patients where no one has gone before.” -Modern Healthcare 3
Are we looking at a global shift in health towards personalization utilizing developments in science and technology?
Why personalization and why now? • Personalized medicine has its roots in ancient medical systems. • The sequencing of the genome together with cutting-edge technology advances has resulted in the application of personalized medicine in the area of drug metabolism. • Personalized lifestyle medicine incorporates an individualized approach to food, supplements, activity, environment, and stress modulation. • Tailoring therapies to a patient should result in the best outcome for the patient.
What is “Personalized Lifestyle Medicine”? “Personalized lifestyle medicine is a newly developed term that refers to an approach to medicine in which an individual’s health metrics from point-of-care diagnostics are used to develop lifestyle medicine-oriented therapeutic strategies for improving individual health outcomes in managing chronic disease.” Personalized lifestyle medicine: relevance for nutrition and lifestyle recommendations. Minich DM, Bland JS. ScientificWorldJournal. 2013 Jun 26;2013:129841. doi: 10.1155/2013/129841. Print 2013.
SYMPTOMS & DIAGNOSIS
The Trajectory of Disease and Role for Personalized Lifestyle Medicine • • • • • • •
Preclinical Syndromes Low or High Normal Blood Values Low or High Penetrance of Genetic Variants Epigenetic Modifications
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Diagnosis
INTERVENTION
Pre-Pathological Changes
Disease Diagnosis Abnormal Blood Values Well-defined Symptoms
Disease Progression Symptom Worsening
Progression
Aggressive Pharmacological Intervention
PERSONALIZED LIFESTYLE MEDICINE Personalized lifestyle medicine: relevance for nutrition and lifestyle recommendations. Minich DM, Bland JS. ScientificWorldJournal. 2013 Jun 26;2013:129841. doi: 10.1155/2013/129841. Print 2013.
What is Personalized Lifestyle Medicine? DIET
ACTIVITY
PERSONALIZED LIFESTYLE MEDICINE
STRESS
ENVIRONMENT
Differentiation Among Medical Systems
Personalized lifestyle medicine: relevance for nutrition and lifestyle recommendations. Minich DM, Bland JS. ScientificWorldJournal. 2013 Jun 26;2013:129841. doi: 10.1155/2013/129841. Print 2013.
PLMI’s First Thought Leaders Consortium 2013 “At the end of the weekend I was inspired and hopeful. Hearing the stories of such impactful leaders was a very positive experience and I realized that together we are quite a force for real health care reform.”
Thought Leaders Consortium 2014: A Personalized Lifestyle Medicine Approach to Oncology
Cancer in the Future “Ten years from now, looking at disease at the molecular level will be the way medicine is practiced. This is how oncology is viewed now. Oncologists currently look to segment different types of cancer. For example, breast cancer isn’t one disease; it’s a multitude of diseases.” - Gerry McDougall, partner of health sciences and personalized medicine practice at PwC
Let’s move cancer into collaboration and cure… “Make no mistake, this is one of the most significant human challenges in our history, but I think we are sitting in an extraordinary moment because we are finally beginning to understand what causes cancer at a cellular, or molecular, or genetic level in a way we just did not know 10 years ago or even 5 years ago. Every year has brought a kind of clarity to our understanding of what goes wrong in a cancer cell. The big question is, can we convert that into treatment, prevention, or cure?” —Siddhartha Mukherjee, MD Author, The Emperor of All Maladies: A Biography of Cancer
The Objectives of this Pivotal Meeting To bring together a broad spectrum of thought leaders to discuss and identify effective personalized lifestyle medicine approaches to cancer from the aspects of pharmaceuticals, nutrition, nutraceuticals, diagnostics, technology, environmental factors, stress modulation, and physical activity To develop and accelerate collaborations between complementary industries as it relates to cancer
The Details When: April 4-6, 2014 Where: Seattle, WA How to Sign Up: E-mail PLMI at info@plminstitute.org
Want to sponsor this breakthrough 2-day meeting? E-mail our Executive Director, Thomas Curran, at tcurran@plminstitute.org
Save the Date! Personalized Lifestyle Medicine Institute’s 2nd Annual Thought Leaders Consortium
Personalized Lifestyle Medicine Approaches to Oncology April 4-6, 2014 Seattle, WA E-mail: info@plminstitute.org