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Lifestyle Medicine is Climate Medicine

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Activation!

Hi LM colleagues! Tamiko, Ali, and Mani--you all have been doing such great work on manifesting LM as a critical part of health for individuals, workers, and populations! I would love to have a group meeting to discuss how we can amplify this message to some of the professional groups we are beginning to engage. Ali-I know you are working on a white paper--do you have pub date yet?

I recently attended a climate focused meeting in the investment sector--and when I mentioned I was a LM pracitioner everyone said "what's that." When I explained it there was huge interest. There are sig growth opportunities for LM beyond direct care. Would love to get this out!

Perhaps we can have a meeting to brain storm about next steps.

Send me an email if you are interested!


Best,

Emily

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Ali Saad
Ali Saad
Apr 22

Thank you all! I'm not lead author on the climate/lifestyle white paper so the timing is out of my hands. But I'm guessing it'll be out sometime next month and certainly before the ACLM annual meeting this Nov. Happy to meet with you after the white paper is released or before then if it would be helpful and I can report back to ACLM's global sustainability committee on thoughts for future collaboration of dissemination of the climate/lifestyle medicine message. In the mean time, my colleagues and I published a white paper on climate and stroke that just came out:


Saad A, Khan M, Estol CJ, Wasay M, Kameda T, Ullberg T, Bejot Y, Ozturk S, Collantes MEV, Zavaleta-Cortijo C, Kang J, Macmillan A, Kingston DG, Stephenson J, Reis J, Ranta A. Stroke and Climate Change: A World Stroke Organization Scientific Statement. Int J Stroke. 2026 Mar 15:17474930261436535. doi: 10.1177/17474930261436535. Epub ahead of print. PMID: 41833557.


This just out....

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position statement as a starting point

Thanks for adding me! We'll have a white paper on lifestyle medicine and climate change coming out of the American Colllege of Lifesyle Medicine soon which I hope we can use as a launchpad. Happy to brainstorm over with this group over the coming weeks.


Ali Saad, MD, FAAN, DipABLM

Affiliate Faculty

Climate & Health Program


University of Colorado

Denver, CO

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Excellent!! I am looking forward to reading it! Great to connect! Will there be material to present on...if so would love to schedule you for a Grand Rounds!!!


How can we deploy LM as a climate lever?

I would like to start a conversation around how we might better capture the co-benefits of LM as a climate lever. Can we quantify it? Can we count it as a sustainability metric? Can it be monetized for carbon markets? What might first steps to build the case through research look like?

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Welcome to our group Lifestyle Medicine is Climate Medicine! A space for us to connect and share with each other. Start by posting your thoughts, sharing media, or creating a poll.

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Thank you James!

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