Michael Sagner, MD is a medical doctor specializing in sports medicine and preventive medicine. He is also a certified fitness trainer and certified sports nutritionist. He is founding head of several international projects focused on clinical chronic disease and risk factor treatment and prevention. Michael Sagner is actively involved in scientific research in the field of preventive medicine and has developed the ‘cell to community’ approach, which aims at connecting basic research, clinical medicine and public health to address chronic diseases. His research interests are the underlying mechanisms and causes of chronic diseases and interdisciplinary approaches in clinical treatment. His research considers the complex interactions within the human body in light of a patient's lifestyle, genomics and environment.

• Section I. Background and Basis for the Role of Lifestyle Factors in Chronic Disease Prevention and Treatment 1. Introduction to the Role of Lifestyle Factors in Medicine 2. The Epidemiology of Chronic Disease 3. A “Germ Theory” Equivalent Approach for Lifestyle Medicine 4. A Structure for Lifestyle Medicine 5. Everything You Wanted to Know About Motivation (But Weren’t Intrinsically Motivated Enough to Ask) 6. Self-Management in Lifestyle Medicine 7. Overweight and Obesity Section II. Lifestyle and Environmental Determinants of Chronic Disease 8. Nutrition for the Nondietitian 9. Fluids, Fitness, and Fatness 10. Behavioral Aspects of Nutrition 11. Physical Activity 13. Stress 14. Dealing With Worry and Anxiety 15. Depression 16. Happiness and Mental Health 17. Technology-Induced Pathology 18. To Sleep, Perchance to … Get Everything Else Right 19. Health and the Environment 20. Meaninglessness, Alienation, and Loss of Culture/Identity (MAL) as Determinants of Chronic Disease 21. Preventing and Managing Injury at the Clinical Level 22. Rethinking Chronic Pain in a Lifestyle Medicine Context 23. Understanding Addictions 24. Medicines 25. Relationships, Social Inequity, and Distal Factors in Lifestyle Medicine Section III. Other Issues for Lifestyle Medicine 26. Sex and Lifestyle 27. Lifestyle and Oral Health 28. Lifestyle and Environmental Influences on Skin 29. Lifestyle-Related Aspects of Gastrointestinal Health Section IV. The Future of Health 30. The Next Chapter

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