Lifestyle Medicine & Chronic Disease Management 2026

Cover Story

A familiar pattern can emerge in chronic disease care. A patient returns with the same symptoms, the prescription is adjusted, and the dosage goes up. The immediate problem may settle, but the reason it keeps returning often remains untouched.

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Dr. Michelle Hauser

Dr. Michelle Hauser: Cooking as Clinical Strategy

Long before she wore a white coat, Dr. Michelle Hauser wore chef’s whites. She trained classically at Le Cordon Bleu ...
Dr. Fatima Cody Stanford

Dr. Fatima Cody Stanford: The Physician Who Made Obesity a Discipline, Not a Diagnosis

Obesity medicine did not exist, in any formal, fellowship-trained specialty framework, when Dr. Fatima Cody Stanford was deciding what kind ...
Dr. Mahima Gulati

Dr. Mahima Gulati: The Endocrinologist Who Put Lifestyle at the Center of the Clinic

There is a particular kind of stubbornness required to sit across from a patient with a hemoglobin A1c climbing year ...
Dr. Padmaja Patel

Dr. Padmaja Patel: The Architect Behind Lifestyle Medicine’s National Ascent

In a modest exam room in Midland, Texas, a young internist once sat across from patients whose charts told the ...