Lifestyle medicine is one of the latest fields of evidence-based medicine that offers comprehensive lifestyle changes to treat, prevent and slow the progression of chronic diseases by addressing the underlying causes of the malady.

Having an evidence-based and holistic approach to lifestyle medicine is a vital part of SYNERGOLAB’s mission. By revealing the harm to health of civilisation, we seek to play as large a role as possible in maintaining and restoring a healthy balance using complex, functional products and lifestyle tools, including nutrition, physical activity, stress management, social support and influencing environmental effects.

SYNERGOLAB is constantly seeking opportunities for dialogue and cooperation with stakeholders in the lifestyle sector in order to achieve the objectives of its mission. We are convinced that the way forward is the creation of harmony between the human body, mind and spirit driven by lifestyle.

Lifestyle-related diseases are the leading cause of death in Europe today. It has now been clearly established that most of the diseases posing the greatest problems in the civilised world are related to lifestyle. An unhealthy diet, a sedentary lifestyle, increased stress, air pollution and other unhealthy lifestyle factors play a prominent role in the development of many diseases and in the deterioration of health. These diseases are potentially preventable through good nutrition, a healthy environment and lifestyle.

LIFESTYLE-RELATED DISEASES

• For obesity, metabolic syndrome and proven fatty liver
• szív-érrendszeri betegségek, stroke, szívinfarktus, magasvérnyomás
• rosszindulatú daganatok (mint pl.: a tüdő és a vastagbélrák)
• neurodegeneratív betegségek
• depresszió
• köszvény
• arthrózis ( porckopás )

The key to health
in the modern world
lies in lifestyle.

The new lifestyle-based medicine is not in stark contrast to the Western-style medicine we are familiar with. It is essential to appreciate that the two areas work together closely as they share a common goal. The difference lies mainly in the approach and partly in the content. While Western medicine deals with the individual risks, the other discipline focuses on the underlying causes in lifestyle.

However, a more important difference between the two approaches is that in traditional medicine the patient is merely the passive subject of the intervention and the outcome is in the hands of the doctor. The doctor chooses the treatment from the arsenal of known therapies which are available to the patient that the physician believes is best suited to cure the disease and is only able to adapt it to the patient’s living conditions and lifestyle to a minimal extent.

By contrast, changing the way the patient lives is at the heart of lifestyle medicine, which can only be achieved with the active participation of the patient. Actively involving the patient is indispensable to changing bad habits, which is essential to restoring and maintaining the patient’s health. The doctor usually works as part of a team, rather than alone, to ensure that the patient is physically, mentally and psychologically ready to make the lifestyle changes that will lead to recovery from the underlying disease and an improvement in the quality of life.