Lifestyle as Medicine: Your Final Prescription for Longevity | Dr. Shayna Parekh

In this talk, Dr. Shayna Chandrakant Parekh (IISc) introduces lifestyle medicine as a formal medical specialty and its vital role in longevity. She highlights how diet, exercise, sleep, and other daily habits often outperform anti-aging drugs—providing real, lasting benefits with no side effects. Dr. Parekh explains the eight elements of lifestyle medicine: Nutrition, Exercise, Sleep, Toxic substance elimination, Stress resilience, Social connections, Purpose & meaning, and Environment. She connects these pillars to scientific studies—including the Harvard Study of Adult Development—that show how good relationships, purpose, and universal values like gratitude and kindness directly improve health and extend lifespan. With practical takeaways for clinicians, policymakers, researchers, entrepreneurs, and individuals, this talk emphasizes lifestyle as both prevention and treatment—a prescription for health that costs nothing, yet pays lifelong dividends. 🔔 Subscribe and stay tuned! More: Longevity India: https://www.longevity.iisc.ac.in/ LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/company/longevity-india-iisc/ Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/longevity_iisc/ Spotify: https://open.spotify.com/show/0NXTdG0fBIfmKIHV2vkxbV