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Oct 23, 2026
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IHH 2290 - Integrative Lifestyle Medicine
Credits: 3
Catalog Description
This course is designed to educate the future coach to be able to identify risk factors for chronic disease, commonly used biometric measures, and current lifestyle recommendations for optimizing health. General knowledge about healthy living is required for the coach/practitioner to facilitate the various areas that arise in a coaching conversation in relation to the client’s personal level of health. This includes any active alterations to health and wellness. The content covered is holistic and multidimensional and includes physical, intellectual, emotional, environmental, social, and spiritual well-being.
Prerequisite(s) (must have a grade of C or better): IHH 2104
Additional fee to student: No
Learner Outcomes
- Explain the concept of evidence-based lifestyle medicine.
- Understand and apply guiding principles for moving forward in personal wellness journeys as well as in general health promotion for lifestyle medicine.
- Identify and utilize in exercise plans the current HHS recommendations for healthy adult exercise.
- Identify the role that nutrition plays in lifestyle medicine.
- Apply key aspects of self-care including routine activity, healthy eating, stress management, sleep hygiene, connection, and positive emotions for a client.
- Demonstrate the connection between sleep, stress, and peace of mind in relation to health.
- Compare and contrast mindfulness, meditation, and relaxation.
- Explore and extrapolate the impact of substance use disorders on health and wellbeing.
- Explore the direction of future research in lifestyle medicine.
Major Areas of Course Content
- Lifestyle medicine: introduction, wellness and well-being concepts
- Guiding principles of health and wellness coaching
- Basic biometric markers
- Chronic disease and lifestyle management including but not limited to hypertension/prehypertension, blood pressure, diabetes/pre-diabetes, fasting glucose, hemoglobin A1c, weight management, BMI, waist circumference, cardiovascular disease (mainly heart disease and stroke), metabolic syndrome, arthritis and inflammation
- Active living: physical activity and functional fitness - weight management
- Culinary medicine: basic nutrition coaching for culinary medicine
- Positive psychology
- Substance use and addictions- alcohol use and tobacco cessation
- Sleep health
- Stress and emotional wellness
- Interpreting coaching research and mental health literacy
Credit for Prior Learning Options
No credit for prior learning option is available for this course.
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