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The practical tools we use every day to bring lifestyle medicine into the exam room.
Five practicing clinicians. One hour. The specific language, frameworks, and patient conversations that actually work — shared directly from their daily practice.
Most providers believe in lifestyle medicine.
The challenge is not conviction — it's implementation.
How do you introduce it in a 15-minute visit?
What do you say when a patient pushes back?
How do you make it part of your daily practice without adding to an already full plate?
In this session, five physicians share exactly what works — from their own practices, with their own patients, every single day.
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Originally streamed Wednesday, June 3rd, 2026
One hour. Real clinical application. Watch on-demand, any time.
After this session you will have:
- The exact language that opens the lifestyle medicine conversation without losing the patient
- A practical framework for introducing food as medicine inside a standard visit — regardless of your specialty
- Specific tools our clinicians use daily to help patients connect their choices to the outcomes they care about
- An understanding of why patients resist behavior change — and the clinical approach that actually works
- Confidence to start the conversation Monday morning
Learn directly from providers doing this work every day.
Not theorists. Practitioners.
Every provider on this panel has integrated lifestyle medicine into real clinical practice. They are sharing what they have tested, refined, and seen work — with real patients, in real visits, in real healthcare settings.
Dr. Brian Asbill, MD
Cardiologist & Lifestyle Medicine Physician
The clinical data, the patient conversations, and the moment that changed how he practices cardiology.
"I don't have a pill or a procedure that would be as impactful as this."
Dr. Laurie Marbas, MD
Family & Lifestyle Medicine Physician
The specific language and framework she uses to introduce food as medicine inside a 15-minute primary care visit — including how to handle the most common patient objections.
"The conversation is a skill. Here is how to have it."
Dr. Sunny Sharma, MD
Lifestyle Medicine Physician
After his own diagnosis, his practice changed entirely. What that taught him about empathy, prevention, and why lifestyle medicine is foundational — not optional.
"Becoming the patient changed everything about how I care for mine."
Dr. Kristin Kaelber, MD, PhD
Triple Board Certified — Internal Medicine, Pediatrics & Lifestyle Medicine
Provider burnout, moral distress, and what becomes possible when clinicians experience lifestyle medicine personally — not just prescribe it.
"You cannot give patients what you have not given yourself."
Dr. Caldwell B. Esselstyn, Jr., MD
Preventive Cardiologist · Cleveland Clinic · Special Appearance
40 years of cardiovascular research. One message for every clinician in the room.
"Coronary artery disease need not exist — and if it does, it need not progress."
One hour. Five clinicians. Tools you can use the next morning.
Originally Aired
Wednesday, June 3rd, 2026
Duration
60 minutes
Format
On-demand video replay
Common questions
This session is a preview of Vital Signs 2026.
If one hour of this conversation changes how you approach a patient visit — imagine three days.
Vital Signs is a clinical conference for healthcare providers at Case Western Reserve University in Cleveland, October 18–20, 2026. Three days of practical implementation, peer exchange, whole-food plant-centered meals, and the specific tools providers need to bring lifestyle medicine into daily practice. CME credit pending.