Lifestyle Medicine Summit 2026 – Free Event to Help You Live Healthier, Happier, and Longer

What You’ll Learn During Lifestyle Medicine Summit 2026

The summit begins with practical questions: how can lifestyle conversations become more useful, and how can small interventions fit into everyday life or a short clinical visit? Sessions address self-care, micro-habit Lifestyle Prescriptions®, Health Coaching, and the six evidence-based Lifestyle Medicine pillars.

You will also hear from speakers working across nutrition, brain health, diabetes, sleep, stress, burnout, chronic pain, infertility, mental wellness, public health, healthcare systems, and behavior change. The variety of perspectives lets you compare approaches while keeping the educational context clear.

For healthcare professionals, the program includes clinical integration, professional education, and discussions about the future of care. For the general audience, the focus includes practical self-care concepts and questions you can bring into conversations with your own healthcare team.

• How micro-habit Lifestyle Prescriptions® can be framed as brief interventions
• How the six evidence-based Lifestyle Medicine pillars fit into a broader care model
• Ways Health Coaching can support behavior change and clinical collaboration
• Perspectives on nutrition, diabetes, food addiction, and food-system change
• Approaches to brain health, Alzheimer’s and dementia education
• How sleep deprivation, stress, burnout, and self-care appear in Lifestyle Medicine
• How psychosocial stress is discussed in relation to infertility and chronic health concerns
• What speakers are seeing in healthcare systems, public health, and value-based care
• How sustained lifestyle improvement and habit formation can be supported over time
• How professional education pathways connect with Lifestyle Medicine competencies

Lifestyle Medicine Summit Schedule and Session Themes

The summit’s Medical Pioneer Talks run October 20 through October 25, beginning daily at 10:00 a.m. Eastern, or 7:00 a.m. Pacific. The program combines live training with a large collection of presentations, so you can plan around the sessions that matter most to you.

Tuesday, October 20: Integration Live Training

The Integration Live Training begins at 11:00 a.m. Eastern, or 8:00 a.m. Pacific. The training focuses on three pragmatic strategies for practicing evidence-based Lifestyle Medicine, with material for the general audience and healthcare professionals.

• Johannes R. Fisslinger: the ONE question to ask your doctor and the 7 Lifestyle Medicine Superpowers for self-care
• Micro-habit Lifestyle Prescriptions® Coaching for brief patient encounters
• Mohammed Yamani, MD: Lifestyle Medicine and Health Coaching in value-based and fee-for-service clinical settings, with Q&A

Tuesday, October 20: Best of Lifestyle Medicine Medical Pioneers Collection

The 10th anniversary collection begins at 1:00 p.m. Eastern, or 10:00 a.m. Pacific, and continues as part of the October 20-25 summit program. Presentations span clinical foundations, nutrition, brain health, self-care, behavior change, public health, technology, and specialty topics.

Clinical Foundations and Practice

• A Unifying Theory of Lifestyle Medicine – Dean Ornish, MD
• Evidence-based Lifestyle Medicine: Past, Present, and Future – James M. Rippe, MD
• The Lifestyle Medicine Care Model: The Philippine Initiative – Mechelle A. Palma, MD, DipIBLM, FACLM
• #1 Medical Error: Failure to Diagnose – Mohammed Yamani, MD

Nutrition, Brain Health and Behavior Change

• Building Healthy Brains – Dr. Ayesha and Dean Sherzai
• Nutrition Reformation and Renaissance (The China Study) – T. Colin Campbell, PhD
• Alzheimer’s, Dementia and Brain Health – David Perlmutter
• Reversing Diabetes, and Other Nutritional Surprises – Neal Barnard, MD
• Making Lifestyle Improvement Last: What We Know and How to Do It – Michael Arloski, PhD, PCC

Stress, Mental Wellness and Health Coaching

• Reducing burnout. Prioritizing self-care – Beth Frates, MD
• Psychosocial Stressors and Infertility – Aisling Killoran, PhD
• The Global Burden of Sleep Deprivation: Health Coaching & Lifestyle Medicine Solutions – Moyosore Makinde, MBBS
• Health Coaching: The Missing Link in Mental Health Care – Sandra Scheinbaum, PhD

How to Get the Most From Lifestyle Medicine Summit 2026

With more than 25 speakers and a mix of public and professional sessions, the summit is easier to use when you decide in advance what you want to learn. Start by choosing one or two themes, then add other presentations only when they clearly support those priorities.

If you are a healthcare professional, separate the free educational sessions you want to watch from any premium CE/CPD/CME requirements you plan to complete. If you are attending for personal education, keep your notes focused on questions to explore rather than trying to turn every presentation into a new health routine.

Choose a Core Track

• Self-care and the 7 Lifestyle Medicine Superpowers
• Nutrition, diabetes, food systems and metabolic health
• Brain health, dementia and healthy-brain strategies
• Stress, burnout, sleep and mental wellness
• Clinical integration, brief interventions and Health Coaching
• Healthcare systems, public health and emerging technology

Keep Notes Practical

For each session, capture one useful idea, one question, and one next step that fits your role. For personal medical decisions, use those notes as a starting point for a conversation with a qualified healthcare professional rather than as a substitute for individualized care.

Protect Your Access Details

Use an email address you check regularly, keep the registration message easy to find, and return to the summit emails for viewing links and schedule information.