There is a natural alliance of lifestyle medicine with Terrain theory that is ready to be explored. Somehow or other, there is a strong historical alliance of the terrain-theory adherents with the Weston A. Price foundation, and their diet recommendations which are not in line with the Whole foods, Plant-based diet, which is central to Lifestyle Medicine. Eventually, this is actually not very interesting, for we will eventually prove beyond a shadow of a doubt, and in a very quantitative manner, what diets and nutritional concepts are more conducive to health. For now, it suffices to remember that high fat diets all cause CAD. I consider the details a side issue that will eventually be solved, because we now have direct testing methods. But the key concept is that Lifestyle Medicine is by nature a holistic approach to health and wellness, and is all about keeping your body in good working order.
A key source to go to is Dr. Marizelle Arce’s book, Germs are not our Enemy, which manages brilliant explanations and is yet extremely engaging and readable. It is an eye opener. Lifestyle Medicine is all about the terrain. The idea is that a healthy lifestyle is the first 80% of a healthy life. Dr. Arce also had a recent conference, which I would have loved to attend, but you can get the materials on the Terrainology website.
To my thinking the two go hand in hand. I just do not understand the lifestyle medicine doctors who advocated for the Covid “vaccines” (or any other), and I favor the ones who did not fall for this ploy. The terrain theory people represent the radical opposite of the reductionist viewpoint of germ theory, and that is naturally more compatible with the holistic views of Lifestyle medicine.
I suspect that over time Lifestyle Medicine will simply have to embrace terrain theory, for if nothing else a healthy lifestyle leads to a better immune system, and so a reduced vulnerability to so-called infectious disease. Therefore, if nothing else, the need for vaccination is less, if you prefer to believe in the concept. If you do not subscribe to the vaccination practice, it is even easier. For disease is usually more about the terrain. I always like Dr. Tom Cowan’s analogy of the fish tank. If fish get a disease, you can medicate them, which causes all kinds of problems, but usually the water is polluted, so the first thing to do is changing the water. That is what we do if we focus on the terrain, simply keeping the body healthy.