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About ABLM
The rationale for creating a Lifestyle Medicine (LM) certification is:
- To educate interested physicians, health and allied health professionals about Lifestyle Medicine
- To set a common standard/language for Lifestyle Medicine protocols globally
- To differentiate between the evidence based Lifestyle Medicine professionals and the non-evidence based Lifestyle Medicine practitioners
- To set a global Lifestyle Medicine benchmark
- To attract health insurance funding for evidence based Lifestyle Medicine (by requiring that any fund receivers be formally certified)
- To “legitimize” Lifestyle Medicine and have the ABLM certification eventually fall under the umbrella of board certification in Preventive Medicine or another ABMS board