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Connectedness: The Updated and Expanded Pillar of Lifestyle Psychiatry and Lifestyle Medicine Open

Gia Merlo, Lilly Snellman, Steven G. Sugden · 2025

The field of Lifestyle Psychiatry aims to prevent, treat, and sometimes reverse chronic physical and mental health conditions through evidence-based interventions. The foundational pillars of this field are physical activity & exercise, nu…

The Power of Lifestyle Psychiatry: A New Approach to Mental Health Open

Gia Merlo, Steven G. Sugden · 2025

The field of psychiatry has evolved over the past 2500 years. Between dynamic psychotherapy and psychopharmacology, lifestyle psychiatry holds a different space. This approach capitalizes on the lifestyle medicine movement, as it promotes …

Using lifestyle interventions and the gut microbiota to improve PTSD symptoms Open

Steven G. Sugden, Gia Merlo · 2024

Posttraumatic stress disorder is part of a spectrum of psychological symptoms that are frequently linked with a single defining traumatic experience. Symptoms can vary over the lifespan in intensity based on additional life stressors, indi…

What do Climate Change, Nutrition, and the Environment Have to do With Mental Health? Open

Steven G. Sugden, Gia Merlo · 2024

Climate change is becoming the most significant global challenge and must be addressed on a global scale. At the time that this article is being written, the planetary heat in 2023 was the hottest on record. Similarly, the World Health Org…

Can lifestyle medicine improve global mental health? Open

Steven G. Sugden, Gia Merlo, Sam Manger · 2024

Rationale: The global impact of mental health, specifically depression, is expected to be a top concern by 2030. Despite the growing number of medications and interventions, access to resources for well-being, psychiatric medications, and …

Strengthening Neuroplasticity in Substance Use Recovery Through Lifestyle Intervention Open

Steven G. Sugden, Gia Merlo, Sam Manger · 2024

The incidence of substance use and behavioral addictions continues to increase throughout the world. The Global Burden of Disease Study shows a growing impact in disability-adjusted life years due to substance use. Substance use impacts fa…

Gut microbiota, nutrition, and mental health Open

Gia Merlo, Gabrielle Bachtel, Steven G. Sugden · 2024

The human brain remains one of the greatest challenges for modern medicine, yet it is one of the most integral and sometimes overlooked aspects of medicine. The human brain consists of roughly 100 billion neurons, 100 trillion neuronal con…

Primary Care at the Intersection of Lifestyle Interventions and Unhealthy Substance Use Open

Lindsay Nakaishi, Steven G. Sugden, Gia Merlo · 2022

Primary care physicians are well-positioned to integrate lifestyle interventions into the management of patients with unhealthy substance use, who may also have mental and physical chronic health comorbidities. However, the COVID-19 pandem…

Incorporating Mental Health Into Lifestyle Medicine Open

Liana Abascal, Alyssa Vela, Steven G. Sugden, Samuel Kohlenberg, April Hirschberg , et al. · 2022

The evidence-based interconnection between mental health with lifestyle medicine practice is discussed. The extent to which physical health, and mental and behavioral health overlap are significant, and their interaction is seen in many wa…

Low cost faecal sludge dewatering and carbonisation for production of fuel briquettes Open

Osbert Atwijukye, Robinah Kulabako, Charles B. Niwagaba, Steven G. Sugden · 2018

Globally, there is an increasing demand for energy to support development needs. The challenge of inadequate energy resources is more pronounced in developing countries/ regions like the Sub Saharan Africa. The quench for energy resources …

Development of low-cost decentralized faecal sludge treatment system for resource recovery Open

Osbert Atwijukye, Cate Nimanya, Steven G. Sugden, Strinivasan Soondrasan Pillay, G. Otaka , et al. · 2016

Uganda has a largest population using onsite sanitation facilities. In Kampala Capital city over 90% use onsite sanitation. The situation is even worse where some towns have no sewer line and no faecal sludge disposal sites. The Ministry o…

Are sanitation interventions a threat to drinking water supplies in rural India? An application of tryptophan-like fluorescence Open

James Sorensen, A. Sadhu, Gopalakrishnan Sampath, Steven G. Sugden, Srimanti Dutta Gupta , et al. · 2015

Open defecation is practised by over 600 million people in India and there is a strong political drive to eliminate this through the provision of on-site sanitation in rural areas. However, there are concerns that the subsequent leaching o…

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