For Physicians and Healthcare Professionals
Lifestyle Medicine WORKS™ Clinician Certification (LMWC)
Master and practice evidence-based Lifestyle Medicine while earning your certification
4-Month | 12 Modules | Self-Study with Live Classes
Personalized and improved study with AI Assistants
Why join the Global Lifestyle Medicine Revolution
Our Lifestyle Medicine Certification Training has been designed for physicians and healthcare providers to gain evidence-based skills in preventing, treating, and reversing chronic diseases. Improve patient outcomes, reduce healthcare costs, and enhance professional fulfillment. This training empowers you with practical tools to lead the shift toward sustainable, whole-person healthcare.
Created by and for Clinicians
Developed by board-certified Lifestyle Medicine physicians and clinicians and the Lifestyle Prescriptions® University faculty ensuring scientific rigor and practical relevance.



Radu Baila MD, DipIBLM – LPU Advisory Board, Scientific Advisor, Course Developer

Aisling Killoran PhD, LPHCS (Ireland), LPU Faculty, Lifestyle Medicine Root-Cause Infertility Specialist

Mohamad I. Yamani MD(USA) - LPU Chief Medical Officer, Lifestyle Medicine Physician, Ornish Provider

Sharon Ellert, PhD, NBH-HWC, LPHCS (Canada), LPU Faculty, Root-Cause Health Coach Specialist

Johannes R. Fisslinger M.A.
(USA, Germany), LPU Founder, Developer

Jane Oelke ND, PhD (USA) – IRB Committee

Nick Deal PhD (UK) – Academic Supervisor (English)

Catherine Alter Ph.D. (USA) – Chair Internal Review Board & Academic Supervisor
What's Included
This IBLM-aligned Lifestyle Medicine Certification Training teaches clinicians evidence-based Lifestyle Medicine Core Competencies and skills, preparing them to pass the LMWC Certification.
* LMWC has been submitted for International / American Board of Lifestyle Medicine (IBLM and ABLM) exam eligibility to earn the coveted DipIBLM credential, but has not been approved yet.
The Lifestyle Medicine WORKS™ Clinician Certification (LMWC) Training includes:
4-Month Evidence-Based Certification Training
24 LMWC Self-Study Recordings
Lifestyle Medicine Core Competencies
12 LMWC Live Practicum Classes (weekly)
150 LMWC Exam Practice Questions
Lifestyle Prescriptions® University Faculty Support
Lifestyle Medicine AI Assistants
Study while you practice and earn two internationally valued certifications:
Lifestyle Medicine WORKS™ Clinician Certification (LMWC)
International Board of Lifestyle Medicine Certification (DiplBLM)*
* IBLM approval is under review and expected to be finalized by Spring 2026.
LPHC graduation will earn you 50 ECTS credits toward LPU's Lifestyle Medicine Master's and Ph.D. Degree Program?
Earn CE/CPD credits recognized globally
AI Assistants personalize and support your learning
Peer-reviewed, IBLM-aligned curriculum
Backed by extensive scientific literature
100% online and flexible — study while working
Practical tools for patient care and clinical application
Boosts professional credibility and career opportunities
Join a global network of like-minded health professionals
Join our LMWC Certification Training
Practice and master evidence-based Lifestyle Medicine while earning your certification.

Master and practice evidence-based Lifestyle Medicine while earning your certification. 👩🏼🎓 Personalized study with AI Assistants!
The 4-Month Certification Training covers:
Lifestyle Medicine Core Competencies (IBLM aligned*)
24 LMWC Protocols (Self-Study Lessons - Recordings)
12 LMWC Live Practicum Classes
250 LMWC Exam Practice Questions
Lifestyle Prescriptions® University Faculty Support
INCLUDES:
Lifestyle Medicine WORKS™ PRO AI Assistants (Educational)
Clinical Lifestyle Medicine AI™ (Patient-centric productivity tools)
Register for Lifestyle Medicine WORKS™ Clinician Certification Training (LMWC) with Instant Course & AI Assistant Access
$196 for 12 months (Total tuition $2,352)
Curious about how get your LMWC certification as part of your Master's and Ph.D. Degree in Lifestyle Medicine?
Becoming a certified Lifestyle Medicine Clinician enhances your ability to prevent, treat, and reverse chronic diseases using evidence-based lifestyle interventions.
Certification boosts credibility, supports career growth, aligns with patient-centered care, and empowers you to lead change in healthcare by addressing root causes rather than just managing symptoms.
You will learn how to apply evidence-based lifestyle interventions — nutrition, physical activity, sleep, stress management, substance avoidance, and social connection — to prevent, treat, and reverse chronic diseases.
You'll gain skills in patient counseling, behavior change techniques, clinical protocols, and how to integrate Lifestyle Medicine into diverse healthcare settings for lasting impact.

Learn the Pillars of Lifestyle Medicine and how to integrate comprehensive lifestyle modification protocols including nutrition, fitness, sleep, stress management and social support.

Our measurable Micro-Habit Improvement Protocols allow you easily to improve patient compliance and monitor lifestyle habit improvement in a variety of clinical settings.
Learn while you practice evidence-based Lifestyle Medicine with your patients. Lessons include:
HOW TO USE THE CLINICAL LIFESTYLE MEDICINE AI™ PLATFORM
Chronic Disease Epidemic Solutions
Why Lifestyle Medicine
Challenges integrating Lifestyle Medicine
The 6 Lifestyle Medicine Protocols
Measure. Measure. Measure (SUD-SUT)
The Coaching Mindset
Active Listening & Being Present
Asking Conscious Questions
The Why, What, How of Micro-Habits
Write micro-habit Lifestyle Prescriptions®
Lifestyle Medicine reimbursement options
1.1. Lifestyle Medicine: Origins, Evolution & Relevance in the Age of Chronic Disease
1.2. Revolutionizing Healthcare – The Lifestyle Medicine Solution for Obesity and Diabetes
2.1 Why Don’t People Eat Healthier?
2.2. A New Holistic Approach To Change Bad Diet Habits
3.1. Good Fat, Bad Fat: Understanding Types of Fat and Their Impact on Health
3.2. Cholesterol: Friend or Foe
4.1. Active Living: Strategies for Integrating Movement into Your Daily Routine
4.2. Exercise is Medicine: A Healthcare Provider’s Action Guide
5.1. The Science of Sleep and Why It Matters
5.2. Building Your Sleep Toolkit
6.1. Breaking the Cycle: Lifestyle Tips for Dealing with Fear and Anxiety
6.2. When Does Stress Become Dangerous?
7.1. Evidence-Based Strategies to Reduce the Consumption of Risky Substances
7.2. Personalized Approaches to Tobacco-Related Health Challenges
8.1. The Biology of Belonging – How Connection Shapes Your Health
8.2. Building Your Social Fitness: A Practical Guide to Deeper Connections
9.1. The Habit Toolkit: Designing Your Environment for Success
9.2. The Psychology of Lifestyle Changes
10.1. Lifestyle Interventions for Type 2 Diabetes Care
10.2. Your Daily Lifestyle Reversal Plan – Building a Sustainable Routine
11.1. Beyond the Gut: How Your Mirocbiome Shapes your Brain, Mood, and Immunity
11.2. The Microbiome Reset – A Practical Plan for Gut Health
12.1. From Blame to Systems Thinking in Healthcare
12.2. Preventing Miscommunication in Healthcare: A Matter of Life and Death
This training segment teaches you the core competencies as outlined by the American College of Lifestyle Medicine and the International Board of Lifestyle Medicine*.
The AI-powered course adjusts to your current knowledge base and allows you to dive deeper if needed. The course is completed by passing 5 questions per topic.
Intro to Lifestyle Medicine
Fundamentals of Behavior Change
LM Key Clinical Processes
The Role of the Practitioner’s Personal Health and Community Advocacy
Nutrition Science, Assessment, Prescription
Physical Activity Science and Prescription
Emotional Well-being, Assessments and Interventions
Sleep Health Science and Interventions
Managing Tobacco Cessation & other Toxic Exposures
The Role of Connectedness and Positive Psychology
1. Foundations of Lifestyle Medicine
2. The Psychology of Lifestyle Changes
3. Nutrition – Eating for Life – the power of plants
4. Move More Live More Physical Activity in the Modern World
5. Sleep Smart optimizing Rest for Energy, Mood, Metabolism
6. Stress & Positive Psychology: Finding Balance in a Demanding World
7. Unlock Your Potential: Avoiding Risky Substances
8. Wired for Connection: The Science and Art of Human Bonds
9. Behavior Change Fundamentals: Your Roadmap to Healthier Habits
10. You’re in Charge – Reversing Type 2 Diabetes with Lifestyle
11. Your Guts Hidden: Universe-Exploring the Microbiome’s Impact on Health
12. Filling the Gaps – Essential LM Competencies
Why trust a generic chatbot that hallucinates, compromises your health data, and lacks security — when you can use curated, HIPAA-compliant AI Assistants fine-tuned for evidence-based Lifestyle Medicine?
Your LMWORKS™ PRO AI 6 Conversational AI Assistants are:
Lifestyle Medicine Protocols
Instant nutrition, fitness, stress management, sleep, social support, removal of toxins, and mindset protocols answers.
Remedies & Biomarkers
Explore vitamins, minerals, supplements, remedies for specific chronic symptoms using Lifestyle-Functional-Natural Medicine research.
Write & Share Lifestyle Prescriptions®
Prescribe micro-habit Lifestyle Medicine for patients; share, email or print Lifestyle Prescriptions® for patients.
Lifestyle Medicine Science & Stats
Quickly search for relevant Lifestyle Medicine research papers & stats with a summary, key findings, and the research link for further review.
BioPsychoSocial Stressors
Explore which psychosocial stressors, emotions, thoughts affect specific organ tissues (with stress and regeneration phase symptoms).
SELF-CARE: Dr. HealthiWealthi™ AI
Take care of yourself, walk the talk. Practice the 7 lifestyle superpowers, reduce burnout, improve your vitality guided by Dr. HealthiWealthi™ AI
This training course includes the patient-centric Clinical Lifestyle Medicine AI™ tools include:
Empower Patients with unlimited knowledge
Be ready to answer root-cause and lifestyle medicine-related questions with evidence-based answers (with citations).
Make smarter decisions, faster
CLM AI remembers patient history, biomarkers, habits and conversations for improved analysis and guidance.
Lab Results Upload, Tracking & Analysis
Manually add/upload patient reports & notes; sync LMW/CLM AI with your EMR system; and allow AI to analyze data.
Sync & Analyze Patient Data (EMR)
Manually add new patients, sync with your EMR, for effective patient history, biomarker, and lifestyle habit integration.
One-Click Micro Action Insights
View patient history, LM / Rx benefits & side effects, micro-habit health plans, lab result comparisons (no prompt needed)
Write multi-habit Lifestyle Prescriptions®
Prescribe 3-7 micro-habit Lifestyle Medicine for patients; share, email or print Lifestyle Prescriptions® reports.
Comprehensive 4-week health plans
Develop patient-specific, personalized health plans based on symptoms, biomarkers, and lifestyle habits (from 4-12 weeks).
Learn more at https://www.lifestylemedicine.ai
1) Earn your Lifestyle Medicine WORKS™ Certification (LMWC) after completing the LMWC exam.
2) LMWC graduates may sit for the DipIBLM exam** and become board-certified (optional)*
3) Select the Ph.D. Fast-Track to earn your LMWC (6 months), Master's (1-2 years), and Ph.D. degree (2-3 years)*
IMPORTANT: LMWC has applied but has not been approved by ABLM/IBLM yet (expected Spring 2026).
Here's the great NEWS: Lifestyle Prescriptions® University provides you with a simple way to fulfill IBLM requirements:
Pass the 30 hours CME-approved Lifestyle Medicine WORKS™ Certification Training
Attend the 20-hour CME-approved Lifestyle Medicine Summit
LPU's Lifestyle Medicine WORKS™ Certification Training for Clinicians has been developed to align with the International / American Board of Lifestyle Medicine.
After you've passed and graduated from the Lifestyle Medicine WORKS™ Certification Training, you may sit for the IBLM/ACLM exam (to receive the DipIBLM or DipABLM credential).
The IBLM requirements are:
For Physicians - DipIBLM (International Board of Lifestyle Medicine)
Are a licensed doctor (MD, MBBS, or equivalent)
Have 2+ years of board certification (U.S. doctors only)
What you need to do:
30 hours of online Lifestyle Medicine education (LMWC Training)
20 hours of in-person or virtual LM events (Lifestyle Medicine Summit)
Write a patient case study
Pass the exam (150 multiple-choice questions in 4 hours)
For Non-Physician Health Professionals - DipACLM (ACLM Certified Lifestyle Medicine Professional)
Have a master’s or doctorate in a health-related field (e.g., nursing, dietetics, psychology)
What you need to do:
30 hours of online Lifestyle Medicine education (LMWC Training)
20 hours of in-person or virtual LM events (Lifestyle Medicine Summit)
Pass the exam (120 multiple-choice questions in 4 hours)
No case study required.
Why study with LPU?
Quick history: Teaching health coaching since 2010 | Lifestyle Prescriptions® introduced 2013 | Accredited Lifestyle Medicine Degree programs launched worldwide 2023

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Students are currently enrolled in Lifestyle Prescriptions® University
57
Countries From Which Students Are Pursuing Their Online Education
91
% Lifestyle Prescriptions® University Students Satisfied
83
% Students Likely Or Very Likely To Recommend Lifestyle Prescriptions® University
👩🏼🎓Curious about our degree programs (which include the LMWC Certification? Schedule a discovery call.
* Degree graduation time depends on your current academic skills, the amount of time you can allocate to your studies, research, and capstone/dissertation writing.
LPU Graduates Feedback
Listen to our graduates and how they built their Lifestyle Medicine careers.

"I feel honored to be the first Pakistani Lifestyle Prescriptions® University Coaching graduate. Indeed, it was an outstanding learning journey and equipped me with skills to practice as a Lifestyle Medicine Physician."
Fatima Ehsan MD, 2023 Lifestyle Medicine Root-Cause Coaching Graduate

"It has been a great journey so far with exceptional results. This work amazes me at what health outcomes and transformations it can achieve in people's lives."
Simon Klein LPHC, Certified Lifestyle Prescriptions® University Health Coach

"Amazing accredited university. Since I started my PhD program, I have learned valuable protocols & knowledge and implemented them with my patients, which has rewarded me with a senior position. Thank you to all professionals at this university."
Mrs. Almansowri, Lifestyle Prescriptions® University Ph.D. Student

“In my busy integrative and lifestyle medical practice, I love using Lifestyle Prescriptions® .”
Dr. Kevin Chan, Lifestyle Medicine Arizona USA

“I’m COMPLETELY BLOWN AWAY by this training. I have never taken anything (and I’ve done tons of online learning) this amazing before, both in content and in delivery.”
Cari Nadeau. EFT Practitioner, Lifestyle Prescriptions® University Student

“I love the program, I’ve learned so much, about the body and about myself. It’s been an incredible journey so far for my own self-healing. Looking forward to live practicum classes!”
Olivia Schoen, Lifestyle Prescriptions® University Student

“Lifestyle Prescriptions® Root-Cause Analysis allows me to get to the root-cause of chronic symptoms fast. It is a life changing and an amazing tool.”
Dr. Stephane Provencher, USA

“I have a huge influx of clients, which is incredible for me, managing 16 clients in my 3-month program. 🙂 The work I can offer now is so PROFOUND and TRANSFORMATIVE compared to what I did before for 6 years!”
Nigora Normatova, Certified Lifestyle Prescriptions® University Graduate
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