Former Critically Ill Patient champions Lifestyle Integration in Healthcare
Amsterdam, Netherlands – chermaine, โคa former patient battling a โsevere illness, has demonstrated a remarkable enhancement in her quality of life โthrough lifestyle and โคnutritional changes, and is now โคspearheading efforts to integrate similar approaches intoโ standardโ hospital care. Her personal journey has fueled a mission to โฃexpand treatment beyond traditional medicine,offering hope for countless individuals facing โฃserious health challenges.
while teh preciseโ financial benefits remain secondary, Chermaine‘s experience underscores a critical shift in healthcare ideology:โข improving quality of life is achievable even when a โcure isn’t. This comes โฃat aโ time when chronic illnesses are on the riseโ globally, placing increasing strain on healthcare systems and demanding innovative solutions. โฃChermaine’s work aims to addressโฃ this by providing a complementary,proactive approachโ to patient wellbeing,possibly reducing โreliance on solely pharmaceutical interventions and empowering individuals to take control of their health.
Chermaine, recently promoted, is now establishing aโฃ lifestyle clinic at the Amsterdam UMC, where she earned her PhD.Initially focused onโฃ patients wiht pulmonary arterial hypertension, she โขenvisions expanding the clinic’s reach โคto encompassโ other lung and heart diseases, and โultimately,โ to anyone facing serious illness.โค “I’m really catching up on everything I โคmissedโ all those years I was sick,” โขshe shared,highlighting her dedicationโฃ to translating her โขpersonal experience into tangible benefits for others.
Her coreโข belief centers on the distinction between “getting better” and “being healed.” โ”Now theโ focus isโค mainly on medicines โขand treatmentsโ to healโฃ people,โข and that isโ absolutely critically important,”โ Chermaine explained. โ”But โขwhat I have learned: getting better is not the same as healing. Curing isโค notโ always โpossible, but you can often make โpeople better with โคnutrition and lifestyle.” She โadvocates for integratingโค nutritional and lifestyle interventions as โคa standard component of hospital processes, believing it holds the potential to significantly enhance โขpatient outcomes.
