Lifestyle disorders arise from unhealthy lifestyle habits and can be influenced by factors like occupation, environment, diet, and stress. Common controllable risk factors include poor diet, lack of exercise, smoking, and alcohol. Uncontrollable factors include age, gender, family history, and race. Major lifestyle diseases reported by WHO are cardiovascular disease, cancer, respiratory disease, and diabetes, which account for 80% of premature deaths globally. Examples of lifestyle disorders discussed are heart disease, obesity, type 2 diabetes, hypertension, stroke, COPD, depression, and carcinomas. Homoeopathic approaches focus on treating the whole person based on their physical and mental constitution. Certain remedies like Crataegus, Aurum metallicum,

1. LIFESTYLE DISORDERS
AND ITS HOMOEOPATHIC
APPROACH
Name - Aditya Vilas Dhade
Batch - Summer 2022-23
(2015)Intern
Roll no - 6

2. Introduction
• The disease which primarily arises from the abnormal
lifestyle of a person are grouped under the term lifestyle
disease or disorders.
• Adopting unhealthy lifestyle patterns leads to increase in
both physical and mental disease.
• The risk of developing lifestyle disorders depends on
various factors including
Occupation of the person
Enviroment of the person
Type of food he consumes
Various unavoidable stressful situation

3. Risk factors for developing lifestyle
disorders
Controllable –
• Improper diet
• Stress
• Lack of physical activity
• Disturbed biological clock
• Alcoholism
• Smoking
Uncontrollable –
• Age(blood pressure increases with age)
• Gender(men heart disease/women breast cancer)
• Family history(hypertension is common who have hypertensive
parents)
• Race(africans community more likely to develop hypertension)

4. WHO reports on lifestyle disorders
• According to WHO non communicable disease killes 41
million people each year.
• Which is equivalent to 74%of all death globally
• Cardiovascular disease account for most NCD deaths
(17.9 million)
• Cancer(9.3 million)
• Respiratory disease (4.1 million)
• Diabetes (2 million)
• These four groups of lifestyles disease accounts for 80%
of all premature NCD deaths.

5. Some common lifestyle disorders
• 1) Heart disease –
• Heart diseases are an example of lifestyle disease and
refers to conditions involving the heart,its
valve,muscles,vessels,or internal electric pathways
responsible for muscular contraction some of the
commonly occuring condition of heart disease include
• Heart failure
• Arrhythmias
• Cardiomyopathy
• Coronary artery disease
• Heart valve disease

6. 2)Obesity –
A disorder involving exessive
body fat .Individuals become
obese because of unhygienic and
unhealthy eating habits, reduced
physical activity, stressful
lifestyles, and other factors.
Obese individuals have a body
mass index (BMI) greater than 25,
and they suffer from
cardiovascular diseases,
breathing problems, blood
pressure, and diabetes. This is a
primary disorder that can result in
several other chronic diseases in
an individual.

7. • 3)Type 2 Diabetes-
Type 2 diabetes refers to a condition where cells cannot
utilise glucose or blood sugar efficiently for energy. This
occurs when the cells become insensitive to insulin, and
the blood sugar levels gradually become too high. A
combination of several factors like broken beta cells, extra
weight, metabolic syndrome, etc., are responsible for the
cause of this lifestyle disease.

8. • 5)Hypertension –
Hypertension or high blood pressure refers to the tension
or high pressure in the arteries - the vessels responsible
for carrying blood from the heart to the rest of the body.
Uncontrolled hypertension causes damage to the vital
organs of the body
The various complications of hypertension are kidney
(renal) disease, heart disease, eye damage, stroke (brain
damage), and hardening of the arteries (arteriosclerosis
or atherosclerosis).

9. • 4) Stroke –
A stroke occurs when a portion of the
brain loses blood supply and stops
working. This results in the part of the
body being controlled by the injured
brain to stop working. A stroke is also
known as a "brain attack",
cerebrovascular accident, or CVA. A
stroke is mainly caused because of
two reasons – bursting or leaking of a
blood vessel (haemorrhagic stroke) or
a blocked artery (ischemic stroke).

10. • 6) Chronic Obstructive pulmonary Disease (COPD)
Chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD) refers to a
chronic lung disease that leads to obstructed and inflamed
airflow from the lungs. The various symptoms of COPD
include chronic cough with mucus, wheezing, long-term
breathing issues, etc. The common causes of this lifestyle
disease are genetics, smoking, and environmental factors
like gas leaks and pollution.

11. • 7) Depression and Anxiety
Stress and anxiety trigger a number of lifestyle disorders.
Continous worry stress, family tensions, work pressure,
health concerns, unemployment, love failures have a direct
impact on the mental or emotional health of the person.
Continous stress worry leads to anxiety neurosis and
depression.

12. • 8) Carcinomas –
• Due to stressfull lifestyle we lead, there is decrease in
immunity of our body.obesity,inactivity,poor dietary
quality,continued smoking and chewing are the main risk
factors to develop carcinoma.

13. Prevention of lifestyle disorders
• 1)maintain healthy
weight
• 2)focus on nutritious
food
• 3)Avoid smoking and
drinking
• 4)Stay active both
mentally and physically
• 5)Reduce stress
• 6)avoid excess of salt
and sugar intake
• 7) Go for regular
preventive screening

14. Homoeopathic approach
• 1). Homoeopathy deals with the holistic approach and
treats the patients on Individualistic manner by
Constitutional treatment, derived by considering the
Mental, Physical, Emotional , Spiritual Individual.
• 2). Disorders like hypothyroidism, early diabetes,
depression, mood disorders which are most common
these days in urban areas can be controlled well with
homeopathy without any side effects or the fear of
dependency to a drug.
• 3).The benefit of homeopathy is that when a person takes
the right remedy not only does the disease being targeted
is cured, but the overall immunity of the person is also
boosted and their tendency to any other disease they are
susceptible to also reduces.

15. • 4).People who take constitutional homeopathic medicines
which are given on basis of complete physical and mental
makeup of the person significantly delay lifestyle
disorders like diabetes, obesity and hypertension.
• Along with homeopathic medicine by making minor
alterations to their lifestyle like adding some form of
physical exercise on a daily basis , adding more of fresh
fruits and vegetables to their diet, practicing yoga etc can
cure the lifestyle disorders succesfuly

16. Homoeopathic theraps for lifestyle
disorders
Crataegus oxycantha
chronic heart disease with extreme
weaknes,myocarditis,irregularity of heart cardiac
dropsy.and cratageus said to have solvent power upon
calcareous deposite in artery.
Aurum met.
Depression ,anxiety with palpitations and suicidal tendency
High blood pressure with rapid pulse sensation as if heart
will stop beating.
Digitalis purpura –
Anxious about future,hypertropy with dilation of heart
muscle irregular feeble pulse,least movement causes
violent palpitations

17. Belladona –
Causes high blood pressure and violent
palpitations,throbbing sensation all over the body heart
seems too large.
Calc carb.
Recommended in cases where weight gain is due to thyroid
and decreased metabolism,fat deposition mainly on
abdominal area.
Phytolacca
It helps to lose weight by reducing hunger drive and
weakness caused by low food intake.
Syzygium jambolanum –
Most useful in diabetes melitus helps to reduce blood sugar
level and symptoms cause by high sugar level.

18. reference
• www.homoeopathy360.com
• www.godigit.com
• www.mayoclinic.org
• Preventive and social medicine k.park
• Allens keynotes

19. THANK YOU