Connecticut Lifestyle Medicine

Yes. Connecticut Lifestyle Medicine accepts insurance for Lifestyle Medicine visits, Primary Care visits, and the LifeMed Program shared medical appointments. The Circle membership community carries a separate fee of $64 per month or $699 per year, which insurance does not cover.

The Circle includes weekly yoga, meditation, and strength training classes, an on-demand content library, nutrition coaching, a private community group, monthly check-ins, challenges, local dinners, a book group, and member-led events. Members pay $64 per month with no contract or $699 for the year.

The LifeMed Program is a series of five shared medical appointments, each 60 minutes long, delivered virtually. Sessions cover nutrition, exercise, stress management, and cooking demonstrations, and each includes one-on-one time with a provider. Insurance covers the program.

Standard appointments run 60 minutes. That time allows for thorough discussion of lifestyle factors, clinical history, and a personalized treatment plan.

Yes. Connecticut Lifestyle Medicine offers telemedicine visits. The LifeMed Program shared medical appointments run entirely virtually, and the practice also offers telehealth for other visit types.

No. Connecticut Lifestyle Medicine never sells supplements, pills, or any health products. The clinical approach relies entirely on evidence-based lifestyle interventions, not commercial products.

The Plantluck is a monthly community potluck event that Connecticut Lifestyle Medicine hosts. It is free and open to the community. The practice also hosts cooking classes, yoga, strength training, and art classes through The Circle membership.

The practice focuses on conditions including Type 2 diabetes, prediabetes, high blood pressure, high cholesterol, heart disease risk, obesity, metabolic syndrome, insulin resistance, and digestive and inflammatory conditions. The clinical team uses evidence-based lifestyle medicine to treat and, in many cases, reverse these conditions.

Yes. Connecticut Lifestyle Medicine offers full primary care with a lifestyle medicine focus. Insurance covers primary care visits, and patients receive care across the full spectrum of family medicine including pediatrics and women's health.

A coronary calcium score uses a non-invasive CT scan to assess cardiovascular risk by measuring calcium deposits in the arteries. Connecticut Lifestyle Medicine incorporates coronary calcium score evaluation into its cardiovascular risk assessment work. Patients typically access the scan at local radiology facilities for around $100 cash.