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The emerging field of lifestyle psychiatry complements and advances traditional psychiatric care by addressing six lifestyle pillars that bidirection-ally impact mental and physical health: physical activity, nutrition, restorative sleep, stress management, harm reduction of toxic exposures, and connectedness. Importantly, lifestyle psychiatry attends to psychological factors and external barriers that impact a patient's ability to make lifestyle modifications. Psychological factors include internalized traumas, personality traits, and maladaptive emotion regulation, thoughts, and associated behaviors. External barriers include work-related burnout, social determinants of health, and environmental factors. Through incorporating the six pillars and addressing a patient's psychological factors and external barriers, lifestyle psychiatry has significant potential to prevent and treat psychiatric illness. [ Psychiatr Ann . 2025;55(7):e155–e159.]
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