Welcome to Living Well with MS, where we explore topics relating to living a full and healthy life with multiple sclerosis.

In this episode, we are pleased to welcome Dr Fraser Quin as our guest! Dr Quin is the Executive Director of the British Society of Lifestyle Medicine (BSLM), a charity that promotes the role of lifestyle medicine in improving people’s health and wellbeing. He speaks to Dr Jonathan White about the role of lifestyle medicine for people with MS, the importance of sleep and how healthcare professionals are training to support their patients with lifestyle medicine.

00:00 Dr Quin’s background and role at the British Society of Lifestyle Medicine (BSLM).

04:02 What is lifestyle medicine? And what isn’t lifestyle medicine?

07:02 The role of the BSLM in the healthcare landscape.

10:28 The history and future of lifestyle medicine across the globe.

16:08 Why sleep is such an important pillar of lifestyle medicine.

20:28 How doctors are being trained in lifestyle medicine.

29:27 The #1Change Campaign: How making one small healthy change can change your life.

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Dr Fraser Quin is the Executive Director of the British Society of Lifestyle Medicine, European Lifestyle Medicine Council and World Lifestyle Medicine Organisation.

Fraser is currently a Non-Executive Director of Ark Housing Association and was previously Chair of Deaf Action, Scotland’s largest Deaf charity.

Fraser also has a background in higher education and was formerly a Senior Lecturer in Environmental Economics, completing his PhD at Edinburgh University.

Fraser is a strong advocate for Lifestyle Medicine and is in his own words “living the dream” as a keen cyclist, with his type 2 diabetes currently in remission.

He is also an avid motorcyclist and regularly tours Europe and the UK on his Triumph.

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