Reverse Chronic Disease. Reclaim your Health.
A Connecticut family practice specializing in Lifestyle Medicine for Type 2 diabetes, heart disease, obesity, and metabolic conditions.If you’re tired of adding medications without addressing the root cause, you’re in the right place.
How Can We Help
Is Connecticut Lifestyle Medicine right for you?
This practice may be a great fit if you:
- Have Type 2 diabtes or prediabtes and want to lower your A1c naturally
- Want to lower your blood pressure or cholesterol without adding medications
- Struggle with weight or metabolic health despite trying diets
- Are ready to make real lifestyle changes that last
- Want a doctor who listens and focuses on root causes, not just prescriptions
Improve Heart Health
Lower cholesterol and blood pressure naturally while reducing your long-term heart disease risk.
Reverse Type 2 Diabetes
Lower blood sugar and A1c by improving insulin sensitivity through nutrition, movement, sleep and stress management.
Medical weight Loss
Improve metabolic health and lose weight sustainably without extreme diets or calorie counting.
Build lasting Health Habits
Learn the skills and systems needed to make healthy habits stick for life.
What we do here
Treat and Reverse Chronic Disease with Lifestyle Medicine
At Connecticut Lifestyle Medicine, we specialize in helping patients improve or reverse chronic disease through evidence-based lifestyle medicine.
Lifestyle Medicine is a medical specialty that focuses on treating the root causes of disease using targeted lifestyle interventions alongside conventional medical care when needed.
Conditions we commonly help patients improve include:
- Type 2 diabetes and prediabetes
- high blood pressure
- high cholesterol
- heart disease risk
- obesity and metabolic syndrome
- insulin resistance
- digestive and inflammatory conditions
Instead of rushed visits and medication escalation, we work with you to identify the habits and environmental factors driving disease.
Our Approach to Disease Reversal
Our care focuses on five key areas:
1️⃣ Reversing chronic disease
2️⃣ Supporting sustainable habit change
3️⃣ Using the six pillars of lifestyle medicine
4️⃣ Using medications thoughtfully, when needed
5️⃣ Building a supportive local health community
This approach helps patients create meaningful improvements in blood sugar, blood pressure, cholesterol, weight, and overall health.
Feel the difference
How Our Care Is Different From Conventional Primary Care
Most primary care visits are short and focused on medications.
Doctors often don’t have the time to explore the lifestyle factors driving disease.
At Connecticut Lifestyle Medicine, we take a different approach.
Instead of only managing symptoms, we focus on identifying and addressing the root causes of chronic disease.
Conventional Primary Care Often Looks Like:
• 10–15 minute appointments
• medication adjustments when lab numbers worsen
• limited time for nutrition or lifestyle counseling
Our Lifestyle Medicine Approach Includes:
• longer visits so we can understand your health story
• identifying lifestyle factors affecting blood sugar, blood pressure, weight and cholesterol
• practical strategies for nutrition, movement, sleep and stress
• medications when appropriate—but not as the only solution
Our goal is to help you improve the conditions driving chronic disease, not just manage them.
Who we are
Supportive Doctors and Community
Improving your health takes more than a prescription—it takes support, guidance and a plan.
At Connecticut Lifestyle Medicine, your care is a partnership.
We start by understanding your current habits, environment and health goals.
Then we work together to build sustainable lifestyle changes that actually fit your life.
You’ll work with a team of experienced doctors and nurses who take a down-to-earth, non-stuffy approach to health.
- No supplements to buy.
- No extreme diets.
- No pressure to be vegan.
Just evidence-based lifestyle medicine and personalized care.
Many of our patients also choose to participate in our group visits and community programs, where patients learn new skills, share experiences and support one another in building healthier lives.
Serving Middlesex, Hartford and New Haven Counties
Our practice is located in Middletown and serves patients from:
Middletown, Durham, Middlefield, Portland, Cromwell, Haddam, Killingworth, Wallingford, Meriden, Guilford, Madison, Old Saybrook, Westbrook and surrounding communities.
Both in-person and virtual visits are available.
What our Patients Have to Say
See Nancy Hwang, APRN, our newest provider
Experienced. Compassionate. Grounded in lifestyle medicine—and truly listens.
