Driving with Jenn

10/11/2026

What if the workplace became one of our most effective settings for improving health?

Employees spend a significant portion of their lives at work. That means workplaces have a unique opportunity to influence the behaviors that drive long-term health outcomes.

From nutrition and physical activity to sleep, stress management, and healthy culture, organizations can help create environments where healthy choices become the easier choices. This isn't just good for employees. It's good for organizations. Healthier workplaces can support greater well-being, stronger engagement, and a more resilient workforce.

That's the vision behind the "Lifestyle Medicine in the Workplace Toolkit," a collaboration between ACLM and the American College of Occupational and Environmental Medicine (ACOEM).

👉 Explore the toolkit and learn how lifestyle medicine can help create healthier employees and stronger organizations: https://lifestylemedicine.org/clinical-toolkits/

10/02/2026

Homecoming season is here! 🎉💃🕺

Parents — before the corsages, photos and dances begin, make sure safe transportation is part of the plan. ⤵️

10/01/2026

Stress and connectedness aren't separate health topics. They're deeply connected.

When stress increases, we often withdraw from others. When we feel disconnected, stress increases. And that cycle can influence everything from sleep and nutrition to physical activity, resilience, and overall well-being.

In a recent ACLM interview, Robyn Tiger, MD, DipABLM, FACLM, explores the powerful two-way relationship between connectedness and stress and why fostering meaningful connection may be one of the most important lifestyle medicine strategies we have.

👉 Read the full conversation and discover practical ways to strengthen connectedness, reduce stress, and support long-term well-being: https://lifestylemedicine.org/the-bidirectional-relationship-between-connectedness-and-stress/

09/15/2026

Through my years in traffic & driver safety, sleep is under talked about. It’s the foundation of everything. I agree 1000% on whole person health and having early start times for teens especially in high school is proving to not be helpful. Whether we are talking mental health, academics, or traffic safety, studies are showing not just sleep, but following teen circadian rhythm of when that sleep occurs matters. 

What if the most powerful study tool isn't an app, a tutor, or a productivity hack?

It's sleep.

This Student Sleep Health Week, hosted by the American Academy of Sleep Medicine, we're highlighting one of the most important drivers of student success: restorative sleep.

Sleep influences learning, memory, focus, mood, mental health, athletic performance, and overall well-being. Despite its importance, many students routinely get less sleep than they need.

The reality is that sleep doesn't compete with success. It helps make success possible.

As lifestyle medicine continues to emphasize the importance of restorative sleep, this week serves as a reminder that healthy habits developed early can support health, resilience, and performance for years to come.

💤 This year's message says it perfectly:

Sleep is your superpower.

Thank you to the American Academy of Sleep Medicine for promoting sleep health and helping students understand the lifelong value of restorative sleep.

09/15/2026

Food is Medicine Day!

It’s truly does matter what we eat. It gives our body fuel and energy for our daily life performance ON and OFF the road. It’s not about diets, it’s about lifestyle.

09/15/2026

This 💯!

09/12/2026

Simple just means we can do it, but it doesn’t always mean it’s easy.

Now that I work in a building a couple days a week on a higher floor, I use the stairs for some movement.

If I do t feel like I have incorporated enough fruit or veggies on my week, I make a smoothie. If we are out eating, I choose a dish with veggies. (That doesn’t mean I don’t steal a fry or 2 from my kid’s plate. 😜)

Comment below how you make these easier in your busy life?

09/07/2026

Not getting enough sleep is underrated. Often we aren’t in full control of our sleep due to all the things like school schedules. But we can schedule days with nothing but rest. That is what today is supposed to be…Labor (free) day. Enjoy what ever relaxing activity you enjoy today so you get plenty of sleep tonight.

09/06/2026

Over the next few months, I’ve been planning on bringing more awareness to how these topics connect with driving even more in my blog along with resources to help you integrate into your daily life.

What are your thoughts?

The evidence is no longer the question.

We know lifestyle influences health.

We know optimal nutrition, physical activity, restorative sleep, stress management, connectedness, and risky substance avoidance play a powerful role in treating, reversing and preventing chronic disease.

The real question is: Are we willing to redesign healthcare around what we know to be true?

In a thought-provoking new blog, ACLM CEO Dr. John Findley argues that lifestyle medicine's next evolution must move beyond individual behaviors and toward a broader vision of whole-person health.

Not treating symptoms in isolation. Not managing disease indefinitely. But creating the conditions that allow health, resilience, and healing to emerge. Because the future of medicine isn't lifestyle medicine versus conventional medicine.

It's lifestyle medicine serving as the foundation that allows the best of modern medicine to achieve its fullest potential.

👉 Read the full blog and explore ACLM's vision for the future of healthcare: https://lifestylemedicine.org/the-future-of-lifestyle-medicine-is-whole-person-health/

08/15/2026