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Lifestyle Medicine in San Diego & Riverside, CA

TrueCare’s Lifestyle Medicine approach empowers patients to prevent, manage, and even reverse chronic conditions through evidence-based changes in nutrition, physical activity, sleep, stress management, and social connection. By addressing the root causes of disease, TrueCare supports healthier, more sustainable lives—one personalized step at a time.

Food is Medicine
What is Food is Medicine?

The use of food and nutrition interventions, guided by trained health care professionals, to improve health outcomes and nutrition security across the lifespan.

These initiatives are supported through person-centered, culturally tailored, and collaborative decision-making.

May include nutrition education and counseling, culinary medicine education, behavioral support, and in some cases, the provision of healthy food and related resources.

Benefits:

  • Preventing and managing chronic diseases
  • Reduce risk of chronic disease
  • Improved cardiovascular health
  • Improved mental health
  • Weight management
  • Improved digestion
  • Better quality of life
Medically Tailored Meals

These are fully prepared, nutritious meals designed by Registered Dietitians to manage specific, severe, or complex health conditions. They are ordered by healthcare providers and tailored to patient’s specific dietary needs.

What’s included:

  • 2 to 3 medically tailored meals per day
  • Up to 12 weeks of continuous support
  • Home delivery—no pickup required
  • Meals designed to support specific health conditions

Each meal is carefully created by nutrition experts to meet your unique medical and dietary needs, helping you take control of your health one meal at a time.

Medically Tailored Meals support people who are living with or at risk for:

  • Diabetes and prediabetes
  • High blood pressure
  • Heart disease
  • Weight-related conditions
  • Digestive and metabolic disorders

YMCA Community as Medicine

Healing happens together
Community as Medicine (C.A.M.) is a care model that treats connection, movement, food, and belonging as powerful forms of medicine — just like prescriptions.

Instead of treating patients only in exam rooms, C.A.M. connects them to:

  • Healthy cooking and food programs
  • Exercise and wellness classes
  • Social groups
  • Stress-reduction and mental health supports
  • Local YMCA and community resources

These experiences are prescribed by health care teams — just like medications — but they heal through relationships and healthy habits.

C.A.M. is especially powerful for patients with:

  • Diabetes
  • High blood pressure
  • Obesity
  • Depression or anxiety
  • Chronic pain
  • Social isolation

Walk with a Doc

Health care that moves with you

Walk with a Doc is a doctor-led walking program that brings health care out of the clinic and into the community.
It’s built on a simple but powerful idea:

Movement + connection + education = better health

At a Walk with a Doc event:

  • A physician or health care provider gives a 5- to 10-minute health talk
  • Everyone then goes on a group walk
  • Walk at their own pace
  • Ask the doctor questions
  • Connect with others

Unidos por la Salud

Your health journey, powered by community

Unidos por la Salud is a supportive community where you can take charge of your health and build healthy habits with others. Our program empowers you with practical tools across the six pillars of Lifestyle Medicine—nutrition, physical activity, restorative sleep, stress management, social connection, and avoidance of risky substances—so you can thrive every day.

Primary Care Services in San Diego & Riverside Counties

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Matthew Kosel, PA
Primary Care
“Creating a caring and trusting relationship with my patients is very important. There should always be a “we” in every decision made.”