Now seeing patients at
Lotus Health in Cullman!
Speaking at the Women's Forum January 31st!
Our Services
What Is Lifestyle Medicine?
Whole plant-based diet
Demonstrated to prevent, treat and reverse multiple health conditions, and has a multitude of benefits. Food truly is our medicine!
Stress Management
Critical to the outcome of almost every health condition, how we manage stress plays an essential role in our state of health.
Positive Social Connections
Encourages patients to foster healthy relationships for improved physical, emotional, and psychological health.
Regular Physical Activity
This has such a great impact on our physical and mental health and is an essential part of any health regimen.
Restorative Sleep
Use improved sleep to maximize the immune system and improve a variety of health issues.
Avoidance of Risky Substances
Helping patients to limit/avoid risky substances in pursuit of optimal health.
Common Conditions We Help Treat
- Diabetes
- High Blood Pressure
- High Cholesterol
- Heart Disease
- Lung Disease
- Thyroid Disease
- Cancer
- Autoimmune Conditions
- Acute COVID-19
- Long COVID-19
- And More
Meet Dr. Gudel
Dr. Gudel is board-certified in both Internal Medicine and Lifestyle Medicine. Receiving a B.S. in Community Health from Texas A&M University, she then graduated from Arizona College of Osteopathic Medicine in Glendale, Arizona. She completed a traditional Osteopathic internship in Cleveland, Ohio, followed by an internal medicine residency at the University of Tennessee in Knoxville. Upon completion of residency, she joined the US Air Force, was deployed to Afghanistan three times, and earned her wings by becoming a flight surgeon along the way.
Seven years later, a cancer diagnosis caused a change in Dr. Gudel’s career trajectory, leading to board certification in Lifestyle Medicine and the start of Birmingham’s first American College of Lifestyle Medicine (ACLM)-type Lifestyle Medicine practice. She is excited to practice true health care as opposed to the reactive care of traditional medicine.
By addressing the root causes of disease, which are so often lifestyle-related, she has successfully treated many medical conditions, enabling patients to dedicate less of their time and finances toward the health care that is so often “sick care.”
Patient Resources
*Insurance can be used for lab work and imaging, however, Dr. Gudel often can provide more economical options for both.
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