FROM HYGIEIA TO WELLNESS: THE HISTORICAL AND PHILOSOPHICAL EVOLUTION OF THE HEALTHY LIFESTYLE CONCEPT

• Gadoyeva Lobar Ergashevna

  Bukhara State Medical Institute

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The concept of a healthy lifestyle has undergone profound historical and philosophical transformations, evolving from ancient holistic understandings of health to contemporary wellness-oriented frameworks. This article examines the conceptual trajectory of health from the ancient Greek notion of hygieia, grounded in balance and harmony, to modern interpretations of wellness shaped by medicalization, consumer culture, and self-optimization. Through a historical-philosophical analysis, the study explores how health gradually shifted from an ethical and anthropological condition of human flourishing to a normative social ideal and personal responsibility. Drawing on classical philosophy, medieval moral thought, and modern philosophical critiques, the article argues that contemporary wellness discourse often obscures the philosophical depth of health by reducing it to instrumental practices and market-driven norms. Reconstructing the historical layers of the healthy lifestyle concept enables a more critical and ethically informed understanding of health as a value-laden, culturally mediated, and existential dimension of human life.

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