integrative medicine
Joint Health Across Generations
Bone, joint and muscle health is now a multi-generational concern. As we age, it is important to support our bodies with the right nutrients they need to maintain strong bones, healthy muscle mass and flexible joints. For joint pain, inflammation, fractures, muscle aches and pains, osteoporosis and arthritis, our bodies can heal faster when given ...
Reimagining Health Care: The Promise of Whole Person Health Research
On Oct. 17, 2022, a pivotal gathering by the National Center for Complementary and Integrative Health (NCCIH) marked a significant moment in health care research. The Institute for Natural Medicine (INM) joined dozens of stakeholders, including leading experts from complementary and integrative medicine, academic institutions and health care organizations, to explore a revolutionary approach to ...
INM Launches Integrative Medicine Lecture Series With Whole-person Pain Care
In June 2021, the Institute for Natural Medicine (INM) created an interdisciplinary Advisory Board to truly deliver on the promise of a new model of integrated whole health. The professional community must begin effectively collaborating. To help in this regard, the INM built the advisory board over the next year, focusing on integrative-minded medical doctors ...
Jan E. Patterson, MD, MS
Jan E. Patterson, MD is an integrative medicine and infectious diseases physician who has practiced and taught medicine for more than 30 years. She believes in using all the tools in the toolbox for better health and works to integrate holistic therapies with conventional ones. She is a professor of medicine at UT Health San ...
Could Naturopathic Medicine Be the Future of Integrative Medicine?
An article in the British Journal of Medicine (BMJ) from July 2022 recently caught my attention. Titled the “International prevalence of consultation with a naturopathic practitioner: a systematic review and meta-analysis,” the meta-analysis calculated the use of naturopathic medicine globally, based on published studies, using the term naturopathy for the search. The BMJ study looked ...
Dr. Stephen Sinatra, Pioneer in Integrative Cardiology, Dies at 75
On June 22, Maryland-based Healthy Directions announced that Dr. Stephen Sinatra, a board-certified cardiologist specializing in integrative medicine, died “following a brief illness.” According to Sinatra’s Wikipedia page, he was born on Oct. 15, 1946. His Wikipedia page also states “Sinatra graduated from New York’s Albany Medical College with an MD in 1972, and earned his certification ...
Fullscript Completes Acquisition of Emerson Ecologics
Fullscript (Canada) has announced it has completed the acquisition of Emerson Ecologics (Manchester, NH), a long-standing player in the integrative health care industry. This transaction nearly doubles the annual revenue of Fullscript and doubles the number of integrative medicine patients and practitioners Fullscript supports to more than 70,000 health care professionals and more than 5 ...
Noted Physician Touts Nutrition’s Critical Role in Supporting Immune Health for Congressional Staff
Tieraona Low Dog, MD, recently educated congressional staffers on the responsible role of dietary supplements in supporting immune health, as well as their many other health and wellness benefits, particularly in the era of COVID-19. Dr. Low Dog was featured at the final Congressional Dietary Supplement Caucus (DSC) briefing of 2020, held last week. An ...
For Safe & Effective Detox, You Need the Right Support
Detoxification is a fundamental strategy in integrative medicine. Yet in many cases, detox—in the clinical setting or as a self-directed approach—is done incompletely, incorrectly, or not at all. While large-scale studies continue to highlight the troubling influence of environmental and biological toxins in our most serious health conditions, from cancer to dementia and beyond, clinical ...
Supporting the Immune System
In the ongoing battle to keep the immune system strong, practitioners offer ways to greatly improve the body’s defenses. Warding off the plethora of germs, bacteria and viruses that one encounters on a daily basis is a constant battle. The immune system helps make this happen, so as many practitioners would agree on, properly being ...
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