Articles - Integrative Medicine

Growing Trend Toward Integrative Medicine

A new report by the consultancy Pure Branding says that more doctors are utilizing integrative medicine concepts in their practices. With more than 1,000 integrative MDs and DOs included, the survey was the largest pool of currently practicing integrative physicians ever surveyed in a landscape report, the firm says. To understand the reasons behind the rising prominence of integrative medicine ...

Integrative Medicine is the Solution to Chronic Illness

From alleviating symptoms of heart disease to efficiently treating trauma patients, modern medicine has ushered in myriad obvious benefits. But it also comes with limitations that the medical community has been slow to recognize.  Across the specialties, physicians have been trained in acute care, but not preventive care. For instance, when faced with a sick patient, a doctor’s routine response ...

Physicians: Practice What You Preach

It’s often said that doctors make the worst patients. One would suppose that, given their training and knowledge, physicians would be well inclined to take appropriate steps to keep themselves healthy whether they are patients or not. But research detailing high rates of physician burnout suggests that this is hardly the case. Dr. Hilary McClafferty, an Associate Professor in the ...

Eating Locally & the Food as Medicine Movement

According to Hilary McClafferty, M.D., F.A.A.P., co-director of fellowships at the Arizona Center for Integrative Medicine, eating locally grown foods is a habit that more people should make part of their daily lives. Indeed, eating local isn’t a fleeting trend but a conscious return to the way in which humans have consumed food for thousands of years. The movement – ...

Are You Inflamed?

Inflammation is a biological response to harmful stimuli. The goal of inflammation is to remove the harmful stimuli from the body and initiate the healing process. Though it is a natural phenomenon of the human body, inflammation can have damaging consequences over the long term, typically as a result of poor lifestyle choices. Consider the difference between acute and chronic ...

The Power of Food as Medicine

The food as medicine movement is quickly picking up steam as physicians and healthcare institutions begin to recognize the many tangible benefits of making food an integral part of treatment. Research on the power of food to prevent and fight disease is creating a paradigm shift in the way that treatment is provided. Instead of simply prescribing a “pill for ...

Edison de Mello, M.D., Ph.D. Champions a Proven Path to Better Health

ABOIM® Diplomate Edison de Mello, M.D., Ph.D., the founder of the Akasha Center for Integrative Medicine, recently spoke with The Chalkboard Magazine about his passion for practicing integrative medicine and the many reasons why this clinical specialty is one of the most important trends in wellness. When asked to define integrative medicine, Dr. de Mello stated that it draws from ...

Dr. Georgia Tetlow: Integrative Medicine is Simply Good Practice

Integrative medicine is an evidence-based approach to care that combines the best of modern Western medical techniques with complementary healing practices from around the world. The goal of this established specialty is to focus on the whole person and utilize all available therapeutic modalities to achieve optimal health and healing. Subscribing to the belief that health is not merely the ...

Creating a New Generation of Doctors

In the early 1990s, Dr. Andrew Weil, a board certified, Harvard-trained physician was faced with a dilemma. For years, he had seen firsthand the value of treating his patients holistically, working to not only address existing injuries and illnesses, but also attempt to prevent avoidable conditions that tend to develop later in life. This was the origin of Integrative Medicine, ...

On Being an Integrative Medicine Physician

Integrative Medicine physicians are, by nature, forward thinking. They work with their patients to not only address current problems, but also to identify and address risk factors that could potentially lead to future conditions. This partnership between physician and patient is extremely important as it develops a relationship of trust where both parties actively work together to help the patient ...

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