Tori Hudson, N.D.
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Institute of Women's Health and integrative medicine (audiotapes and lecture series of postgraduate seminars for licensed health-care practitioners)
2067 NW Lovejoy Portland, OR 97209 instituteofwomenshealth. com 503-222-2322
Emerson Ecologies
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Holistic Primary Care
P.O. Box 953 Peck Slip Station New York, NY 212-406-8957
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Mike Adams, the Health Ranger
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 Pizzorno: Two years ago I became the editor of a new journal called integrative medicine, A Clinician's Journal, and what I've done with this journal is create a resource for clinicians, although it can also be read by the educated layperson, and on my board, my editorial board, I have medical doctors, I have naturopathic doctors, I have chiropractors, I have PhDs, I have people from acupuncture, people from nutrition -- basically I'm bringing people from all of the healing arts together to talk about how we can work collaboratively together in the best interests of our patients. |
Craig Pepin-Donat
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 Based on treating the entire patient and not just the symptoms, integrative medicine is a mix of proven Eastern and Western disciplines, giving patients the benefits of practices that have worked for thousands of years — Ayurveda, acupuncture, chiropractic, energy healing, tai chi, massage therapy, etc. — coupled with more modern techniques of traditional Western medicine. Unfortunately, most health insurance companies do not pay for preventive "alternative" therapies, so people must spend their hard-earned money to take advantage of integrative medicine. |
Peter h. Fraser and Harry Massey
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 The most recent paradigm in medicine, although it is still in its infancy, is called "integrative medicine," which is a holistic, rather than a reductionist, approach to health. It is a medical mind-set that acknowledges that healing and curing are qualitatively different, that a person is more than his or her disease, and that there is not only a mind-body connection but also a spirit-mind-body connection. integrative medicine is what author and physician Larry Dossey would classify as Era
Ill medicine.2 Dossey views the recent history of medicine as having evolved through three eras. |
Craig Pepin-Donat
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| It is called integrative medicine and it is practiced nationwide by a large network of talented health care professionals. Based on treating the entire patient and not just the symptoms, integrative medicine is a mix of proven Eastern and Western disciplines, giving patients the benefits of practices that have worked for thousands of years — Ayurveda, acupuncture, chiropractic, energy healing, tai chi, massage therapy, etc. — coupled with more modern techniques of traditional Western medicine. |
Connie Bennett, C.H.H.C. with Stephen T. Sinatra, M.D.
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 Weil's University of Arizona Program in integrative medicine and the Richard and Hinda Rosenthal Center for Complementary and Alternative Medicine at Columbia University's College of Physicians and Surgeons.
What's more, Dr. Weil's rapidly growing University of Arizona Program in integrative medicine offers physicians from around the world extensive in-person and online training in nutrition and mind-body medicine. |
Bottom Line Health
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| Robert Bonakdar, a family physician at the Scripps Center for integrative medicine in La Jolla, California, who blends conventional and alternative approaches, says it's crucial to tell your doctor about any alternative treatments that you are trying.
"Everything a patient is using is important for the doctor to know," he says. "Full disclosure enables full care."
"The best thing patients can do is be honest about what they are taking," says Dr. |
Jonny Bowden, Ph.D., C.N.S.
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 This vitamin has antiviral activity, and intravenous vitamin C has long been used by practitioners of nutritional and integrative medicine for a variety of conditions. It has been championed for hepatitis by Robert Cathcart, M.D., a California physician who was recognized by the Society for Orthomolecular Health-Medicine as recipient of the Linus Pauling Award.
"Since acute hepatitis A, B, C, etc. is easily cured with massive doses of ascorbate (vitamin C) intravenously and with follow-up with oral ascorbic acid (vitamin C), it is tragic that it is not properly utilized. |
Bottom Line Health
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| Back Pain Relief Combo Is Effective
Consortium of Academic Health Centers for integrative medicine news release.
Used together, conventional and alternative treatments can help patients alleviate low-back pain better than using mainstream treatment alone, US research has shown. |
Gerald E. Markle and Frances B. McCrea
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 It is offered at our local hospital's "Center for integrative medicine." Yet it still seemed to us sufficiently outside MD medicine that it would not disappear.
The whole issue of alternative medicine—what its boundaries are and who are its practitioners—is vexing, and problematic for our thought experiment. We talked about an illustrative story.
In 1976, the then Director of the Mayo Clinic Comprehensive Center, Charles Moertel, made a startling disclaimer in JAMA. |
Connie Bennett, C.H.H.C. with Stephen T. Sinatra, M.D.
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| Famous integrative medicine physician Andrew Weil, M.D., notes that "there's not a shred of evidence that the availability or use of artificial sweeteners has helped anyone to lose weight."
Neurosurgeon Russell L. Blaylock, M.D., agrees. "A significant number of people gain rather than lose weight, as advertised," says the author of Ex-citotoxins: The Taste That Kills.
That was the case with Cori Brackett of Tucson, Arizona. |
Bill Sardi
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 There can be no such thing as integrative medicine, when useless cancer treatment is combined with nutritional approaches to cancer. Nutritional approaches to cancer, which activate the body's own defenses against cancer, cannot be effectively mixed with toxic cancer treatment. After six decades, conventional cancer care does not hold the scientific high ground. It only has a legacy of failure. Decades of different mixes and doses of chemo, radiation and surgery have not significantly improved survival rates. |
Bottom Line Health
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| Janine Blackman, MD, PhD, assistant professor of family medicine and medical director, Center for integrative medicine, University of Maryland, Baltimore.
The popularity of complementary and alternative medicine is on the rise, with more than one-third of American adults using at least one of these treatments, according to a recent report by the Institute of Medicine.
Full disclosure enables full care. Robert Bonakdar, MD
And if you're like most people who use these treatments, you probably don't mention them to your primary-care physician. |
Peter h. Fraser and Harry Massey
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| It is a medical mind-set that acknowledges that healing and curing are qualitatively different, that a person is more than his or her disease, and that there is not only a mind-body connection but also a spirit-mind-body connection. integrative medicine is what author and physician Larry Dossey would classify as Era
Ill medicine.2 Dossey views the recent history of medicine as having evolved through three eras. Era I started in the mid-nineteenth century, when medicine was just beginning to become scientific. |
Gerald E. Markle and Frances B. McCrea
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| Our local hospital, for example, has what is called a "Center for Integrative Medicine" where one can learn about treatments disdained in the recent past.
TRENDS & POPULARITY
Whatever is meant by alternative medicine, there is no doubt about its widespread use. According to a 1997 survey of the United States, more than four in ten Americans used some form of alternative therapy, an increase from one-third in 1990. Use was more common among women
(49%) and less common among African Americans (33%). |
Connie Bennett, C.H.H.C. with Stephen T. Sinatra, M.D.
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| Weil's rapidly growing University of Arizona Program in integrative medicine offers physicians from around the world extensive in-person and online training in nutrition and mind-body medicine.
More Promising Programs and Developments
Let's look now at other encouraging, health-conscious developments:
Si Whole Foods Market, which began in 1980 with one small store, has become the world's leading natural and organic foods supermarket, with 183 stores in North America and the United Kingdom at press time. |
| The best way to get your kids to cut back on their sugar intake is to be a good role model by scaling back your own sugar consumption," advises New York-based integrative medicine specialist and stress-management expert Jill Baron, M.D.
Offer fresh foods. Stock your cabinets and refrigerator with fruits and vegetables instead of chips and cookies, recommends Dr. Rapp. Give your children such healthy, tasty snacks as apples, oranges, and nuts, or celery with sugarfree almond butter or peanut butter. "Give them healthy alternatives like sweet potatoes," suggests Dr. Appleton. |
Peter h. Fraser and Harry Massey
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| For complementary physicians and practitioners, however, the term integrative medicine takes on a more holistic meaning, implying that the body has healing capabilities that most allopathic doctors would deny. In actuality, there is a deep ideological split between the two groups. Allopathic physicians work within the domain of biochemistry and see themselves as healers. They have acquired the knowledge to attempt to fix what has gone wrong in the body; their main tools are surgery and the pharmaceuticals and other synthetic compounds that can supply the body with what it lacks. |
David W. Grotto, RD, LDN
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 Because I was experienced in both conventional nutrition and integrative medicine, and had also had the experience of interviewing hundreds of experts and answering the questions of thousands of listeners, they felt I could help consumers sort out confusing and often contradictory health messages regarding food and nutrition.
I have found that it is especially difficult for men to change their eating habits, so I was thrilled when I was asked to be on the scientific advisory board for Men's Health magazine. I'm often asked to spell things out for guys in simple terms—"eat this, not that. |
Jonny Bowden, Ph.D., C.N.S.
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| America who practices integrative medicine. A nutritional biochemist, he's the cofounder of The Institute for Functional Medicine and has been in the forefront of educating doctors, chiropractors, nutritionists, and other healthcare professionals about nutrition, biochemistry, hormones, and health for more than twenty-five years. There's very little about hormones and endocrinology that Jeffrey Bland doesn't know.
A few years ago, I attended his seminar on nutritional neuroendocrinology, a daylong affair devoted to the discussion of female hormones, health, and behavior. |
Mark Sircus
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 The emergence of integrative medicine programs, which was pioneered at the University of Arizona under the tutelage of Dr. Andrew Weil, shows that this trend is changing.
However, it is a trend in need of acceleration, as today, needless suffering remains the rule, rather than the exception in the prevention and treatment of cancer. Nutritional sufficiency, and one of its major mineral components, magnesium, must be plugged in to the solution. Until this happens, we'll only be massaging the status quo. |
Craig Pepin-Donat
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| Hyla Cass is one of the country's foremost authors and speakers on the subject of integrative medicine. For over 20 years as an integrative psychiatrist, she has incorporated nutrition and natural health techniques in the treatment of addiction and other mental health problems. One of her guiding principles is to "look first for the deepest root problems beneath any symptoms." The root of all our actions is the result of chemical reactions within the brain. |
| And above all, as recommended in chapter two, find a physician that you trust, who practices integrative medicine.
Don't believe the overhyped claims of those in the supplement industry who take advantage of the vulnerabilities and the hopes of others. Many are selling snake oil. One rule of thumb to always remember: If it sounds too good to be true, it is! This is a good thing to remember in most areas of life. |
| American Association of integrative medicine www.aaimedicine.com
AAIM's advocacy for broader treatment options facilitates a bond between integrative and Western medicine. The end result is a gathering place for healers, educators and researchers from all specialties to compare notes and combine forces, benefiting both the patient and the health care provider.
Preventive Medicine Center www.prevmedctr. |
| Unfortunately, most health insurance companies do not pay for preventive "alternative" therapies, so people must spend their hard-earned money to take advantage of integrative medicine. Still, tens of millions of people do every year.
Since most of us must use physicians within specific networks, integrative and alternative medicine focused more on prevention is often not an option. But "we the people" must be finding value in these alternative medical treatments or we wouldn't be spending $31 billion a year out of our own pockets. |
Donna Jackson Nakazawa
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 As a physician, Mullin was able to sign up for online conferences and courses in an emerging field of research being called "integrative medicine." He became, he says, "very educated" on what a food-as-medicine approach can do to affect autoimmune activity in the body. He consulted several other like-minded physicians who specialized in alternative and complementary care. Together, the medical experts devised a carefully thought out dietary and supplementation plan to augment the conventional therapy with steroids that Mullin was using. |
| Andrew Weil's program in integrative medicine at the University of Arizona.
"The idea that we should rely solely on drug therapies to help autoimmune-disease patients is antiquated," Mullin posits as we enter his Hopkins office, where photos of his nieces and nephews sit on the windowsill and complementary health tomes line bookshelves. He sits down at his desk, his large hands clicking on the keyboard and moving the computer mouse with lightning speed, taking me on a virtual tour of research papers linking special diets and supplements to better outcomes for autoimmune-disease patients. |
Paula Begoun and Bryan Barron
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 According to Healthnotes Review of Complementary and integrative medicine (www.healthwell.com/healthnotes/Herb/Tea_Tree.cfm) and the Medical Journal of Australia, October 1990, pages 455-458, 5% tea tree oil and 2.5% benzoyl peroxide are both effective in reducing the number of blemishes, though the benzoyl peroxide showed significantly bettet results than the tea tree oil. Skin oiliness was lessened significantly in the benzoyl peroxide group versus the tea tree oil group. However, the tea tree oil had somewhat less irritating side effects. |
Connie Bennett, C.H.H.C. with Stephen T. Sinatra, M.D.
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| University of Arizona integrative medicine Program website. http://www.integrativemedicine.arizona .edu/about2.html.
Whole Foods Market website, http://www.wholefoodsmarket.com/company/index.html. Wild Oats Natural Marketplace website, http://www.wildoats.com. |
Thomson Healthcare, Inc.
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 Blumenthal M, Goldberg A, Brinckmann J (eds): Herbal Medicine, Expanded Commission E monographs, 1 st ed. integrative medicine Communications, Newton. MA; 2000.
Bolley R, Zulke C, Kammerl M, et al: Tacrolimus-induced nephrotoxicity unmasked by induction of the CYP3A4 system with St. John's Wort. Transplantation 73(6): 1009. 2002.
Bombardelli E, Morazzoni P: Hypericum perforatum. Fitoterapia 66(l):43-68. 1995.
Bork P, Bacher S, Schmitz M, et al: Hypericin as a non-oxidant inhibitor of NF-kB. Planta Med 65:297-300. 1999. |
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