Integrative Medicine

Tomorrow's Health Care

What

Is Integrative Medicine?

Integrative Medicine combines the best ideas and practices of alternative medicine and conventional medicine in order to maximize the body’s innate potential for self-healing.

Is Integrative Medicine the Health Care of Tomorrow?

Integrative Medicine involves a partnership in which patient and practitioner together address healing on all levels: physical, psychological and spiritual.

Can I make Integrative Medicine a part of my life?

• Inform yourself on natural approaches to health and healing.
• Become aware of nutritional influences on your health.
• Address lifestyle issues to promote optimum health and for the management of many common illnesses.
• Learn to rely more upon yourself and less upon our present system of medical care and take charge of your health!

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What is Functional / Integrative Medicine?

In ancient Greece, doctors worked under the patronage of Asklepios, the god of medicine, but healers served Asklepio's daughter, the radiant Hygeia, goddess of health. Medical writer and philosopher Ren Dubos has written:

For the worshippers of Hygeia, health is the natural order of things, a positive attribute to which you are entitled if you govern your life wisely. According to them, the most important function of medicine is to discover and teach the natural laws which will ensure you a healthy mind in a healthy body. More skeptical, or wiser in the ways of the world, the followers of Asklepios believed that the chief role of the physician is to treat disease, to restore health by correcting any imperfections caused by accidents of birth or life. It is the beginning of the new millennium and our medical technology is continually advancing, but at what cost? Physically and Financially! Practitioners of Functional Medicine believe . . .

The individual - not the illness - is the target of treatment. YOUR illness is a manifestation of the breakdown of YOUR body's mechanisms that control the quality of YOUR health. From the Functional Medicine perspective, patient care presumes that YOU are a unique individual. This healthcare approach focuses attention on biochemical individuality, metabolic balance, environmental factors, and personal lifestyle as they affect the dynamics of YOUR health. This approach to diagnosis emphasizes the functional cause of illness. Treatment is then individually tailored to improve function and RESTORE YOUR HEALTH.