While you may think that modern medicine is the same thing as preventive medicine, they are often very different medical approaches. Modern medicine generally focuses on curing or treating a health problem, while preventive medicine focuses on preventing health problems from developing in the first [Read More]
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Why You Shouldn’t Be Scared of Holistic Doctors
When it comes to receiving the best health care, you want a medical approach that treats you as a whole person, not just someone with a disease. If you also want treatments that fix the underlying cause of your condition (not just drugs to treat the symptoms), that are non-invasive, and that tap [Read More]
What Is Nutritional Therapy and Is It Right For You?
If you’re looking to improve your health, you might want to start with your diet. A growing number of people are discovering that nutritional therapy can have a significant impact on treating certain health problems and preventing them from occurring in the first place. Nutritional therapy is an e [Read More]
Integrative Medicine vs. Functional Medicine: Is There a Difference?
A variety of approaches are available to treat patients with health problems. Without understanding exactly what each approach is, they are easy to confuse. It's common for people to not know the difference between integrative medicine and functional medicine. They are actually two different [Read More]
Alternatives to Anxiety Medications When Dealing With Anxiety
Anxiety is one health problem that millions of people are affected by every day. Many have extremely busy, hectic, and stressful lifestyles and simply accept anxiety as a part of life. If you suffer from anxiety, it can often feel like you'd have to completely change your lifestyle, job, family, [Read More]
The Dangers of Untreated Hormonal Imbalance
Statistics show that hormonal imbalances, especially in women, are much more common than thought previously. You might not be able to see a hormonal imbalance, but its effects can present themselves in all aspects of your life and, left untreated, can be dangerous or even life-threatening. So with [Read More]
What is functional medicine?
When you don’t feel well, you go to the doctor’s office. The doctor examines you; perhaps he does some diagnostics or refers you to a specialist. This is a perfect scenario to describe what many call “traditional medicine” – treating the symptoms and heading to different specialists to fix what’s bro [Read More]
