Cancer
During my own experiences as a healthcare provider fighting cancer, an allogenic bone marrow transplant and GVHD, I witnessed the extremes of both main stream medicine and alternative treatments. I began to focus my own practice on bridging the gaps between the two, so that my patients receive the sound benefits of all perspectives and practices.
Integrative healthcare and nutrition is an evolution in the practice of healthcare that better addresses the healthcare needs of the 21st century by shifting the traditional disease-centered focus of medical practice to a more patient-centered approach. As an integrative healthcare practitioner, I spend time with my patients, listening to their histories and looking at the interactions among genetic, environmental, and lifestyle factors that can influence long-term health and complex, chronic disease. In this way, integrative healthcare supports the unique expression of health and vitality for each individual.
Integrative healthcare and nutrition involves understanding the origins, prevention, and treatment of complex, chronic disease. The focus of integrative healthcare is on patient-centered care, promoting health as a positive vitality, beyond just the absence of disease. Using an integrative, science-based healthcare approach, I look “upstream” to consider the complex web of interactions in the patient’s history, physiology, and lifestyle that can lead to illness. I consider the unique genetic makeup of each patient, along with both internal (mind, body and spirit) and external (physical and social environment) factors that affect total functioning.
In my integrative healthcare approach, I incorporate traditional healthcare practices with “alternative” medicine, creating a focus on prevention through the following: nutrition, lifestyle, and exercise; use of the latest laboratory testing and other diagnostic techniques; and prescribed combinations of drugs and/or botanical medicines, supplements, therapeutic diets, detoxification programs, or stress-management techniques.
Integrative healthcare and nutrition is an evolution in the practice of healthcare that better addresses the healthcare needs of the 21st century by shifting the traditional disease-centered focus of medical practice to a more patient-centered approach. As an integrative healthcare practitioner, I spend time with my patients, listening to their histories and looking at the interactions among genetic, environmental, and lifestyle factors that can influence long-term health and complex, chronic disease. In this way, integrative healthcare supports the unique expression of health and vitality for each individual.
Integrative healthcare and nutrition involves understanding the origins, prevention, and treatment of complex, chronic disease. The focus of integrative healthcare is on patient-centered care, promoting health as a positive vitality, beyond just the absence of disease. Using an integrative, science-based healthcare approach, I look “upstream” to consider the complex web of interactions in the patient’s history, physiology, and lifestyle that can lead to illness. I consider the unique genetic makeup of each patient, along with both internal (mind, body and spirit) and external (physical and social environment) factors that affect total functioning.
In my integrative healthcare approach, I incorporate traditional healthcare practices with “alternative” medicine, creating a focus on prevention through the following: nutrition, lifestyle, and exercise; use of the latest laboratory testing and other diagnostic techniques; and prescribed combinations of drugs and/or botanical medicines, supplements, therapeutic diets, detoxification programs, or stress-management techniques.