Functional/Integrative Medicine
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The Institute for Functional Medicine’s Elimination Diet Comprehensive Guide and Food Plan
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Home Treatments for Your Leaky Gut
Strategies to repair your leaky gut at home.
9 Strategies to Become an Empowered Patient
Medical appointments can be intimidating. Here’s how to get the support you need from a doctor who makes you a partner in your own care.
Free Yourself From Depression
An integrative psychiatrist offers a holistic approach for treating depressive illness.
In Depth With Mark Hyman, MD (Video)
In this exclusive extended interview from his Experience Life cover shoot, functional-medicine pioneer Mark Hyman, MD, explains what functional medicine actually is, how it differs from integrative medicine, and how simply changing how we eat can create significant health improvements in a matter of days. Plus, Hyman shares what a typical day of eating looks like in his own life.
Behind the Scenes With Mark Hyman, MD (Video)
Mark Hyman, MD, shares how his own health issues lead him to functional medicine, and why he now considers food and community to be our most powerful “medicines.”
Mark Hyman: Take Care of Yourself
Functional-medicine pioneer Mark Hyman, MD, is doing his best to help you avoid the doctor altogether.
How to Harness the Healing Power of Your Mind
Science has now confirmed that our thoughts and emotions have very real physiological consequences. What does this mean for medicine in the 21st century? Among other things, that many potions of choice might be produced by our minds and delivered without prescription drugs.
What Is Healing Touch Therapy?
For pain, sprains, broken bones and even surgical wounds, healing touch continues to gain clout as an energy medicine that helps the body heal itself.
7 Ways to Protect Your Mitochondria
Caring for your mitochondria is one of the best ways to take care of your health — and enjoy better energy, metabolism, and mental focus in the process. Discover how you can be nice to your mighty mitochondria.
In Depth With Sara Gottfried, MD (Video)
The best-selling author of The Hormone Cure shares more insights on the importance of balancing our hormones and the profound effect they can have on our overall health and well-being.
Behind the Scenes With Sara Gottfried, MD (Video)
Integrative- and functional-medicine pioneer Sara Gottfried, MD, shares her personal struggle with imbalanced hormones, and how what she learned from her own treatment protocol has informed more than a decades-worth of work helping women, as well as her best-selling book The Hormone Cure.
6 Plant-Based Ways to Fight Inflammation — Naturally
Avoiding NSAIDs like Ibuprofen and naproxen because of their potential side effects? Here are botanical alternatives that may fit the bill.
Beating Lyme Disease
For patients with tick-borne diseases, the path to health can be confounding. Combining integrative and conventional approaches may be the best way forward.
Healing Spaces: How Our Surroundings Affect Health and Well-Being
Can the spaces in which we live, work, and recover from illness have an impact on healing and well-being? Integrative-medicine doctor Esther Sternberg says yes.
Horse Power: Equine-Assisted Therapy Retreats
Learn about yourself through equine eyes with hippotherapy.
Whole-Body Psychiatry: Nutrition for Mental Health
Mental health is not all in our heads. Nutrition is an oft-ignored — yet incredibly effective — way to manage mental illness, including schizophrenia.
7 Adaptogens for Health
Adaptogenic herbs like ginseng are great for battling stress and boosting your overall immunity, strength, and resilience.
The Problem With Acid-Blocking Drugs
Senior editor Anjula Razdan on how acid-blocking drugs can lead to a vitamin B12 deficiency.
What Is Functional Medicine?
Many people are finding better health solutions with functional medicine, a new model for how to practice medicine and treat chronic disease.
TAKING NOTES: @FXMed Conference x3
Senior editor Courtney Helgoe shares her top three takeaways from the Institute for Functional Medicine’s latest conference.