Functional/Integrative Medicine
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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.
TAKING NOTES: 20 Things Overheard at the Functional Medicine Conference
Experience Life senior editor Anjula Razdan shares her top 20 takeaways from the recent @FXMed Conference in Minneapolis.
TAKING NOTES: @FXMed’s “Applying Functional Medicine in Clinical Practice” Conference (Part 1)
Editor’s Note: The Institute for Functional Medicine hosted the “Applying Functional Medicine in Clinical Practice” conference in Minneapolis the week…
Find Calm With Tapping (EFT)
You can use the Emotional Freedom Technique (EFT) as a daily practice to help you deal with workday stress.
What Is Holistic Dentistry?
Holistic dentists take a whole-person approach to dental care — and an integrated view of the mouth’s connection with the rest of the body.
Why Your Microbiome Matters
The microbiome is made up of trillions of organisms that live on and within you. And they can make or break your health.
Integrative Oncology: A Healthier Way to Fight Cancer
Integrative oncology enhances conventional treatment strategies. And its lessons could help more of us avoid cancer entirely.
Pilar Gerasimo shares the health benefits of probiotics on WCCO-TV (Video)
The Experience Life editor in chief discusses good sources of naturally occurring probiotics.
The Healing Power of Sleep
New science shows that sleep is essential to our mental and physical health — and most of us aren’t getting enough.
Come Fly with Me
It’s been more fun to fly since I’ve been following a self-care routine.
Letting the Sunshine In: Susan Zemke’s Success Story
How correcting a serious vitamin-D deficiency helped one woman transform her life.
Hormone Stress Test
How a cortisol test can help you evaluate whether your stress levels are cause for concern.
Frank Lipman, MD, on Foods to Eliminate for Better Health
“King of Smoothies” Peter Sarsgaard and Dr. Frank Lipman discuss weight loss.