Functional/Integrative Medicine
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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: 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.
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.
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.
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.
Heartburn Alert: The Dangers of Proton-Pump Inhibitors
Eye-opening statistics about remedies for digestive issues.
How Olive Oil Can Affect Genes
How olive oil can reduce the inflammatory response associated with obesity, type 2 diabetes and more.
Increase Fertility, Naturally
Nine practical strategies for boosting fertility and supporting a healthy pregnancy.
How Acupuncture Helps to Relieve Stress
Maybe getting stuck with needles doesn’t sound like stress-relief to you. But many people swear it’s the most rejuvenating body treatment ever.
5 Ways to Prevent and Treat Eczema in Children
Discover natural solutions and treatments for childhood eczema.
Kicking Candida
Some call it an invisible epidemic. When Candida albicans, a family of yeastlike fungi that lives in our digestive tracts, multiplies out of control, it causes mysterious symptoms and serious health woes for women, men and children. Is it breeding in you?
Cancer’s Favorite Sugar
The average American eats 70 grams of fructose per day — a number triple the recommended daily limit.
5 Healing Spices
A biochemist born and raised in India shares his passion for aromatic spices and their extraordinary health benefits. Here are five favorites, available in any grocery store, that can help treat and prevent a surprising number of diseases.
Insights from Jill Bolte Taylor’s Stroke of Genius
Discover the transformative power of understanding the brain through Jill Bolte Taylor’s book, My Stroke of Insight. Follow Kris Carr’s journey of healing and self-discovery, finding inspiration in embracing life’s challenges and tapping into the body’s innate healing wisdom.




















