Functional/Integrative Medicine

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."

By Experience Life Staff

Functional/Integrative Medicine General Health

Mark Hyman smiles in his cover shot for Experience Life magazine.

Mark Hyman: Take Care of Yourself

Functional-medicine pioneer Mark Hyman, MD, is doing his best to help you avoid the doctor altogether.

By Heidi Wachter

Functional/Integrative Medicine General Health

Businesswoman practicing mindfulness meditation at her desk

How Your Thoughts and Emotions Affect Your Health

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.

By Pamela Weintraub

Functional/Integrative Medicine General Health

a healing touch therapist places her hands on persons calf

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.

By Jennifer Pedalty

Functional/Integrative Medicine Pain Relief

a person cuts veggies to support his mitochondrial function

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.

By the Experience Life Team

Functional/Integrative Medicine General Health

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.

By Experience Life Staff

Functional/Integrative Medicine General Health

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.

By Experience Life Staff

Functional/Integrative Medicine General Health

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.

By the Experience Life Team

Arthritis & Joint Health Functional/Integrative Medicine

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.

By Pamela Weintraub

Autoimmunity Functional/Integrative Medicine

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.

By Esther Sternberg, MD

Functional/Integrative Medicine Recovery

Equine Therapy: How Horses Can Help Heal

Explore how equine-assisted therapy (hippotherapy) helps people build confidence, quiet anxiety, and find calm through powerful connection with horses.

By Terri Trespicio

Functional/Integrative Medicine Mental Health

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.

By Kristin Ohlson

Functional/Integrative Medicine Mental Health