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Below are the best articles we could find on Integrative Medicine.

Integrative medicine (IM) combines alternative methods of health care with conventional methods, providing the patient with a larger set of best practice choices to fit needs and conditions. Integrative practices may be based on ancient wisdom; supernatural ideas; use of herbs; the body’s own healing mechanisms; alternative healing techniques such as acupuncture, mindfulness techniques, diets, or movement; and guided therapies. Complementary medicine (CM), complementary and alternative medicine (CAM), integrated medicine or alternative medicine (AM), and holistic medicine are among many alternate names used. It is also often considered synonymous with functional medicine.

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Exercise Is Medicine

Move your body for better health, especially before, during and after cancer treatment. Do whatever you can; it all helps (just don’t injure yourself!)

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Ordinary Initiations

“I’ve come to think that experiences of initiation are very common, very ordinary, very subtle. They happen to us all as a natural part of living.”

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A Time to Find Meaning

“Even when disease cannot be cured, there is often a way to use this difficult experience to know more intimately the value and purpose of your life.”

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A Touch of Massage Therapy

Reiki, a therapy in which hands are placed lightly on the body or just above it, is increasingly being used to reduce cancer-related fatigue, anxiety, nausea and pain.

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Can We Change Our Mental Health Genes?

Hyla Cass shares the words of William Walsh, a nutritional medicine expert.

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Why So Many Women Have Thyroid Problems

Thyroid health—we’re hearing a lot about it lately. Is it a fad? Hype? Or is there really something going on that we all need to be aware of?

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10 Signs You Might Have a Thyroid Problem

Almost all of us struggle with a little fatigue now and then, a few weight fluctuations, or the occasional blue mood. After all, we’re busy, it’s hard to get in all the yoga we dream of doing, and hey, life happens.

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Reiki Can’t Possibly Work. So Why Does It?

The energy therapy is now available in many hospitals. What its ascendance says about shifts in how American patients and doctors think about health care.

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The Future of Integrative Health and Medicine

Integrative health embraces a holistic model of care that treats the whole person; body, mind and spirit and recognizes that human health is intimately linked to planet health.

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Dr. Frank Lipman, MD, Functional Medicine Doctor

Wellness is much more than about what you eat and how many times a week you go to the gym.

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