While medical providers often recommend the use of supplements for patients with nutritional deficiencies of some kind, integrative medicine is becoming more and more interested in expanding outside this one-track approach. As a result, in…
We talked last week about how supplements are being used more and more by people, and how, especially in integrative medicine, supplements are increasingly being prescribed by providers to patients as part of whole-person care. …
I was just a few days into working from home with my two-year-old in the house and the meltdown was pretty epic. Embarrassingly, the meltdown was all mine and not my daughter’s. After a pretty…
In recent decades the medical community has embraced the use of supplements as a part of a normal, functioning health routine. In fact, up to 86% of American adults now take supplements and one survey…
Last week our team was proud to publish a blog post from the perspective of physicians, offering an inside look at how medical providers harness the power of placebo and amplify it with seven simple…
Modern medicine, which is so powerful in treating acute disease, is missing nearly 80 percent of what contributes to healing for patients with complex, multi-factorial, chronic disease. Drugs do not heal these patients. The inherent…
As we’ve discussed the placebo response the past couple weeks—and how physicians can harness that power in their manner and behaviors—it is important to recognize the immense impact that cultural context can have on our…
Let's be clear: an inert treatment cannot cause a biological response. Sugar pills and fake needles or sham surgeries do not heal. Healing comes from the meaning and the context in which these various treatments…
Few terms have been more misused and caused more confusion than placebo and the placebo effect. Placebo is most commonly defined as an inert substance such as a sugar pill or an injection of salt-water…
It’s official. The US News and World Report have, yet again, ranked the Mediterranean diet as #1--not only for “best overall diet” for 2020 but in several subcategories including “best diet for healthy eating”, “best…
