I have always considered the placebo effect to be the sleeping giant of research and medical care. The placebo effect is essentially the meaning response that is induced by the context of treatment. The physiological,…
A diet and lifestyle program integrated with conventional medicine helps people live longer, better and healthier When MRIs (brain scans) taken after a car accident in 2000 showed that Noelle N. might have multiple sclerosis…
Dr. Wayne Jonas answers the questions that every person, who truly values their health, wants to know in his new video series #AskDrJonas. He is an integrative health and health care expert, practicing family physician, researcher,…
Most of what we think produces health actually does not. But there is an inherent healing capacity within us all that, when properly released, can produce remarkable recovery, health, and happiness. The healing process is…
Most of the treatments we think produce healing do not work when exposed to rigorous scientific scrutiny. Yet people often get better. Why? How? How Healing Works argues that the vast majority of healing comes from…
How would you describe your own medical education? I studied medicine in the late ’70s to the early ’80s and received the typical American mainstream medical education of the time. Knowledge was handed down from…
What is “integrative health”? As a physician who practices integrative health, I see my patients as whole people—within families, neighborhoods and communities. They work in partnership with me to determine their unique pathways to health…
Understanding Integrative Health Integrative health is the pursuit of personal health and wellbeing foremost, while addressing disease as needed, with the support of a health team dedicated to all proven approaches – conventional medicine, complementary…
