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Commentary: Strategic Tax Planning for Physicians
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Microbiome Discovery: You Are What You Eat … As a Child
Eating a poor diet as a child can alter one’s microbiome for life, even if one learns to eat healthier
Despite Lockdown Anxiety, Many Experience Positive Aspects of the Pandemic
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Nocturnal High Systolic Blood Pressure May Pose Dementia Risk in Older Men
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Pregnant Women with COVID-19 Develop Antibodies but Transfer to Newborns is Low
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Post COVID-19: Lifestyle Management at the Individual Level is Critical to Combating Non-Communicable Diseases
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Omega-3 Index Studied in COVID-19 Patients
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Nanofiber Swabs could Improve SARS-CoV-2 Test Sensitivity
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DISCOVERY: Coconut Oil Synthesis in the Liver
Among paleo and keto food followers, coconut oil is often the preferred fat of choice, although its alleged health benefits
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Genetically Weakened Skin Barrier Increases Risk of Skin Cancer and Diseases
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Pregnant Women with COVID-19 Develop Antibodies but Transfer to Newborns is Low
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DISCOVERY: Coconut Oil Synthesis in the Liver
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High-Oleic Fatty Acid Foods May Help Multiple Sclerosis Patients
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Researchers Define Five COVID-19 Variants
According to current studies, SARS-CoV-2 comprises at least five different variants. COVID-19 variants differ in how the immune system responds
CDC Launches COVID-19 Survivors’ Study on Long-Term Effects
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DISCOVERY: Nature Med Study Connects Gut Microbes with Biomarkers of Disease
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A Lifestyle Program Like No Other
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New Study Shows High Accuracy of Medical Intuition
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Risk of Bone Fracture May Increase with Decline in Enzymatic Processes
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COVID and Long-Term Brain Disorders: What We Know & How to Learn More
As doctors begin to see more and more patients with long-term impact from the COVID-19 virus (so called long-haulers), it’s
The Andrew Weil Center: Primary Engine for the (Global) Growth of Academic Integrative Medicine
The Integrator Top 10 list ten years ago honored the work of what is now the University of Arizona Andrew
Successfully Launch An Online Wellness Education and Lifestyle Medicine Program
Since the pandemic, they way you manage your patient relationships, their wellness goals and market your practice has no doubt
The Andrew Weil Center: Primary Engine for the (Global) Growth of Academic Integrative Medicine
The Integrator Top 10 list ten years ago honored the work of what is now the University of Arizona Andrew Weil Center for Integrative Medicine. I apologized then for the oversight in not honoring the Weil Center leadership earlier. In truth, I might have done so virtually every year. The
Integrative Medicine’s Most Intentional Intersection: SIO and ASCO to Produce 3 New Oncology Guidelines
The early “integrative medicine” period clearly was one of “non-integrated integration.” The hospital or insurer wanted to throw the consumer an integrative bone in the competitive marketplace. They produced stand-alone integrative clinics or a carve-out insurance products. Offerings, in these forms, serve dual purposes. The medical delivery organization or insurer
John Weeks on “Why You Didn’t Get Hit up to Subscribe:” Gratitude to the Integrator Sponsors 2006-2020
From time to time someone will assume my writing of the Integrator is a “labor of love.” There is something in that, for sure. Yet the truth is that the Integrator Blog News & Reports would have been stillborn if I wasn’t paid for the work. In piecing together from
Big Duh People! Chiaramonte-Adler Guide a Special Issue Linking Integrative Care and Palliative Medicine
Sometimes synergies call for a solid moment of appreciation. In early 2019, Delia Chiaramonte, MD, an educator and integrative doctor who works in palliative medicine pinged me under my journal editor hat. How about a special issue of JACM-Paradigm Practice and Policy Advancing Integrative Health to highlight “integrative palliative care”?
The VA’s Fast Track for Integrative Health from Evidence to Implementation: Reflections on a Special Issue of Medical Care
Tracking the inclusion of integrative strategies inside the Veteran’s Administration (VA) is an exception to the saying that a watched pot never boils. Integrative health research inside the VA funded in 2016 was the basis by which VA leaders chose 3 years later to more than triple the implementation of
Giving Trauma It’s Due in Education, Diagnostic, and Treatment Processes: The THEN Effort
Many years ago, an integrative colleague and adviser – my spouse! – explained something to me about an important part of her lengthy integrative intake process. The time is needed to build trust to have the patient divulge what is going on at the time a chronic condition set its