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NCCIH Director Langevin’s Brilliant Whole-Person Health Plenary and the Call for Comments on the 2021-2026 Strategic Plan: Due June 30

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The paradigm-exploring brilliance of the whole-person health focus National Center for Complementary and Integrative Health (NCCIH) director Helene Langevin, MD chose to kick off public comments on the agency’s 2021-2026 Strategic Plan sneaks up on you. In her virtual keynote, Langevin engages her audience with a fireside chat type conversationalRead

Lori Knutson, Civilian Medicine’s Top Integrative System Builder, Joins Former VA Leader Gaudet at Alice Walton’s Whole Health Institute: An Update

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The surprising news last August that Tracy Gaudet, MD was leaving the Veterans Administration where she birthed the transformational Whole Health program was leavened on learning that Gaudet would partner with the world’s wealthiest woman, Alice Walton. Together they would form the Whole Health Institute with a goal of nothingRead

Growing Your List to Grow Your Practice

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Whether you run an integrative or functional medicine practice, or market other services or products related to the field, building an email subscriber list is critical to grow your practice and to the health of your organization. The Gold is in The List Growing your ‘list’ grows your integrative healthRead

Mapping a Healthcare Frontier: CHI Illuminates Science and Action in $2.8-Billion Energy Medicine Industry

In the minds of many in the dominant school of medicine, all of integrative medicine is frontier science. That bias often holds that the integrative frontier toward which one may sail is a chimera. Yet new continents have been found. Witness findings supporting acupuncture effectiveness and telomere lengthening through meditation.Read

Vitamin D and COVID-19 for Patient Health Measures

Vitamin D and colorectal cancer

The world is in the grip of the COVID-19 pandemic. Public health measures that can reduce the risk of infection and death in addition to quarantines are desperately needed. This narrative reviews the roles of vitamin D in reducing the risk of respiratory tract infections, knowledge about the epidemiology ofRead

Teen Obesity Linked to Thrombus Later in Life

Men with a history of obesity in their late teens are, in adult life, more at risk of a blood clot (thrombus) in a leg or lung, according to a study from the University of Gothenburg study shows. This article on teen obesity shows the risk rises successively and isRead

Case Study: Holistic Approach to Chronic Inflammation

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In this case study by Gloria Hettige, PhD from our partners at Integrative Medicine, A Clinician’s Journal, a patient was faced with chronic inflammation for number of years, unable to work and mostly bed bound, this fifty- two year old woman decided to look elsewhere for answers after exhausting allRead

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