John WeeksRecently long-time integrative health author, system-consultant and pioneer Roger Jahnke, OMD urged me to "resurrect" a document from the early years of integrative health called the Design Principles for Healthcare Renewal. It wasn't until I...
John WhitcombWe got it! It’s BDNF! Brain derived neurotrophic factor. That’s the key to preserving memory and brain health as we age. It’s a name we all need to become familiar with as I’m certain new research will blossom from this paper. This is the link with...
Brain health is important. Fifty percent of us will have Alzheimer’s by the time we are 85 if we don’t do something about it. Eating fish just once a week may help with that, according to new research reported on in USA today this week. But there is...
Rick Kirschner, Author of Click! on the Debate over ABIM and the MD’s Integrative Medicine Specialty
Best-selling author and speaker Rick Kirschner did not know, until I told him, about the debate over the Arizona Center for Integrative Medicine's decision to create a formal MD specialty in integrative medicine. For 25 years Kirschner has made his...
For a column that has spent some effort to advocate for Vitamin D and its benefits, it’s important for us to also know where our upper limit is. What is toxic? I get that question all the time and we haven’t had a clear answer. Now we do! It’s...
Integrative community dialogue on board certified integrative MDs and the direction of "integrative medicine" ... Congressional Wellness Caucus established with bipartisan backing ... Obama names Kahn and Ornish to Advisory Group for National...
When it comes to motivation, money may be the queen among carrots and pain the king among sticks. Both financial gain and human pain may soon be promoting more rapid uptake of integrative medicine by mainstream organizations according to...
Iceman, or Otzi, had a bad day. He had just gotten away from his chasers and stopped at the very top of the pass on the border of what is now Italy and Austria in 3200 BC. He had made it all the way to the top of the mountain and was now stopping...
Some integrative medicine leaders view the patient centered medical home (PCMH) as an optimal environment for expressing an integrative practice. Obama's Affordable Care Act included specific language that invited operators of PCMHs to include...
The discussion of the origins, intentions and ramifications of the move to create a formal integrative medicine specialty through the American Board of Integrative Medicine (ABIM) produced 5 additional, especially thoughtful responses.
