Functional medicine is the new language of medicine through which chronic disease can be reversed and health can be optimized. It is highly personalized and seeks to understand the individual’s entire history so that basic functions of the body can be brought back into balance, thus reducing or eliminating symptoms of chronic disease.
Continue reading – Functional Medicine – The Science of Optimizing Health and Reversing Disease →
Fatigue. It’s become all too common. From debilitating fatigue (chronic fatigue syndrome) to waking tiredness, fatigue is contributing to significant inefficiencies at work, problems with concentration, personal performance, and relationships.
On January 24, Henri Roca, MD, and the Greenwich Hospital Integrative Medicine Program will present Your Health and the National Significance. The presentation will discuss the key drivers of our increasing health care costs, the role we each play in our nation’s economic health, how integrative medicine can help solve this dilemma, and specific actions that each of us can take to optimize our personal health and help the nation.
Continue reading – EVENT: International Integrative Medicine Day on January 24 →
Good health is built from a series of individual choices we make on a daily basis. As we age, good health is something we think about more often, treasure deeply. We invest in our health rather than take it for granted.
We usually have many medicines in our medicine cabinet. This year during cold and flu season, it may be better to have a “Health and Healing Cabinet” on hand.
The goal this year – and every winter season – is to enhance health and ward off symptoms. We must plan that most of us will be exposed to the flu. Our goal is to enhance immunity so that there will be few to no symptoms even if there is exposure.
Continue reading – The Golden 10: Have These On-Hand for Cold and Flu Season →
QUESTION: “What can I do to prevent and treat my seasonal allergies other than conventional medicines?”
Answer by Integrative Clinical Pharmacist Scott Berliner, RPh, and Medical Director Henri Roca, MD:
Seasonal allergies can surely put a damper on energy and vitality. Allergies are a series of symptoms caused by irritation from outside triggers. Continue reading – QUESTION: Seasonal Allergies? →
IV vitamin and mineral therapy, often referred to as a Myers cocktail, has been used for countless individuals over the past four decades. Each cocktail recipe is tailored to address specific symptoms, such as chronic fatigue, anxiety, insomnia, muscle aches, pains, muscle spasms and twitches. Intravenous vitamin and mineral therapy can also be useful for: diarrhea and constipation, asthma, allergies, skin hives, migraines, autoimmune diseases, neurological disorders, adrenal fatigue and problems with toxins and detoxification. Individuals who are recovering from international travel, colds and flu, or strenuous athletic performance may also find this therapy useful. This therapy currently is not specifically designed as a chelation treatment although the enhanced B vitamins may help support liver detoxification processes.
Continue reading – A “Nutritional Rocket” Combats That Tired, Achy Feeling →
