Nutrition and Integrative Medicine : A Primer for Clinicians

While medical professionals continue to practice traditional allopathic medicine, the public has turned towards integrative medical alternatives. Physicians must be informed to evaluate nutritional supplements, healing therapies, and dietary approaches for patients. This book provides clinicians with a guide on evaluating and recommending nutritional as well as integrative therapies. It discusses the gut microbiome, dental connection to health, nutrition in the immune system, nutrition and the brain, and intravenous nutrition therapy. Integrative healing methods include acupuncture, meditation, yoga, sound and light healing, essential oils, and bioenergetics of foods.

While medical professionals continue to practice traditional allopathic medicine, the public has turned toward nutritional and integrative medical therapies, especially for addressing the proliferation of chronic diseases. Written by leaders in the academic and scientific world, Nutrition and Integrative Medicine: A Primer for Clinicians presents various modalities to help restore health. This book provides users with a guide to evaluating and recommending nutritional and integrative therapies.

The book offers insights on the microbiome of the human body, examines the relationship of human health to the microbiome of the food we ingest, and introduces the concept of "food as information." It provides enlightenment on anti-aging and healing modalities, mind–body medicine, and an investigation of psychological trauma as related to disease causation. Integrative therapies, including water, light, and sound therapy, are explored, and information on healing chronic disease through nutrition, the tooth–body connection, the role of toxins in disease causation, and electromagnetic field hypersensitivity, as well as its management, is presented.