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Dr. Mimi Guarneri of the Scripps Center for Integrative Medicine talks about how Integrative Medicine is applicable to all healthcare issues.
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Idea for Bloating
Birgit Rakel, M.D.
Jefferson-Myrna Brind Center of Integrative Medicine
If you're experiencing bloating, try boiling two tablespoons fennel seeds in two cups of water for at least three minutes, strain the seeds, and add honey to taste. Then, drink.
Health As Balance
Esther M. Sternberg, MD
Rheumatologist, researcher, and author of The Balance Within
Excerpted from The New Medicine Interviews
Health is really a balance. I think most people think about health as simply the absence of disease, but it’s a lot more than that when you really think about what it is to be healthy. Disease occurs when the body has to deal with all sorts of insults: bacteria, viruses, stress, psychological stress. We’re walking through a very dirty soup every day of our lives.
We’re exposed to all sorts of things that can turn on the body’s disease response systems. And that’s normal. You need to have that. The whole body is set up to respond to these insults and then get back to normal, get back to some balance. So, health lies not only in the body’s response to these insults, to disease, but in setting itself back to a state of balance.