As integrative medicine practitioners, we often do a hair analysis on most of our patients who have a chronic problem. The hair analysis as we all know determines the level of metal toxicity in the body. I have noticed that most patients have toxic levels of at least one metal usually lead, mercury, aluminum. Recently, [...]
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And How Should We Take Care of Ourselves as Doctors? A glimpse into integrative medicine
Posted in Integrative Medicine, tagged Doctor Health, health, Integrative Medicine, medicine on July 29, 2008 | 2 Comments »
Since 1994, I have been handling the exposure program of medical students on Integrative Medicine. Sometimes, the elective subject is called Alternative Medicine or Traditional and Alternative Health Care.But I tell the students, I prefer they remember the elective as Integrative Medicine —meaning there is a place for everyone. There is no one approach in medicine [...]
Try visiting an Integrative Primary Doctor
Posted in Integrative Medicine, tagged health, Integrative Medicine, medicine, Primary Care on July 27, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
Through Integrative Medicine, it is now possible that a wider array of diagnostics and therapeutics is available to doctor and patient. There is now an extension of what we all know as mainstream and conventional medicine. This practice is becoming more fulfilling to the doctors who have discovered this new wisdom. And I am sure [...]
Heart Rate Variability
Posted in Chronobiology, Integrative Medicine, tagged health, Heart Health, Heart Rate, medicine on July 27, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
Heart Rate Variability (HRV) is a measure of how our heart rate changes from beat to beat. Thus, it is not the heart rate that is measured but the interval between heart beats. The more our heart rate changes through the day, or the higher is our heart rate variability, the more flexible our heart [...]
A Rhythm Massage
Posted in Chronobiology, Integrative Medicine, Medical Massage, Rhythmical Massage, Therapy, tagged circadian, health, Integrative Medicine, living flow, massage, quality of sleep, rhythm, wellness on July 14, 2008 | 2 Comments »
Dr. Ita Wegman, who started as a masseur before becoming a medical doctor developed a specific massage called RHYTHMICAL MASSAGE. We have been doing this in our clinic for several years now, through our nurse who is a trained rhythmical massage therapist. We are fortunate that she has been able to receive her training from [...]
Chronobiology: Listening in to the body’s rhythm
Posted in Chronobiology, Integrative Medicine, Therapy, tagged body rhythm, Chronobiology, chronos, health, medicine, rhythm therapy, wellness on April 14, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
Chronobiology (from Greek Chronos, meaning time), the science that deals with time and rhythm in living organisms, reveals that there are biological cycles or rhythms that must be maintained for optimum health. The circadian rhythm or the day-and-night cycle coinciding with the rotation of the earth is one basic rhythm with significant influence on us. Our arbitrary shifting of day to night and night to day, or the disruption of this basic rhythm may work well for us for now but with potential health consequences in the future. We may have to pay for a rhythm debt, sooner or later.
It is rhythm that sustains us
Posted in Chronobiology, Integrative Medicine, Therapy, tagged body rhythm, Chronobiology, health, Integrative Medicine, Therapy, wellness on April 14, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
My passion these days is rhythm, and how it is sustaining us. I was listening to music by Laura Fygi, the Latin touch to accompany my practice. I decided to learn how to play drums and percussion instruments to help me understand rhythm even more. I realized that the drums with a sustaining rhythm is [...]
