ABSTRACT

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.

section I|288 pages

Nutritional and Functional Medicine

chapter 4|27 pages

Toxicology

Exploring the Concept of Exogenous and Endogenous Toxins

chapter 5|27 pages

Environmental Toxins and Chronic Illness

Clinical Management Using Traditional and Allostatic Load-Based Approaches

chapter 6|27 pages

Neuroprotection, Aging, and the Gut–Brain Axis

Translating Traditional Wisdom from the Mediterranean Diet into Evidence-Based Clinical Applications

chapter 7|21 pages

The Dental Connection to Health

Dental and Gingival Health and Its Relation to Chronic Illness

section II|480 pages

Integrative Medicine

chapter 10|28 pages

Revisioning Cellular Bioenergetics

Food as Information and the Light-Driven Body

chapter 12|18 pages

Ayurvedic Medicine

An Integrative Approach

chapter 13|9 pages

An Introduction to Ayurveda

Marma Therapy

chapter 14|6 pages

Chinese Medicine and Acupuncture

chapter 15|30 pages

Yoga and Healing

Yogic Asanas, Breath, Mudras, and Their Relation to Human Anatomy and Subtle Anatomy

chapter 17|15 pages

Meditation, Neurobiological Changes, Genes, and Health

A New Paradigm for the Healthcare System

chapter 18|9 pages

The Fourth Phase of Water

Implications for Energy, Life, and Health

chapter 20|27 pages

Healing with Light

chapter 22|28 pages

Electromagnetic Hygiene

chapter 25|18 pages

Psychological Trauma

Integrating Somatic and Psychological Methods to Treatment

part |16 pages

Part I: Introduction to General Background

part |8 pages

Part II: Clinical Implications of Human Papilloma Virus-Type 16

chapter 30|25 pages

Nutritional and Alternative Medicine

Legal and Ethical Considerations