An Integrative Approach to Health - It's Not An Either/Or, It's An And!

You don’t have to choose one or the other when it comes to “treatment”.  This is NOT an “either/or”, not a “this or that”.  It’s an “and” -  “this and that”!

Come Together - Integrative Approach to Health

I hear all the time, either from doctors or patients that they are giving a choice of “you either do conventional standard of care or you do “alternative/complementary care”, you can’t do both.  

As a patient I have been “fired” by my provider because I was using a Physician and a Naturopathic Doctor.  When my Physician found out that I was also working with a Naturopathic Doctor to supplement my care with holistic options like nutrition and vitamins she immediately “fired” me and told me I had to find a new Physician. I was given an ultimatum to choose between taking a prescription medicine to resolve my issue or a vitamin.  Why can’t I do both?  Why can’t I manage the health issue right now with medicine, but better my health with lifestyle choices like better nutrition and supplements to hopefully not have to take the medicine long term?  Why do I have to choose “either/or”?

Today I envision a future for Integrative Medicine.

An approach that evaluates the person’s constitution, their life history, and their current spiritual challenges, their current diet and lifestyle, environmental factors, in addition to their medical diagnosis and lab results. 

The whole person needs to be taken into consideration before even selecting the right treatments. Everything about it is personalized, based on the body’s response. This is what it means by letting the patient lead the care. We need an integrated function, with a slower approach. You cannot heal the body overnight when there are several imbalances, not just the disease. It will take time for it to work. Especially since we have limited studies on Complementary and Alternative therapies.  The government has prevented a lot of that from happening.  I mean, there is not a ton of funding for curcumin in a capsule or cannabis as medicine. But we must address the root cause of any health condition.

Integrative medicine is an approach that combines all the best therapeutic tools and applies them based on each patient’s unique needs. There is a growing body of research noting the benefits of an integrative healthcare model, and more patients seem to be searching for an individualized and human-centered healthcare philosophy. Every therapeutic option works better, and patient outcomes improve, when we’re all working together and are aware of each other’s treatment strategies. 

Maintaining a wall between conventional Standard of Care and integrative therapies only achieves one outcome; patients feel caught in the middle. Let’s create a model that provides actual health care, not solely disease management. I want to provide the empowerment for lifestyle change and the therapies that help patients become well again. 

Too often, people feel they must pick one or the other. They choose herbal medicine instead of chemotherapy, or they pursue chemotherapy and radiation and do nothing on the nutritional and integrative side. People shouldn’t have to make these either-or decisions. Those choices only hurt patients. 

As a Nurse Consultant, I take my patients farther and achieve better results when we work together - Standard of Care and Integrative Therapies. When it comes to finding the best solution for their health journey, patients need to be at the center. Patients need to feel comfortable assembling all their practitioners, their lab results, their unique risk factors, and their deeply personal goals, and then collaborate to create the treatment strategy that works best for them. 

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