What is Integrative Medicine?

Integrative Medicine can be defined as, “a broad domain of healing resources that encompasses all health systems, modalities, and practices and their accompanying theories and beliefs, other than those intrinsic to the politically dominant health systems of a particularsociety or culture in a given historical period.”

These and other integrative approaches to maintaining a healthy lifestyle may prevent serious illness and challenging medical treatments.

This is an important point. Integrative medicine is built on the recognition that health is a state of physical, mental, emotional and spiritual wellbeing that enables engagement with life in accordance with how an individual wants to live.

Ralph Snyderman, MD