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"Imagine a world in which medicine was oriented toward healing rather than disease, where doctors believed in the natural healing capacity of human beings and emphasized prevention above treatment. In such a world doctors and patients would be partners working toward the same ends." ~ Andrew Weil, MD
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There are diverse Health Care modalities that help unlock the aging code within the human genome to maximize our human potential. Understanding the four bodies that make our humanity is key to health, quality of life and longevity. It is our belief that we can limit damage to the DNA and repair what harm is done, allowing us to maximize our genetic potential.
It is our philosophy that diverse health care modalities work in conjunction with each other as part of a unified team rather than in competition. This Integrative Health Care approach ultimately will lead to safer, faster and more effective Health Care and Health Care cost. The combined knowledge of old and new healing modalities is ultimately superior to a single model approach.
Integrative Health Care combines the wisdom of ancient healing with the discipline of modern science. For people living with chronic or life-threatening illness, it can transform the physical, emotional, mental and spiritual life dimensions. Integrative Health Care is also valuable to those who are not ill but wish to understand and prevent health-related problems, therefore maximize their genetic potential. Preventive Medicine is the first step to health worldwide.
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Excerpt from ‘Healing and The Mind’ ~ Bill Moyers
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DEAN ORNISH, M.D., is Assistant Clinical Professor of Medicine and President and Director of the Preventive Medicine Research Institute at the School of Medicine, University of California, San Francisco, and an attending physician at the California Pacific Medical Center in San Francisco. His research has demonstrated for the first time that coronary heart disease can be reversed without the use of drugs or surgery. He is the author of Dr. Dean Omish's Programfor Reversing Heart Disease.
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MOYERS: How do you think our health care system has to change in the future?
ORNISH: In many ways, the health care system is in the same crisis that patients are in when they have a heart attack. I have heard that in Chinese, the same word means both "crisis" and "opportunity." We are not really seeing the current health care crisis as an opportunity.
MOYERS: By "crisis," are you referring to the expense and to all the people who can't get access to good medical care?
ORNISH: Exactly. Our health care system involves a kind of rationing. People don't even want to change their jobs because they're afraid they'll lose their medical insurance, and if they don't have insurance, they know they'll lose access to health care, or that health care costs might bankrupt them. Before health care costs were so high, we didn't pay much attention to the health care system. But now even corporations and insurance companies and the government are looking for alternatives. We have a real window of opportunity to take a closer look at how powerful these very low-cost and low-tech interventions can be.
MOYERS: Prevention.
ORNISH: Not only prevention, but even treatment. A bypass costs $30,000 to $40,000. An angioplasty, $10,000―and that's without complications. Cholesterol-lowering drugs can cost $1,500 a year per person. You multiply those numbers by the 60 million Americans whose cholesterol levels are too high, and you're talking about billions of dollars every year. Last year alone, we spent 12 billion dollars on bypass surgery, even though we know that within five years, half of bypasses clog up and need to be redone. Within four to six months, 30 to 40 percent of the angioplastied arteries need to be redone―and we do four hundred thousand of those a year at a cost of four billion dollars. Now what I'm interested in studying is whether approaches like the ones we use here can be not only medically effective, but also cost effective. You don't need any special equipment. You don't need an exercise machine―we're taking about walking. You need maybe a mat to do stretching and a chair to do meditation in. This diet costs less than a conventional American diet, because meat is really the most expensive part of most people's diet.
Another opportunity in this low-cost approach is for minorities and lower socioeconomic groups and women, the only groups in our country for whom heart disease is increasing rather than declining. These are the people with the least access to drugs and surgery. Ninety-one percent of the bypass surgery last year was done on white males, generally upper-middle-class males, even though heart disease affects as many women as men. So the people who can least afford conventional medical care are the ones who can benefit most by making life-style changes.
MOYERS: So in your model of the emerging health care system, patients are much more involved in their own health.
ORNISH: Absolutely. So much of what I am trained to do as a doctor puts patients in the position of being the passive recipients of health care. They're not really doing things for themselves, we're just doing things to them. Instead, we could give people choices that would empower them. Knowing what we now know, if we could put into widespread practice the kinds of life-style changes that we're talking about, I think 95 percent of heart disease could be prevented. But life-style changes can happen only through the patient; they can't be done to the patient.
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Integrative Health Care is healing-oriented medicine that exist to serve the needs of the community by bringing together the best of conventional and complementary therapies to create a better life. It also educates Western Medicine physicians to help them become instrumental in the enhancement of the medical education and the Health Care system with the goal of excellence in healthcare.
What is Integrative Health Care?
The mission of Integrative Health Care is to combine the best ideas and practices of alternative, complementary, conventional and traditional medicine in order to maximize the body's natural healing mechanisms.
- It seeks to bring back the focus of medicine on health and healing rather than disease and treatment
- It regards patients as Whole People—physical, emotional, mental and spiritual bodies—including these in the diagnosis and treatment of illness
- It recognizes the healing responsibility as a true partnership between patient and practitioner; addressing healing on all levels—especially lifestyle factors such as diet, exercise, stress-management, quality of sleep, relationships, and work
- It integrates efficient, dependable, low-tech methods especially when conventional approaches can be relatively ineffective or have potentially harmful side effects
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The practice of Integrative Health Care can be described in the following steps:
- Intestinal/Colon Cleansing and Detox clears the internal organs
- Nasal Irrigation clears the breathing pathway
- Alkaline Body, Ayurveda, Coconut Oil, Herbology, Macrobiotics and Nutrition fuel the body providing balance and understanding of the environment
- Western Medicine provides diagnostics and supports healing the physical body
- Internal Qigong gathers external life energy into the body
- Balance Ball, Chiropractic, Massage, Martial Arts, T'ai Chi, Yoga and Zen Stretching make the body flexible and strong
- Acupuncture, Essential Oils, Flower Essences, Pranic/Qigong Energy Healing and Shiatsu clears and balances the flow of life energy
- Kundalini Yoga distributes life energy up the spine into the brain and the Crown chakra
- Superbrain Yoga balances subtle energy flow through the brain lobes
- Pranayama energizes the breath balancing internal subtle energy
- Channeling, Meditation and Zen practice clears the spiritual path
- Arhatic Yoga develops the subtle intuition
- Sacred Geometry and Spiritual Pilgrimage puts it all into perspective
Integrative healthcare modalities are key to health, quality of life and longevity.
“First, say to yourself what you would be;
then do what you have to do.” ~ Epictetus
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