The Doctor Is In! During his inaugural radio show, bestselling author and world-renowned health care pioneer Andrew Weil, M.D. explains what integrative medicine is, offers tips for finding a local doctor who practices this innovative approach to health and healing, and so much more. Going to the doctor was never this exciting!
Does yellow make you smile? Learn how therapists have adapted color therapy to heal and rebalance your life.
Ever wonder what the best method is for curing a bee sting or a jellyfish sting? Well wonder no more, the answer is, vinegar. Learn how apple vinegar is giving a whole new meaning to the phrase “an apple a day…..”
Treatment for cancer can be energy-draining, to say the least, and challenging in physical, spiritual, and emotional ways. While medical science continues to have breakthroughs, many doctors will tell you that recovery from any serious medical condition, including cancer, is intimately linked with the patient's ability to remain hopeful and believe that healing will occur.
In this light, GreatYoga.com “Life Goes Om” program seems quite appealing. This relatively new altruistic venture aims to help cancer patients maintain hope during the recovery process by practicing yoga. The way it works is simple: participating yoga studios agree to allow anyone currently undergoing cancer treatment to take classes for free. By practicing yoga, cancer patients can nurture a peaceful mind and cultivate the emotional and spiritual strength to see recovery through to its end.
In this week's PBS documentary, The New Medicine, American doctors - from major institutions like Duke and Harvard - expressed the importance of a shift from impersonal technology-based care to a softer, mind-body approach. While the ideas related in the broadcast - the mind has the power to heal the body, patients have quicker recoveries when they are treated as an individuals with feelings and history - are illustrative of the country's increasing acceptance of integrative medicine, they are also far from revolutionary.
Author Mitchell Gaynor talks about the healing power of music.
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