Mark Hyman, MD, shares how his own health issues lead him to functional medicine, and why he now considers food and community to be our most powerful “medicines.”
This Valentine’s Day, surprise your partner (or anyone you love!) with the gift of a relaxing neck massage.
Caring for your mitochondria is one of the best ways to take care of your health —and enjoy better energy, metabolism, and mental focus in the process.
The best-selling author of The Hormone Cure shares more insights on the importance of balancing our hormones and the profound effect they can have on our overall health and well-being.
A recent Harvard report finds that sugar pills can greatly reduce migraine symptoms — even when the patient knows the pill is a fake.
Integrative- and functional-medicine pioneer Sara Gottfried, MD, shares her personal struggle with imbalanced hormones, and how what she learned from her own treatment protocol has informed more than a decades-worth of work helping women, as well as her best-selling book The Hormone Cure.
Avoiding NSAIDS like Ibuprofen and naproxen because of their potential side effects? Here are botanical alternatives that may fit the bill.
Common signals you shouldn’t ignore.
For patients with tick-borne diseases, the path to health can be confounding. Combining integrative and conventional approaches may be the best way forward.
Can the spaces in which we live, work, and recover from illness have an impact on healing and well-being? Integrative-medicine doctor Esther Sternberg says yes.
Acupressure accesses the body’s subtle energy layers to let health and well-being flow.
Discover the five simple words that helped Christy Rice overcome a decades-long impulse disorder.
Mental health is not all in our heads. Nutrition is an oft-ignored — yet incredibly effective — way to manage mental illness, including schizophrenia.
Get an inside look at Casie Leigh Lukes’s notes on nutrition and autism from The Future of Nutrition Conference.
Senior editor Anjula Razdan on how acid-blocking drugs can lead to a vitamin B12 deficiency.
Many people are finding better health solutions with functional medicine, a new model for how to practice medicine and treat chronic disease.
Senior editor Courtney Helgoe shares her top three takeaways from the Institute for Functional Medicine’s latest conference.
Experience Life senior editor Anjula Razdan shares her top 20 takeaways from the recent @FXMed Conference in Minneapolis.
Editor’s Note: The Institute for Functional Medicine hosted the “Applying Functional Medicine in Clinical Practice” conference in Minneapolis the week of September 16, 2013. Three of Experience Life’s senior editors were able to attend throughout the week. This conference was overflowing with amazing information. It is geared primarily for healthcare providers, so attending it as… Read more »
Holistic dentists take a whole-person approach to dental care — and an integrated view of the mouth’s connection with the rest of the body.
Listen in as Experience Life editor and chief Pilar Gerasimo discusses the rise of integrative medicine with Patricia Fitzgerald.