A short conversational excerpt from a YouTube video ("Integrative Medicine: Ditch the Kale, Get Healthy!" by Robert Whitfield MD) explaining the speaker's view of integrative medicine: combining the best of functional and conventional approaches rather than rejecting prescription medications, and focusing on diet, lifestyle, stress, and toxic exposures as part of patient care.
But then you also talk about the holistic side of things. And I think holistic, I actually have never really said holistic. I think it just gets a bad rap. People think you're, like, outside just eating kale all day, doing a rain dance, hoping to heal. And where I like to say, I mean, functional, integrative, however you want to say it. I like to say integrative because you're taking the best of both worlds. You're taking the best of the functional world and the best of the conventional, and you integrate them for the best possible outcome. And so, you know, when I tell people what I do, it's like, I'm not against prescription medication, but that's not going to be my first go to. And so, you know, it's looking at someone's diet, their lifestyle, their stress, their toxic exposure.
