Superfoods for Dummies. He suggests wellness programs that include the benefits of nutrition for the body via in- travenous and intramuscular therapies that produce 100 percent absorption. Agin’s specific formulas for vitamin or hormonal deficiencies are based on intracellular analysis blood testing; cus- tomized treatments are created to meet specific needs.
Madeline Ebelini,
founder of Integrative Mindfulness, teaches an eight-week intensive training in mindfulness- based stress reduction (MBSR) and works in concert with several area physicians, including James V. Ta- lano, M.D., and Sajan Rao, M.D., cardiologists at the Southwest Institute for Cardiovascular Fitness & Treatment (SWICFT). “The physicians at SWICFT practice conventional medicine, but they are knowledgeable and enthusias- tic about the health benefits of MBSR, and have invited me to participate in SWICFT’s wellness education program for patients,” says Ebelini.
Madeline Ebelini
MBSR, based on a need for active partnership in participatory medicine, is a preventive and wellness medita- tion practice offered in more than 200 medical centers, hospitals and clinics around the world. “The patient/client takes on significant responsibility for doing a certain kind of interior work in order to tap into their own deepest inner resources for learning, growing, healing and transformation,” advises Ebelini.
Arriving at Integrative Solutions A forerunner in neuro- logical medicine, David Perlmutter, M.D., is a board-certified neurolo- gist, medical director of the Perlmutter Health Center, and author of Power Up Your Brain:
min therapy, nutritional supplementa- tion, herbal preparations and massage therapy, among others—to provide a comprehensive, fully integrated treat- ment plan, specifically designed for individual needs.
“In contemporary medicine, treat- ment is a reflex action—this is the ill- ness and here is your prescription. With functional medicine, we understand that it is the patient who has an illness,” says Perlmutter, who offers an example of how functional medicine looks at Al- zheimers’s, as well as factors that could play a powerful role in the disease. “We ask, ‘Is this preventable, and what is the basic physiology that has gone awry and caused the production of excessive free radicals that damage the life-giving neurons?’” he explains. “Medical students leave school instilled with practicing reflex medicine, which means they wait for the prob- lem to begin, and then treat it with an FDA-approved, standardized protocol,” clarifies Perlmutter, who notes that the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act (PPACA) is an illness plan focused on how to best afford to pay for the maladies befalling humanity, rather than on preventing illness. “Functional Medi- cine is a far more effective and compre- hensive model, focused on prevention and a whole-body system, which looks beyond the individual to the community and the world,” he advises. Leize Perlmutter is a senior staff member of The Four Winds Society, a graduate of the Healing the Light Body School and an Eidetic Imagery coach, Reiki practitio- ner and Pan Gu Sheng
Leize Perlmutter David Perlmutter
The Neuroscience of Enlightenment. An adjunct instructor at the Institute for Functional Medicine, in Gig Har- bor, Washington, Perlmutter has seen firsthand how his patient outcomes are improved with functional medicine. At his health center, he uses a variety of complementary techniques—vita-
Gong instructor, as well as an ordained minister in The Circle of Sacred Earth Ministry. She works one-on-one with clients and also teams up with her husband, David. “When we team up to do healing intensives at the center, David does consultations with patients and has them do intravenous glutathi- one treatments (which allow dopamine in the brain to be more effective) and hyperbaric oxygen therapy. “Patients also spend time with a nutritionist,” continues Leize, who explains that the combination of thera-
pies assists the brain in creating new neural pathways. “The energy medicine allows the individual to shed nega- tive belief patterns and lay down new, life-enhancing neural networks; and the practice of Eidetic Imagery helps them access and shift unconscious life pat- terns,” she says. Thes groundbreaking mind-body-spirit approach to medicine helps psychological and emotional issues rise to the surface, changes the energetic body naturally and aids the healing process.
Here in Southwest Florida, it is truly time to celebrate the good news that alternative and complementary therapies are being recognized by and incorporated within integrative medi- cine. When used in concert by practi- tioners that network with the patient’s best interest in mind, these modalities can foster cures and healing once un- imaginable to traditional practitioners.
For more information, contact Duke Integrative Medicine, Duke Center for Living Campus, 3475 Erwin Rd., Dur- ham, NC, at 866-313-0959 or 919-660- 6826. Visit DukeIntegrativeMedicine. org. Also visit the Bravewell Collabora- tive at
Bravewell.org.
Integrative Care
at Your Fingertips Local and Resources & Practitioners
Best Body Massage – Christina Mitchell. 1000 Tamiami Trail North, Suite 501, Naples. 239-293-0960.
BestBodyMassage.com.
Beyond Motion – Amy and Rick Lademann. 1195 Tamiami Trail North, Suite A, Naples. 239-254-9300.
Go2BeyondMotion.com.
Chelation Center of Naples – Gary Gallo, MD. 975 Imperial Golf Course Boulevard, Suite 107, Naples. 594-9355.
ChelationCenterofNaples.com.
Goldman Chiropractic and Acupuncture – James W. Goldman, DC, Lac. 1001 Crosspointe Drive, Suite 1, Naples. 239-254-0003.
GoldmanChiro.com.
Gulf Coast Acupuncture – Phyllis C. Weber, LAc, AP. 971 Michigan Avenue, Naples. 239-841-6611. 6300 Corporate Court, Suite 104, Fort Myers. 239-936-4199.
GulfCoastAcupuncture.com.
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