Live from the Integrative Healthcare Symposium

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By Integrative Practitioner Staff

The Integrative Healthcare Symposium took place February 23-25, 2023, at the Hilton Midtown in New York City. 

Integrative Practitioner reported live from the conference sessions and the exhibit hall floor, bringing you exclusive interviews and an insider look at some of the top presentations.

If you couldn’t make it to New York City, here’s a round up of our live coverage —consider this your VIP pass to IHSNY23. Enjoy!

Transforming Trauma for Hope and Healing

We are living in a time of unprecedented planetary trauma, said James Gordon, MD, at the Integrative Healthcare Symposium in New York City.

“Every patient we see, every one of us, is affected by what is happening in the world around us, the questions that are being raised and the turmoil that chronic illness and COVID-19; political, social, and economic division; war and climate change are bringing.”

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Peter D’Adamo Accepts Leadership Award at IHSNY23

The Integrative Healthcare Symposium awarded Peter D’Adamo, ND, as the recipient of its 2023 Leadership Award, which was presented to him today during the Integrative Healthcare Symposium in New York City.

 The Leadership Award recognizes a pioneer whose contributions have shaped integrative healthcare and paved the way for other practitioners and professionals

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Uric Acid New Player in Metabolism

We live in a world of metabolism, said David Perlmutter, MD, FACN at the Integrative Health Symposium in New York City.

According to the World Health Organization (WHO), the leading cause of death on our planet is not COVID, war, or trauma, but chronic degenerative conditions. 

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Top Takeaways From Doctor’s Farmacy Live at IHSNY23

Mark Hyman, MD, hosted Jeffrey Bland, PhD, at the 2023 Integrative Healthcare Symposium in New York City, for a special live edition of his podcast The Doctor’s Farmacy.

According to Hyman, during the COVID-19 pandemic, many people focused on good health, longevity, and building strong immune systems. In their interview, they discussed how to build the immune system and reverse biological aging through diet, ideas that practitioners can share with their patients.

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Impacts of COVID-19 on Healthcare Practitioners Self-Care and Practice Recommendations

Studies showing the benefits of integrative therapies for COVID-19 provide an opportunity for integrative medicine to emerge as something that can’t be ignored, said Lise Alschuler, ND, FABNO, at the 2023 Integrative Healthcare Symposium in New York City.

It’s well-known that with the COVID-19 pandemic came a drastic increase in the level of burnout among healthcare providers. According to Alschuler, professor of clinical medicine at the University of Arizona, integrative and conventional practitioners alike reported significant increases in feelings of burnout as well as a decrease in overall wellbeing. In response a movement came about that encouraged healthcare practitioner wellness and self-care through lifestyle interventions.

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The Emerging Science of Longevity

Most of what goes wrong as we age is a consequence of dysfunction, said Mark Hyman, MD, senior advisor for the Cleveland Clinic Center for Functional Medicine and author of his most recent book, Young Forever: The Secrets to Living Your Longest, Healthiest Life, at the 2023 Integrative Healthcare Symposium in New York City.

The medical community needs to rethink what we’re doing and get away from whack-a-mole medicine when we’re just treating each disease separately, as if it were an independent entity like cancer or heart disease or diabetes, Hyman said.

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Personalized Medicine Strategies for Inflammatory Bowel Disease

Inflammatory bowel disease (IBD) is a major problem in Western society, said Robert Rountree, MD at the Integrative Healthcare Symposium in New York City.

 Rountree discussed ulcerative colitis, Crohn’s disease, and other manifestations of IBD.

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A Multiomics Approach To Anxiety, Depression, Stress

Not everyone responds to the same interventions, said David Brady, ND, at the 2023 Integrative Healthcare symposium in New York City. Therefore, practitioners must look to personalizing the treatment of depression, anxiety, hypervigilance, and post-traumatic stress disorder using microbiomics, metabolomics, and genomics.

It’s only recently been established that the gut communicates with the brain through the gut-brain axis, Brady said. In Victorian times, a syphilis-causing microbe was responsible for filling mental asylums, according to an article in the Harvard Review of Psychiatry. In another instance, a New Jersey hospital psychiatrist linked bacteria on his patient’s teeth to their psychoses. Now, we have started to connect gut bacteria to mood disorders and depression. 

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How to Address The Growing Threat of Environmental Toxins

A simple way to start with environmental medicine is to test patients for blood lead levels, test for arsenic in urine, and finally, test for A gamma-glutamyl transferase (GTT) said Joseph Pizzorno, ND, at the 2023 Integrative Healthcare Symposium in New York City.

“Everyone can do these three test, they’re readily available in a laboratory, and the insights that you can reduce for patients can be quite remarkable,” said Pizzorno.

In a panel, Pizzorno, editor-in-chief of Integrative Medicine, A Clinician’s Journal, and his colleagues, Lyn Patrick, ND, and Anne Marie Fine, NMD, FAAEM, spoke of today’s most prominent environmental toxins, their relation to disease, and the importance of testing for them.

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Optimizing Patient Care Through Personalized Medicine

Today, I want to talk about you, and how you can harness your greatness to optimize your patient care, said Ashley Koff, RD, at the 2023 Integrative Healthcare Symposium in New York City.

In a panel presentation, Koff, found of The Better Nutrition Program, and her colleagues, Tom Blue, and Myles Spar, MD, discussed the current landscape of personalized nutrition as well as the role of integrative practitioners in the practice as whole.  

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Key Insights From an Integrative Oncologist

With integrative oncology we can address unique challenges face by patients diagnosed with cancer, said Lise Alschuler, ND, FABNO, at the 2023 Integrative Healthcare Symposium in New York City.

Integrative oncology is both a science and philosophy focused on providing complementary therapies to those with cancer to use alongside conventional care, said Alschuler, associate director of the Fellowship in Integrative Medicine at the University of Arizona Andrew Weil Center for Integrative Medicine.

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