Tapestry of health : weaving wellness into your life through the new science of integrative medicine

Tapestry of Health artfully synthesizes the complex world of healthy living into a set of clear principles in guiding you to feel your best and thrive at your highest potential through evidence-based integrative medicine treatment of body, mind and spirit. Living a healthy lifestyle is not always easy. The conflicting health advice can feel overwhelming. Tapestry of Health takes the complex world of healthy living and gives you a set of clear, uncomplicated health principles that will show you how to feel your best and thrive, no matter your starting point. The book shares practical and easy-to-implement health plans that will help transform your health and weight improve your nutrition optimize your sleep manage your stress Doctor Monti and Doctor Bazzan are clinical and academic pioneers in the emerging medical specialty of integrative medicine. They have started the first-ever department of integrative medicine at a US medical school . In their book they share the principles and health plans they have used with their own patients over the last two decades to create transformative results. Their approach to health integrates all aspects of well-being, including the physical, emotional, intellectual, spiritual, social, and nutritional. They present here evidence-based restorative approaches and emerging cutting-edge strategies. They also offer a new perspective on how we view wellness in a way that reflects the shift from seeking medical care only when we are sick to one when we mindfully take responsibility for maintaining a healthy lifestyle. All this makes Tapestry of Health your partner on your path to optimal wellness. 8-page 4-color photo section Tapestry of Health artfully synthesizes the complex world of healthy living into a set of clear principles in guiding you to feel your best and thrive at your highest potential through evidence-based integrative medicine treatment of body, mind and spirit. Transforming the way you feel, think, look and thrive requires a health care approach that integrates all aspects of your well-being, including the physical, emotional, intellectual, spiritual, social, and nutritional. Doctors Monti and Bazzan lay out, step-by-step, how to gain and maintain long-term vitality by integrating a broad range of restorative medicine, nutritional science, and healthy lifestyle practices. This convergence of time-honored approaches and cutting-edge technologies offers new preventions and cures while maintaining the fundamental principle that the parts cannot be well unless the whole is well. As clinical and academic leaders in the emerging medical specialty of integrative medicine, Drs. Monti and Bazzan have devoted their careers to developing wellness strategies that can transform the way you feel, think, function, and thrive. Their methods have become increasingly more profound as evidence mounts for the need for a new multi-faceted healthcare approach. One that integrates all aspects of wellbeing—the physical, emotional, intellectual, spiritual, social, nutritional, and more. We are at the start of an incredible convergence of time-honored treatments and leading edge technologies to take us into the next era for healthy lifestyles, and Tapestry of Health offers a pathway towards them. Integrative medicine is preventive and also curative. Rooted and also futuristic. Tapestry of Health artfully synthesizes the complex world of healthy living into a set of clear principles in guiding you to feel your best and thrive at your highest potential through evidence-based integrative medicine treatment of body, mind and spirit. Living a healthy lifestyle is not always easy. The conflicting health advice can feel overwhelming. Tapestry of Health takes the complex world of healthy living and gives you a set of clear, uncomplicated health principles that will show you how to feel your best and thrive, no matter your starting point. The book shares practical and easy-to-implement health plans that will help you: • transform your health and weight • improve your nutrition • optimize your sleep • manage your stress Doctor Monti and Doctor Bazzan are clinical and academic pioneers in the emerging medical specialty of integrative medicine. They have started the first-ever department of integrative medicine at a US medical school . In their book they share the principles and health plans they have used with their own patients over the last two decades to create transformative results. Their approach to health integrates all aspects of well-being, including the physical, emotional, intellectual, spiritual, social, and nutritional. They present here evidence-based restorative approaches and emerging cutting-edge strategies. They also offer a new perspective on how we view wellness in a way that reflects the shift from seeking medical care only when we are sick to one when we mindfully take responsibility for maintaining a healthy lifestyle. All this makes Tapestry of Health your partner on your path to optimal wellness. "Preeminent leaders in the next generation of medicine present an essential guide to integrating multilayerd healthcare approaches into one. Transforming the way you feel, think, look and thrive requires a healthcare approach that integrates all aspects of your well-being, including the physical, emotional, intellectual, spiritual, social and nutritional. Doctors Monti and Bazzan lay out, step-by-step, how to gain and maintain long-term vitality by integrating a broad range of restorative medicine, nutritional science, and healthy lifestyle practices. This convergence of time-honored approaches and cutting-edge technologies offers new preventions and cures while maintaining the fundamental principle that the parts cannot be well unless the whole is well. "This book is so incredibly timely and important because it helps you understand this new paradigm of health ... You, as a patient, play the most important role in this shift as an active participant in behavioral, lifestyle, and dietary interventions so that these changes become woven into your daily life." -Sara Gottfried, MD, multiple New York Times bestselling author"-- Provided by publisher