Herbal supplements, acupuncture, chiropractics and massage. It used to be that alternative therapies like these were ignored by many doctors. But that’s changing. Thanks to public demand and an increasing amount of positive research, many doctors are embracing some alternative therapies. So how do you know if the herb you’re taking or therapy you’re trying is safe? In this segment we hear from Brent Bauer, M.D., director of the Complementary and Integrative Medicine program at Mayo Clinic.
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I am trying to intregate an Alternative Medicine awarness into our local Community in Daytona Beach Florida. I provide Healing Touch in a private setting. I would like to establih a Free Clinic for this service to promote Community awarness and compliment current medical practices. Any information on any type of grant money available?
Unfortunately, the economic downturn has had a significant impact on funding for these types of projects. I’m not aware of any national foundations that are currently supporting these types of efforts. One thought though is to direct treatments towards specific patient groups (e.g. those with cancer) and work through the local agencies that provide support for such activities. Best wishes, Brent A. Bauer MD, Director, Complementary and Integrative Medicine Program, Mayo Clinic
My wife, Rosemary, is entering her 8th year of surviving Ovarian Cancer. Since first being diagnosed, she has undergone surgery, and then 4 “regimes” of Chemotherapy Drugs. Since January, 2008, she has been under the care on an Oncologist at the MD Anderson Cancer Center, Houston, Tx, and, since January, 2009, since we found, in the MD Anderson Patient Library, a book, “Anti-cancer, A New Way of Life” by David Servan-Schreiber, M. D. , PhD, we have been following his recomendation of Nutrition, Exercise, and Emotion Control. We have been impressed with Dr. Schrieber’s approach, as a cancer patient himself, crediting the “Gold Standard” of Medical Cancer care, and also the “protocol” related in his book, to his 19 yr. survival from a brain cancer. I note that the Mayo Clinic has a “Complimentary and Integrative” Medicine Program, which includes ways to cope with the side effects of Medical Procedures, but has no reference to Nutrition, or to any reference, in this context, to controlling the growth of cancer cells. Would you please comment on this. Thank you.
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Nutritional recommendations are incorporated into the one-on-one counseling sessions we provide to patients who are referred for integrative medicine consultations. We do not generally make general recommendations for nutrition as individual circumstances are so varied in the patients we treat.