23/01/2025
🥑🥥🥦Msg from the Andrew Weil Centre for Integrative Medicine🫑🥭🍍
"✨✨January 23rd is International Integrative Health Day!✨✨
Today is an occasion to celebrate and advance a transformative approach to healthcare. Integrative medicine is both a field of medicine and a way of living, grounded in whole person, healing-focused healthcare. By prioritizing prevention and wellness alongside treatment, integrative medicine empowers individuals to improve health, resilience, and wellbeing.
The ultimate goal is for "integrative" to become redundant, with its principles seamlessly embedded in standard medical care. Imagine hospitals serving anti-inflammatory meals to aid recovery from disease. Picture doctors prescribing time in nature to reduce stress, supported by workplaces that honor such recommendations. Envision schools teaching the 4-7-8 breath to their students, giving children tools to manage anxiety and focus.
With integrative medicine, these would no longer be exceptional practices but common expectations.
To achieve this healthy future, action is required. On this Integrative Health Day, we encourage you to take steps that make a difference:
Advocate for Integrative Medicine. Reach out to your local hospital, healthcare network, or insurer and request the ability to work with more integrative practitioners.
Spread Awareness. Share the principles of integrative medicine with friends, family, and your community. Recommend an insightful podcast, a social media account, or an integrative health publication such as AWCIM Magazine.
Support Change. The Andrew Weil Center for Integrative Medicine has trained thousands of physicians, practitioners, and healthcare professionals in integrative medicine—many made possible by donor-funded scholarships from health advocates like you. Offer your financial support to help transform healthcare from within.
One day, when integrative medicine becomes simply "medicine," January 23 will need a new reason to be celebrated. Perhaps we’ll rename it Matcha Mushroom Latte Day. Until then, let us keep working to transform healthcare for the better, ensuring it serves everyone in body, mind, spirit, and community."
