The creation of Nutritional Medicine is designed to extend our goals to include nutritional considerations by featuring more in-depth information about vitamins, minerals, herbs and other supplements relative to prevention and disease control. Nationally, two-thirds of all HMOs pay for some form of alternative medicine, be it chiropractic or acupuncture.
Nutritional deficiency is believed to be a leading cause of disease, both physical and mental.
This issue is especially inspiring with articles ranging from the importance of sleep, to maintaining a healthy sex life, to a patient's personal story of how alternative medicine improved her quality of life. As always we want to thank our writers for their continued dedication to you the reader. These selfless physicians and health partners make a profound difference in the lives of so many. Over 100 million North Americans suffer from chronic pain. 50 million chronic pain sufferers are partially or totally disabled by chronic or long term pain.