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Integrative Medicine Los Angeles

Los Angeles is the second largest city in the United States. It has a combination of distinct factors that influence public health. This presents a unique challenge to its hospitals and health care workers. The warm climate, more favorable than many other American cities, can nevertheless itself be an issue. The city suffers from air quality issues, as a predominantly car-using metropolis. The 50 thousand-strong homeless population, second-largest in the country, requires a significant investment of healthcare resources. It’s no surprise that Los Angeles is a center of evolving thought on the correct application of medicine to maximize effect through minimum intervention. Integrative medicine in Los Angeles is providing an alternative to the typical Western model. Dr. Cynthia’s Holistic Healing Heart Center is one such center for integrative medicine.

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Conventional and Holistic Medicine

What exactly is meant by integrative medicine? It’s a form of medical therapy which combines the best aspects of alternative medicine and conventional medicine. Rather than the practitioner unilaterally prescribing some medication with side effects that they will then treat with more medication, integrative medicine focuses on overall health. Patient and practitioner work together to devise treatment plans that will facilitate the body’s innate healing response. This holistic approach sees the patient as a full person rather than a diagnosis to solve. It does require thorough medical testing to provide the most suitable medical care. Establishing an understanding of a patient’s health profile is paramount. This gives the practitioner the ability to address the root causes of the illness. This enables work to take place on recovery and promotion and maintenance of long-term physical and mental health. Many of our incoming patients suffer under chronic health challenges, or seek to unlock reservoirs of energy and clarity. For these patients, integrative medicine can pave the way to a long, vibrant, and healthy life.

Seeing an Integrative Medicine Doctor

Functional medicine involves a medical approach focusing on restoring and preserving optimal function for the body and its organs. Functional and integrative medicine often overlap. People often come to integrative medical practitioners after a failure (or several failures) of conventional medicine to treat their issues. At that advanced point in the condition’s progression, an affliction can have had many knock-on effects on a patient’s general wellbeing. That’s why treating only the disease itself is too narrow a focus. What does it mean to get well? Does it mean to be absent of disease? Imagine a person who has barely survived a long and grueling bout with liver cancer. Now this person, though their body is ravaged and weakened from treatment, has a positive prognosis. Would you describe this person as well? Functional and integrative medicine’s goal is not only to defeat the cancer. It seeks to nurture the patient back to a life of happiness, health, and vitality. How to address the challenge of medical issues causing low energy, poor sleep, brain fog, weight issues, and hormonal or immunological imbalances? Dr. Cynthia’s Holistic Healing Heart Center is up to the task. We offer comprehensive functional medicine treatment plans, including naturopathic medicine. We also offer wellness treatments for physical and mental health. You can receive hypnotherapy, integrated energy therapy (IET), reiki, aromatherapy, guided meditation, mental detox, and more at our center.

Best Integrative Medicine in Los Angeles

The medical providers at the Holistic Healing Heart Center provide complementary and alternative medicine solutions for the residents of Los Angeles. Drawing from both Eastern and Western medical traditions, we provide patients with the highest quality of care possible. You can come to us with conditions such as:

  • Stress
  • Anxiety
  • Sleep disorders
  • Insomnia
  • Digestive disorders
  • Fertility
  • Infertility
  • IVF support
  • Pre/postpartum care
  • Back and neck pain
  • Injury support and rehabilitation
  • Vitality
  • Wellness
  • Fatigue
  • Autoimmune disorders
  • Colds
  • Flu
  • Pediatrics

We are proud to offer multiple specialties at our practice. Our health care workers have backgrounds in a range of medical disciplines. This means we are well positioned to provide exceptional complementary medicine. We’ve helped so many Los Angeles families with their ailments. We’d like to support you and your family with your health needs, too. Our objectives when we accept a new patient can vary somewhat depending on the symptoms, but broadly center around:

  • Securing a full profile of the patient’s physical, mental, and emotional history, as well as an understanding of their lifestyle.
  • Finding and approaching the challenges of the patient’s lifestyle factors and environmental exposures that can be improved.
  • Diagnose any underlying causes of illness through rigorous medical testing, and neutralize clinical imbalances.
  • Collaborate with the patient on a personalized treatment plan which may incorporate recommendations for conventional and natural treatments alike.
  • Share with the patient the requisite information and tools that will empower them not only to pursue their treatments effectively. Said information should also help them make the healthy lifestyle choices to support their treatments.

Integrative Medicine FAQs for Our Holistic Health Center in Los Angeles

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A medical doctor practicing integrative medicine considers every factor that may contribute to disease. They will evaluate the entirety of the patient’s life. Conventional medicine focuses on alleviating immediate sources of pain and discomfort. However, integrative medicine wants to build a partnership between the patient and practitioner. The goal is to establish a working relationship so that they achieve a greater sense of wellness for the patient. Natural interventions are preferred to other, more drastic techniques. Health promotion and disease prevention are a focus, rather than solely concentrating on acute and chronic conditions. Treatments work more effectively and meet with less resistance when the patient understands the treatment’s purpose fully. Therefore, integrative medicine prioritizes education and self-care for the patient. The term integrative medicine is not interchangeable with complementary or alternative medicine. However, it does incorporate techniques from these practices. All available treatment options are employed in the service of the patient’s whole body health.

The doctor will get to know you and your symptoms. This information is vital for assessing the elements of your health situation. It can pinpoint aspects of your life which are contributing to your poor health. This process can include a physical exam, blood tests, and other conventional medical tests. However, in order to prevent disease and maintain good health the integrative physician will examine your health history, state of mind, diet, exercise habits, stress management, and any prescription drug use or substance abuse.

Yes. Thyroid diseases such as hypothyroidism are textbook examples of the beneficial aspects of integrative medicine. Women in particular suffer from many of the symptoms of low thyroid hormone levels. However, they are told that they have normal lab tests and that there isn’t a problem. Practitioners of conventional medicine will sometimes overlook thyroid hormone levels and only look at TSH (thyroid stimulating hormone). Many patients with hypothyroidism go undiagnosed from this and other oversights. Checking for thyroid antibodies, for example, can determine the presence of an autoimmune thyroid disorder.   Choose Dr. Cynthia’s Holistic Heart Healing Center for your integrative medicine in Los Angeles. Our dedication to your holistic health is second to none.

About the author

Dr. Cynthia Thaik, M.D., FACC is a Harvard-trained cardiologist serving the greater Los Angeles community at her holistic health center in Burbank and Valencia, CA. Dr. Thaik is the author of Your Vibrant Heart: Restoring Health, Strength, and Spirit from the Body’s Core. To learn more about Dr. Thaik or the Holistic Healing Heart Center, or to schedule an appointment, please contact info@drcynthia.com or call (818) 842-1410.

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