Integrative medicine and health reaffirm the importance of the relationship between practitioner and patient, focuses on the whole person, is informed by evidence, and makes use of all appropriate therapeutic approaches, healthcare professionals and disciplines to achieve optimal health and healing.

Integrative medicine combines modern medicine with established approaches from around the world. By joining modern medicine with proven practices from other healing traditions, integrative practitioners are better able to relieve suffering, reduce stress, maintain the well-being, and enhance the resilience of their patients.

Whole Child Pediatrics is a revolutionary approach to health care and is based on the principles of Integrative Medicine. It is a complete paradigm shift that provides a new roadmap to optimal health, based on simple yet profoundly transformative lifestyle changes. It empowers families to make sustainable changes, encouraging them to create the future they deserve. Integrative medicine is healing-oriented medicine that takes account the whole person (body, mind, and spirit), including all aspects of lifestyle. It emphasizes the therapeutic relationship and makes use of all appropriate therapies, both conventional and alternative.

The health of our children – our most precious asset and our future – is at stake. This generation of children may be the first one who lives shorter, sicker lives than their parents. The rates of autism, ADHD, asthma, food allergies, obesity and diabetes continue to rise at an unprecedented pace. The conventional medicine solution so far has been a system that treats symptoms and that incentivizes more care at higher cost. The one disease-one prescription solution is expensive, ineffective and increasingly unsafe. Our children are sicker than before. Changing the current health care system is imperative in order to preserve the health of future generations. To meet the complex health challenges we face, we need a new approach: Whole Child Pediatrics.