Integrative Medicine involves an approach that acknowledges the beauty, harmony, and complexity of the human being, as we represent a true living microcosm of the entire universe.  In the beauty, harmony, and complexity of the Universe, there is always the simultaneous coexistence of seeming contradiction and b-imodality.  And so it is with our practice of medicine.

Integrative medicine acknowledges the totality of the human being and treats all levels of human existence in a comprehensive view of health and healing.

The different levels of human health and existence can sometimes be called mind, body, spirit.  We can expand these concepts to include stressors, environmental inputs (such as toxin exposure and chronic infections), individual genetic and biochemical individuality, relationship to community and relationship to the greater outer environment.  Integrative medicine takes into account all these factors in formulating a complete picture of health for each individual patient.  Each patient is considered a synergistic combination of all these factors.  By synergistic, we mean that the total is considered greater than merely the sum of the parts, so that in the interaction of these levels of being, novel realities and complexities are realized.