Show Your Love With the Gift of Healing.

For a person who is not feeling well, the greatest gift they can receive is regaining their health.  There may be people you know, family and friends, for whom our care could make a difference between suffering and enjoying life. 

Spread the love and give a gift of health to the one you care about this holiday season.  Show your thanks by sending friends and family a complimentary gift from Dr. Tad's Centers for Integrative Medicine and Healing. 

We will provide you with a holiday card for you to fill out and a gift certificate from you to send them.  We will provide the cards, gift certificate, and postage for free.

For many, this will be the most valuable gift they will get this year.




Our purpose is to help as many people as possible.  We truly appreciate your partnership in helping to bring our healing medicine to those you care about most.

Yours for better health, The staff at Dr. Tad's Centers for
 
Integrative Medicine and Healing


If you over indulged at Christmas dinner, try having a cup of tea.
    

Most of us are familiar with that uncomfortable feeling that comes from eating too fast, or eating too much. Fortunately, there's a simple, effective way to soothe the belly, and it comes in the form of a cup of tea.

Sipping a cup of hot tea is soothing in itself. Even better if that tea contains herbs and spices that have a long history of being used to promote good digestion.



A city-wide celebration fostering the historic traditions of the holiday season.


 

Founded in 1971, Christmas in Newport began as a two-week festival that celebrated the noncommercial traditions of the holiday season. Now in its 44th year, the annual program boasts multiple activities for nearly each day of the December calendar.
Slow Medicine Is the Medicine of the Future.

 

Kenneth R. Pelletier, Ph.D., M.D.(hc) -- clinical professor of medicine in the Department of Medicine and professor of public health at the University of Arizona School of Medicine, and clinical professor of medicine in the Department of Family and Community Medicine and in the Department of Psychiatry at the University of California School of Medicine, San Francisco (UCSF) -- is one of many doctors on the forefront of changing the way medicine operates today, in the interest of optimizing its functionality and ability to heal people successfully. His book, New Medicine, is not only a road map for those interested in learning about integrative medicine but is also a blueprint for the medicine of the future. I was delighted to have the opportunity to speak with Ken recently. Here are excerpts from our conversation.
 

Michael Finkelstein: What is the idea behind New Medicine?


Ken Pelletier: The basic model of New Medicine is to look at roughly 300-400 common conditions and ask, "What does conventional medicine do, and do really well?" If conventional medicine works well for a certain condition, there is no reason to go any further. However, if conventional medicine does not resolve the condition, the book lays out all the other options to consider, such as meditation, chiropractic, herbal medicine, and all the other integrative medicine and evidence-based health strategies that a person can use. The idea behind the book was to operationalize, or make a very practical, the integrative medicine model.
 
 

MF: What do you envision as the future of medicine?


KP: I see it as integrative medicine and the evidence-based fusion of conventional and alternative medicine -- the common ground being evidence-based. Much of what we do in conventional medicine, as you know, is not evidence-based. Much of what we do in integrative medicine or alternative medicine has as good, if not better, evidence base. So we need to recognize our bias and move forward to get the two systems working together.



MF: While the conventional medical culture is beginning to accept an integrative medicine model, it still seems to be applying a reductionist understanding of how healing works -- namely that one therapy should result in one outcome. What are your thoughts?


KP: We still have the dominance of the reductionistic, randomized clinical trial. That is the gold standard of science. The problem is, it's not a systems approach. Instead, you isolate a single factor responsible for an outcome. That is really an erroneous model, even in conventional medicine.


There was a study that was conducted with acupuncture and irritable bowel syndrome*, published about six years ago. The study involved setting up six acupuncture points for treating irritable bowel, vs. allowing the practitioners to use whatever acupuncture points there might be in a flexible, clinical model. The study looked at outcomes.


At six months, the outcomes were virtually identical between the fixed intervention and the flexible intervention. What was so remarkable, however, was that at the one year mark, virtually all of the individuals in the fixed model acupuncture intervention had regressed. They all had developed further symptoms and needed further treatment. In the flexible acupuncture model, virtually none of the patients developed the need for further intervention.


We need to realize that we need a longer-term view. We need a slower model of healing, because systems don't change overnight. You don't take an aspirin and get rid of your headache within 30 minutes. Headaches are persistent. It may take weeks of changes that take place. So it's a slower, more systemic approach, but the result is a healthy system.


The objective is not an end to a particular symptom, although that symptom will resolve in process. Instead, the approach is to modify the entire system, not just to address a particular symptom.



MF: The slow medicine model teaches that the wellness we are seeking is not just in the physical body. If we don't include the other pieces of our experience -- mental, emotional, psycho-spiritual, social, and so on, then we leave out a lot of material that is probably part of the underlying dysregulation or imbalance that leads to symptoms. What are your thoughts on this model?


KP: I think we have to include these additional variables. We hear about social media and social support and interconnectedness. Research makes it clear that individuals who have a social support system heal more readily. This social support system can be a community, a single friend, a spouse, a group of friends, an animal, or even a plant
 

We live in an intangible, psychological, social web. When it is intact and vital, we have health. When it is broken -- when people are homeless and impoverished, when their emotional system is eroded -- that's when we get the receptor site for ill health. The definition that I came to for "health" is basically a life fully and well lived. Independently, whatever the limitations might be, physical or psychological, the person's life is optimally expressed and optimally lived.



MF: What are some of the changes you have seen in medical culture in recent years, indicating that we are heading in the right direction of pulling from the best of conventional, complementary, and alternative medicine?


KP: I'm seeing more and more of a systemic approach in medical clinics. In the same practice, you'll have chiropractors, herbalists, nurse practitioners, physicians, and physical therapists, and they really do work together. Each of them appreciates and defers to the competence and expertise of the other. It isn't a physician-dominated group of people that work under medical doctors. Instead, they really are all working together collaboratively. To me, that's an optimistic model for the future of medical care.



Dr Tad & Patricia Raskin Positive Living WPRO
Saturday's, December  3pm - 4pm 

 


Tune in for the Wellness Feature as Patricia interviews Dr. Tad Sztykowski, D.Ac., founder of Dr. Tad Centers for Integrative Medicine and Healing in Providence, which focuses on restoring patients health by correcting causes of diseases.
Every Saturday at 4:30pm a guest will be joining them.
 
Feel free to ask Dr. Tad a question by calling (401) 438-9776 or toll free at: 1-(800) 321-9776 or log on to Patricia Raskin's Facebook page at Patricia Raskin Positive Radio and post a question or two. Tune into 630WPRO/AM & 99.7/FM and streamed live www.630wpro.com    



Find Dr Tad on the Rhode Show sharing his insight and knowledge on a number of topics.


Date:Topic:
December 3rd 
Treating the Flu and Colds
December 10th 
What is the Perfect Diet for Americans? 
December 17th 
Stress and Stress Relief
December 24th
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By integrating western medicine knowledge and Oriental medical diagnosis, our doctors will offer a comprehensive assessment of a person's individual needs. Through Oriental Medicine techniques - acupuncture, herbal and lifestyle analysis - we will help guide people back into harmony by harnessing their own healing power. Oriental Medicine offers non-surgical, natural solutions that can be long-term and even permanent.

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