What is Holistic?

• Holistic, alternative, integrative medicine, functional medicine... a variation of pretty much the same concept is gaining more and more attention as more and more health-conscious patients are seeking for qualified professionals who use alternative medicine to help their patients reach the optimal health and well-being with an individualized, holistic approach.
• You can check the differences with the Webster’s dictionary just to realize that they all have in common the following main features:
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  * The focus is on the whole person: physical, emotional, social, and spiritual.
  * Prevention of illness and maintenance of good health is a primary concern.
  * Treatment’s goal is to eliminate the cause of illness rather than the symptoms.
  * Treatment method is supportive of body’s natural healing resources.
  * Treatment is individualized.

  
  

• Our compounding pharmacists can help your practitioner to go one step further and prepare customized formulations with the exact amount of highest quality, pharmaceutical grade nutrients, supplements and vitamins your unique body needs.

For a basic understanding of what nutrients, supplements and vitamins are and their role in our body one recommended website is:

www.nutrition.org