Integrative Medicine combines the best practices and treatments from alternative medicine and conventional medicine. Holistic Health, on the otherhand, is an approach to life, one that focuses on not just the illness of the body but looks at the human body as a whole. It tethers the mental, physical, social/environmental, emotional, and occupational wellbeing of a person.
While I believe western medicine is amazing at taking care of the body in crisis (surgeries, life threatening diseases, etc) its important to figure out how to create a balanced and healthy lifestyle to help prevent these certain diseases (especially the ones that the Latinx community suffers from). The Latinx community tends to suffer from heart disease, cancer, stroke, diabetes, and obesity (US CDC Reports show) just to name a few. We tend to neglect our mental (the nunca vamos hablar de esto, no vas a decir nada a nadie rug), physical, spiritual, and occupational well being.
I find it necessary to begin this dialogue, what the importance of taking care of yourself as a whole looks like, and to help prevent these diseases our communidad suffers from! ***IT’S TIME TO CHANGE THAT ***
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