Natural Health Advisory - Strategies that Work

he Mission of Natural Health Advisory Institute (NHAI): To research and identify the most effective natural healing options for chronic health conditions and to communicate these to the proactive health consumer in an understandable and quickly accessible format. Today’s Healthcare Consumer is demanding a better way: The modern proactive healthcare consumer is not your grandmother’s consumer… In fact, their expectations are changing rapidly and powerfully. More and more, millions are no longer silent and are casting their vote with their pocketbook. They have become increasingly frustrated with the pharmaceutical driven healing models of conventional practitioners. This “meds first” approach frequently results in long term dependency and unwanted side effects yet often only treats the symptoms when they work at all. On the other hand, natural healing – or integrative medicine – combines the best of conventional medicine with the best of drug-free, natural medicine. Armed with the right information, the new healthcare consumer can find doctor recommended, scientifically backed natural health options that not only work, but that solve the underlying causes of the condition in the first place. As evidence of this powerful and growing trend, a study* published in July of 2009 by a U.S. government agency showed almost 40% of U.S. adults used one or more complementary-alternative healing modalities in 2007. They spent $33.9 billion on these practices in the process. No longer is this just a fringe movement. The users are just “regular people” looking for solutions to their chronic conditions which they are not finding in conventional medicine. The Challenge of Natural Medicine: Although natural healing holds great promise, a number of significant challenges await the proactive health consumer who wants to use this approach. Here are just a few: The number of holistic natural therapies available for any one chronic condition is staggering. Where do you start? How do you find time to research all these? Some therapies work very effectively…some are essentially useless. How do you know the difference – what works and what doesn’t work? Unbiased educational information on natural healing strategies found on the internet is scattered, disorganized, incomplete, much too vague and often hard to find. Integrative physicians who use the best of conventional and natural medicine are often hard to find and when they can be found, they don’t have time to educate the patient. So the consumer is left with unclear direction. How can they find the best solutions to their chronic health issues? The Role of Natural Health Advisory Institute, LLC: NHAI is an educational website dedicated to providing the proactive health consumer reliable information regarding non-drug, natural healing approaches to chronic health conditions. We and our contributing authors do the research for you and summarize it in a way that you can access quickly and conveniently. We do not sell products so we do not have the blatant bias that causes you to question the exaggerated claims of some product pushers. Our recommendations and content are based on insight from dozens of the leading integrative, natural medicine physicians and practitioners in the U.S. and abroad. They are also based on medical research published in respected peer reviewed medical journals such as the Journal of the American Medical Association, the New England Journal of Medicine, The Lancet and others.