INTEGRATIVE MEDICINE
Integrative Medicine by definition seeks to restore and maintain health and wellness across a person’s lifespan by understanding the patient’s unique set of circumstances and addressing the full range of physical, emotional, mental, social, spiritual and environmental influences that affect health.1 Through personalizing care, integrative medicine goes beyond the treatment of symptoms to address all causes of an illness. In doing so, the patient’s immediate health needs as well as the effects of the long-term and complex interplay between biological, behavioral, psychosocial, and environmental influences are taken into account.2
The defining principles of integrative medicine are:
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The patient and practitioner are partners in the healing process.
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All factors that influence health, wellness, and disease are taken into consideration, including body, mind, spirit, and community.
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Providers use all healing sciences to facilitate the body’s innate healing response.
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Effective interventions that are natural and less invasive are used whenever possible. Good medicine is based in good science. It is inquiry driven and open to new paradigms.
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Alongside the concept of treatment, the broader concepts of health promotion and the prevention of illness are paramount.
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The care is personalized to best address the individual’s unique conditions, needs, and circumstances. Practitioners of integrative medicine exemplify its principles and commit themselves to self-exploration and self-development.
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In addition to addressing and handling the immediate health problem(s) as well as the deeper causes of the disease or illness, integrative medicine strategies also focus on prevention and foster the development of healthy behaviors and skills for effective self-care that patients can use throughout their lives.3
REGENERATIVE MEDICINE AREAS OF FOCUS & THERAPIES
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INTESTINAL HEALTH, MICROBIOME RESTORATION
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CARDIOVASCULAR HEALTH
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METABOLIC HEALTH
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MITOCHONDRIAL HEALTH
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NEURO-COGNITION AND BRAIN OPTIMIZATION
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GUT-BRAIN AXIS
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TRIGGER POINT INJECTIONS
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INTRA-ARTICULAR THERAPY
EXOSOMES
Stem cells generate all other cells with specialized functions in the body. These special cells can become bone, muscle, cartilage, and other specialized types of cells, allowing them the potential to assist in healing and repair in a number of diseases, including conditions like Parkinson’s and Alzheimer’s. Scientists and clinicians are developing and refining their ability to prepare harvested stem cells to be injected for repairing diseased and damaged tissue in addition to promoting anti-aging.
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Medicine has focused on a number of uses for stem cells, including replacing diseased cells, testing new drugs for safety and effectiveness, and gaining a better understanding of how disease occurs, but there’s even greater potential in their use than ever before. On the forefront are even more opportunities to use a more pinpointed and safe approach known as exosomes.
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Exosomes are extracellular vesicles, or small bubbles, released from cells that act as shuttles for certain genetic information and proteins to other cells, usually in response to injuries.​ They allow for cell-to-cell communication, ending up outside of the cells to transport molecules that are important regulators of intracellular information between close and distant cells.
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While stem cells are the notable champions in the treatment of neurological diseases, cancers, and immune disorders, pinpointing treatments by focusing on exosomes could have a greater positive effect, rather than solely focusing on the stem cell as a whole. They may also offer a new way to treat chronic illness,​ as cell therapy is key to reestablish the body's regulation capacity in chronically ill patients. While stem cells are considered the body’s building blocks for repair and healing, exosomes are the doing the actual work. They serve as important messengers that can help in cell optimization, repair processes, and mobilizing the body’s stem cells and healing processes.
GEN REV has partnered with an FDA-approved manufacturer of exosome therapy with maximum safety and quality controls in every batch. For internal and topical use, this new wave of technology in regenerative medicine yields vast benefits to the body, both systemically and locally.
PEPTIDE THERAPY
Peptides are fundamental components of cells that carry out an array of important biological functions. Some act as hormones, switching on or off specific biological processes. Others can have antiviral or anticancer effects. In patients with chronic disease, peptides can be used to switch on cells or to insert information into the body to trigger a therapeutic reaction. Peptides can be utilized to help control inflammation, support antimicrobial processes, support neurological function in the body, and reduce pain.
Injectable peptides are more bioavailable, better utilized, and absorbed versus oral administration. The benefits of peptide therapy are vast, including improvements in energy, lean muscle, memory, bone health, skin, hair, and nails. Peptide therapy is well researched, considered safe, and well tolerated.