Nutrition and Integrative Medicine ― A Primer for Clinicians

While medical professionals continue to practice traditional allopathic medicine, the public has turned towards integrative medical alternatives. Physicians must be informed to evaluate nutritional supplements, healing therapies, and dietary approaches for patients. This book provides clinicians with a guide on evaluating and recommending nutritional as well as integrative therapies. It discusses the gut microbiome, dental connection to health, nutrition in the immune system, nutrition and the brain, and intravenous nutrition therapy. Integrative healing methods include acupuncture, meditation, yoga, sound and light healing, essential oils, and bioenergetics of foods.

Aruna Bakhru M.D.,F.A.C.P. is Board Certified in Internal Medicine and a Fellow of The American College of Physicians. She graduated in Medicine and Surgery from Lady Hardinge Medical College, New Delhi, India and did her Residency in Internal Medicine at Prince George's Hospital Center in Maryland. She has held numerous appointments over the course of her career, she acted as the Young Physician Section Representative of The Dutchess County Medical Society, also as the Chair of the Integrative Medicine Subcommitee of The Dutchess County Medical Society. She has also served in the past on the Ambulatory and Emergency Services Committee at Vassar Brothers Medical Center, and the Medical Audit Committee of Vassar Brothers Medical Center, also The Complementary Care Committee at Vassar Brothers Medical Center. She was also on the Utilization Review and Quality Assurance Committee of MVP Health Plan.

She has over 20 years of experience and training in many other modalities such as Nutrition, Functional Medicine, Ayurvedic and Herbal Medicine, Bioenergetic Medicine, Sound as a healing modality. She also trained with The American Academy of Enviornmental Medicine learning to treat 21st century problems caused by our lifestyle and environmental issues. She has also been involved with numerous community service activites such as the medical clinic for the indigent at Vassar Hospital, medical clinic run by the SYDA foundation, volunteer physician for the summer camp run by SVSC a non profit group. She has also written for numerous publications and appeared on radio and television as well as lectured on medically related topics.

She is listed in Marquis Who's Who in Medicine, Who's Who in America, Who's Who in the World and Who's Who in Science and Engineering. She recently won an award for Excellence in Integrative Medicine by Emord and Associates. She currently practices in New York and believes that treating the patient as a whole leads to better outcomes and satisfaction for both the physician and patient.