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Holistic treatments is diet and exercise. And the people that works for dont take these drugs.
Ahh, I forgot the common vernacular doesn't match what it actually means. I used it in this way: https://my.clevelandclinic.org/health/articles/24103-holistic-doctor
since I often work in health care settings. My fault for failing to remember.
Ah, as in integrative medicine.*
Half of the degrees used by holistic doctors are pseudoscience with little to no evidence supporting them. Chiropracty has proven to be more damaging than helpful and have gotten people paralyzed and even killed.
Yep. That's why I said integrative. Let me be clear: I mean doctors with medical degrees that would consider the diagnosis in relation to sleep, diet, physical and mental stressors, lack of/exercise etc.
I was going based on the article you linked. But I can see a true medical doctor working with and coordinating the patients and their specualist doctors would be valuable.
And proper rest, diet, exercise and managing stressors...