Integrative medicine is the intelligent combination of conventional medicine with natural and preventive medicine that emphasizes the body's ability to heal itself.

“The short definition is it's the intelligent combination of conventional medicine and natural and preventive medicine. Then the selected use of alternative therapies. But I think the fuller definition is it's a system that really focuses on the body's ability to heal itself.”

Integrative medicine is a paradigm that incorporates evidence-based practices from outside conventional Western medicine while focusing on lifestyle and the patient-provider relationship.

“It is a larger paradigm of medicine that includes what we usually get in conventional or western medicine but also pays a lot of attention to lifestyle and it intends to form a really meaningful relationship between you and the provider.”

Ayurveda should supplement and enhance, rather than replace, modern Western medicine, particularly in the realm of long-term maintenance and recovery.

“so for the surgical aspect of it right and surgical aspect of it definitely modern medicine right for critical care definitely modern medicine but for the maintenance if or as well tell us if anybody is going through chemo and what that chemo does to your body and what radiation does to your body wi”