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6 Tips to Manage Stress
by Pamela M. Peeke, MD, MPH
Personally, I love the idea of integrative medicine. To me, integrative medicine means doing what I've always done in my practice: Treating the whole patient. That's why I work with my patients to make lifestyle changes like optimizing diet and exercise to lower their cholesterol levels and high blood pressure before turning to pills.
It's also why I question women about the stress in their lives when they come to see me for things like headaches, back pain, constipation and other digestive problems, insomnia and fatigue. And it's why I take the time to show them that it's often not the stress itself that's making them sick, but how they manage it. Rather than writing a prescription for an anti-anxiety medication or a sleeping pill, I propose some of my favorite alternative methods of managing and relieving stress:
