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- The text explores the connection between individual health and ecological systems, proposing integrative medicine as a model that applies both to patients' therapies and to environmental restoration.
- It describes how specific elements of integrative medicine—such as self-regulation and transdisciplinary approaches—can benefit both human and planetary health, emphasizing the need for sustainable resource use in medicine and pharmacy.
- The key message highlights the importance of self-regulation in promoting health, suggesting that a shift in how individuals relate to nature and themselves is essential for achieving better health outcomes for both people and the planet.
Article Abstract
Background: Considering the analogies between the disruption in ecological systems and in individuals, the concept of integrative medicine is extended to the One Health concept and integrative medicine is introduced as an innovative model for guidance/correction in patients' therapy as well as in ecological realignment.
Summary: The specific elements of integrative medicine that can be applied to human health as well as to environmental health are described (e.g. self-regulation, salutogenic healing processes, transdisciplinary multimodal approaches, methodological pluralism). The need for sustainable use of limited resources in medicine and pharmacy is pointed out. As examples for urgent action, the need of taking into account the whole life cycle of pharmaceutical products as well as the impact of diet for human and planetary health are mentioned.
Key Message: Self-regulation plays a crucial role in human and environmental health; sustainable promotion of self-regulation enables people to become co-creators of their own health. Such a fundamental change requires transformation of one's inner relationship to nature and to oneself. The aim of the mini-review was to concretize individual fields of action and to investigate the question of whether the concepts of integrative medicine can be transferred from humans to the environment and thus to planetary health and whether this makes sense.
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| http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC11466444 | PMC |
| http://dx.doi.org/10.1159/000540226 | DOI Listing |
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