Many couples face the emotional and physical challenges of fertility struggles. For some, the path leads to invasive procedures like IVF or IUI, which can be costly, stressful, and not always successful. Dr. Ann Shippy’s new book, The Preconception Revolution , offers a fresh perspective on preparing for pregnancy. It highlights how targeted functional medicine testing can create the healthiest foundation for conception, sometimes allowing hopeful parents to avoid IVF altoget

Naturopathic and functional medicine presentations at the 2026 IHS in New York City this week will make their case for why we need to start thinking about menopause and perimenopause as consummate inflammatory and immune-dysregulating events. And they update their approaches for helping women during this time.

Microbiome Labs could very well be the darling of this year's Integrative Healthcare Symposium, having introduced a half a dozen or so new products in the past year: Vaginal Balance, Serene Skin, Epic Defense, FODMATE, and FidoSpore.

We need to start thinking of cancer not as a noun-- but as a verb: "cancering." Because the human body is "cancering" every single day. It's only when the "terrain" is ripe for cancer to take over that the regulatory balance is overwhelmed.