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When the Voice of Authority Hurts Us

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By Bill Manahan, MD and Kathryn Hayward, MD   We Have Been Duped: Tobacco A recent conversation between Kathryn and Bill… Kathryn: “My Dad recently told me, ‘I got introduced to smoking during the Korean War (1950-1953). The government always gave us cigarettes in our rations.’” Bill: “The tobacco fiasco was just a few years ago, when I was in…

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Something to Crow About

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By Barbara Braver In the spring of 1988 I was offered a new job, a new opportunity, a new adventure.  I was with my beloved Jan Pierce, of blessed memory.  We were in a rural part of Pennsylvania, as I remember, and went into a junk cum antique shop.  I was drawn to a wooden carving of the head of…

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Eleven, Part 2

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Part 2 Our Summer Solstice Sojourn celebrating Stephanie’s 11th birthday with 11 days of movement and nature Integrative Health combines the best in conventional medicine, food, movement and mind/body/spirit disciplines. In Part 2 of this two-part series, David Read continues to recount how his family shared eleven days of cycling, nature and nurturing relationships with family and friends. To read…

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Eleven

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Part 1 Our Summer Solstice Sojourn celebrating Stephanie’s 11th birthday with 11 days of movement and nature Integrative Health combines the best in conventional medicine, food, movement and mind/body/spirit disciplines. In Part 1 of a two-part series, David Read recounts how his family shared eleven days of cycling, nature and nurturing relationships with family and friends. By David C. Read,…

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Pre-GMO Mallorcan Traditional Wheat Flour and Easy Gluten-Free Breads

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By David L. Thomas, Jr., JD and Kathryn Hayward, MD The health food store in the small city of Inca is just a few minutes´ walk from our home on the Mediterranean island of Mallorca. Known in the Mallorquín dialect of Catalán as “S’Herboristeria”, and in Spanish as “El Herbolario”, it is the source of many of our grains and…

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Our Five-Year Anniversary: How International Integrators emerged from a London conference and the Boston Marathon terrorist attack

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By David L. Thomas, Jr., JD and Kathryn Hayward, MD Five years ago, on the eve of the Boston Marathon bombing, we went to London so that Kathryn and Kristy King, then a medical student, could showcase a program they had led which provided a five-day immersion in integrative medicine for North American medical students.  They were presenting at the…

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Synchronicities: No Such Thing

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International Integrators co-founders Kathryn Hayward and David Thomas shared a delightful lunch a few months ago with Barbara Braver and her husband, and the conversation turned to the theme of synchronicity. What does synchronicity mean to you? You think of a person and suddenly receive a phone call from that person. You have overstayed your time at a parking meter…

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