Medical Services Overview
Looking for top-notch medical services that prioritize your well-being? Look no further! National Integrated Health Associates (NIHA) have been leaders in holistic & integrative medicine since 1995 serving the Washington D.C., Maryland, and Northern Virginia metropolitan area.
Holistic Integrative Medicine Since 1995
Our team of experienced physicians and integrative practitioners are dedicated to providing holistic health solutions tailored to your unique needs. As integrative and functional medicine doctors, they will first search for the root cause of disease or health issues or impediments to healing.
What is happening in your body for this health issue or dysfunction to occur? How can this be remedied?
The doctors view the body as whole, and instead of treating just symptoms, they combine traditional medicine with nutrition, lifestyle modifications, supplements, and safe, healing therapies from around the world in order to help you heal. Depending on the health condition, prescription drugs may be needed- but they may not be the first line of defense. Many of our doctors have been trained in other parts of the world, and bring fresh perspective to using all available therapies customized for each patient’s unique needs.
Holistic Integrative Medicine Services
- Holistic Integrative Medicine
- Functional Medicine
- Naturopathic Medicine
- IV therapies: Vitamin, mineral, Myers cocktail, magnesium, glutathione
- Specialty lab tests: hormones, allergies, genetic risks, GI health, etc.
- On-site lab
- Chiropractic
- Massage
- Acupuncture
Our extensive medical treatment includes holistic primary care and integrative treatment for chronic disease management, hormone imbalances, allergies/food and chemical sensitivities, thyroid and adrenal issues, fatigue, cancer, fibromyalgia, Lyme disease and co-infections, obesity, gut and digestive issues for both adult and children. Holistic therapies such as colon hydrotherapy, detoxification, acupuncture, massage are often incorporated into treatment.
The body has an innate ability to heal. Our goal is to restore balance in the body and encourage an environment of natural healing.
We look forward to guiding you on your path to wellness and optimal health.
Medical Articles
Glutathione, the Great Antioxidant and Great Detoxifier
Why is Glutathione so important? Glutathione is known as the Great antioxidant and the Great detoxifier. It is a critically important molecule composed of 3 amino acids but is unique in that it is made by the body and exists inside all cells. Glutathione is a...
Where Does Pain Come From?
What is the source of my pain? Pain is one of the biggest motivators to go to the doctor! Most people think they can deal with sharp pain, muscles that ache, a body that gets achy and tired at the end of a day. But when it gets to a point that you can’t handle it...
Headaches and Sleep Apnea
Do you ever wake up with a headache, or get one by the end of the day? Are they associated with neck pain or do you have a separate neck pain? A new study from the University of Kansas Medical Center has shown that these symptoms are strongly associate with sleep apnea. This is a new association. Non supine sleep provoked by sleep disordered breathing (as with sleep apnea) may play a previously unrecognized role in headache and cervical radiculopathy, or neck problems of the upper spine.
Holistic Nutrition: When Fruit is Not a Healthy Choice
Summer officially starts this week, on Friday, June 21. Most of us have air conditioning these days, but many of us can remember sleeping on sticky sheets with the fan in the window during the summer! Which never worked, by the way!! When it gets hot, who wants to be in the kitchen using the oven or the stove? Now is the time to try all those recipes that don’t require cooking!! Salads of all types – green salads, fruit salads, raw kale salads, gazpacho soups, cold cucumber or melon soups, and caprese salad – taste wonderful and don’t heat up the kitchen.
Antioxidants, Our Built-in Firefighters
Why do we need antioxidants? One of the 4 pillars of nutritional supplementation, antioxidants prevent our bodies from “burning up” (anti- against, oxidation – burning); oxidation from free radicals also causes aging, loss of cellular energy and function, premature...
Sleep Loss and Your Genes
Do you feel like you are not getting enough sleep? If so, you may find that you experience a wide variety of health problems. These medical problems tend to become additive over time-and according to a study at the University of Surrey in England reported in...
7 Ways to Improve Your Dental Care
Oral Disease Affects Most Everyone NIHA dentists are often asked for the best ways to improve dental care. Dental diseases are very common and the most prevalent chronic infectious diseases in the world, affecting up to 90% of school children and the vast majority of adults.But, dental disease may be prevented by using products to […]
Beyond the Yeast Connection, a Treatment for Candida
The Yeast (Candida) Connection to Health Issues Recently, studies have shown that symptoms of autism, acne, mood swings, chronic fatigue, digestive problems, skin rashes, food allergies, urinary disorders, infertility, chemical sensitivities and a weakened...
Why Choose Pharmaceutical Grade Supplements
What Does "Pharmaceutical Grade" or "Physician Grade" Supplement Mean? All of the products the NIHA physicians recommend are hand picked by our doctors and practitioners for specific protocols. It is important to note that U.S. law requires the same level of quality...
Yeast, or Candida, Can Really Mess with Lyme Disease
In 2008, Dr. Warren Levin was interviewed for Public Health Alert about Candida Related Complex and how it affects patients with Lyme Disease. As every Lyme patient knows, symptoms can vary from person to person. Headaches, fatigue, joint pain, digestive disturbance,...
Replace Those Missing Teeth with Ceramic Dental Implants
Your teeth serve many functions. Obviously they are critical for chewing and esthetics but more importantly if teeth are not replaced especially posterior or back teeth, that empty space will allow neighboring teeth to drift into the space formerly occupied by the extracted tooth. Without replacing that missing tooth the neighboring teeth above and to the sides will move into that space altering the way your teeth come together. That altered bite changes jaw alignment, blood flow to and from the brain as well as alters the nervous system function throughout the head and neck. Bite changes will eventually disrupt the TMJ or jaw joint.
Not Feeling Better? Try Autonomic Response Testing, ART Muscle Testing
Fatigue and pain are two complaints that every physician hears at least once a day and a growing number of people in the USA are experiencing at least once a day. They are the two most prevalent symptoms that patients describe when they become desperate for help. Every day I hear the phrase “I have been to fifteen different doctors and no one can tell me why I’m sooo tired or at least give me something to fix it”. So what is keeping these doctors from finding the answer?