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
Holistic Nutrition: How to Break Free of Sugar Addiction
For some, the need for sugar morphs into an unwavering compulsion and could be considered an actually biological addiction. Before you continue to read any further, check and see if this sounds like you: • Have tried over and over again to cut out sugar from your diet?
Help for Spring Allergies
Hurrah! Spring is here and with spring comes the advent of airborne allergy season. Spring is a beautiful time of year! For some... but others suffer runny noses, sneezing, sinus headaches, breathing problems, asthma-like symptoms, coughing, rashes, hives and even...
Chlorella, the Detoxification Superfood
Chlorella as a Superfood Chlorella is called a detoxification superfood because it is a good natural chelator, meaning it is able to bind to and then carry away toxins out of the body. It is also a very important food supplying many vital nutrients required for...
Holistic Nutrition: 100 Calories are not equal on Your Dinner Plate?
If you're like me, you always root for the underdog or cheer for the little guy who stands up to the big bully. Or find inspiration in stories like David and Goliath. Well, recently I witnessed a big victory against the billion-dollar 'diet' industry. The same...
Mindful Eating
Mindfulness-based approaches to psychotherapy in the last decade are revolutionizing psychology. Studies on the psychological benefits of mindfulness are exponentially doubling every few years. Mindfulness is a clinical entity, and should not be confused with...
Eating Sick Animals = Sick You
The Big Question—Should I Eat Meat, or Not? Answer: Maybe. Ambiguous, Yes. But true. The question of whether or not meat and animal products are right for you is an individual answer. When I am working with an individual, I look at many factors such as nutritional...
Why Vitamin D is So Important
Vitamin D is essential to health! It a substance that we cannot function well without. It is common knowledge that the body makes its own Vitamin D when the skin is exposed to sunlight. It is that form that we use most efficiently. While Vitamin D supplements are...
Having Gastrointestinal Symptoms? Check for Parasites
Symptoms of Parasites May be Hard to Detect Parasites evade detection and diagnosis better than most human pathogens, explaining why some healthcare professionals deny their existence or clinical relevancy. Since diagnostic tests are often falsely negative or...
Functional Medicine: A Distinctly Different Kind of Medicine
Functional Medicine, which is neither Conventional nor Alternative Medicine I have practiced functional medicine since it was invented over 30 years ago and during these decades I have reluctantly tolerated and overlooked being mislabeled as an “alternative medicine[1]” doctor. Healthcare consumers and practitioners alike often fail to recognize that functional medicine has virtually nothing […]
3 Ways to Practice Daily Mindfulness
A daily mindfulness practice can reduce stress and calm your brain and racing thoughts. Mindfulness is a separate faculty of consciousness totally distinct from cognition (thinking), emotion (feelings), intuition or sensory awareness (the 5 senses). Mindfulness is not...
Root Canal Teeth and Cavitations
I have often been asked, "How can a tooth that has a root canal cause so many varied and distinct problems in the body?" After all, it’s only one tooth, or one extraction site that according to any dentist may only be a little bit infected. Root Canal and Jaw Bone...
Is it Time for the Autism Community to Come Together?
Recently, two popular supplements in the autism community have come under scrutiny. The first is Oxidative Stress Relief (OSR) and the other is the “speak” supplement. Whether or not these products are good, bad or indifferent is debatable. The real issue at hand is the vulnerability of the autism community in general.