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Have you ever felt energized after a hearty salad, or sluggish after a slice of cake? Or maybe tomatoes upset your stomach, or alcohol triggers your migraines. Integrative nutrition is all about this connection between what we eat, how we feel, and the bigger picture of our health. And that’s before we even get into all the supplements you can take.

On this episode of On Nutrition , we talk with Dr. Brent Bauer, director of the Mayo Clinic Complementary and Integrative Medicine Program, about how we can combine integrative nutrition with conventional medicine to get the best of both worlds.

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Tara Schmidt: We’re at Mayo Clinic and we pay for the subscription to this giant database of all the supplements in the world. This is “ On Nutrition ,” a podcast from Mayo Clinic where we dig into the latest nutrition trends and research to help you understand what’s health, and what’s hype. I’m Tara Schmidt, a registered dietician with Mayo Clinic in Rochester, Minnesota. This episode – Integrative Nutrition.

Conventional medicine does a lot for us — we can get surgeries to fix major issues, and pharmaceutical drugs to treat complex conditions — but your health isn’t just whether or not there’s something majorly wrong with you. There are tons of little lifestyle habits and choices that add up to create the big picture of our wellness. For example, do you take a supplement every day? Or are there certain foods that help you feel well — or consistently make you feel unwell? That’s where we get into integrative medicine — and specifically, integrative nutrition.

How do we figure out those practices that keep us feeling good, and when should you reach for a supplement instead of a head of broccoli? To guide us through the ever-evolving world of integrative nutrition, Dr. Brent Bauer is joining us this episode. He’s a doctor of internal medicine and the director of the Mayo Clinic Complementary and Integrative Medicine Program. He researches and evaluates integrative medicine therapies so patients can get […]

Where food meets medicine