A smart woman in her mid-forties, Melanie had written “Bad PMS” neatly on our patient intake form, and then gone on to trace the word “Bad” several times with her pen and underlined it. Until about ten years ago, the odds were stacked against women like Melanie, trying to get help from their doctors for […]
David Edelberg, MD
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“With virtually any health condition, it’s vital to understand how significantly your lifestyle choices and the biographical events in your life influence your state of well-being. Many times, just making a few positive changes will jumpstart your ‘factory-installed’ systems of self-healing.”
Medical Director & Internal Medicine Physician
Dr. Edelberg, board certified in Internal Medicine in 1974, began incorporating alternative therapies into his practice during the 1980’s. Since founding the parent company of WholeHealth Chicago in 1993, he has become nationally recognized as one of the pioneers of integrative medicine, the new medical specialty combining conventional medicine with alternative therapies. Author of hundreds of articles and author or editor of five books of integrative medicine; his most recent books have been the bestselling “Healing Fibromyalgia” and “The Triple Whammy Cure”.
Author of hundreds of articles and author or editor of five books of integrative medicine; his most recent books have been the bestselling “Healing Fibromyalgia” and “The Triple Whammy Cure”.
Education
- Medical Education: University of Illinois (Champaign, IL)
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Residency:
Vanderbilt University Hospital (Nashville, TN)
Northwestern University Hospital (Chicago, IL)
Memberships & Certifications
- Member, American Medical Association
- Former Member, American Academy of Anti-Aging Medicine
- Former Member, Chicago Medical Society
- Former Member, Illinois State Medical Society
Health Tips
You’d think that knowing the well-established fact that: correctly taken prescriptions is now the fifth leading cause of death, that physicians would step up to the plate and prescribe fewer drugs. But this has just not entered the groupthink of the medical profession. Big Pharma advertising controls both the doctor brain and yours with endless […]
The most well-known, so-called ‘skinny shots’ are semaglutide and tirzepatide. the GLP-1 inhibitors may be better known by their heavily advertised brand names Ozempic (semaglutide), Mounjaro (tirzepatide), and Zepbound (also tirzepatide). If it seems like ‘everybody’s on them,’ you’re right. Currently 18% of the U.S. population report having used a GLP-1 inhibitor at some time […]
I’m sure you’re aware, just about every roadblock to corporate pollution initiated during the Biden administration (there were more than 100 of them) has now been reversed by Trump in favor of the polluters. Really disheartening how his EPA lackeys finalized a rule that specifically states that before any reversal of an environmental hazard can […]
I wrote an article on Rosacea some years ago and afterward we’ve treated dozens of patients with both Rosacea, the Demodex skin mite, and small intestine bacterial overgrowth (SIBO). Trying to stay abreast of everything we treat here at WholeHealth Chicago, from chronic Lyme to chronic fatigue, from fibromyalgia to complementary cancer therapies is a […]
Jane was seriously worried. Terrified, in fact. “I don’t want to die!” (She handed me an article printed from the internet.) “But this ‘Sudden Cardiac Death’ from taking antidepressants sounds terrible. And look, it’s three times the rate among people who take the antidepressant that I’m taking, Lexapro, escitalopram, mine, right? than people who don’t […]