Improve Your Life

  • Integrative Medicine
  • Traditional & Homeopathic Medicine
  • Mental Health
  • Wellness & Optimization
  • Alternative Therapies
  • Show All

A Place of Healing, Calm, and Wellness.

At WholeHealth Chicago, we have a very rich toolbox of Integrative, Functional and Alternative Medicine. This means for each patient our practitioners rely on the best evidence-based medicine and individualize a treatment plan–what we call a healing path.

The patient and provider work together to develop a diagnostic and therapeutic program that makes sense for the individual. It combines the discipline of modern science with the wisdom of ancient healing.

We truly want you better, and the best thing we can hear from a patient is somebody coming in and saying the phrase, “I’m feeling better! I’m finally feeling better”.

David Edelberg signature
David Edelberg photo

Health Tips

fecal smearing
MEDICAL STUFF YOU REALLY WANT TO ASK ABOUT, BUT DON’T.

Two or more women chatting together have no problems discussing when the topic comes to menstrual cycles, labor, delivery, a new gynecologist. Men, who visit doctors less often anyway, gab on about wrenched back muscles from a golf swing and a ‘great’ personal trainer. They’ll lower their voices an octave or two if the topic […]

Delay aging and Monitor Your Progress
Delay Aging and Monitor Your Progress

Most people figure they must be getting older based on how they feel and look. We wince at our first grey hair, deepening wrinkles, and shifting body fat. We huff and puff climbing the stairs, forget names, and occasionally leak fluids. We relate to the line from a Leonard Cohen song, “I ache in the […]

tourism therapy
ONE OF THOSE REALLY INTERESTING COINCIDENCES…..

I had planned this vacation for a long time, and now I was having breakfast at my hotel in Tokyo, Japan, planning what sites I would be visiting. Suddenly, my eye caught an internet article in the Washington Post that held my chopsticks mid-air: “Travel Can Slow the Aging Process” The lead author, Fangli Hu, […]

gut
Repair Your Gut…Immediately

Last week, I talked about how naturopathic and functional medicine experts often start the healing journey (and aim to prevent future health issues) by focusing on the 30-foot digestive tract running from your mouth to your anus. The essence of good gut health is essentially how well you’re digesting, absorbing, and using the food you […]

Heal Your Gut
Start By Healing Your Gut

About 25 years ago, when I was organizing what today is WholeHealth Chicago, I attempted to learn everything I could about all the fields of what was then called alternative medicine. Since naturopathic medicine, or naturopathy, didn’t really exist in Illinois (perpetually blocked by the Illinois State Medical Society), I flew to the west coast […]

AKKERMANSIA
AKKERMANSIA: THE “SHINING STAR” OF YOUR GUT FLORA

No, that nickname is not from me. However, it definitely is one of the praises heaped upon by scientists around the world as they describe the wonders of this one strain of bacteria in your intestinal microbiome. Read carefully. Link to the research papers if you like. If you have enough Akkermansia (full name Akkermansia […]

Read more

We combine the best of conventional and alternative medicine.

At WholeHealth Chicago our patients have access to providers who use an integrative and  functional medicine model.

Integrative

Integrative Medicine is restorative medicine that considers the whole person.

Functional

Functional Medicine focuses on underlying causes rather than symptoms alone.

Alternative

Alternative Medicine uses therapies that may not be seen as mainstream in Western medicine. But are actually forms of ancient healing.

Thousands of Happy Patients

Treatments that Work

We are leaders in the responsible introduction of new treatments and therapies that we know can benefit our patients. We strive to be able to treat an array of concerns, and we offer an abundance of options when it comes to treatment modalities. We always listen and work with you to find what’s right for you.

More Solutions