If there’s one single symptom that brings patients most frequently into the offices of WholeHealth Chicago, it’s this: “I’m tired all the time and doctors can’t find anything wrong.” The “can’t find” you all are experiencing is the real problem of today’s health care system. It’s that notorious fifteen-minute medical encounter of primary care medicine: […]
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
I’ve written about peptides in a previous Health Tip; the most famous peptides on the planet being the two GLP-1 meds, semaglutide and tirzepatide. GLP, by the way, stands for “Glucagon-Like-Peptide”, glucagon being a hormone produced by your pancreas that raises your blood sugar. GLP-1 does the opposite, lowering your blood sugar, triggering weight loss. […]
Slowing the rate at which you age isn’t just for old people trying to stay on the topside of the sod… If you’re under 40, supplements can provide plenty of coverage and set a perfectly reasonable goal of reaching your upper 90s or early 100s. Do understand that living a long life isn’t much use if […]
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Scientists who study the birth of the Universe believe there were only three elements at the very start: Hydrogen, Helium, and Lithium. All three are “everywhere”. Lithium, which means ‘from stone’, is really not a ‘stone’, but rather a very light metal, so light that in pure form, it can float. If you were inclined […]
I wasn’t sure I really wanted to read “Murderland”, a newly published book about the many serial killers from the Pacific Northwest. Throughout the 20th century, places like Tacoma and Seattle sounded seriously spooky. Writers dubbed them “Poisonvilles”, smelters crossed skylines belching toxic lead, arsenic, cadmium unchecked into the air, water, and soil of the […]