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Preventive Health Advisor is a searchable database built from evidence-based research from around the world focusing on healthcare topics of Integrative Medicine, Preventive Medicine, and Functional Medicine, targeted dietary guidance, proven natural therapies, and exercise prescription. Responses from Preventive Health Advisor medical professionals are intended solely for general educational purposes. The information contained on the website is not intended nor implied to be a substitute for professional medical advice relative to your specific medical condition. Preventive Health Advisor does not provide medical advice, nor does Preventive health Advisor endorse or recommend any treatment, opinion, advice, procedure, product or other information that is mentioned here. Users of the Preventive Health Advisor site may use the information at your own risk.
For any patient medical emergency, call the emergency response system immediately and/or have the patient report to the nearest emergency room. Patients with an important medical problem but not an emergency are to contact their healthcare provider. The information here has not been designed to substitute the care of the physician, but it is intended to assist and supplement the care provided by the physician. Under no circumstance is the advice in Preventive Health Advisor to be used as the sole medical advice.
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Safety Precautions
Suggested doses of the mentioned foods, herbs and supplements have been derived from research publications. The supplements mentioned may not have been adequately evaluated for their effects on differing patient populations. Companies producing these supplements may contain extreme variability in the concentration of the desired ingredients within their products. Products should be purchased with standardization whenever possible. Most supplements have not been researched in patients with specific diagnoses, children, pregnant patients, and patients while breastfeeding. Therefore, unless the treatment has been researched in these patient populations, the treatment should never be used by them. Foods, herbs and supplements may be part of the Preventive Health Advisor database but may not have been determined to be safe nor may have been adequately studied.
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