“Traditional complementary and integrative medicine is CRITICAL in primary care, period, end of story.”
— Roy Upton, on the message at World Health Organization (WHO) Global Summit 2023
For 40+ years, traditional and integrative medicine practitioners have been told they were “alternative,” “complementary,” or “unproven.”
The World Health Organization (the world’s leading medical authority) officially declared that everything these practitioners have been doing is not just helpful… it’s essential.
At their first-ever Global Summit on Traditional Medicine in 2023, WHO articulated what practitioners have known for decades: integrated healthcare systems outperform single-modality medicine.
But here’s what most people don’t realize: WHO is a policy organization, not a regulatory one. They can recommend. They can’t mandate.
That’s where GAIHM (https://www.gaihm.org/) comes in.
In this conversation with Roy Upton on The Explorer’s Way, he breaks down:
➡️ What WHO said (and why it matters)
➡️ The gap between policy and implementation
➡️ How practitioners can leverage this momentum
➡️ What the next 10-15 years look like for integrative medicine
The validation has arrived. Now it’s time to act on it.
Full episode dropping on LinkedIn on the 23rd, and can be found NOW on You Tube on The Ethnobotanical Explorer channel, see a clip below: