Integrative medicine—Presentation of a time series analysis-based, functional, diagnostic concept for performing integrative medicine in routine care for primary, secondary, and tertiary prevention

Background Integrative medicine aims at the intraindividual processes of metabolism and physiology. According to Virchow, health is based on the ability to sufficiently accommodate; however, illness is based on the insufficient accommodation of the individual. Processes of accommodation are reactions in the emotional and functional regulation system to stressors. Health and illness have to be understood as morphological and structural images of the body's ability to accommodate. The body's reaction to stress is modified by the condition, life style, constitution, and conditioning of the individual. Aim The aim of integrative medicine is to strengthen the competence of the individual to cope with health and illness according to the requirements of the outer and inner milieu. In this way primary, secondary, and tertiary prevention will be performed. Health and illness mean that the individual has to learn how to use his/her own resources. These resources have to be revealed by a new encouragement of intelligence and consciousness, which is measured as the Environmental IQ. The knowledge of the individual comprises the following: • The own constitution, condition, and conditioning. • The influence of the autonomous nervous system on the organs, the extracellular milieu (redox system, acid–base equilibrium, and hormone system), the personality profile (nutritional type, activity, features, social relations, work, and time management). • Biological rhythms, which are specific for the system. Methods When applying the special time series analysis on the acoustic biosignal “voice,” it was demonstrated that the SFA determines the following parameters: • redox system, acid–base equilibrium, hormone system, autonomous nervous system; • personality profile; • context of behaviour patterns as an age–frequency relation. Results SFA enhanced the environmental IQ in 300 patients by 25.8 on the average (norm 80–125 corresponding to satisfactory to very good). Conclusion The study shows that SFA achieves the expectations in Integrative Medicine, such as improving the patient's competence of coping with health or illness; individualized diagnosis and therapy; enhancement of effectiveness, efficiency, and safety with respect to primary, secondary, and tertiary prevention; enlargement of the present diagnostic based on morphological, pathological, and chemical processes by an objective presentation of the physiological, psychological, and morphological stress factors of the individual.