Integrative Health and Wellness

11/23/2023

Thanksgiving is often a day of indulgence. Who doesn’t like eating turkey and stuffing until you are so stuffed you can’t move?
But it doesn’t have to be that way, you can make tasty, healthy food for Thanksgiving, just take a look at the more than 50 options here: https://betterfoodguru.com/plant-based-holiday-recipes/?fbclid=IwAR22NFCkiK0yhJgzXOwF1rp_a1PQZnfpYae6656bnHa2105JrMh4S5YuaCo
And did you know that taking the time to be thankful while you’re enjoying a delicious and balanced thanksgiving meal could also benefit your health? Check out the benefits of being grateful here: https://herbshealthhappiness.com/scientists-show-how-gratitude-alters-the-human-heart-and-structure-of-the-brain/?fbclid=IwAR1cHQRZF1fidyKnyxBKhWfse95PxO5jQtOEBpv2GNctPNJrN8F-JD4xPSQ&mibextid=2JQ9oc

Wishing you a Happy Healthy Thanksgiving!! 🍁

🙏🏼With Gratitude🙏🏼
🩷The IHWA Team🩷

10/31/2023

Pumpkin Seeds

🎃 For some of us, snacking on pumpkin seeds is a year round go-to snack... for others it is reserved for Halloween when we carve jack-o-lanterns at home with our families... but pumpkin seeds (aka pepitas), are a great year-round snack food, and you can add them to shakes, soups, pretty much anything!

🎃 Why pumpkin seeds? 🎃

Believe it or not, they are little iron powerhouses, providing 10% of the daily value of iron per 1 oz serving!

They are also well known as a great source of vitamin E, providing 71% of the daily value per 1 oz serving!

Did you know that Vitamin E is actually a group of eight different vitamins? Its most significant role is as a fat-soluble antioxidant, protecting the lipids in cell membranes from oxidative damage. Vitamin E is a free radical scavenger, making it helpful for oxidative stress, cardiovascular health, cancer prevention, and neurological / cognitive health, just to name a few benefits.

If you are sensitive or allergic to pumpkin seeds and your micronutrient testing shows a Vitamin E deficiency, you can always work with your functional medicine physician to customize your food plan and find other foods or the correct dose of a mixed tocopherol form (do not take the synthetic form of Vitamin E)!

Happy and Safe Halloween, and Happy Snacking! 🎃

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02/14/2023

Happy Heart Month and Happy Valentine’s Day!! ❤️

“Take care of your body. It’s the only place you have to live.”

02/04/2023

Happy National Women Physician’s Day to all my amazing women physician friends and colleagues who work tirelessly for their patients!! ❤️🩺👩🏻‍⚕️🤗

12/25/2022

“The holiday season is a perfect time to reflect on our blessings and seek out ways to make life better for those around us.” –Anonymous

Wishing you all a Happy Healthy Holiday Season and New Year!!

11/14/2022

***Unique Opportunity to Work in an Integrative / Functional / Holistic / Ayurvedic Medical Practice with a Triple Board Certified MD!!***

Integrative Health & Wellness Associates (IHWA) is hiring! IHWA is a boutique integrative and functional medicine practice founded by a triple board certified MD that is focused on root cause healing. We are seeking an organized and efficient employee with great interpersonal skills, a strong work ethic, and a positive, engaging personality. Experience in Mac/Apple products and software is a must. Administrative office duties for this position will include answering phones, scheduling, checking patients in and out, health related projects/data collection, working with electronic medical records system, sending out customized lifestyle and nutrition plans, and tracking and posting on the company's social media accounts. It is a great opportunity to gain exposure as to how root cause approaches and individualized nutritional, lifestyle, and functional / ayurvedic medicine approaches can improve health outcomes and help reverse disease processes when combined with traditional allopathic medicine.

Please note that we are only seeking team members who are looking to grow with our practice, who are able to come work at least 3-4 days a week for approximately 20 hours per week (Tues-Friday) to either of our two offices (primarily the Warren office and occasionally the Livingston office).

Job Description/Duties:
- Checking patients in and out
- Scanning
- Scheduling/Confirming appointments
- Interacting with patients, functional medicine laboratories, and vendors via email, phone, portal, or in person
- Placing orders online
- Inventory Management / Excel Spreadsheets
- Working with Electronic Medical Records, Scheduling Systems, and Practice Management Software
- Social Media expertise
(ie - Facebook/Instagram/Wordpress Blogging/Canva/Twitter/etc.)
- Other Duties as Needed
- Administrative Assistant or Office Manager in a doctor’s office experience is a HUGE PLUS!!
- Availability to work in the main office in Warren NJ (3-4 days/week) and the satellite office at Barnabas Health in Livingston NJ (approximately 1-2days/month) for approximately 3-7 hours per day, 3-4 days per week.

Please email a cover letter and resume with a cover letter outlining your reason for interest, your prior experience, your technical skills, and your availability to work to: IHWAOfficeManager@gmail.com.

We look forward to hearing from you and the possibility of working together to help patients achieve optimal health!

Yours in Good Health,
Minal Vazirani, MD & Team

08/16/2021

Back to school season is a great time to optimize your nutrition and immune health with essential nutrients!
We are now offering up to 20% off select supplements, please email us at dr.mvazirani@ihwa-nj.com if you are interested!
Please see the information below to learn more:

06/21/2021

Happy International Yoga Day!! 🤗🙏🏼🧘🏻‍♀️

06/19/2021

We hope everyone has a wonderful Father’s Day!🙏🏻☀️Check out this easy and delicious Ayurvedic recipe! 🌱🥒

Recipe credits to: Amadeamorningstar

04/22/2021

Happy Earth Day! 🥰🌎 🌱🤗

03/31/2021

03/16/2021

What a heartwarming testimonial from a happy patient! 💞This is why we do what we do! 👩🏻‍⚕️🩺🧘🏼‍♀️🤗 ❤️

01/01/2021

2020... A year like no other... 2020 NYE... A New Year’s Eve like no other...



Grateful to be alive and healthy, grateful my patients, family, friends, and loved ones are safe and healthy... Looking forward to 2021!! 🎉🥳🤗💕🎆✈️

01/01/2021

11/25/2020

Wishing everyone a Healthy, Safe, Savory, & Sweet Thanksgiving!! 🍁🌿🙏🏼

Swipe for a delicious Ayurvedic Thanksgiving Recipe!! 🌿

What are your favorite Thanksgiving sides? Feel free to share below!!

11/14/2020

Wishing all who celebrate a Happy Healthy and Safe Diwali! 🪔

Diwali is a Festival of Lights that symbolizes the spiritual victory of light over darkness, good over evil, and knowledge over ignorance.

This year more than ever, this is especially applicable. This is a time to cast off the darkness and let in the light of physical, emotional, and spiritual renewal. Now more than ever, it is important that we seek the light within ourselves and spread it to all. 🪔

Lighting a diya (candle) 🪔 in memory of those we have lost this year... and Wishing everyone blessed to be alive, an opportunity for gratitude for life, love, laughter, health, & happiness.... 🪔🎉🙏🏼💕🤗

11/13/2020

Dhanteras is celebrated on the birthday of Lord Dhanvanteri, the Father of Medicine & Ayurveda. True Wealth is really our HEALTH. Wishing everyone the very best of mine, body, & spiritual health today and everyday!!! 🪔🎇🧘🏼‍♀️🧘🏽‍♂️🕉♥️🌸✨

10/30/2020

We hope everyone has a safe, healthy, physically distant but socially connected Halloweekend!