Core Values

AlterMed Research Foundation - Complementary and Alternative Medicine CAM (or Integrative Medicine) Research and Education 

  • Love and Compassion
  • Optimism
  • Interconnectedness
  • Open minded with conventional skepticism
  • Focus on treating root cause, not symptom
  • Holism and prevention
  • Reconciling clinical anecdotes and double-blind studies using same highest conventional research standard
  • Research is systematic and peer reviewed