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WHY THIS PLATFORM ?
Naturadvice ® is a platform intended to inform the public about complementary and alternative medicine (CAM), and allowing users to share their experience. By gathering the testimonials of millions of users, it aims to provide more reliable information about the use of these medicines. The first version of the site, launched in 2018, only covers aromatherapy, the use of essential oils for therapeutic purposes. Other CAM will be added to the next version. Keep an eye on our blog and our Facebook page to find out more!
ABOUT ALTERNATIVE AND COMPLEMENTARY MEDICINES?
Traditional medicines refer to a wide range of knowledge, skills, and practices, some of which very ancient, based on theories, beliefs and experience specific to their cultures of origin. They are used to preserve health, as well as to prevent, diagnose, improve or treat physical and mental illnesses. Complementary medicine and alternative medicine (CAM) designates health practices that are not part of a country's tradition or conventional medicine, and are not fully integrated into its health system. In most cases, they were borrowed from the traditional medicine of other cultures, as acupuncture in Western countries. As a result, the terms 'traditional medicine' and CAM are often confused. CAM are increasingly popular in Western countries, for several reasons. They reduce our dependency on synthetic drugs, especially to treat ailments of the everyday life, and put us back on the driver’s seat of our own health. They offer a natural alternative or complementary treatments where conventional medicine struggles, particularly in the expanding field of chronic diseases (diabetes, hypertension, cancer, cardiovascular disease, etc.). Finally, by disrupting the way conventional medicine has considered health for decades, CAM lead the way toward new promising health strategies based on prevention, multi-molecular drugs, holistic diagnosis, and personalized protocols. Nevertheless, there is a long way to go before CAM is recognized and integrated into our health systems. The resource dedicated to that field of research today is particularly inadequate.
GENESIS OF NATURADVICE®
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Reflecting the growing interest of the public, in just a few years, thousands of users or practitioner blogs, forums and social network discussion groups dedicated to complementary and alternative medicines have flourished on the web. Put together, the testimonials and advice they provide forms an invaluable source of information about CAM. This stands especially true with regards to the lack of clinical research carried out, even on the most common practices and products. However, this information has been difficult to access: rarely synthesized it is scattered over numerous sites, blogs, forums, and social network pages. Naturadvice ® was created in order to provide users of natural products and CAM with an ad-hoc platform to share their experience, and make this common knowledge accessible to all in just one click.
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OUR VISION
By synthesizing the empirical experiences of millions of users, Naturadvice ® wishes to contribute to a safer and more effective use of complementary and alternative medicines. Naturadvice ® is intended for both the general public and the novice or confirmed users of CAM, as well as for medical staff, researchers and decision‐makers in the health sector. At Naturadvice ®, we believe that it is possible and even necessary to integrate complementary and alternative medicines into our healthcare systems. For this, more research, including clinical studies, is needed. Our final objective is to use this platform to support clinical trials, in partnership with research centers and Universities.
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Naturadvice ® is intended to complement, not to replace, a consultation with a conventional or alternative healthcare provider. The information provided by site users does not engage the responsibility of Naturadvice®. They shall in no instance be used as a substitute for the prescriptions and advice provided by healthcare professionals.
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