About Dr. Elson Haas

Elson M. Haas, MD is a practicing physician since 1973, instrumental in the development of the field of Integrated Medicine (see concept article below). He is the founder and director of the Preventive Medical Center of Marin, an Integrated Healthcare Facility in San Rafael, California, where he specializes in Family and Nutritional Medicine, Detoxification, and Individualized Health Programs. He also oversees regular Detox Groups for people to learn this important process of healing in their daily lives. The good doctor calls this group education and transformation experience one of the most rewarding aspects of his career.

Dr. Haas also speaks to corporations, conventions, and groups throughout the world. See his Upcoming Appearances and Events for more information about dates and topics.

This educating, writing doctor is also the author of many books, including his first book blending the healing philosophies of many systems to the proactive ideas of Staying Healthy with the Seasons (1981 and new edition in 2003)

His other books on health and nutrition include the following (See photos and descriptions on the Books page:

• Staying Healthy with Nutrition: The Complete Guide to Diet and Nutritional Medicine (1992 and new 21st Century Edition, 2006 with Dr. Buck Levin)
• The New Detox Diet: The Complete Guide for Lifelong Vitality with Recipes, Menus, and Detox Plans (2004) with Daniella Chace, MS, CN
  
• The Staying Healthy Shopper's Guide: Feed Your Family Safely (1999)
• Vitamins for Dummies (2000) about the Wise Use of Nutritional Supplments with Christopher Hobbs, L.Ac.
  
• A Cookbook for All Seasons: A Healthy Eating Plan for Life (2000) with Eleonora Manzolini
  
• The False Fat Diet: The Revolutionary 21-Day Program for Losing the Weight You Think is Fat with Cameron Stauth (2000)

After graduation from the University of Michigan Medical School in 1972, Elson moved to Northern California where he received additional training. After an internship, he began further studies in many health-related fields: Nutrition, Herbology, Oriental Medicine, Exercise Physiology, Body Therapies, and Mind-Body Medicine.

Over the past three decades, Dr. Haas integrates these many healing disciplines into his family medical practice. He still enjoys working with individuals on their health improvement through motivation and practical ideas towards achieving benefits from lifestyle changes and natural therapies in combination with any necessary medical therapies.

With the great progress, awareness, and acceptance of nutritional and alternative medicine, Haas has been in the midst of this rapidly growing field. With thousands of nutritional products now available in a variety of stores, Vitamins for Dummies is essential reference for those desiring to interpret this complex field and achieve the great health and longevity benefits of nutritional supplementation. And Staying Healthy with Nutrition provides the basic understanding about these many natural and nutritional therapies and how and why they work, as well as how to more clearly use them for yours and your family’s health.

Dr. Haas travels and teaches nationally and appears on numerous radio and television shows. He is a professional consultant for a number of health writers and magazines, including Natural Health, Women's World, and Taste For Life. He has more to share with the world and has important writing to do about the healthcare system and doctor’s practice and how to make it work for everyone.

Dr. Elson Haas has collaborated with his loyal business associate, Bethany Argisle, for some three decades now. They met in 1976 when Bethany was producing a play with the Bolinas Elementary School children from a show that she wrote. Bethany has reviewed and helped to produce many of the Dr. Haas' books, and has been a grand guide for his career. Bethany is also known as the Princess of Argisle and has worked as a storyteller, publicist, editor, and president of her own corporation, Argisle Enterprises, Inc. The Princess and the good doctor, known by his kid friends as Dr. Sun, also have some health wisdom to pass on to the young people and families about Staying Healthy. The Anatomy Show Project with the Anatomix Comix™ is the first project about what the body is made of and how it all works through energizing and educational songs for many body systems. These include, after the lead song of Let’s Be Doctors, a song for digestion called Chew-Chew Train, and B-B-B-B-Bones! for the skeletal system. See more about this and hear a sampling of songs on the Children's page.

Please refer to Dr. Haas' seasonal and many other "Tips on Staying Healthy" and his many articles on a wide variety of health topics (Go to Publications page). For your convenience, you can sign up to receive the Health Tips and other communications by email. Contact Dr. Elson Haas at info@elsonhaas.com. For health questions or consultation, please go to Preventive Medical Center of Marin at www.pmcmarin.com.

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What is Integrated Medicine?

Integrated Medicine is a common sense approach to both basic and complex health issues. Real preventive medicine involves your lifestyle and incorporates nutrition, exercise, adequate sleep, stress management and attitude – all to feel good about yourself.

Western allopathic medicine, commonly referred to as traditional medicine, has not really passed through tradition. It is the youngest in the health care field and is more appropriately termed conventional medicine, because it is “of convention” at this time.

Conventional medicine has its strengths in acute, crisis medicine, but has great limitations in successfully treating most chronic diseases. This method’s current focus is to attack and conquer, primarily with technology. Therapies that align with traditional integrated medicine include nutrition, acupuncture, herbal medicine, body therapies, and hormonal balancing, to name a few.

Four Key Aspects of Integrated Medicine

• The first aspect is the blending of family practice diagnosis and treatment with health supportive care such as counseling, acupuncture, and bodywork.
• The second aspect takes a multi-disciplinary approach. This uses a variety of services, such as Western and Eastern medicines, as well as natural and pharmaceutical remedies.
• The third involves lifestyle and the many aspects of our being – the physical, mental, emotional and spiritual along with other habits – all important components in your individual health care.
• The fourth is the awareness and understanding that how you live, think and act contributes to the person you are and the state of health you are in. The key to Integrated Medicine is to ask,” Why is this problem present in my life, and what is needed for healing to happen?” Not, “What can I take to make it go away?” This moves from the aggressive ‘attack and conquer’ approach to the re-integration and healing of issues, tissues, conflicts, and emotions within us.

An Integrated Healthcare Facility

The Preventive Medical Center of Marin (www.pmcmarin.com), established in 1984, provides an advanced and unique blend of modern healthcare. It is a learning center for patients and providers to best create wellness for yourself and your family. Our integrated approach brings together Individualized Medical Care, Healing Therapies, and Patient Education. The GOAL of Preventive Medical Center is to educate you as well as to support you in making healthy changes through wiser choices. We strive to empower our patients by teaching them to listen to their bodies and take more responsibility for their own health. Be well!