Your spine ages with time, just as your hair gets gray and your skin wrinkles. An impressive study followed the spine MRIs of 2,000 patients of different ages having no back pain. Changes showed disc degeneration, disc protrusion, and/or disc bulge began as early as 20 years old, worsened steadily over the years, reaching 90% by their […]
David Edelberg, MD
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“With virtually any health condition, it’s vital to understand how significantly your lifestyle choices and the biographical events in your life influence your state of well-being. Many times, just making a few positive changes will jumpstart your ‘factory-installed’ systems of self-healing.”
Medical Director & Internal Medicine Physician
Dr. Edelberg, board certified in Internal Medicine in 1974, began incorporating alternative therapies into his practice during the 1980’s. Since founding the parent company of WholeHealth Chicago in 1993, he has become nationally recognized as one of the pioneers of integrative medicine, the new medical specialty combining conventional medicine with alternative therapies. Author of hundreds of articles and author or editor of five books of integrative medicine; his most recent books have been the bestselling “Healing Fibromyalgia” and “The Triple Whammy Cure”.
Author of hundreds of articles and author or editor of five books of integrative medicine; his most recent books have been the bestselling “Healing Fibromyalgia” and “The Triple Whammy Cure”.
Education
- Medical Education: University of Illinois (Champaign, IL)
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Residency:
Vanderbilt University Hospital (Nashville, TN)
Northwestern University Hospital (Chicago, IL)
Memberships & Certifications
- Member, American Medical Association
- Former Member, American Academy of Anti-Aging Medicine
- Former Member, Chicago Medical Society
- Former Member, Illinois State Medical Society
Health Tips
Decades ago, when I was first piecing together what has now become WholeHealth Chicago, I listened to a talk by Carolyn Myss, Ph.D. author of, “Why People Don’t Heal and How They Can.” From her, I heard “your biography determines your biology.” Later, I read the works of Dr. John Sarno, a specialist in physical […]
I’ve been curious for some time about the arrogance and rudeness in my profession. When a new patient starts to relate her health history to me and interrupts herself with a comment like, “The so-and-so doctor was awful” (or really unpleasant or disrespectful), I inquire, “Oh? What happened?” And she’s truly glad to tell someone, especially a […]
The cover of the New York Times Magazine August 6, 2026, was bright red. The title, ” Is Everything Inflammation?” pretty dramatic. “Hmmm,” I muttered, “That sounds familiar,” checking my WholeHealth Chicago files. Yep, there it was, September 22, 2013, “The Evidence is in: Inflammation Shortens Your Life.” Scooped the NYT again! So, this Health […]
You’d never know how many millions of women were affected by one single very flawed medical report released in July 2002 called the “Women’s Health Initiative (WHI).” It stated, loud, clear, and wrongly that hormone replacement was very dangerous; the breast cancer and heart attacks risks were too high. DOCTORS: “Do not prescribe hormones.” What […]
You’re tired of being overweight, and you’ve been a victim of the tyranny of the last ten, twenty pounds or much more as long as you can remember. You’ve tried everything. You’ve been dieting and nothing happens that ever lasts except hunger. You exercise to exhaustion, lose some pounds and gain them back. No matter […]