Tips To Unlock Your Rapid Recovery Reflex, From Dr. Victoria Maizes

InnovationHealthcareTips To Unlock Your Rapid Recovery Reflex, From Dr. Victoria MaizesByJesse Pines,Contributor.Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. Jesse Pines is an expert in healthcare innovation and wellness.Follow AuthorMay 18, 2026, 06:30am EDT--:-- / --:--This voice experience is generated by AI. Learn more.This voice experience is generated by AI. Learn more.Dr. Victoria Maizes, founding executive director of the Andrew Weil Center for Integrative Medicine at the University of Arizona, argues in her new book that healing is active, dynamic, and largely within our own reach.gettyThe traditional medical model tends to treat healing as something that’s done to patients through prescriptions written or procedures performed. Dr. Victoria Maizes, the founding executive director of the Andrew Weil Center for Integrative Medicine at the University of Arizona, has spent four decades arguing that medicine’s most powerful healing tool, the patient, is routinely left out of the prescription. Her book Heal Faster: Unlock Your Body’s Rapid Recovery Reflex was published early this year. It argues that healing is active, dynamic and largely within our own reach—if we know how to support it.The book arrives at a moment when Americans are simultaneously more medication-dependent and more skeptical of purely pharmaceutical solutions than at any point in recent memory. Heal Faster proposes an evidence-based invitation to take a more active role in recovery. The science is grounded in the principles of integrative medicine, a holistic approach to healthcare that treats the whole person (i.e. mind, body, and spirit) by combining conventional Western medicine with safe, validated complementary therapies.Maizes describes her reasons for writing the book: “I wanted people to have access to the growing evidence about how they can recover more quickly from an illness, an injury or surgery and when possible reverse chronic illness and restore health.”...