Glossary: Integrative Medicine and Nutrition

Refers to the process in which brain hemispheric dominance switches from left brain to right brain about every 90 minutes in a repeated cycle.

The tenth cranial nerve, which supplies the throat, voice box, windpipe, lungs, heart, and gastrointestinal organs.

A strictly plant-based diet that eliminates all animal-based products and by-products, including meat, fish, poultry, eggs, dairy, honey, and gelatin.

A diet excluding meat of any kind, including seafood, poultry, and red meat.

The power of choosing or determining; an act of making a choice or decision; also a choice or decision made.

Opposites or forces that fluctuate and interact in the natural world, giving rise to each other in turn.

The father of the sky and the god of thunder who ruled the Olympian gods; known as Jupiter in Roman mythology.