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There are many competing ideas and beliefs about how our bodies and minds work and what is necessary to nourish us and keep us healthy. There are conflicts between what you will hear from a conventional doctor and what you will hear from practitioners of natural medicine.
Even though the alternative resources listed here agree on basic principles, still many do not agree in their specific recommendations. And you may find a big difference in both diagnosis and treatment methods between practitioners who are more based in a nutritional/ naturopathic approach, and those who are focusing on therapies based on energy.
Doctors, researchers, and practitioners of all stripes, simply do not agree on healing treatments. Their opinions depend on how they were educated, what their personal experience has been, how much they have explored all the options that are available and educated themselves, what their peer group says, what pressures they are subjected to from the institution they work for, what the insurance industry requires of them. And the picture is distorted and obscured by the powerful financial interests of the pharmaceutical industry, which pushes its own agenda through massive advertising campaigns, and by providing funding to everything from medical schools to the Food and Drug Administration.
At this point, there is no one answer to the question of how to stay healthy, or how we recover from an illness - there is only the answer which works for you.
This is even more true at midlife and after, when changes in metabolism and hormones may be disruptive. Each of us is an individual with unique psychology and experience, and can have different symptoms for different reasons.
The bottom line is that we need to educate ourselves in what our individual bodies require by paying attention. Our mindbodies are complicated systems with their own internal balance. The standard recommendations, or blindly following someone else’s advice - even that of a professional health care practitioner - can make us worse instead of better.
In these confusing circumstances we need to discover how our own bodies react, and how our own psychology, life circumstances and habitual behavior might be influencing our health. Yes, this is a lot of work - but ask yourself whether having reliably good health is worth it. And you don't have to do it alone.
Some of the resources below will appeal to you, others won’t - but they are all viable approaches that have worked for others. Start with the approach that you have the best feeling about. If possible, find a practitioner in that field whom you feel you can trust, and begin to apply its wisdom to your life. Don't be a compliant "good patient" and go along with authority figures if something doesn't feel right to you - ask questions, do your own research, and bring your own experience of your body to the consultation. A good doctor will be happy to have an informed and responsible patient.
Keep an open mind - don't dismiss something that might help based on your preconceptions; try not to let your desire to assign reasons for symptoms get ahead of the evidence. Track the results—keep experimenting, ask questions, develop your intuition, talk to your friends, find out what works for you. Take notes in your appointments or take a friend with you to be sure you understand everything and get your questions answered.
Below is a kind of map I made in the process of trying to understand the geography of health choices available to us, still incomplete, which may help you make sense of the vast amount of health information out there: 
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