Free Resource Guide
to Vitamins, Minerals and Nutraceuticals

Designed for client-centered conventional and natural healthcare providers and students of all kinds who want to provide exceptional, safe and
holistically-minded healthcare to the modern-day patient.

It’s time to take some of the guesswork out of natural medicine.

The #1 question I receive from health practitioners is: What are the most reliable websites and resources to consult when researching drug interactions, contraindications, scientific studies and general information?

This resource serves as the answer to that question.

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Make good decisions about natural products (or pharmaceuticals)

Use this resource guide to help you make good decisions about natural products (or pharmaceuticals), and to truly support your patient from a client-centered approach.

This includes a contextual framework, my favorite websites and references.

Whether you’re a natural practitioner who needs pharmacotherapy knowledge, or a conventional practitioner seeking knowledge of natural medicine, this resource is designed to help you close the knowledge and conceptual framework gap that can limit your capacity to fully support your patients.

This resource is for you if…

Here’s my vision for a more integrated healthcare system. I help my clients across conventional medicine to natural medicine step forward with these skill sets, in support of offering the best patient care possible.

You want to understand natural medicine.

You’re a conventional medical doctor who wants to understand the fundamentals of natural medicine, so that you can skillfully communicate with and support your patients as they seek multiple options interventions and solutions for their health and symptoms.

You are tired of saying ‘I don’t know’ to your patients.

Integrative medicine offers you the capacity to respond to your patients’ questions and the information they provide you about their holistic health ideas (even when you don’t have the answers). You don’t have to know everything. You can, however, resource yourself in a way that helps keep your patients safe.

You want to ensure that your patients stay safe.

As pharmacists and medical professionals, a core part of our role is to support medication safety for our patients. You want to feel more comfortable and equipped to recognize what patients are using to support their health. You want to know what to look for if a patient has certain diseases or is using other medications or supplements.

An integrative approach can empower your patients, trusting that you know how to educate them on their treatment plan in a holistic way (ultimately supporting their safety as they seek support or healing).

You want to work collaboratively with your patients, to keep them safe when they express interest in other options. You’re a pharmacy student.

As you go through training, you’re interested in learning an integrative approach, one that includes both natural medicine and conventional medicine, so that you can best support your clients in a collaborative way once you enter the profession.

You value collaborative care.

In a world in which our clients can Google a question and receive 100 pages of results with the click of a button, I believe we have a responsibility as healthcare providers and pharmacists to know how to navigate this new terrain in a proactive, collaborative, and rigorous way. Otherwise, we are doing a disservice to the very people we are committed to serving (not to mention risking burning out or feeling overwhelmed by our own confusion and knowledge gaps).

Hi, I’m Pam Tarlow, PharmD. I’m glad you’re here.

I’m an Integrative Health Pharmacist with a passion for positively impacting the people who are impacting people’s health: conventional and natural medicine doctors practitioners alike.

With over 40 years of professional experience as a pharmacist and more than 30 years experience with natural medicine, I offer my healthcare professionals an evidence-informed, patient-centered, and collaboration-forward approach to bridging the knowledge and conceptual framework gap that creates roadblocks with their patients.

My primary objective is to help you keep your patients safe, keep the lines of communication open, and navigate the liminal spaces of modern medicine and health with equanimity, curiosity, and an open mind.

After 15 years in the pharmacy field, I couldn’t answer my clients’ questions (and I was tired of being frustrated). This is where my journey as an Integrative Medicine Mentor began.

client results

“Dr. Tarlow is a pleasure to work with, offering a highly structured, virtual rotation that challenges our students.”

“We feel so lucky to be able to offer such a unique and interesting rotation for our APPE students. Dr. Tarlow is a pleasure to work with, offering a highly structured, virtual rotation that challenges our students. Our students often comment about the value of the rotation, Dr. Tarlow’s skills as a preceptor, and how they learned important information about natural products that they didn’t see in school.

As one of our students said, “Once again, I would just like to thank Dr. Tarlow SO MUCH for such a wonderful rotation. You truly made a difference in my life and how I will practice as a pharmacist.”

-Janet H. Cooley, PharmD, BCACP
Director of Experiential Education
Associate Professor, Pharmacy Practice and Science
The University of Arizona College of Pharmacy

  • “Prior to the rotation, I was afraid of having to make on-demand integrative health recommendations to patients off the top of my head. Fortunately, I got the opportunity to take my time to research the drug information questions that Dr.Tarlow posed. Unlike conventional medications, which for the most part have clear-cut answers and guidelines, complementary and integrative medicine seems to have some gray areas that require extensive research. In fact, many of the pharmacists I spoke to shared with me that they found it challenging to make strong recommendations for certain supplements due to the lack of evidence. Despite the challenges of things not being black and white, I felt that the complexity of dietary supplement use actually helped me hone my research, analytical, and critical thinking skills.”

    Trang Tran, Pharm D

    Pharmacy Student, Oregon State University
    Graduated 2021

  • “I completed the Masterclass in 2021 and I must say - WOW. I am constantly going back to my notes to help my patients in my community pharmacy practice.

    In 2023, more and more people WANT to support their medication regimens with natural medicines to help achieve optimal outcomes. With so much random informational available online, I offer my knowledge and care to patients so that they turn to me rather than an internet search. I highly recommend this course for all healthcare providers, especially for Pharmacists!”

    Mona Ligvani, PharmD, APh
    Masterclass Student 2021
    Community-Based Clinical Pharmacist, Manager, Patient Advocate, Experiential Educator

  • “Prior to taking Dr. Tarlow’s rotation, I was very fresh out of pharmacy school didactics. My knowledge base was limited to what we learned in the classroom, and my pharmacy hands-on experience was just beginning.

    During Dr. Tarlow’s rotation, I was exposed to a variety of herbal supplements that many patients already use or are interested in using to improve their health. In the classroom, our exposure to these supplements was limited, so I found it immensely beneficial to become more familiar with these products. I appreciated that the rotation focused on attaining knowledge of the safety of these products, and evaluated them alongside conventional medications. As pharmacists, a big part of our role is to improve medication safety. After the rotation I felt more comfortable simply being able to recognize what patients are using to support their health, and what to look out for if a patient has certain diseases or is using other medications in addition to these supplements. I appreciated the empowerment it gave me to connect with patients and be able to educate them on their treatments in a comprehensive and holistic manner.

    I found the rotation to be very balanced and I admire the wealth of knowledge and expertise that Dr. Tarlow has.”

    Ayah Bany-Mohammed, PharmD
    Former student at USC School of Pharmacy
    MTM Pharmacist at MedWatchers

Collaborative Care is the Future

And it starts here with integrative health. If you’re a natural practitioner who needs pharmacotherapy knowledge, a conventional practitioner who desires natural medicine knowledge, or a pharmacist looking to serve holistically, I invite you to explore my offerings and join me in the integrative health movement.