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Holistic Health Authority serves as a reference resource covering the scope, regulation, and practice landscape of holistic and integrative health in the United States. This page explains how to direct inquiries to the appropriate channel, what geographic scope the resource covers, what information to include in a message, and what response timelines are typical. Understanding these boundaries helps ensure that messages are routed correctly and resolved efficiently.

How to reach this office

Holistic Health Authority operates as an editorial and reference property, not a clinical practice. Accordingly, the contact function serves 3 primary inquiry categories: editorial corrections, sourcing questions, and accessibility requests.

Editorial corrections cover factual disputes, outdated regulatory citations, or broken references. For example, if a page cites a Federal Trade Commission enforcement threshold that has since changed, an editorial correction request is the appropriate channel. The FTC's published guidance on health product claims (FTC Health Products Compliance Guidance) is a benchmark source used across this site's regulatory framing.

Sourcing and citation requests address questions about which named public document underlies a specific claim — for instance, a NIST framework reference or a citation to the National Center for Complementary and Integrative Health (NCCIH) within the National Institutes of Health.

Accessibility requests address technical barriers to accessing content — including screen reader compatibility, contrast issues, or navigation failures.

Inquiries that fall outside these 3 categories — including requests for personal health advice, practitioner referrals, insurance guidance, or legal interpretation — fall outside the scope of this editorial office. For practitioner-finding frameworks, the page How to Choose a Holistic Health Practitioner and Holistic Health Practitioners: Types and Roles cover those decision structures in detail.

Service area covered

This resource operates at national scope within the United States. Regulatory citations reference federal agencies — including the Food and Drug Administration (FDA), the Federal Trade Commission (FTC), the Department of Health and Human Services (HHS), and the NCCIH — alongside state-level licensing structures where those structures vary meaningfully by jurisdiction.

State-level variation is significant across the holistic health landscape. Naturopathic physicians, for example, hold licensure in 23 states and the District of Columbia as of the most recent American Association of Naturopathic Physicians legislative tracking (AANP State Licensing). Acupuncture licensing requirements differ across all 50 states, with oversight bodies ranging from state medical boards to independent acupuncture boards.

Because regulatory structures differ between states, content on this site is framed at the national level with state-specific distinctions noted where they materially affect consumer decisions. Inquiries that are inherently jurisdiction-specific — such as questions about a particular state's scope-of-practice statute — are best directed to the relevant state licensing board or a licensed professional in that state.

The resource does not cover international regulatory frameworks, practitioner registries outside the US, or cross-border telehealth licensing questions.

What to include in your message

Structured messages resolve faster than unstructured ones. The following breakdown reflects the 4 components that allow editorial staff to route and process an inquiry without back-and-forth clarification:

1. Page URL or title — Identify the specific page where the issue or question originates. For example: "The page titled Holistic Health Credentials and Certifications contains a reference to a credentialing body that appears to have changed its name."
2. Nature of the inquiry — Specify whether the message is an editorial correction, a sourcing question, or an accessibility request. Unclassified messages take longer to route.
3. Supporting reference — For factual disputes, include the named public source being cited as the basis for the correction. Sources should be publicly accessible documents from named agencies, standards bodies, or peer-reviewed outlets. Anonymous or undated sources cannot be acted upon editorially.
4. Accessibility detail — For accessibility requests, include the browser or assistive technology in use, the operating system version, and a description of the specific barrier encountered.

Messages that omit the page URL or the nature of the inquiry add at least one additional exchange to the resolution process, which extends the timeline by approximately 3 to 5 business days per cycle.

Response expectations

Editorial response timelines vary by inquiry type. The 3 categories carry different processing demands:

• Editorial corrections require fact-checking against named primary sources before any content change is made. Typical processing time is 7 to 14 business days from receipt of a complete, sourced correction request.
• Sourcing questions are generally resolved within 5 business days when the question is specific and the page is clearly identified.
• Accessibility requests are treated as higher-priority and targeted for first response within 3 business days, consistent with the Web Content Accessibility Guidelines (WCAG) 2.1 framework published by the World Wide Web Consortium (W3C).

Responses are not guaranteed for inquiries that request personal health advice, practitioner referrals, diagnosis interpretation, or supplement recommendations. Those inquiry types fall outside an editorial office's function and are governed by professional licensing requirements under state and federal health law. For regulatory context on how complementary health practices are overseen, the page Regulatory Context for Holistic Health outlines the relevant federal agency structures and their jurisdictional boundaries in detail.

Messages submitted without the 4 components listed in the prior section will receive an automated acknowledgment noting what information is missing before editorial review begins.

References

• FTC Health Products Compliance Guidance
• AANP State Licensing