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"Did you know we have 100,000 heartbeats a day? That's a lot of wear and tear over the years as we age. Natural aging leads to artery plaque, high blood pressure, and slower and irregular heartbeats. You can do everything right, and time will still pass. You will still age. While you can influence some aspects of aging on your own, some you cannot--at least not without your doctor's help. Fortunately, the biology of aging is no longer mysterious....
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"At Peace outlines specific active and passive steps that older patients and their health care proxies can take to insure loved ones pass their last days comfortably at home and/or in hospice, when further aggressive care is inappropriate. Informed by more than thirty years of clinical practice, Dr. Harrington came to understand that the American health care system wasn't designed to treat the aging population with care and compassion. His work as...
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Please note: This is a companion version & not the original book.
Book Preview: #1 I received a call from CBS's The Doctors, a long-running medical talk show produced by Dr. Phil. They wanted to help Casey, a sixteen-year-old with chronic abdominal pain so severe that it would regularly cause him to pass out.
#2 I was in my mid-twenties and life was good. I was in graduate school for psychotherapy at USC. I was an outgoing, active guy. But then...
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"Remember Jessamyn Stanley? How could you not? She's the proudly fat, Black, queer yoga teacher and charismatic author of Every Body Yoga, who drops a lot more f-bombs than namastes and refuses to pray at the church of Lululemon. Now she's back, here to take us even further on a personal and provocative journey into what it means to "practice yoga." Where Every Body Yoga, with 59,000 copies in print, taught us how to do yoga, Yoke tells us why. In...
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Make your own rules for weight loss instead of breaking someone else's! Losing weight doesn't have to mean sacrificing happiness—especially when you want to do what's best for your body and your MS. If you're ready to make your health a top priority and find your individual answer to healing your body then Stop Carrying the Weight of Your MS is an essential piece of the puzzle. Losing weight is a known solution to slowing multiple sclerosis progression...
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Siegel first wrote about miracles when he was a practicing surgeon and pioneered Exceptional Cancer Patients, a groundbreaking synthesis of group, individual, dream, and art therapy for patients. The stories here were compiled during his more than thirty years of practice, speaking, and teaching. Without diminishing the reality of pain and hardship, they show real people turning crisis into blessing by responding to adversity in ways that empower...
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Jazz, the quintessential American art form, serves as a blueprint for these personal essays that wrestle with inequalities in medicine based on "race." Sick and Tired is a collective of stories, personal essays, letters, vignettes, and song, as it were, that challenges the concept of race, itself, and considers the possibility of American action toward addressing real, physical differences in health outcomes between the races. Poverty, to be sure,...
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Individuals who care for another person who cannot care for themselves: Dementia, Alzheimer's, Cancer, Birth Defects, Accident Victim, Stroke, Heart Attack, Surgery, and Other Diseases. The caregiver is the lifeline for their loved one. They are the voice, advocate, heart, and the able-bodied one, who is all too willing to lend their strength to another in time of need. This book is written from my perspective as a caregiver for a loved one with dementia....
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I am a writer, but, most importantly, I am a mother of children affected by high-functioning autism. As far back as I can remember, many of my family members have also been stricken with symptoms that are consistent with Ehlers-Danlos syndrome.
Like many of my listeners, I remember constantly being ill as a child. I couldn't do many of the activities that my peers could do. Sometimes I was sent to the doctor, and other times I was sent home from...
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A psychiatrist takes a critical look at this SSRI and newer medications that are among the most frequently prescribed drugs in America.
Prozac. Millions of Americans are on it. And just about everyone else is wondering if they should be on it, too. The claims of the pro‑Prozac chorus are enticing: that it can cure everything from depression (the only disorder for which Prozac was originally approved) to fear of public speaking, PMS,...
Prozac. Millions of Americans are on it. And just about everyone else is wondering if they should be on it, too. The claims of the pro‑Prozac chorus are enticing: that it can cure everything from depression (the only disorder for which Prozac was originally approved) to fear of public speaking, PMS,...
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"It's time for women to reject the "hormone myth" and own their emotions in a healthy and realistic way. This provocative book exposes pervasive myths about women's hormones and shows how flawed, obsolete research and sexism have combined to keep women "in their place." The idea that women become raving lunatics when their hormones fluctuate is firmly entrenched in American culture--images of hormone-crazed women are prominent on TV and in movies,...
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"In 2010, human rights reporter Mac McClelland left Haiti after covering the devastation of the earthquake. Back home, she finds herself imagining vivid scenes of violence and can't sleep or stop crying. It becomes clear that she is suffering from Post Traumatic Stress Disorder, triggered by her trip and seemingly exacerbated by her experiences in the other charged places she'd reported from. The bewilderment about this sudden loss of self-control...
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Toni Weschler has taught a whole new generation of women how to become pregnant, avoid pregnancy naturally and gain better control of their gynecological and sexual health by taking just a couple minutes a day using the proven Fertility Awareness Method. Now, this 20th Anniversary Edition has been thoroughly revised and fully updated with: the latest medical advances in assisted reproductive technologies (ART), more in-depth coverage of women's gynecological...
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Transcranial Magnetic Stimulation (TMS) is profoundly changing the brains of people who have long struggled with depression, and The Mindfulness Sidekick walks alongside TMS patients on their healing journeys, teaching the powerful medicine of mindfulness practice and living well. The Mindfulness Sidekick guides the reader through each phase of their treatment, teaching vital aspects of mental wellness such as tuning into the present moment without...
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Healing with Real Food combines the philosophies of traditional Chinese Medicine and knowledge of modern nutrition to help pet parents create the ultimate balanced diet for their dogs. It helps us understand the root imbalances across multiple diseases and how to best address them holistically using a fresh diet. Includes a list of superfoods and their applications for common ailments such as skin allergies, ear infections, inflammatory bowel disease,...
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"Las últimas décadas han evidenciado no solamente un creciente interés acerca de todo lo concerniente a la vejez y a los viejos, sino acerca de las diversas perspectivas desde las cuales se ha abordado el envejecimiento, tan diversas como las múltiples facetas que componen este proceso. De ahí que este libro, Envejecer en el siglo xxi, se haya pensado para estimular el "aprender a aprender" sobre estos temas, más allá de las aulas universitarias,...
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