Health Illness

When you live with back pain, you live with equally unbearable side effects. Anxiety. Depression. Fatigue. Hopelessness. You’re fighting a daily battle impossible to articulate and difficult to see. The list of remedies has been short, unappealing, and ineffective. So you’ve accepted pain. You’ve settled for it because you’ve had to. But you don’t have to anymore.

Chronic disease is shortening our lifespan, destroying our quality of life, bankrupting governments, and threatening the health of future generations. Sadly, conventional medicine, with its focus on managing symptoms, has failed to address this challenge. The result is burned-out physicians, a sicker population, and a broken healthcare system. In Unconventional Medicine, Chris Kresser presents a plan to reverse this dangerous trend.

Unbreakable Bonds tells 10 touching stories of mothers who spent years aiding the recoveries of their children, U.S. soldiers and marines who suffered severe injuries during the War on Terror. The survival of these wounded warriors is a testament not only to the extraordinary efforts of military medical personnel and their own inner fortitude but also to their mothers.

Psychotherapists and sleep specialists Jennifer and Jill, the dynamic "girlfriends" all of Hollywood calls on to solve Junior's sleep problems, have perfected their sleep technique that will get any child snoozing in no time - most often in fewer than three nights. The key to their method? It addresses the emotional needs of both the parent and the child (yes, how to handle the crying!) - a critical component of why most other sleep methods fail.

The Lupus Solution is a patient’s guide to understanding the why behind their symptoms and their autoimmune condition so that they may achieve remission.

My name is Jayne Pritchard. You might recognize me as one of the news anchors from CTV News in Barrie. I was diagnosed with breast cancer and have written about my experience and the importance of looking after yourself through this journey. The reason I wrote this audiobook is because I want women to ensure they get regular mammograms, and whatever other diagnostic tests their doctor recommends. Early detection is key to a positive outcome. I almost put off my mammogram, which discovered an early form of an aggressive type of breast cancer.

Make your bed and actually sleep in it. The Book of Sleep provides dozens of quick, easy, and evidence-based strategies that are more effective and sustainable than sleep medication for people who suffer from insomnia. Based in CBT-I (cognitive behavioral therapy for insomnia), the techniques in this book were developed by a clinical psychologist who specializes in insomnia treatment. Find the relief you need and wake up feeling truly restored. A good night's sleep isn’t just a dream anymore.

The Ultimate Handbook for Success on the Spectrum – Written by and for Autistic People! I feel like everyone else got a handbook with all the answers, and I never got my copy. This is a common thought among autistic people, because society is built with neurotypical people in mind—but that...

For listeners touched by Paul Kalanithi’s When Breath Becomes Air and anyone with a life-threatening illness seeking healing of body, mind, and spirit, a fellow patient shares her journey of choosing to have the best day of her life by working as though she will live and living every moment as though she might die. Waking to the stunning realization she had cancer, Jocelyn Rasmussen’s first thought was that she needed a miracle. Her second thought was that she didn’t want to die with any unspent love or grace inside her.

Worldwide, there are more than 10 million people living with Parkinson's disease (PD). In the US alone, approximately one million Americans live with PD and approximately 60,000 more are diagnosed each year. Internationally renowned as both a neurologist and a leading researcher, Dr. Okun has been referred to as the voice of these patients and a world authority on Parkinson's disease. His positive and optimistic approach has helped countless people manage their symptoms and achieve happiness despite them.

Un témoignage poignant et inspirant. Géraldine Dormoy-Tungate, journaliste et blogueuse de la première heure, raconte le cancer du sein de l'intérieur, en 12 mois, dans un journal intime riche d'enseignements pour toutes et tous, malades ou bien portants.

The Essentials of Ehlers-Danlos Syndrome is your compassionate, research-based guide to understanding EDS, managing symptoms, and reclaiming control over your daily life. With warmth and clarity, it explains complex medical topics in plain English and offers real-world tools you can use immediately.

Grâce au Dr Saldmann, percez le secret qui changera votre vie et vous assurera d'avoir, dès aujourd'hui, le meilleur de la santé devant vous. Pour bénéficier d'une vitalité et d'une santé performantes, voici une ordonnance qui va bouleverser bien des croyances. De la médecine ayurvédique indienne aux mystères égyptiens, des rituels japonais aux messages cryptés des écritures bibliques..., les clés de la médecine de précision moderne se trouvent dans les textes sacrés. Ce livre les décode pour vous grâce aux dernières recherches de la science.

Comment est morte Lucy ? Pourquoi et comment le corps de Saint Louis a été dispersé à travers le monde ? Que nous apprend l'étude du cerveau de Descartes? L'Histoire est pleine de mystères, c'est peut-être ce qui fait son charme et les résoudre est une aventure passionnante qui s'étend sur plusieurs siècles. N'étant plus une discipline monolithique, l'Histoire voit désormais s'étendre son champ d'action et s'enrichit de rapports fructueux avec l'anthropologie physique, l'ethnologie, l'archéologie, la biologie.

In this Very Short Introduction, Paul Klenerman describes the immune system, and how it works in health and disease. He considers how the immune system evolved, the basic rules that govern its behavior, and the major health threats where it is important. Paul Klenerman also explains how things can go wrong when there is too little or too much immunity. The book also addresses what we learned about the immune system from the COVID-19 pandemic and how that has influenced thinking about future pandemics.

Unwind and declutter your mind with this calming sleep hypnosis. Let go of mental noise and find relief from anxiety, OCD, and depression as you drift into a peaceful slumber.

A ruthless dissection of American life in the late 1960s, Joan Didion's Play It as It Lays captures the mood of an entire generation, the ennui of contemporary society reflected in spare prose that blisters and haunts the reader. Set in a place beyond good and evil—literally in Hollywood, Las...

Stop Picking on Me is the definitive guide on excoriation (skin picking) disorder (SPD). Learn how to make peace with your critical self and how to change your lifestyle to finally heal the phenomenon of nervous, obsessive, compulsive, and habitual skin picking. Mary-Margaret "anand sahaja" Stratton is the founding mother healer of excoriation disorder. She is an Essene minister, certified raw food nutritionist, instructional designer, and veteran of twelve step philosophy.

When Luce Brett became incontinent at the age of 30, after the birth of her first son, she felt her life had ended. She also felt scared, upset, embarrassed, dirty and shocked. How the hell had she ended up there, the youngest woman in the waiting room at the incontinence clinic? PMSL is her story. A heartfelt, moving and deeply personal account of the decade that followed, told with incredible honesty and wit.

A Guardian Best Book of 2021 A compassionate and captivating examination of evolving attitudes toward mental illness throughout history and the fight to end the stigma. For centuries, scientists and society cast moral judgments on anyone deemed mentally ill, confining many to asylums. In...