Health Illness

A rare work of narrative non-fiction that illuminates a world most of us try not to see: the daily lives of the severely mentally ill, who are medicated, marginalized, locked away and shunned. Susan Doherty's groundbreaking book brings us a population of lost souls, ill-served by society, feared...

After a routine pap smear in 2009, Angela Schmidt Fishbaugh discovered that she had tested positive for BRCA1, a genetic trait that predisposed her to breast and ovarian cancer. After her initial shock - and subsequent to consulting with medical professionals, friends, and family - the proactive mother and teacher embarked on a mission to nip the issue in the bud.

With over 1 million copies sold worldwide and translated into 29 languages, Dr. Alex Loyd's international bestselling book is a life-changing program that uses energy medicine to heal mental and physical challenges. The Healing Code is your healing kit for life-to recover from the issues you...

Ce livre contient des étapes et des stratégies éprouvées sur la façon dont vous pouvez surmonter avec succès votre dépendance au sucre. Ce guide de désintoxication vous aidera à découvrir comment manger des repas délicieux plus sainement. De plus, vous apprendrez les avantages de tourner le dos à la malbouffe, au sucre et aux aliments transformés. De même, il vous sera révélé et expliqué la façon de traiter les symptômes liés à la désintoxication du sucre.

Cancer and current cancer treatments wage war on the body, but Russell L. Blaylock - a respected doctor and clinical assistant professor of neurosurgery - has developed an easy-to-follow program to fight back naturally. This book reveals how easy it can be to fortify nutritional status during this critical time. Conversely, patients receiving the proper balance of healthy foods, vitamins and minerals, and selected nutritional supplements show a striking increase in the effectiveness of their chemotherapy and radiaton treatments.

NATIONAL BOOK AWARD FINALIST Frank and April Wheeler are a bright, beautiful, talented couple in the 1950s whose perfect suburban life is about to crumble in this "moving and absorbing story” (The Atlantic Monthly) from one of the most acclaimed writers of the twentieth century. "The Great...

In Your Body Mandala, Mary Bond, author of The New Rules of Posture, helps you unlock your somatic wisdom and find your way home to your body. With modern lifestyles that leave us feeling overwhelmed by mental and physical stress, being comfortably present inside our skins can be a challenge. Through an innovative weaving of movement theory, philosophy, neuroscience, fascia research, and personal story, Your Body Mandala helps you reclaim your body's inner guidance and improve your posture in the bargain.

Mental Illness is real. Will the Church get real? This book is a collection of essays from various authors: men and women, pastors and congregants, counselors and nurses, parents and children. All have a unique view of how mental health conditions affect people, and how the church has responded to these circumstances. Whispers in the Pews tackles how the mentally ill have been, and still are, treated in the church at large by sharing stories. This is not fundamentally a teaching book, but a book of moments and lives, knitted together by the common theme of mental health.

In Own Your Health, Glen narrates his own journey to health, tells the stories of how his parents saved each other’s lives and how his wife Joanna overcame lupus, explains why the science of nutrition is more settled than you think, suggests the best way to deal with doctors, takes on some leading historic opponents of the plant-based diet, blows apart the silly and misguided attacks on “carbs,” and gives us an action plan to reverse the epidemics of obesity, diabetes, and heart disease, while obliterating demand for the kind of food-raising that risks future pandemics.

Cancer is considered as one of the most dangerous diseases of present time. Though it can be cured in many cases, it requires a lot of patience, dedication, and money. The test for cancer and its treatment are quite costly, and many people cannot afford it. There are still many cases where people die out of cancer because even though they have money, it is very difficult to cure when they are in their last stage of cancer.

Medical treatment for ADHD fails much too often - not because of the drugs themselves, but how they are given. New ADHD Medication Rules - Brain Science & Common Sense shows that patients can react very differently to ADHD prescriptions, resulting in missed diagnoses, imbalanced treatment and over or under medication.

Autism shakes up your world. It has changed my life and I wasn't even the one diagnosed with it. My brother's name is Ethan Wolfgang, but we call him Deets. He is one of the greatest gifts my family has ever received. And one of the most challenging.

From neurofeedback with functional magnetic resonance imaging equipment, to the use of radio waves, to biofeedback of the heart and breath, and coverage of biofeedback by health insurance plans, the numerous advances have driven the need for a revised edition to this groundbreaking book that traces the fascinating, untold story of the development of biofeedback.

Have you been recently or some time in the past diagnosed with an autoimmune disease and you are just feeling lost and helpless? Well, I am sure a lot of people can share similar stories about their first time being diagnosed with an autoimmune disease and how lost, confused, and frustrating it seems to be in one's life. In this book, you can go on to listen to and educate yourself about your autoimmune disease so that you can feel confident and start your autoimmune healing journey.

Trigger point therapy is one of the fastest-growing and most effective pain therapies in the world. Medical doctors, chiropractors, physical therapists, and massage therapists are all beginning to use this technique to relieve patients’ formerly undiagnosable muscle and joint pain, both conditions that studies have shown to be the cause of nearly 25 percent of all doctor visits.

An intimate, compassionate, and expansive portrait of Borderline Personality Disorder that rejects the conventional wisdom that this condition is untreatable, told by a psychologist who specializes in BPD Mental illness is heavily stigmatized within our society, and within this already...

Going through your loved one's illness is a personal and unique journey. Author Jelena Spasovski has been on both sides, surviving breast cancer herself and nursing her mother through the same illness. In Know How to Help Your Loved One with Cancer, Jelena offers her CIJ Clarity Catalyst for Healing process, bringing forth your best and most creative self to tackle your loved one's illness with resilience, inspiration, and love.

Are you at your wits’ end with seemingly unrelated aches, pains, and complaints that no one has been able to explain yet? Or are digestive problems making your life so difficult that you don’t even feel like cooking or eating anymore? All of this and more could be related to the foods you eat and the inflammation they cause in your body. Listen to learn about food intolerances, food sensitivities, and food allergies. What they are, how they work, and most importantly, what you can do about them.

In 2011, the Italian neurologist Dr Antonio Costantini began treating his Parkinson’s patients with high doses of B1. As a result, their symptoms improved by up to 70 percent with no obvious progression in the disease over the five years he worked with them. Yet there is still a lack of awareness about this valuable therapy amongst doctors and Parkinson’s nurses.

Blending expert insight, practical advice, and anatomically accurate fart jokes, Sackier, Hunt, and Guest explain everything about diverticulosis and diverticulitis—and how to stop these colonic miscreants from affecting you, including: How digestion works – and what to do when it doesn’t. How to avoid ending up with a designer colostomy bag. What Joseph Pujole (pronounced poo-hole) a 19th-century French farting performer can teach you.