Health Illness

Do you suffer from abdominal bloating; a chronic, nagging cough or sore throat; postnasal drip; a feeling of a lump in the back of your throat; allergies; or shortness of breath? If so, odds are that you are experiencing acid reflux without recognizing its silent symptoms, which can lead to serious long-term health problems, including esophageal cancer.

Attention Deficit Disorder, the most common learning and behavioral problem among children, also affects millions of adult Americans, more of which are being diagnosed with this potentially disabling condition every day.

Renowned neurologist David Perlmutter, MD, blows the lid off a topic that's been buried in medical literature for far too long: carbs are destroying your brain. And not just unhealthy carbs, but even healthy ones like whole grains can cause dementia, ADHD, anxiety, chronic headaches, depression, and much more.

Névralgie cervico-brachiale, polyarthrite, fibromyalgie, endométriose... Ces maladies toutes plus mystérieuses les unes que les autres ont un point commun : des douleurs chroniques, et l'impuissance du patient à trouver du soulagement et au corps médical à proposer des nouvelles pistes. L'errance diagnostique est souvent la règle : on sait qu'on a mal, souvent, beaucoup et depuis longtemps, sans savoir ce qu'on a ! On s'interroge, et souvent, on s'entend dire « mais non tu n'as rien, c'est dans ta tête ! »

The definitive guide to childbirth from the home of hypnobirthing. More than 100,000 copies sold worldwide, helping countless babies into the world. Fifteen unique relaxation scripts to help prepare you for a calm and confident birth. KGH is the home of hypnobirthing, KGH is taught in hospitals, antenatal classes, and by midwives and birthing professionals all around the world. The KGH Teacher training course is accredited by the Royal College of Midwives and is the source material for many other hypnobirthing books and courses.

Menstruation isn't just about having babies. Your menstrual cycle is a vital sign, just like your pulse, temperature, respiration rate, and blood pressure. And it provides you with essential information about your health...Listen to The Fifth Vital Sign to better understand your health and fertility. Whether children are a part of your future plans or not, your health matters. Start learning more now, and take control of your health.

Currently, 6.7 million people—or about 1 in 8 couples—in the United States are estimated to experience infertility. With their expertise and candid approach, the brains behind the Fertility Docs Uncensored podcast demystify the IVF process and the rising trend of egg freezing, addressing common myths and misconceptions along the way.

Hormonal. We all know what it means when we hear it - and feel it. While hormonal shifts are natural throughout women’s lives, too many experience distressing period symptoms, struggle daily with PCOS, endometriosis, a fertility challenge, pain, low sex drive, sleep problems, acne, bloating, hot flashes, and more - all due to hormone-related problems. And too many are unable to get the answers they’re really seeking from their doctors.

First published over 40 years ago, The Cancer Journals is a startling, powerful account of Audre Lorde's experience with breast cancer and mastectomy. Long before narratives explored the silences around illness and women's pain, Lorde questioned the rules of conformity for women's body images and supported the need to confront physical loss not hidden by prosthesis.

Do you struggle to Sleep Sound? Let Australian musician and swimmer Cody Simpson take you on a journey towards sleep. Featuring a selection of soothing visualisations and immersive soundscapes inspired by the meditative beauty of water. Settle into a comfortable position, relax your body and let the soundscapes wash over you as you escape to sleep.

Développer sa mémoire, la stimuler, l'entretenir et utiliser tout le potentiel de notre cerveau : c'est ce que propose cet ouvrage mené par un duo de choc, Michel Cymes et Fabien Olicard. Car comme on dit deux cerveaux valent mieux qu'un.

For years, award-winning journalist Polly Vernon drove her body around like it was a car - and she had zero interest in the manual. This book charts her mission to lift the bonnet, have a good old rummage and find out what's really going on. She talks to neuroscientists, academics, medics, midwives, gynaes, psychologists and physios. People who really know their stuff. And so here it is, THE complete guide to the female body - head to toe, inside and out, physical and emotional - with reassuring advice on how to mitigate the ways it makes life trickier.

Drawing on decades of experience in treating fibromyalgia, Mayo Clinic Guide to Fibromyalgia offers research-supported, practical strategies that can help anyone with fibromyalgia live their best life now. From personal stories of people living with fibromyalgia to the compassionate expertise of its medical editors, this book seeks to first connect with people who have fibromyalgia in a way that they may not have experienced from loved ones and even doctors.

In this astonishing and startling book, award-winning science and history writer Robert Whitaker investigates a medical mystery: Why has the number of disabled mentally ill in the United States tripled over the past two decades? Every day, 1,100 adults and children are added to the government disability rolls because they have become newly disabled by mental illness, with this epidemic spreading most rapidly among our nations children. What is going on?

Alzheimer’s is a preventable disease. Less than 1 percent of cases are caused by genes. We already know how to prevent at least 8 out of 10 cases and cut your risk by at least 80 percent, if not completely, for the vast majority of people. Later in life you may lose your hair, but you never need to lose your memories. This book explains how.

This “incredibly captivating” (Siddhartha Mukherjee, author of The Emperor of All Maladies) portrait of schizophrenia, the most malignant and mysterious mental illness, by renowned psychiatrist Jeffrey Lieberman, interweaves cultural and scientific history with dramatic patient profiles and clinical experiences to impart a revolutionary message of hope. For the first time in history, we can effectively treat schizophrenia, limiting its disabling effects—and we’re on the verge of being able to prevent the disease’s onset entirely.

Inflammation is what happens when our body's own defenses turn on us - and it is a huge and growing problem. Written by the author of the groundbreaking Syndrome X, this essential updated edition of The Inflammation Syndrome draws on cutting-edge research conducted around the world to provide a revolutionary approach to healing inflammation-related problems through an easy-to-follow nutrition and supplement program.

In The Sleep Revolution, Arianna explores all the latest science on what exactly is going on while we sleep and dream. She takes on the sleeping pill industry, and all the ways our addiction to technology disrupts our sleep. She also offers a range of recommendations and tips from leading scientists on how we can get better and more restorative sleep, and harness its incredible power.

In My Stroke of Insight, Taylor shares her unique perspective on the brain and its capacity for recovery, and the sense of omniscient understanding she gained from this unusual and inspiring voyage out of the abyss of a wounded brain. It would take eight years for Taylor to heal completely. Because of her knowledge of how the brain works, her respect for the cells composing her human form, and most of all an amazing mother, Taylor completely repaired her mind and recalibrated her understanding of the world.

Sleep learning can benefit listeners in powerful ways. The mind stays active even while we are sleeping. This Deep Sleep, Total Relaxation sleep learning script was designed to assist the listener in gaining and maintaining a deeply relaxed state of mind through suggestions related to deep relaxation, releasing worries, and confident empowerment. In addition to therapeutic hypnotic techniques and meditative affirmations, this program is further enhanced by the use of brainwave entrainment.