Health Illness

Despite the tumor-shrinking medical miracle that has bought her a few years, Hazel has never been anything but terminal, her final chapter inscribed upon diagnosis. But when a gorgeous plot twist named Augustus Waters suddenly appears at Cancer Kid Support Group, Hazel’s story is about to be completely rewritten.

Former high school teacher and New York-based comedian Mimi Hayes is a brain injury survivor. She wrote her first humorous memoir while recovering from a traumatic head injury at the age of 22. Her honest take on trauma and love followed her to the stage as a stand-up comedian, where she has performed on stages such as Denver Comedy Works, Broadway Comedy Club, Stand Up NY, Dangerfield's, and The Upright Citizen's Brigade.

Your gut plays a bigger role in your well-being than you might realize. It affects your mood, focus, energy, and daily comfort. For those with bloating, cramps, or IBS, every meal can feel like a challenge. Stress makes it worse by tightening the stomach, slowing digestion, and turning minor issues into long-term problems. Vagus Nerve Exercises for Digestive Health explores the link between your nervous system and your digestion, and how daily non-medical practices can help restore balance.

Carnivore Cure is the first elimination protocol to explain how to adopt a meat-based diet to bring about healing. Get back to optimal health by finding the perfect foods to fuel your individual body. Most elimination diets work to an extent, but fail to consider all the individual, physical symptoms, and food sensitivities. Most elimination diets remove processed foods and additives, but fail to remove plant-based toxins that can contribute to disease. Until now. Introducing Carnivore Cure.

Pete Earley had no idea. He'd been a journalist for over 30 years, and the author of several award-winning, even best-selling, nonfiction books about crime and punishment and society. Yet he'd always been on the outside looking in. He had no idea what it was like to be on the inside looking out until his son, Mike, was declared mentally ill, and Earley was thrown headlong into the maze of contradictions, disparities, and catch-22s that is America's mental health system.

Full of mother-wisdom, reassurance, and support, Sweet Sleep is the first book on nights and naps for breastfeeding families. It is a comprehensive how-to guide for making sane and safe decisions on how and where your family sleeps, backed by the latest research in pediatric care.

Most of us have heard of the mind-body connection, but did you know that there is a physical structure that connects the two? That connection is the Vagus nerve, and it’s singularly responsible for maintaining balance in our mental and physical health. In The Nervous System Reset, Jessica Maguire shares the wisdom of her popular Nervous System School masterclasses and shows listeners how to unlock the power of their Vagus nerve.

It Starts with the Egg is your practical guide to the latest science, with clear guidance on strategies such as minimizing exposure to toxins, choosing the right vitamins and supplements to safeguard developing eggs, and implementing nutritional advice gleaned from the latest studies.

How to Make Disease Disappear is Dr. Rangan Chatterjee’s revolutionary, yet simple guide to better health - a much-needed, accessible plan that will help you take back control of your health and your life. A physician dedicated to finding the root cause of ill health rather than simply suppressing symptoms with drugs, Dr. Chatterjee passionately advocates and follows a philosophy that lifestyle and nutrition are first-line medicine and the cornerstone of good health.

Dans ce livre unique, fruit d'enquêtes réalisées dans le monde entier, Norman Doidge montre ce que nous savons aujourd'hui des capacités surprenantes de notre cerveau. Vous découvrirez un homme rendu aveugle à la suite d'une maladie auto-immune qui recouvre la vue en méditant ; un enfant souffrant de retard intellectuel apprendre d'un seul coup à parler en écoutant de la musique... Un livre plein d'espérance devenu une référence dans le monde entier.

A political journalist and activist, Cousins was also a professor of medical humanities at UCLA, where he studied the biochemistry of human emotions and their relationship to healing. When Cousins was hospitalized with a debilitating collagen illness, he decided to take his health into his own hands. Cousins and his doctor combated the disease together by creating a regimen of laughter and vitamin C specifically calibrated to his needs. Against all odds, the treatment worked, proving to Cousins that a positive attitude was key to his improvement.

Alfredo Zotti, a professional musician and bipolar survivor with a university degree in social anthropology and three years study of psychology, provides an introduction to music theory with specific case studies of applications for Alzheimer's, bipolar disorder, autism spectrum disorder (ASD), schizophrenia, anxiety, depression, and other issues.

We, as humans, have been the apex predators of the world for millions of years. But, in the last couple of thousand, we have started to decline rapidly—physically, mentally, and emotionally.

Dr. Hyman's revolutionary weight-loss program, based on the number one New York Times best seller The Blood Sugar Solution, supercharged for immediate results! The key to losing weight and keeping it off is maintaining low insulin levels. Based on Dr. Hyman's groundbreaking blood sugar solution program, The Blood Sugar Solution 10-Day Detox Diet presents strategies for reducing insulin levels and producing fast and sustained weight loss. The Blood Sugar Solution 10-Day Detox Diet is the fastest way to lose weight, prevent disease, and feel your best.

Dr. Sebi’s cure for diabetes is very simple and takes little money to get started. Dr. Sebi himself cured his own diabetes in 21 days of fasting and following an Alkaline diet. Combat the rising diabetes epidemic with delicious smoothie recipes at your fingertips. No longer will you be aimlessly searching the internet for diabetic smoothie recipes. We have compiled some of the best known recipes in the world to reverse insulin resistance in all types of diabetes: Type 1, Type 2, and Gestational Diabetes.

Good Sugar Bad Sugar tackles the biggest dietary threat to the modern world: sugar. Due to refined sugar in so many foods, we are seeing epidemics of obesity and type II diabetes on a global scale. The warnings are stark - a 50 percent rise in the death toll from type II diabetes in the next 10 years - yet it's not as straightforward as telling people to cut down on the sugar. Sugar consumption is an addiction that begins at birth and it requires a proven method to get you free.

Over his decades of experience as a therapist and mindfulness meditation practitioner, Dr. Christopher Germer has learned a paradoxical lesson: We all want to avoid pain, but letting it in and responding compassionately to our own imperfections are essential steps on the path to healing. This wise and eloquent book illuminates the power of self-compassion and offers creative, scientifically grounded strategies for putting it into action.

For half a century, we have been trained to believe that our right brain hemisphere is our emotional brain, while our left brain houses our rational thinking. Now neuroscience shows that it's not that simple: In fact, our emotional limbic tissue is evenly divided between our two hemispheres. Consequently, each hemisphere has both an emotional brain and a thinking brain. In this groundbreaking new book, Dr. Jill Bolte Taylor presents these four distinct modules of cells as four characters that make up who we are.

In this book, Dr. Kevin Reese introduces his revolutionary system that views the body as one interconnected unit. This trailblazing approach has helped countless individuals eliminate chronic pain and conditions that traditional medicine couldn’t resolve.

How you age is up to you. And it’s easy to take charge. From the renowned integrative doctor Frank Lipman comes a radically simple program to reverse the symptoms we reflexively call “normal aging,” including feeling achy, stiff, sluggish, weak, and vulnerable to chronic illness. This improves not only our life span but, more importantly, our health span—our quality of life and how we feel.