Health Systems

A personable, story-driven explanation of how the systems around us—where we live, work, learn, and connect—shape our health, and how each of us can help create healthier communities. A powerful blend of deeply human stories and rigorous research, The Collective Cure reveals how social and...

Tai Chi is much more than just physical exercise—it is a holistic practice that integrates body, mind, and spirit. This synergy between movement, breath, and mindfulness creates profound effects on the lymphatic system.

After you get a bump on the head, does it feel like everything has gone wrong in your life? Do you feel like everything you do makes you worse? Are you stressed out that your doctor does not know why your headaches get worse when you play and they never go away? If the answer is yes, you are like so many of my patients, from everyday people to professional athletes, who are frustrated, fed up, and want to get answers for why they feel so bad after they get hit in the head. They are tired of going to ER or urgent care for relief.

En este nuevo libro, el doctor Enrique Esteve aborda uno de los temas actuales por excelencia: la inflamación. Solamente él es capaz de fusionar el rigor científico con referencias a películas o canciones míticas, o incluso a algunos filósofos clásicos. Todo para, en un tono cercano tratar asuntos como: Qué es la inflamación y sus diferentes variantes. Cómo detectarla y factores desencadenantes. Su relación con la fertilidad, el envejecimiento, el deterioro cognitivo o la microbiota, entre otros asuntos.

Adopting an anti-inflammatory diet can help to reduce inflammation throughout your body and may even lead to long-term health benefits. In this book, The Complete Anti-Inflammatory Diet for Beginners: Ultimate Guide to Restoring Your Immune System, Healing Inflammation, and Reversing Disease, you’ll find everything you need to know about why an anti-inflammatory diet may be suitable for you.

For every woman struggling with exhaustion, gut issues, inflammation or hormonal imbalance who’s been told it’s ‘just part of being a woman’ – this audiobook is your turning point. In this transformative guide, hormone health coach and somatic healing expert Isabella Mainwaring reveals...

In The Long Fix, physician and health-care CEO Vivian S. Lee, MD, cuts to the heart of the health-care crisis. The problem with the way medicine is practiced, she explains, is not so much who's paying, it's what we are paying for. Insurers, employers, the government, and individuals pay for every procedure, prescription, and lab test, whether or not it makes us better - and that is both backward and dangerous.

In Dying to Save You, Dr. William Queale takes you behind the scenes of our sickcare system. He uses deeply personal stories to explain how we got here and how systems thinking can get us out. But Dying to Save You isn’t just about medicine, science, and healthcare policy. This book is about you—and how you can stay out of the sickcare system altogether.

Are you ready to detox your body and lose weight? Do you love the taste of smoothies? Would you like an audiobook that shows you how to make great smoothies that will help you lose weight and get healthy? Smoothies are a delicious treat for anyone, but when it comes to those who are losing weight, they can also help you by detoxing your body and ridding it of the accumulated garbage it has stored.

El nervio vago juega un papel crucial en la regulación de las funciones del cuerpo, incluyendo la respuesta al estrés, la inflamación e incluso tu estado mental. Al activar y mantener un nervio vago saludable, puedes reducir la ansiedad, aliviar la depresión y mejorar tu salud en general. Con este libro, obtendrás una comprensión integral de cómo estimular tu nervio vago y aprovechar los beneficios de un sistema nervioso bien regulado. Abraza el poder del nervio vago y desbloquea el potencial de sanar de forma natural.

In Curable journalist and health care advocate Travis Christofferson looks at medicine through a magnifying glass and asks an important question: What if the roots of the current US health care crisis are psychological and systemic, perpetuated not just by corporate influence and the powers that be, but by you and me? Curable outlines the future of medicine, detailing brilliant examples of new health care systems that prove we can do better. It turns out we have more control over our health (and happiness) than we think.

The incredible vagus nerve connects your brain to your heart, lungs, and digestive system, and it controls how easily you shift from stress to calm. When it’s weak, you feel anxious, tense, and exhausted. But when it’s strong—you feel balanced, resilient, and fully alive. These aren’t abstract theories. They’re practical, science-backed exercises you can start using right away—designed to help you feel results from the very first session.

Conflicts of interest, misrepresentation of clinical trials, hospital price-fixing, and massive expenditures for procedures of dubious efficacy - these and other critical flaws leave little doubt that the current US health-care system is in need of an overhaul. In this essential guide, preeminent physician Nortin Hadler urges American health-care consumers to take time to understand the existing system and to visualize what the outcome of successful reform might look like.

Are you tired of feeling anxious, inflamed, or constantly drained? It may be time to reset your nervous system from the inside out. Unleash the Power of a Vagus Nerve Reset reveals a simple, science-backed 7-step plan to shift out of fight-or-flight and into calm, balance, and energy. With 97 practical techniques, this guide helps you regulate your nervous system and reconnect with your body’s natural intelligence.

Find yourself again in the beautiful, messy, and transformative season of postpartum. All Things Postpartum is crafted to help you restore, grow, and reconnect with yourself and those you love. Postpartum is a season that touches everyone differently. Between sleepless nights, shifting identity, and the pressure to “bounce back,” it is easy to lose sight of yourself. This book offers honest insight, creative practices, and evidence-based tools to help you find your rhythm, calm your nervous system, and rediscover your joy.

This groundbreaking guide unveils a transformative approach to wellness, offering listeners a roadmap to boost brain health, supercharge the immune system, and keep the clock from ticking — all with a simple, 3-step process.

The secret to permanent weight loss revealed. The real reason diets fail has nothing to do with calories and everything to do with the balance of bacteria in your gut. A simple guide to show you how to finally achieve your ideal weight. The 100 trillion bacteria that live in your digestive...

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.

From award-winning ProPublica reporter Marshall Allen, a primer for anyone who wants to fight the predatory health care system--and win. Every year, millions of Americans are overcharged and underserved while the health care industry makes record profits. We know something is wrong, but the...

Living with a chronic, progressive neurological disease (MS), a geologist explores some of the confounding questions of our time. The difference between wellness and illness, the different, but complementary roles modern science and alternative traditions like naturopathy play in healing, the potholed approach to accessibility and affordability of health care in our great country, the role of resilience and opportunity in answering the time honored question each of us ask: "Just who am I?"