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Prometheus Books
Pub. Date
2017.
Language
English
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"This well-researched and highly critical examination of the state of our mental health system by the industry's most relentless critic presents a new and controversial explanation as to why--in spite of spending $147 billion annually--140,000 seriously mentally ill are homeless, 365,000 are incarcerated, and even educated, tenacious, and caring people can't get treatment for their mentally ill loved ones. DJ Jaffe blames the mental health industry...
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PublicAffairs
Pub. Date
[2017]
Edition
First edition.
Language
English
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The biggest problem in American health care is us.
Do you know how to tell good health care from bad health care? Guess again. As patients, we wrongly assume the "best" care is dependent mainly on the newest medications, the most complex treatments, and the smartest doctors. But Americans look for health-care solutions in the wrong places. For example, hundreds of thousands of lives could be saved each year if doctors reduced common errors and maximized...
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"Olien provides us with an entirely new way of thinking about health and well-being by identifying what he calls the life forces: quality nutrition, hydration, detoxification, oxygenation, and alkalization. Olien demonstrates ... how to maintain these processes, thereby allowing our bodies to do the rest"--Amazon.com.
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"Living an active, fulfilling life well into your 90s -- and possibly your 100s -- may be easier than you think. Longevity expert Dan Buettner has traveled the world to meet the planet's longest lived people in unique communities called Blue Zones, where common elements of lifestyle, diet, and outlook have led to an amazing quantity -- and quality -- of life. The nine powerful yet simple lessons he reveals in 'The Blue Zones' can put you on the...
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Pub. Date
2018.
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English
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"For any woman who has experienced illness, chronic pain, or endometriosis comes an inspiring memoir advocating for recognition of women's health issues. In the fall of 2010, Abby Norman's strong dancer's body dropped forty pounds and gray hairs began tosprout from her temples. She was repeatedly hospitalized in excruciating pain, but the doctors insisted it was a urinary tract infection and sent her home with antibiotics. Unable to get out of bed,...
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2015.
Language
English
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"A new epidemic is sweeping the country. Some people call it "ADHD," "scatter brain," or "brain fog." And some people simply say they "just don't feel like themselves"--and haven't for a long time. People are thinking and feeling worse than ever. Why? Because our brains are not getting the support they need to produce the essential brain chemicals that keep us energized, calm, focused, and inspired. In fact, if you look at the way that most of us...
10) The anxious generation: how the great rewiring of childhood is causing an epidemic of mental illness
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Pub. Date
2024.
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English
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"After more than a decade of stability or improvement, the mental health of adolescents plunged in the early 2010s. Rates of depression, anxiety, self-harm, and suicide rose sharply, more than doubling on most measures. Why? In [this book], social psychologist Jonathan Haidt lays out the facts about the epidemic of teen mental illness that hit many countries at the same time. He then investigates the nature of childhood, including why children need...
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"An intelligent, timely, and prescriptive book that shows how your attitude towards food often reflects your attitude towards other areas in your life--jobs, relationships, money--and how you can let go of trying to please others all the time and instead satisfy your own true appetites and live a more authentic and healthier life"--
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In this step-by-step guide to enhancing cognitive function and fighting—and even reversing—memory loss, Dr. Steven Masley (bestselling author of The 30-Day Heart Tune-Up) lays out a four-pillar diet-and-lifestyle approach to improving brain health, focusing on food, nutrients, exercise, and stress management.
Based on more than a decade of clinical research, The Better Brain Solution provides the tools you need to fight...
Based on more than a decade of clinical research, The Better Brain Solution provides the tools you need to fight...
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Series
Publisher
HarperAudio
Pub. Date
2017
Edition
Unabridged
Language
English
Description
"A nutritional consultant and holistic healthcare expert to the stars offers her four-step Food Freedom program that helps you find balance between eating enough and determining how you feel to lose fat, increase lean muscle mass, reduce inflammation and increase energy."
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"Mark Sisson--author of the mega-bestsellerThe Primal Blueprint--unveils his groundbreaking ketogenic diet plan that resets your metabolism in 21 days so you can burn fat forever. Learn howto make perhaps the most profound health and weight loss boosting lifestyle change you will ever make--transforming your body from carbohydrate dependency to become a fat burning beast. In his new book, Mark Sisson bestselling author ofThe Primal Blueprintand publisher...
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"A brilliant and brave investigation by Michael Pollan, author of five New York Times best sellers, into the medical and scientific revolution taking place around psychedelic drugs--and the spellbinding story of his own life-changing psychedelic experiences When Michael Pollan set out to research how LSD and psilocybin (the active ingredient in magic mushrooms) are being used to provide relief to people suffering from difficult-to-treat conditions...
16) Full catastrophe living: using the wisdom of your body and mind to face stress, pain, and illness
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English
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The landmark work on mindfulness, meditation, and healing, now revised and updated after twenty-five years
Stress. It can sap our energy, undermine our health if we let it, even shorten our lives. It makes us more vulnerable to anxiety and depression, disconnection and disease. Based on Jon Kabat-Zinn’s renowned mindfulness-based stress reduction program, this classic, groundbreaking work—which gave rise...
Stress. It can sap our energy, undermine our health if we let it, even shorten our lives. It makes us more vulnerable to anxiety and depression, disconnection and disease. Based on Jon Kabat-Zinn’s renowned mindfulness-based stress reduction program, this classic, groundbreaking work—which gave rise...
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Pub. Date
2019.
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English
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Celery juice is everywhere for a reason: because it's saving lives as it restores people's health one symptom at a time.
From celebrities posting about their daily celery juice routines to people from all walks of life sharing pictures and testimonials of their dramatic recovery stories, celery juice is revealing itself to ignite healing when all odds seem against it. What began decades ago as a quiet movement has become a global healing...
From celebrities posting about their daily celery juice routines to people from all walks of life sharing pictures and testimonials of their dramatic recovery stories, celery juice is revealing itself to ignite healing when all odds seem against it. What began decades ago as a quiet movement has become a global healing...
20) The hormone boost: how to power up your 6 essential hormones for strength, energy, and weight loss
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"New York Times bestselling author Dr. Natasha Turner returns with a simple and effective weight-loss plan that harnesses the power of the six hormones linked to strength, energy, and weight loss"--Dust jacket flap.
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