Integrative Preventive Medicine


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For most clinicians, the science and evidence for many integrative therapies is largely unknown or considered suspect. Most physicians don't have time to learn integrative approaches and aren't sure what to recommend or which approaches have merit or improved outcomes. In Integrative Preventive Medicine, clinicians have easy access to the best practices in integrative medicine and expectations for outcomes. The current state of the science is also presented. Authors are leaders in their fields, with decades of expertise and leadership in their fields.




Reversing Chronic Disease


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Many 'unexplained' chronic diseases, such as Fibromyalgia and Chronic Fatigue Syndrome (FMS/CFS), are in fact very treatable. Our published research shows that 91 percent of CFS/FMS patients improveda "usually markedlya "with an integrated treatment approach. In Patricia Stephen's excellent book, she shares her journey to wellness, helping to light a path which others can follow! Jacob Teitelbaum, MD, author of From Fatigued to Fantastic The ADD-Fibromyalgia connection has been missed for far too long! Ms Stephens does an excellent job at making that connection for us and providing her readers with important information in an easily understood format.' Patricia O. Quinn, MD, Director, National Center for Girls and Women with ADHD Patricia was instrumental in helping me feel fantastic. After testing, she was able to select the right supplements which made me feel less anxious and full of energy. M. Sumner, Ph.D. Author Patricia Stephens has worked in a natural pharmacy for over ten years and is passionate about helping people reclaim their quality of life. She knows personally the devastation that comes from chronic illness. She presents some fresh, unconventional ideas to improve health and stop chronic symptoms. Find out some new options that most doctors don't tell you about that can improve or reverse chronic disease. Endorsed by some of the industry leaders in the medical field, Reversing Chronic Disease holds the power to give you your life back!"




Undo It!


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NATIONAL BESTSELLER • By the pioneer of lifestyle medicine, a simple, scientifically program proven to often reverse the progression of the most common and costly chronic diseases and even begin reversing aging at a cellular level! Long rated “#1 for Heart Health” by U.S. News & World Report, Dr. Ornish’s Program is now covered by Medicare when offered virtually at home. Dean Ornish, M.D., has directed revolutionary research proving, for the first time, that lifestyle changes can often reverse—undo!—the progression of many of the most common and costly chronic diseases and even begin reversing aging at a cellular level. Medicare and many insurance companies now cover Dr. Ornish’s lifestyle medicine program for reversing chronic disease because it consistently achieves bigger changes in lifestyle, better clinical outcomes, larger cost savings, and greater adherence than have ever been reported—based on forty years of research published in the leading peer-reviewed medical and scientific journals. Now, in this landmark book, he and Anne Ornish present a simple yet powerful new unifying theory explaining why these same lifestyle changes can reverse so many different chronic diseases and how quickly these benefits occur. They describe what it is, why it works, and how you can do it: • Eat well: a whole foods, plant-based diet naturally low in fat and sugar and high in flavor. The “Ornish diet” has been rated “#1 for Heart Health” by U.S. News & World Report for eleven years since 2011. • Move more: moderate exercise such as walking • Stress less: including meditation and gentle yoga practices • Love more: how love and intimacy transform loneliness into healing With seventy recipes, easy-to-follow meal plans, tips for stocking your kitchen and eating out, recommended exercises, stress-reduction advice, and inspiring patient stories of life-transforming benefits—for example, several people improved so much after only nine weeks they were able to avoid a heart transplant—Undo It! empowers readers with new hope and new choices. Praise for Undo It! “The Ornishes’ work is elegant and simple and deserving of a Nobel Prize, since it can change the world!”—Richard Carmona, M.D., MPH, FACS, seventeenth Surgeon General of the United States “If you want to see what medicine will be like ten years from now, read this book today.”—Rita F. Redberg, M.D., editor in chief, JAMA Internal Medicine “This is one of the most important books on health ever written.”—John Mackey, CEO, Whole Foods Market




Reversing Chronic Disease


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ALZHEIMER'S DISEASE REVERSEDAt 47 my memory started to decline. I had a difficult time finding my automobile in parking lots. Sometimes I couldn't remember my own telephone number. I was in a perpetual fog; confused, disoriented and became a crabby obnoxious jerk. On the morning of June 11, 1983, at the age of 50, our family doctor sent me to hospital for a CAT scan. He told me I had Alzheimer's disease and quietly explained what was happening to my brain. He said that I might have as long as seven years to live. A few days later another physician rechecked my x-rays and pointed out the brain atrophy revealed by the CAT scan and said there was no doubt about the accuracy of the diagnosis. Now, at the age of 70, my CAT scans are completely normal. My clarity of mind and memory are back. How did I get better? The turning point came after I read Dr Hal Huggins' book "It's All in Your Head" about mercury poisoning from silver dental fillings so, I had 26 mercury fillings removed. Within a few months I was back to my old self again. I know a physician diagnosed with Alzheimer's disease who could not practice who recovered from Alzheimer's disease within two hours of having thirteen root canals removed! They are more toxic than mercury fillings. There has never been an uninfected root canal. Any dentist who tells you otherwise is a blatant liar. Then I discovered I had low stomach acid (7.2). That's not enough acid to even digest cake very well. I told Dr Hal Huggins and he checked his mercury toxic dental patients and found every one of them had low stomach acid. Mercury toxicity not only causes low stomach acid, candida overgrowth, leaky-gut syndrome, food and cerebral allergies, it denudesthe myelin sheath that surrounds the synapses in the brain causing the neurofibrillary tangles found in deceased Alzheimer's patients. My advice for anyone with chronic disease, especially schizophrenia, Alzheimer's, dementia and other neurological disorders such as MS that your physician does not know the underlying cause for and you are not getting well, is to look in your mouth. If you have mercury fillings find a dentist who has not been placing mercury amalgam fillings for many years, because the protocol for replacing silver dental fillings correctly is not taught in dental schools. Before doing anything- first get a biocompatibility blood test. Dentists use more them 1,750 different dental materials. I had silver/mercury amalgam under 70% of my crowns. They had to come out too. Also, find out about your own allergies and chemical sensitivities. Work with a nutritionist. Learn about nutrition. Take a comprehensive supplement programme including vitamin B3, B6, and folic acid. Get some really good advice on vitamins, minerals and supplements. To be honest, I don't know of one single person who followed this advice and did not get better. Tom Warren is the author of 'Beating Chronic Disease', published by Century Press




Healthy at Last


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New York mayor Eric Adams is on a mission to tackle one of the most stubborn health problems in the country: chronic disease in the African American community. African Americans are heavier and sicker than any other group in the U.S., with nearly half of all Black adults suffering from some form of cardiovascular disease. After Adams woke up with severe vision loss one day in 2016, he learned that he was one of the nearly 5 million Black people living with diabetes-and, according to his doctor, he would have it for the rest of his life. A police officer for more than two decades, Adams was a connoisseur of the fast-food dollar menu. Like so many Americans with stressful jobs, the last thing he wanted to think about was eating healthfully. Fast food was easy, cheap, and comfortable. His diet followed him from the squad car to the state senate, and then to Brooklyn Borough Hall, where it finally caught up with him. But Adams was not ready to become a statistic. There was a better option besides medication and shots of insulin: food. Within three months of adopting a plant-based diet, he lost 35 pounds, lowered his cholesterol by 30 points, restored his vision, and reversed his diabetes. Now he is on a mission to revolutionize the health of not just the borough of Brooklyn, but of African Americans across the country. Armed with the hard science and real-life stories of those who have transformed their bodies by changing their diet, Adams shares the key steps for a healthy, active life. With this book, he shows readers how to avoid processed foods, cut down on salt, get more fiber, and substitute beef, chicken, pork, and dairy with delicious plant-based alternatives. In the process he explores the origins of soul food-a cuisine deeply important to the Black community, but also one rooted in the horrors of slavery-and how it can be reimagined with healthy alternatives. Features more than 50 recipes from celebrities and health experts, including Paul McCartney, Queen Afua, Jenné Claiborne, Bryant Jennings, Charity Morgan, Moby, and more! The journey to good health begins in the kitchen-not the hospital bed!




Reversing Chronic Pain


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Reversing Chronic Pain offers a dynamic framework for joining body and mind to speed the healing of traumatic pain from the body level up. Each chapter presents a body-centered skill set that can be mastered through a broad menu of practice exercises. The resulting interlinked somatic building blocks help readers shift from physical pain to body awareness, and from unstoppable suffering to heartfelt connection and peace. Building on the AIDS cocktail approach that reflects the fact that chronic pain is complex and no one tactic is likely to solve the problem, renowned expert Maggie Phillips presents a 10-1 pain plan comprised of easy strategies based on somatic experience. Even if the reader’s pain is perceived as a “10” at the onset of the program, with 10 being intolerable, the somatic building blocks help shift the pain one point at a time until it gradually diminishes to “1” or even “zero.” Showing how the common professional interventions—medication, physical therapy, acupuncture, biofeedback—may be more harmful than healing, Reversing Chronic Pain stresses self-treatment throughout, involving sufferers in attaining lives not simply endured but actively enjoyed.




Reversibility of Chronic Disease and Hypersensitivity, Volume 5


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The clinical approaches to the chronic degenerative diseases that drain our resources, and compromise our well-being, have become almost exclusively symptom-focused. The common wisdom is that they are idiopathic with final outcomes to be managed rather than prevented or cured. That they are potentially reversible rarely enters any discussion between doctor and patient. Reversibility of Chronic Disease and Hypersensitivity, Volume 5: Treatment Options of Chemical Sensitivity, the final volume of this set, offers a much different perspective on chronic degenerative disease; one that disputes the idiopathic label attached to most, as well as the usual fatalistic prognosis.




Unconventional Medicine


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The world is facing the greatest healthcare crisis it has ever seen. Chronic disease is shortening our lifespan, destroying our quality of life, bankrupting governments, and threatening the health of future generations. Sadly, conventional medicine, with its focus on managing symptoms, has failed to address this challenge. The result is burned-out physicians, a sicker population, and a broken healthcare system.In Unconventional Medicine, Chris Kresser presents a plan to reverse this dangerous trend. He shows how the combination of a genetically aligned diet and lifestyle, functional medicine, and a lean, collaborative practice model can create a system that better serves the needs of both patients and practitioners.The epidemic of chronic illness can be stopped, if patients and practitioners can adapt.




Goodbye Autoimmune Disease


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In this sequel to Goodbye Lupus, Dr. Brooke Goldner details how she used her hyper-nourishment protocol to help real people all over the world get their lives back from Lupus, Rheumatoid Arthritis, Sjogren's, Scleroderma, Psoriasis, Hashimotos and many more using supermarket foods. She also dives deeply into the mindset needed to change your diet and take back your health including motivation, overcoming self-sabotage, and embracing health and happiness. This book will get you inspired, prepared, and excited to take back your health the way they did. You will learn: * The 6 Steps to Reversing Disease with Supermarket Foods * How to get relief from pain, brain fog, inflammation, and chronic fatigue so you can feel alive again *How your mindset can keep you sick and also be the key to reversing your autoimmune disease *How to turn getting healthy into a habit *How to stop sabotaging yourself on your disease-reversal nutrition plan *How to conquer health anxiety *Learn from numerous case studies of real people who changed their lifestyle and their diet and were able to heal from Lupus, Scleroderma, Rheumatoid Arthritis, Sjogren's, Mixed Connective Tissue Disease, Nephritis, Hypothyroid, Psoriasis, Multiple Sclerosis, and Chronic Pain. And much, much more.




Dr. Dean Ornish's Program for Reversing Heart Disease


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The Ornish Diet has been named the “#1 best diet for heart disease” by U.S. News & World Report for seven consecutive years! Dr. Dean Ornish is the first clinician to offer documented proof that heart disease can be halted, or even reversed, simply by changing your lifestyle. Based on his internationally acclaimed scientific study, which has now been ongoing for years, Dr. Ornish's program has yielded amazing results. Participants reduced or discontinued medications; they learned how to lower high blood pressure; their chest pain diminished or disappeared; they felt more energetic, happy, and calm; they lost weight while eating more; and blockages in coronary arteries were actually reduced. In his breakthrough book, Dr. Ornish presents this and other dramatic evidence and guides you, step-by-step, through the extraordinary Opening Your Heart program, which is winning landmark approval from America's health insurers. The program takes you beyond the purely physical side of health care to include the psychological, emotional and spiritual aspects so vital to healing. This book represents the best modern medicine has to offer. It can inspire you to open your heart to a longer, better, happier life.




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