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If you have high blood pressure, you're not alone: nearly a third of adult Americans have been diagnosed with hypertension, and another quarter are well on their way. Yet a whopping 56 percent of diagnosed patients do not have it under control. The good news? Hypertension is easily treatable (and preventable), and you can take action today to bring your blood pressure down in just four weeks - without the potential dangers and side effects of prescription medications.

Actress and author of the courageous New York Times best-selling memoir High on Arrival, Mackenzie Phillips - Hollywood's go-to person on substance abuse and a visible and outspoken advocate for addiction awareness and education - brings her knowledge and voice on the subject of recovery for the first time and shares her experiences for those who are trying to overcome addiction.

In Concussion Rescue, Dr. Kabran Chapek shares the programs and protocols that he uses at the Amen Clinics to put patients on the pathway to healing from traumatic brain injury. From general assessment using sophisticated tools (SPECT imaging, MRIs, and CAT scans) to very specific blood tests (out-of-balance lab values in blood can point to symptoms of brain injury and may explain why the brain is not healing), Dr. Chapek guides listeners to getting the proper medical care.

Goodbye to Inflammation / Adiós a la inflamación (Spa Ed.) has descriptive copy which is not yet available from the Publisher.

For many, drug interactions are one of the most frustrating challenges in family medicine, geriatrics, and ambulatory care practice. Even if one is up to speed on what drugs interact with one another, it is often unknown how to manage that specific interaction. Throughout the book, I share some of my management tips and pearls to help you feel more comfortable with managing drug interactions. This book is a perfect piece of education for pharmacists, nurse practitioners, physicians, physician assistants, and nurses who are looking to pick up clinical, real-world practice pearls.

In this transporting book, David Oliver Relin shines a light on the work of Geoffrey Tabin and Sanduk Ruit, gifted ophthalmologists who have dedicated their lives to restoring sight to some of the world’s most isolated, impoverished people through the Himalayan Cataract Project, an organization they founded in 1995. Tabin was the high-achieving bad boy of Harvard Medical School, an accomplished mountain climber and adrenaline junkie as brilliant as he was unconventional.

The extraordinary Siddhartha Mukherjee has written a biography of the gene as deft, brilliant, and illuminating as his extraordinarily successful biography of cancer. Weaving science, social history, and personal narrative to tell us the story of one of the most important conceptual breakthroughs of modern times, Mukherjee animates the quest to understand human heredity and its surprising influence on our lives, personalities, identities, fates, and choices.

In Anyway You Can, Dr. Bosworth shares her "accidental" discovery of ketosis and its wide array of health benefits as she supplemented her mom's chemotherapy with ketones. Her story of courage, faith, and tenacity helps young and old achieve better physical, mental, and emotional health through ketosis.

The amazing and incredible story of how Rene Caisse developed Essiac Tea, plus six other effective alternative remedies for cancer and other illnesses. We discuss Kombucha tea, pycnogenol, oxygen therapy, Hulda Clark's zapper, your colon and the cancer connection, parasites and the cancer connection. Lots of valuable information. Essiac herbal tea was discovered among the Chippewa (Ojibway) tribe in 1922. Herbal Shamans had historically used a blend of 4 herbs to treat disease among members of the tribe. A Canadian doctor assigned his nurse, Rene Caisse, to assist a Chippewa lady who was ...

Jean Watson's first edition of Nursing, now considered a classic, introduced the science of human caring and quickly became one of the most widely used and respected sources of conceptual models for nursing. This completely new edition offers a contemporary update and the most current perspectives on the evolution of the original philosophy and science of caring from the field's founding scholar.

Inconceivable combines memoir and investigative reporting to reveal an underground community of sperm donors and recipients who have chosen to circumvent traditional fertility avenues and meet up on their own terms. As an active participant in this community, Valerie Bauman uses her own story as a lens into this movement of people attempting to dodge the costly and often discriminatory world of sperm banks and fertility clinics.

How to Be Sick: A Buddhist-Inspired Guide for the Chronically Ill and their Caregivers is a life-affirming, instructive, and inspiring book about living gracefully and purposefully with the challengesfaced by those with chronic pain or illness. These conditions, while not always life-threatening, are life-disrupting and stressful. The audiobook contains over two dozen tools and practices to help people live skillfully and to find equanimity and joy despite the profound changes in their lives.

Das Immunsystem als Blockbuster: vom Macher des YouTube-Kanals "kurzgesagt". Philipp Dettmer, Gründer und Kopf von "kurzgesagt - in a nutshell", einer der weltweit erfolgreichsten Wissenskanäle auf YouTube, erklärt unser Immunsystem anschaulich, unterhaltsam und witzig - passend in eine Zeit, in der viele genauer wissen möchten, wie die Immunabwehr unseres Körpers eigentlich funktioniert.

This revised edition of Dr. Hauri's internationally acclaimed sleep therapy program offers you much more than helpful hints. You'll learn what works and what doesn't, ways to evaluate the latest insomnia treatments, and how to create your own customized sleep therapy program. With this easy-to-follow advice, there's no longer any reason to lose precious sleep. Whether your sleep problem is chronic or occasional, No More Sleepless Nights is the best remedy available.

Did you just receive a cancer diagnosis? Are you in the midst of chemotherapy and radiation therapy and losing hope? As a medical doctor who is thriving with multiple myeloma, I will show you five scientifically proven ways to naturally confront this horrific disease.

Lyme, Mold and other chronic hidden infections are often times the root causes of a myriad of health conditions. Surviving conditions such as these takes an incredible amount of will. In this book you will learn how to get a proper diagnosis. Additionally, you will learn strategies, protocols and treatment plans to not only help eradicate the infections and toxins, but strengthen your immune system and entire body.

Migrañas, alergias, problemas de tiroides y de hormonas, gastritis, intestino irritable, enfermedades autoinmunes, sobrepeso por más dietas que hagas, acné, eccemas, vientre hinchado, estreñimiento, retención de líquidos, dolores musculares y articulares, baja energía... este es solo el comienzo de una lista de enfermedades y condiciones que pueden estar vinculadas a un sistema inmunitario que te esté gritando: ¡estamos inflamados!

¿Ha oído que necesita seguir una dieta de hígado graso o completar una desintoxicación del hígado? Lo más probable es que si tiene alguna inquietud o problema con su hígado, respondió "sí" a al menos una de estas preguntas. Esta es probablemente la razón por la que está buscando leer este libro: La Dieta del hígado graso: guía sobre cómo terminar con la enfermedad del hígado graso. Ahora es el momento de tomar la salud de su hígado en sus propias manos.

Are you living with stabbing, shooting or burning pain? Do you have numbness, tingling, cramping or loss of balance? Are you unable to get a restful night’s sleep or enjoy activities that are important to you? You have shared these complaints with multiple doctors only to be told to take medication and there are no solutions. This leaves you feeling depressed, hopeless and that there is nothing you can do. There is hope! This book shares effective strategies to help you reverse your nerve pain. Drs. Tom and Stephanie Chaney have dedicated their lives to helping others improve their health...

With updated material, Simple Steps to Foot Pain Relief will show you how to change the way you move your body to prevent pain, heal your feet, and halt damage to the rest of your body. Bowman’s simple, accessible, innovative .program will help you naturally address lower leg and foot issues. Bowman walks you gently through exercises to strengthen your feet, what shoes you should (and should not) be wearing, and how these choices affect your overall foot and whole-body health.