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	Health, Mind & Body

Elegant Defense, An: The Extraordinary New Science of the Immune System: A Tale in Four Lives

Matt Richtel · William Morrow
Pages: 448
Format: Hardcover

A magnificently reported and soulfully crafted exploration of the human immune system-the key to health and wellness, life and death. An epic, first-of-its-kind book, entwining leading-edge scientific discovery with the intimate stories of four individual lives, by the Pulitzer Prize-winning...

Good to Go: What the Athlete in All of Us Can Learn from the Strange Science of Recovery

Christie Aschwanden · W. W. Norton & Company
Pages: 312
Format: Hardcover

An eye-opening exploration of how the human body can best recover and adapt to sports and fitness training.In recent years recovery has become a sports and fitness buzzword. Anyone who works out or competes at any level is bombarded with the latest recovery products and services: from drinks...

Beyond the Baby Blues: Anxiety and Depression During and After Pregnancy

Rebecca Fox Starr · Rowman & Littlefield Publishers
Pages: 154
Format: Hardcover

Most people have heard of post-partum depression. What many people do not know is that anxiety and depression can be experienced during pregnancy, as well, and the impact can be both debilitating and devastating. This book is a unique combination of one woman's story of her struggle with...

Conquering Lyme Disease: Science Bridges the Great Divide

Brian Fallon, M.D. · Columbia University Press
Pages: 384
Format: Hardcover

With more than 300,000 cases diagnosed each year, Lyme disease is the most common tick-borne illness in the United States. However, doctors are deeply divided on how to diagnose and treat it, leading to the controversy known as the "Lyme Wars." Firmly entrenched camps have emerged,...

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