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No Apparent Distress: A Doctor's Coming-of-Age on the Front Lines of American Medicine

Rachel Pearson · W. W. Norton & Company
Pages: 272
Format: Hardcover

A brutally frank memoir about doctors and patients in a health care system that puts the poor at risk.In medical charts, the term "N.A.D." (No Apparent Distress) is used for patients who appear stable. The phrase also aptly describes America's medical system when it comes to treating...
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Mirror Touch: Notes from a Doctor Who Can Feel Your Pain

Joel M D Salinas · Harper One
Pages: 320
Format: Print book

A doctor with a rare - seemingly superhuman - neurological trait takes us on a compelling tour deep into the human brain in this blend of memoir and scientific exploration that combines the compassionate wisdom of Oliver Sacks and the personal revelations of Jill Bolte Taylor's My Stroke...
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Every Body Yoga: Let Go of Fear. Get On the Mat. Love Your Body.

Jessamyn Stanley · Workman
Pages: 232
Format: Print book

From the unforgettable teacher Jessamyn Stanley comes Every Body Yoga, a book that breaks all the stereotypes. It's a book of inspiration for beginners of all shapes and sizes: If Jessamyn could transcend these emotional and physical barriers, so can we. It's a book for readers already...
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Mind Over Meds: Know When Drugs Are Necessary, When Alternatives Are Better – and When to Let Your Body Heal on Its Own

Andrew Weil · Little, Brown and Company
Pages: 289
Format: Hardcover

Too many Americans are taking too many drugs -- and it's costing us our health, happiness, and lives.
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Sometimes Amazing Things Happen: Heartbreak and Hope on the Bellevue Hospital Psychiatric Prison Ward

Elizabeth Ford · Regan Arts
Pages: 272
Format: Print book

From the Chief of Psychiatry for Correctional Health Services in New York City comes a revelatory and deeply compassionate memoir that takes readers inside Bellevue Hospital's forensic psychiatry unit and brings to life the world - the system, the staff, and the haunting cases - that shaped...
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Deep Nutrition: Why Your Genes Need Traditional Food

Catherine Shanahan · Flatiron Books
Pages: 512
Format: Hardcover

A self-published phenomenon examining the habits that kept our ancestors disease-free -- now with a prescriptive plan for "The Human Diet" to help us all live long, vital, healthy lives.Physician and biochemist Cate Shanahan, M.D. examined diets around the world known to help...
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The Essential Oils Complete Reference Guide: Over 250 Recipes for Natural Wholesome Aromatherapy

K G Stiles · Page Street Pub Co
Pages: 464
Format: Print book

KG Stiles shows you how to create essential oil recipes to shift your mindset and connect your body and mind, by featuring more than 250 recipes for every ailment from sleeping problems to increasing to healing sinuses.An aromatherapist to stars, KG provides prescriptions with personalized...
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The Beauty of Dirty Skin: The Surprising Science of Looking and Feeling Radiant from the Inside Out

Whitney Bowe · Little, Brown and Company
Pages: 304
Format: Hardcover

Internationally renowned dermatologist and research scientist Dr. Whitney Bowe presents, for the first time, the connection between a healthy gut and radiant, clear skin, with a 21-day program to maximize skin health and beauty.Every year, nearly 80 million Americans will consult their...
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The How Not to Die Cookbook: 100 Recipes to Help Prevent and Reverse Disease

MICHAEL M D GREGER · Flatiron Books
Pages: 272
Format: Hardcover

From Michael Greger, M.D., FACLM, the physician behind the trusted and wildly popular website Nutritionfacts.org, and author of the New York Times bestselling book How Not to Die, comes a beautifully-designed, comprehensive cookbook complete with more than 120 recipes for delicious, life-saving,...
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The Beauty Diet

David Wolfe · HarperOne
Format: Book

A unique and effective plan to improve your vitality and health using natural food, from one of America's foremost nutrition experts.In The Beauty Diet, David Wolfe teaches you how to cleanse and nourish your body, slow the aging process, and boost longevity using the power of nature....
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Before I Forget: Love, Hope, Help, and Acceptance in Our Fight Against Alzheimer's

Michael Shnayerson · Potter/TenSpeed/Harmony
Pages: 336
Format: eBook

"I know where I'm going. I'm still myself. I just can't remember things as well as I once did. So on short trips, I work hard not to be confused. I'll say to myself, What are we going to do? How long are we staying? It's like I'm talking to my other self - the self...
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Insane Consequences: How the Mental Health Industry Fails the Mentally Ill

D J Jaffe · Prometheus Books
Pages: 340
Format: Print book

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...
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Quench: Beat Fatigue, Drop Weight, and Heal Your Body Through the New Science of Optimum Hydration

Dana Cohen · Hachette Books
Pages: 304
Format: Hardcover

Chronic headaches...brain fog...fatigue...weight gain...insomnia...gut pain...autoimmune conditions. We may think these and other all-too-common modern maladies are due to gluten intake or too much sugar or too little exercise. But there is another missing piece to the health puzzle: Proper...
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Even the Stiffest People Can Do the Splits: A 4-Week Stretching Plan to Achieve Amazing Health

EIKO. · Rodale Books
Pages: 176
Format: Hardcover

Learn to do the splits in just 4 weeks -- no matter how stiff you think you are!Whether you spend your days running marathons or slouching over a keyboard, everyone can benefit from stretching and the increased flexibility that comes along with it. With only five minutes of stretching a day,...
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The Diabetes Code: Prevent and Reverse Type 2 Diabetes Naturally

JASON FUNG · Greystone Books
Pages: 288
Format: Paperback

From acclaimed author Dr. Jason Fung, a revolutionary guide to reversing diabetes. Dr. Jason Fung forever changed the way we think about obesity with his best-selling book, The Obesity Code. Now he has set out to do the same for type 2 diabetes.Today, most doctors, dietitians, and even...
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