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What Makes Olga Run?: The Mystery of the 90-Something Track Star and What She Can Teach Us About Living Longer, Happier Lives
What Makes Olga Run?: The Mystery of the 90-Something Track Star and What She Can Teach Us About Living Longer, Happier Lives

Bruce Grierson · Henry Holt and Co.
Pages: 241
Format: Print book

A fascinating look at the way we age today and the extent to which we can shape the processIn What Makes Olga Run? Bruce Grierson explores what the wild success of a ninety-four-year-old track star can tell us about how our bodies and minds age. Olga Kotelko is not your average ninety-four-year-old....
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Eat Wheat: A Scientific and Clinically-Proven Approach to Safely Bringing Wheat and Dairy Back Into Your Diet
Eat Wheat: A Scientific and Clinically-Proven Approach to Safely Bringing Wheat and Dairy Back Into Your Diet

John Douillard · Morgan James Publishing
Pages: 325
Format: Print book

Are you gluten-free or dairy-free? If so, you might not have to be. Eat Wheat is a scientific and clinically-proven approach to addressing food intolerances. After 3.4 million years of eating wheat and only 500,000 years of hunting meat, we are actually genetically better equipped to eat wheat...
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The Conversation: A Revolutionary Plan for End-of-Life Care
The Conversation: A Revolutionary Plan for End-of-Life Care

Angelo Volandes · Bloomsbury
Pages: 220
Format: Print book

There is an unspoken dark side of American medicine--keeping patients alive at any price. Two thirds of Americans die in healthcare institutions tethered to machines and tubes at bankrupting costs, even though research shows that most prefer to die at home in comfort, surrounded by loved...
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Finding a Joyful Life in the Heart of Pain
Finding a Joyful Life in the Heart of Pain

Darlene Cohen · Shambhala
Format: Hardcover

Darlene Cohen discovered the secret to finding happiness in the midst of debilitating pain. She shares her knowledge in her popular workshops and now in this book. Cohen, who has suffered from rheumatoid arthritis for eighteen years, was hobbling painfully to her local Zen center one day,...
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Missing Microbes: How the Overuse of Antibiotics Is Fueling Our Modern Plagues
Missing Microbes: How the Overuse of Antibiotics Is Fueling Our Modern Plagues

Martin J Blaser · Henry Holt & Co
Pages: 273
Format: Book

A critically important and startling look at the harmful effects of overusing antibiotics, from the field's leading expert Tracing one scientist's journey toward understanding the crucial importance of the microbiome, this revolutionary book will take readers to the forefront of trail-blazing...
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The Dirt Cure: Growing Healthy Kids with Food Straight from Soil
The Dirt Cure: Growing Healthy Kids with Food Straight from Soil

Maya Shetreat-Klein · Atria Books
Pages: 374
Format: Print book

In the tradition of Michael Pollan, Mark Hyman, and Andrew Weil, pioneering integrative pediatric neurologist Maya Shetreat-Klein, MD, reveals the shocking contents of children's food, how it's seriously harming their bodies and brains, and what we can do about it. And she presents the first...
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Arthritis and You: A Comprehensive Digest for Patients and Caregivers
Arthritis and You: A Comprehensive Digest for Patients and Caregivers

Ali Naheed · Rowman & Littlefield Publishers
Pages: 349
Format: Paperback

Arthritis is the number one cause of disability in the U.S. with more than 40 million people diagnosed; that number is expected to rise as baby boomers continue to age. Yet few understand what arthritis really is, how it develops, and what sufferers can do to minimize its impact on daily...
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