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302 pages, 8 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations (chiefly color) ; 24 cm
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Draws on the experiences of patients, physicians, and researchers to explain the revolutionary development of immunotherapy as a treatment for cancer and how that information is being harnessed to create more effective patient therapies.
"For decades, scientists have puzzled over one of medicine's most confounding mysteries: Why doesn't our immune system recognize and fight cancer the way it does other diseases, like the common cold? As it turns...
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x, 543 pages ; 23 cm
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"The evidence is clear: We are in the midst of a worldwide diabetes epidemic. In the United States alone, one in three Americans is either diabetic (29 million patients) or prediabetic (87 million patients), costing an annual $242 billion in medical treatments. In Mastering Diabetes, naturopathic physician and diabetes expert Dr. Mona Morstein shows how people with both type 1 and type 2 diabetes can gain and maintain excellent control of their blood...
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ix, 309 pages : color illustrations ; 23 cm
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Russ took control of her own health and bouts with hypothyrodism through a devoted paleo/primal lifestyle, intensive personal experimentation, and a radically modified approach to thyroid hormone replacement therapy. She went from fatigued to focused, and now she shows you how to regain your own health!
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xiv, 289 pages ; 24 cm
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"Two days before Christmas and at just 26-years-old, Chris Wark found himself diagnosed with stage-3 colon cancer. Before he knew it, he was wheeled into surgery, where a golf ball-sized tumor and a third of his colon were removed. Doctors told Wark that as soon as he recovered from surgery, he would need 9 to 12 months of chemotherapy in order to prevent a recurrence. But when the first meal he was served in the hospital was a cafeteria-style sloppy...
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1 videodisc (80 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
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A comprehensive 80-minute production with a proactive, alternative take on the midlife years of women, addressing some of the issues that they will face, and providing a wealth of information and options that they will find most enlightening and helpful. Making the right lifestyle and healthcare decisions earlier, rather than later, can have great benefits.
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xv, 327 pages ; 24 cm
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"New York Times best-selling author presents a radical alternative to psychotropic meds: discerning the meaning in your symptoms and your struggle as a way to reclaim your health and your self. For years, we've been telling ourselves that our difficult feelings -- sadness, rage, shame, intensity, worry -- are somehow "not okay." And, all too often, we've relied on the promise of pharmaceuticals to tamp them down. The fact is, though, that these feelings...
11) The whole heart solution: halt heart disease now with the best alternative and traditional medicine
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ix, 308 pages ; 24 cm
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English
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Beyond ADHD weaves Jeff Emmerson's personal story of his ADHD diagnosis, exploring along the way the latest medical, scientific, and societal explanations and tools for managing and living with the condition. Including interviews with a number of experts at the forefront of next-generation ADHD diagnostics and treatment, he questions the cookie-cutter way ADHD is commonly diagnosed and treated. Suggesting that the list of symptoms often used to identify...
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xii, 338 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm
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Offers a safe, effective plan for lowering blood pressure that is based on a combination of functional foods, a simple exercise regimen, and a modest calorie restriction and doesn't include prescription medication.
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xvi, 298 pages : illustrations ; 23 cm
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"A yoga approach to dealing with disorded eating patterns--like overeating, food addiction, and stress eating--and the resulting emotional distress they can cause. Yoga philosophy and practice is increasingly being used in therapeuticsettings with great efficacy to help treat eating disorders. In this book, Sarahjoy Marsh, a yoga teacher, counselor, and meditation teacher, offers a program using the tools and philosophy of yoga for addressing addiction--specifically,...
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vi, 201 pages : color illustrations ; 23 cm
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"We know that practicing mindfulness in everyday life can help us reduce stress and cultivate deep, embodied well-being -- but what about its effects on physical and emotional pain, especially when it seems overwhelming or unrelenting? Jon Kabat-Zinn developed Mindfulness-Based Stress Reduction (MBSR) to help medical patients with ongoing pain conditions who were not responding to conventional therapies. Since then, the practices of MBSR have become...
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205 pages : illustrations ; 22 cm
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Español
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"Como si de un trabajo de detectives se tratara, el alergólogo investiga la vida de la persona alérgica, desde sus hábitos diarios en casa hasta su lugar de trabajo. Una vez determinadas las sustancias que le producen síntomas alérgicos, aconseja sobre cómo remediar estas molestias: estornudos, picores, dificultad para respirar, problemas digestivos... De la mano de una de las mayores expertas de nuestro país, en este libro aprenderás todo...
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viii, 328 pages ; 24 cm
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"Discover some of the newest cancer treatments available today-and a plan for prevention and healing At the Cancer Center for Healing, Dr. Leigh Erin Connealy offers her groundbreaking integrative approach to both treating and preventing cancer. Now, in The Cancer Revolution, Dr. Connealy shares her program, offering the practical strategies that have helped thousands of patients: Let food be your medicine Remove toxins to repair and restore your...
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"Many of us have experienced a traumatic event in our lives, whether in childhood or adulthood. This trauma may be emotional, or it may cause intense physical pain. In some cases, it can cause both. Studies have shown that compassion and mindfulness based interventions can help people suffering from trauma to experience less physical and emotional pain in their daily lives. What's more, many long-time yoga and meditation teachers have a history of...
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