Do You Believe in Magic?: The Sense and Nonsense of Alternative Medicine

Trick or Treatment: The Undeniable Facts about Alternative Medicine

Simon Singh, Edzard Ernst · 352 pages

Provides an examination and judgement of more than thirty of the most treatments in alternative medicine, such as acupuncture, homeopathy, aromatherapy, reflexology, chiropractic and herbal medicine.

Cure: A Journey into the Science of Mind Over Body

Jo Marchant · 336 pages

"A rigorous, skeptical, deeply reported look at the new science behind the mind's extraordinary ability to heal the body ... While we accept that stress or anxiety can damage our health, the idea of "healing thoughts" was long ago hijacked by New Age gurus and spiritual healers. Recently, however, serious scientists from a range of fields have been uncovering evidence that our thoughts, emotions,

Brain Maker: The Power of Gut Microbes to Heal and Protect Your Brain–for Life

David Perlmutter, Kristin Loberg · 310 pages

Debilitating brain disorders are on the rise-from children diagnosed with autism and ADHD to adults developing dementia at younger ages than ever before. But a medical revolution is underway that can solve this problem: Astonishing new research is revealing that the health of your brain is, to an extraordinary degree, dictated by the state of your microbiome - the vast population of organisms that

Bad Science

Ben Goldacre · 338 pages

Full of spleen, this will be a hilarious, invigorating and informative journey through the world of Bad Science.When Dr Ben Goldacre saw someone on daytime TV dipping her feet in an 'Aqua Detox' footbath, releasing her toxins into the water, turning it brown, he thought he'd try the same at home. 'Like some kind of Johnny Ball cum Witchfinder General', using his girlfriend's Barbie doll, he gently

Prescription for Nutritional Healing: A Practical A-to-Z Reference to Drug-Free Remedies Using Vitamins, Minerals, Herbs & Food Supplements

Phyllis A. Balch · 652 pages

This book is a wonderful reference to what all the vitamins and minerals are and what they do for our body. It also explains which foods to get each nutrient from and even provides delicious recipes. What I like the most about the recipes is the healthy alternatives they provide.

Natural Health, Natural Medicine

Andrew Weil · 370 pages

Emphasizing natural therapies that mobilize the body's own healing resources, Weil (U. of Arizona School of Medicine) provides a blueprint for low-cost, preventive health maintenance that is both a general guide on how to stay well and a reference manual to be consulted for specific symptoms. One of the best in a crowded field.

Knockout: Interviews with Doctors Who Are Curing Cancer and How To Prevent Getting it in the First Place

Suzanne Somers · 329 pages

In Knockout, Suzanne Somers interviews doctors who are successfully using the most innovative cancer treatments--treatments that build up the body rather than tear it down. Somers herself has stared cancer in the face, and a decade later she has conquered her fear and has emerged confident with the path she's chosen.Now she shares her personal choices and outlines an array of options from doctors

Love, Medicine and Miracles

Bernie S. Siegel · 240 pages

Radical Remission: Surviving Cancer Against All Odds

Kelly A. Turner · 336 pages

Discover the nine keys that can unlock your pathway to dramatic healing. In her groundbreaking and inspiring book, *Radical Remission: Surviving Cancer Against All Odds*, Dr. Kelly A. Turner, founder of the Radical Remission Project, uncovers nine factors that can lead to a spontaneous remission from cancer -- even after conventional medicine has failed.While getting her Ph.D. at the University of

A Mind of Your Own: What Women Can Do About Depression That Big Pharma Can't

Kelly Brogan · 337 pages

Depression is not a disease, it is a symptom. Recent years have seen a shocking increase in antidepressant use, with one in four women starting their day with medication. These drugs have become the panacea for everything from grief, irritability, panic attacks, to insomnia, PMS, and stress. But the truth is, what women really need can't be found at a pharmacy. According to Dr. Kelly Brogan, antid

Good Germs, Bad Germs: Health and Survival in a Bacterial World

Jessica Snyder Sachs · 304 pages

Public sanitation and antibiotic drugs have brought about historic increases in the human life span; they have also unintentionally produced new health crises by disrupting the intimate, age-old balance between humans and the microorganisms that inhabit our bodies and our environment. As a result, antibiotic resistance now ranks among the gravest medical problems of modern times. [This book] addre

Spiritual Midwifery

Ina May Gaskin · 473 pages

Shares the birthing stories of women who chose to have their babies at home with the help of a midwife, provides information about the safety of techniques used in the hospital before and after birth, discusses postpartum depression and maternal death, and includes resources for doulas, birth centers, and other organizations.

Drugs Without the Hot Air: Minimizing the Harms of Legal and Illegal Drugs

David J. Nutt · 384 pages

Is Gwyneth Paltrow Wrong About Everything?: When Celebrity Culture and Science Clash

Timothy Caulfield · 400 pages

How I Broke Up with My Colon: Fascinating, Bizarre, and True Health Stories

Nick Seluk · 192 pages

Why Do Men Fall Asleep After Sex? More Questions You'd Only Ask a Doctor After Your Third Whiskey Sour

Mark Leyner, Billy Goldberg · 288 pages

Hashimoto's Thyroiditis: Lifestyle Interventions for Finding and Treating the Root Cause

Izabella Wentz · 372 pages

What Your Doctor May Not Tell You About Children's Vaccinations

Stephanie Cave, Deborah Mitchell · 336 pages

If Our Bodies Could Talk: A Guide to Operating and Maintaining a Human Body

James Hamblin · 385 pages

*"If you want to understand the strange workings of the human body, and the future of medicine, you must read this illuminating, engaging book." --Siddhartha Mukherjee, author of The Gene* In 2014, James Hamblin launched a series of videos for The Atlantic called "If Our Bodies Could Talk." With it, the doctor-turned-journalist established himself as a seriously entertaining authority in the f

The Field: The Quest for the Secret Force of the Universe

Lynne McTaggart · 268 pages

Science has recently begun to prove what ancient myth and religion have always espoused: There may be such a thing as a life force.Lynne McTaggart, indefatigable investigative journalist, reveals a radical new biological paradigm -- that on our most fundamental level, the human mind and body are not distinct and separate from their environment but a packet of pulsating power constantly interacting

The Emperor of All Maladies: A Biography of Cancer

Siddhartha Mukherjee · 571 pages

The Emperor of All Maladies: A Biography of Cancer is a book written by Siddhartha Mukherjee, an Indian-born American physician and oncologist. Published on 16 November 2010 by Scribner, it won the 2011 Pulitzer Prize for General Non-Fiction.

Fat Chance: Beating the Odds Against Sugar, Processed Food, Obesity, and Disease

Robert H. Lustig · 328 pages

"Robert Lustig's 90-minute YouTube video "Sugar: The Bitter Truth", has been viewed more than two million times. Now, in this much anticipated book, he documents the science and the politics that has led to the pandemic of chronic disease over the last 30 years. In the late 1970s when the government mandated we get the fat out of our food, the food industry responded by pouring more sugar in. The

The Panic Virus: A True Story of Medicine, Science, and Fear

Seth Mnookin · 429 pages

A searing account of how vaccine opponents have used the media to spread their message of panic, despite no scientific evidence to support them. In this searching exposé, the recent hysteria over childhood vaccinations and their alleged link to autism becomes a cautionary tale of bad science amplified by media sensationalism.

The Brain's Way of Healing: Remarkable Discoveries and Recoveries from the Frontiers of Neuroplasticity

Norman Doidge · 432 pages

"The New York Times bestselling author of The Brain That Changes Itself presents astounding advances in the treatment of brain injury and illness. In The Brain That Changes Itself, Norman Doidge described the most important breakthrough in our understanding of the brain in four hundred years: the discovery that the brain can change its own structure and function in response to mental experience-wh