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Love, Medicine and Miracles

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Breaking the Vicious Cycle: Intestinal Health Through Diet

Elaine Gottschall

Gottschall advances the risky "specific carbohydrate diet" as a treatment for Crohns, diverticulitis, irritable bowel, celiac disease and various other bowel pathologies.

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You Can Heal Your Life

Louise L. Hay · 243 pages

This book offers practical steps for dissolving both the fears and the causations of diseases. It helps clear away the blocks that keep people from robust health and having what they want in life.

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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.

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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.

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Anticancer: A New Way of Life

David Servan-Schreiber

The New York Times and international bestseller-now updated with the latest research Anticancer has been a bestselling phenomenon since Viking first published it in fall 2008. Now, a new edition addresses current developments in cancer research and offers more tips on how people living with cancer can fight it and how healthy people can prevent it. The new edition of Anticancer includes:* The late

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Spontaneous Healing

Andrew Weil · 320 pages

Dr. Andrew Weil presents cases of spontaneous healing. He also presents specific information on foods, environmental factors, exercise, stress reduction, vitamins, and herbs that can aid the body to maintain its well-being.

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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.

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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

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Full Catastrophe Living: Using the Wisdom of Your Body and Mind to Face Stress, Pain, and Illness

Jon Kabat-Zinn · 469 pages

A guide to awareness meditation methods offers a program for coping with illnesses as well as everyday stress.

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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

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Brain on Fire: My Month of Madness

Susannah Cahalan · 288 pages

The book narrates Cahalan's issues with anti-NMDA receptor encephalitis and the process by which she was diagnosed with this form of encephalitis. She wakes up in a hospital with no memory of the events of the previous month, during which time she would have violent episodes and delusions. Her eventual diagnosis is made more difficult by various physicians misdiagnosing her with several theories s

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

Stephanie Cave, Deborah Mitchell · 336 pages

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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

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The Spirit Catches You and You Fall Down: A Hmong Child, Her American Doctors, and the Collision of Two Cultures

Anne Fadiman · 341 pages

When three-month-old Lia Lee arrived at the county hospital emergency room in Merced, California, a chain of events was set in motion from which neither she nor her parents nor her doctors would ever recover. Lia's parents, Foua and Nao Kao, were part of a large Hmong community in Merced, refugees from the CIA-run "Quiet War" in Laos. Parents and doctors both wanted the best for Lia, but their

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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

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A Woman's Guide to Natural Hormones

Christine Conrad · 228 pages

More doctors are recommending natural (also called bio-identical) hormones-because they offer all the advantages of synthetic hormone replacement therapy (HRT) without the negative side effects or long-term health risks. Unlike synthetic HRT, natural hormones are bio-identical: they match a woman's own hormones exactly and don't interfere with the body's normal hormone production. They are safer a

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Digestive Wellness: How to Strengthen the Immune System and Prevent Disease Through Healthy Digestion

Elizabeth Lipski · 428 pages

Sixty percent of the population has suffered from a digestive ailment in the last three months. Acid reflux, heartburn, gastritis, ulcers, lactose intolerance, and food allergies are among the many ailments caused by faulty digestion. Digestive Wellness was designed to help you understand the complex relationships between gastrointestinal physiology, diet, and health. Written by noted nutritionis

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Living Well with Hypothyroidism: What Your Doctor Doesn't Tell You... That You Need to Know

Mary J. Shomon · 587 pages

The Most Comprehensive Resource Available on the Diagnosis and Treatment of HypothyroidismFor millions of Americans, hypothyroidism often goes untreated ... or is treated improperly. This book, thoroughly researched by the nation's top thyroid patient advocate -- a hypothyroidism patient herself -- provides you with answers to all your questions, including: What is hypothyroidism? What are the war

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It's Not About the Bike: My Journey Back to Life

Lance Armstrong, Sally Jenkins · 289 pages

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Waking the Tiger: Healing Trauma: The Innate Capacity to Transform Overwhelming Experiences

Peter A. Levine, Ann Frederick · 274 pages

Waking the Tiger offers a new and hopeful vision of trauma. It views the human animal as a unique being, endowed with an instinctual capacity to heal as well as an intellectual spirit to harness this innate capacity. It asks and answers an intriguing question - why are animals in the wild, though threatened routinely, rarely traumatized? By understanding the dynamics that make wild animals virtual

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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,

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