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PLEASE NOTE: This is a companion to Ina May Gaskin's Ina May's Guide to Childbirth and NOT the original book.
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Ina May's Guide to Childbirth by midwife Ina May Gaskin explores midwifery as an alternative to traditional hospital delivery. In 1971, Gaskin helped found The Farm, a commune in Tennessee that includes a birthing center...
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· Overview of the Book
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PLEASE NOTE: This is a companion to Tom Rath's Eat Move Sleep and NOT the original book.
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Eat Move Sleep (2013) by Tom Rath is a guide to enhancing good health and increasing longevity by making smarter decisions every day in three areas: diet, exercise, and sleep habits. Embracing all three areas at once is crucial because of the mutually beneficial effects of eating right, moving more, and sleeping better...
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Summary, Analysis & Review of Ty Bollinger's The Truth About Cancer by Instaread
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The Truth About Cancer by health advocate Ty Bollinger is a nonfiction book that details the little-known history of the modern medical establishment and how its profit-driven agenda forever altered the course of medicine, particularly the treatment of cancer. Bollinger has studied alternative and nontoxic treatments for cancer, as well as cancer prevention...
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PLEASE NOTE: This is a companion to Jason Fung's MD The Complete Guide to Fasting and NOT the original book.
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Jason Fung's The Complete Guide to Fasting: Heal Your Body Through Intermittent, Alternate-Day and Extended Fasting promotes fasting as a treatment for obesity and diabetes. Fung argues that weight gain and type 2 diabetes are the result of insulin resistance, which can be corrected through fasting.
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PLEASE NOTE: This is a companion to Emeran Mayer's, MD The Mind—Gut Connection and NOT the original book.
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The Mind—Gut Connection: How the Hidden Conversation Within Our Bodies Impacts Our Mood, Our Choices, and Our Overall Health (2016) by Emeran Mayer, MD, explores the intricate connection between the brain and the digestive system, which are in constant communication. Around eight million microbial genes, known collectively as the...
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PLEASE NOTE: This is a companion to Ed Yong's I Contain Multitudes and NOT the original book.
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Ed Yong's I Contain Multitudes (2016) is an expansive treatise on microbes, the microscopic organisms that shape the known world. Yong celebrates the fascinating complexity of the microbes contained within all living organisms and the environments they inhabit...
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· Overview of the Book
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Summary, Analysis & Review of Melissa Hartwig's Food Freedom Forever by Instaread
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Food Freedom Forever by Melissa Hartwig is a self-help guide for anyone who has struggled with dieting and making healthy food choices. "Food freedom" is a way of life that helps people make conscious decisions about all foods instead of permanently restricting certain foods, such as cheese or cupcakes. Hartwig, a certified sports nutritionist and co-founder...
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PLEASE NOTE: This is a companion to David A. Kessler's, MD The End of Overeating and NOT the original book.
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In The End of Overeating (2009), Dr. David A. Kessler investigates the medical, psychological, and industrial reasons behind millions of Americans' over-consumption of processed foods. These consumers report feeling an insatiable hunger for the prepackaged items found in grocery stores or the flavorful dishes found in chain restaurants;...
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PLEASE NOTE: This is a companion to Alejandro Junger's, M.D. & et al Clean and NOT the original book.
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Clean (2009) by Alejandro Junger and Amely Greeven outlines a 21-day program designed to heighten the body's natural detoxification processes and allow the body to use its innate intelligence to heal itself.
The modern lifestyle has resulted in heavy exposure to toxins, which people consume in the food they eat and the air they breathe...
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PLEASE NOTE: This is a companion to Steven Kotler's & et al Stealing Fire and NOT the original book.
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Stealing Fire: How Silicon Valley, the Navy SEALs, and Maverick Scientists Are Revolutionizing the Way We Live and Work (2017) by Steven Kotler and Jamie Wheal is a book about ecstasis. The word ecstasis names a heightened mental state characterized by euphoria and a feeling of merged awareness with the universe or with others...
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PLEASE NOTE: This is a companion to Tom O'Bryan's The Autoimmune Fix and NOT the original book.
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The Autoimmune Fix by functional medicine practitioner Tom O'Bryan is a practical guide for cleaning up one's diet. O'Bryan argues that many of the foods Americans eat cause inflammation and illness...
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PLEASE NOTE: This is a companion to Amy Myers's The Thyroid Connection and NOT the original book.
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The Thyroid Connection by functional medicine doctor Amy Myers is a self-help book for people who suffer from thyroid dysfunction or suspect that they do. Myers took up her mission to help others understand thyroid conditions when she was in medical school and was diagnosed with Graves' disease, an autoimmune condition that results in hyperthyroidism,...
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Summary, Analysis & Review of Sylvia Tara's The Secret Life of Fat by Instaread
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The Secret Life of Fat: The Science Behind the Body's Least Understood Organ and What It Means for You is a thorough summary and synthesis of recent research surrounding the science of human fat. Author Sylvia Tara explores the many intricacies of fat including its composition, its functions as a bodily organ, and its seemingly indomitable ability to persist...
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PLEASE NOTE: This is a companion to Robert M. Sapolsky's Why Zebras Don't Get Ulcers and NOT the original book.
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Why Zebras Don't Get Ulcers (2004) by Robert Sapolsky is a thorough explanation of the impact of chronic stress on the body. It describes the many systems and mechanisms that stress triggers, and the ways that those systems and mechanisms can malfunction...
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PLEASE NOTE: This is a companion to Steven R. Gundry's, MD The Plant Paradox and NOT the original book.
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The Plant Paradox: The Hidden Dangers in "Healthy" Foods That Cause Disease and Weight Gain (2017) by Steven R. Gundry, MD, reveals how eating plants can actually be harmful to health. Gundry's "Plant Paradox" diet explains how to prepare and eat plant foods when they're in season and in the right amounts to achieve optimal health...
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PLEASE NOTE: This is a companion to Richard P. Jacoby's & et al Sugar Crush and NOT the original book.
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Sugar Crush: How to Reduce Inflammation, Reverse Nerve Damage, and Reclaim Good Health is Dr. Richard P. Jacoby's treatise against sugar. Sugar is the direct cause of many common health ailments including the obesity and diabetes epidemics in the United States. Sugar Crush outlines the damage that sugar inflicts on the body, describes how...
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PLEASE NOTE: This is a companion to Joel Fuhrman's MD The End of Dieting and NOT the original book.
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The End of Dieting by Dr. Joel Fuhrman is a nonfiction book that espouses a natural approach to nutrition, weight loss, and longevity. Dieting is ineffective for weight management...
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18) Summary, Analysis & Review of Elizabeth Blackburn's and Elissa Epel's The Telomere Effect by Inst
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Summary, Analysis & Review of Elizabeth Blackburn's and Elissa Epel's The Telomere Effect by Instaread
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The Telomere Effect by Elizabeth Blackburn and Elissa Epel describes advances in the field of gerontology and presents practical information on how to apply scientifically based guidance to daily life. An indicator of health and longevity is the condition of a person's telomeres, which are protective DNA that exists as cap-like structures...
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