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The Gut Healing Protocol: An 8-Week Holistic Program to Rebalance Your Microbiome - Paperback

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by Kale Brock (Author)Heal Your Gut Holistically Mounting scientific evidence is confirming what Hippocrates said some 2,400 years ago, that, "all disease begins in the gut." Nurturing and maintaining a healthy intestinal microbiome has become a topic of great interest to both mainstream medicine and progressive health enthusiasts. In The Gut Healing Protocol, Australian health journalist Kale Brock delivers a comprehensive, holistic 8-week program to overcoming the common diet and lifestyle...

New Beginnings: Acquiring and Living with a Cochlear Implant - Paperback

$29.14

by Gerard Buckley (Author), Michael Stinson (Author)Fifteen stories written by deaf/hard of hearing individuals who have had cochlear implants are told within the context of unique histories that are intimate, personal and moving. Readers will gain insight into the personal struggles, challenges, and benefits for those who made the decision to get a cochlear implant. The writers share their process over the decision to obtain an implant as well as the delights and disappointments in hearing w...

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Body Respect: What Conventional Health Books Get Wrong, Leave Out, and Just Plain Fail to Understand about Weight - Paperback

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by Linda Bacon (Author), Lindo Bacon (Author), Lucy Aphramor (Author)Mainstream health science has let you down. Weight loss is not the key to health, diet and exercise are not effective weight-loss strategies and fatness is not a death sentence. You've heard it before: there's a global health crisis, and, unless we make some changes, we're in trouble. That much is true--but the epidemic is NOT obesity. The real crisis lies in the toxic stigma placed on certain bodies and the impact of living...

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Childhood Cancer: A Parent's Guide to Solid Tumor Cancers - Paperback

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by Anne Spurgeon (Author), Nancy Keene (Author)Each year more than 6,000 children and teens in the United States are diagnosed with a solid tumor (e.g., kidney tumor, liver tumor, neuroblastoma, retinoblastoma, or sarcoma). The illnesses and their treatments can have devastating effects on family, friends, schoolmates, and the larger community. This newly updated edition contains essential information families need during this difficult time. It includes descriptions of the newest treatments,...

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Bedlam's Door: True Tales of Madness and Hope - Paperback

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by Mark Rubinstein (Author)Why would a Hungarian man run down a Manhattan street ranting "I'm king of the Puerto Ricans"? What made a physically healthy woman persuade surgeons to operate on her more than a dozen times? How could a man in a straitjacket commit suicide while in a strictly supervised, locked psychiatric ward? Though these and the other stories in this book read like fiction, each is true. Former practicing psychiatrist Mark Rubinstein takes readers deep into the world of ...

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The Chronic Cough Enigma: How to Recognize Neurogenic and Reflux Related Cough - Paperback

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by Jamie A. Koufman (Author), Suze Orman (Foreword by)If you have confusing and unexplained breathing problems or your asthma has not responded to treatment, this book is for you. The Chronic Cough Enigma is written for people who have been coughing for months or years and cannot get useful answers from their doctors. If you have confusing and unexplained breathing problems or your asthma has not responded to treatment, this book is for you. The Chronic Cough Enigma is written for people who ...

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Acid Reflux in Children: How Healthy Eating Can Fix Your Child's Asthma, Allergies, Obesity, Nasal Congestion, Cough & Croup - Hardcover

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by Jamie Koufman (Author), Julie L. Wei (Author), Karen Zur (Author)A Parent's Guide to Reflux in Infants, Children & Teens "Meeting Dr. Jamie Koufman completely changed my life. My symptoms of chronic cough and shortness of breath had been diagnosed since my childhood as asthma. Dr. Koufman identified that I had reflux, not asthma, and guided me step by step how to cure it. I have my life back and I owe it all to Dr. Koufman's insight and help." -Suze Orman, Host of the Suze Orman Show, ...

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The Family Caregiver's Manual: A Practical Planning Guide to Managing the Care of Your Loved One - Paperback

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by David Levy (Author)A complete, step-by-step guide offering problem-solving and coping skills applicable to every caregiver's unique circumstances.Drawn from over twenty-five years of experience, this comprehensive manual sets forth how to evaluate priorities, understand options, and face bedrock issues so caregivers can make informed decisions for their loved ones, while balancing their own needs and gaining peace of mind.Author and family caregiving expert David Levy provides a model for ...

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Connecting in the Land of Dementia: Creative Activities to Explore Together - Paperback

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by Deborah Shouse (Author)Innovative ideas designed so care partners can engage and connect with people living with dementia. On the dementia journey, each quality moment of connection is priceless. Deborah Shouse and dozens of experts in the field of dementia share ideas that engage the creative spirit so you can continue to experience those meaningful moments of connecting. These easy and adaptable projects--music, art, movies, cooking, storytelling, gardening, movement, and many more--can ...

Growing Your Dental Business: Market Yourself Effectively and Accelerate Your Results - Paperback

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by Penny Reed (Author)In dental school, you had a big dream for your career and future practice. If your dream has been derailed or you are feeling unfulfilled, Growing Your Dental Business will reveal five keys to growth, including how you can: - Increase your new patient load - Increase your active patients - Increase your case acceptance ratios - Increase office efficiency - Increase hygiene membership If you feel like you have hit the wall, find out what others have done to move past obst...

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Recoverymind Training: A Neuroscientific Approach to Treating Addiction - Paperback

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by Paul H. Earley (Author)A comprehensive addiction treatment model combining evidence-based techniques with twelve-step philosophy.An innovative guide for professionals that establishes an extraordinary approach to understanding the dynamics of addiction and the recovery process. RecoveryMind Training (RMT) includes state-of-the-art information on neuroscience and behavioral techniques and challenges readers to see addiction from a different perspective. Paul H. Earley, MD, FASAM has been an...

Complete Guide to Autism & Healthcare: Advice for Medical Professionals and People on the Spectrum - Paperback

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by Anita Lesko (Author) Quality advice from a nurse with autism! Winner of the Temple Grandin Literary Award. The Complete Guide to Autism and Healthcare is geared toward use in healthcare curriculum courses and is a guidebook for all healthcare and allied healthcare providers. It's important for healthcare professionals to realize that communication starts at the admissions desk and follows through to the patient's discharge. Whether the patient is simply going for a routine doctor's app...

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Perfection's Therapy: An Essay on Albrecht Dürer's Melencolia I - Hardcover

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by Mitchell B. Merback (Author)Albrecht D rer's master engraving, Melencolia I, has stood for centuries as a pictorial summa of knowledge about melancholia and an allegory of the limits of earthbound arts and sciences. Zealously interpreted since the nineteenth century, the work also presides over the origins of modern iconology. Yet more than a century of research has left us with a tangle of mutually contradictory theories. In Perfection's Therapy, Mitchell Merback discovers in Melencolia's...

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El Secreto de la Vida a Base de Plantas / Mother Nature's Secret to a Healthy Life - Paperback

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by Draco Rosa (Author), Nena Niessen (Author)El reconocido cantante de rock Draco Rosa descubrió las maravillas de la alimentación a base de plantas luego de enfermarse de cáncer. Al enterarse de la dura noticia, trabajó junto con su nutricionista Nena Niessen, también sobreviviente del cáncer, para apoyarse en una alimentación sana durante el proceso de tratamiento y recuperación. Su vida no volvió a ser la misma: aprendió a identificar los ingredientes beneficiosos de la comida para hacer s...

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Why Didn't They Just Say That?: Teaching Secondary Students with High-Functioning Autism to Decode the Social World Using Peerspective - Paperback

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by Jennifer Schmidt (Author), Sean Barron (Foreword by)"Let's create a class instead of the typical social skills programs!" With this statement began the development of this innovative evidence-based curriculum for secondary students with ASD and their neurotypical (NT) peers. PEERspective is a complete curriculum that teaches high school students self-awareness, self-acceptance, relationship building, conflict resolution, managing stress and wellness, and many other topics that have lifelon...

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Simple Steps to Foot Pain Relief: The New Science of Healthy Feet - Paperback

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by Katy Bowman (Author)Don't just treat your foot pain--strengthen your feet to prevent it. Back with an expanded edition of her popular book Every Woman's Guide to Foot Pain Relief, biomechanist Katy Bowman has created a new version for both men and women in all walks of life. With updated material and new visuals that illustrate exactly how to strengthen and mobilize your feet, Simple Steps to Foot Pain Relief will show you how to change the way you move your body to prevent pain, heal you...

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by Heather Frimmer (Author)As Joyce Novak's daughter, Marnie, completes medical school and looks ahead to a surgical internship, her wedding, and a future filled with promise, a breast cancer diagnosis throws Joyce's own future into doubt. Always the caregiver, Joyce feels uncomfortable in the patient role, especially with her husband and daughter. As she progresses through a daunting treatment regimen including a biopsy, lumpectomy, and radiation, she distracts herself by planning Marnie's w...

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by Liam Durcan (Author)Paragraphe Hugh MacLennan Prize for Fiction WinnerNational Reading Group Month "Great Group Reads" selection "A deft exploration of the heart and mind that offers the pathos of a Sam Shepard play nested within the unreliable storytelling of Christopher Nolan's Memento." --Kirkus Reviews Martin, an acclaimed architect, emerges from a coma after a roadside accident to find his world transformed: not only has the commission of a lifetime been taken from him, but his injury...

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by Lisa Olstein (Author)"A fascinating, totally seductive read " --Eula Biss, author of Notes from No Man's Land: American Essays and On Immunity: An Inoculation"A book built of brain and nerve and blood and heart. . . . Irreverent and astute. . . . Pain Studies will change how you think about living with a body." --Elizabeth McCracken, author of Thunderstruck and Bowlaway"A thrilling investigation into pain, language, and Olstein's own exile from what Woolf called 'the army of the upright.' ...

Move Your DNA 2nd ed: Restore Your Health Through Natural Movement - Paperback

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by Katy Bowman (Author)Bestselling Move Your DNA has shaken up the health and fitness world with this message: there is more to movement than exercise."A landmark in explaining biomechanics." Dr. Joan Vernikos, Former Director of NASA's life science division and author of Sitting Kills, Moving HealsIt's often said that "movement is medicine," but rarely is the how behind the power of movement explained. It's not only our whole body that's moving; our cells are being moved as our limbs push an...

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Brian Blomerth's Bicycle Day - Paperback

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by Brian Blomerth (Author), Dennis McKenna (Foreword by)Illustrator, musician and self-described "comic stripper" Brian Blomerth has spent years combining classic underground art styles with his bitingly irreverent visual wit in zines, comics, and album covers. With Brian Blomerth's Bicycle Day, the artist has produced his most ambitious work to date: a historical account of the events of April 19, 1943, when Swiss chemist Albert Hofmann ingested an experimental dose of a new compound known a...

Low Level Laser Therapy For Physical Therapists - Skills Development - Paperback

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by Malini Chaudhri (Author)This is the Second edition of a popular practical book on Low Level Laser Therapy dedicated to a technical skills development framework for all practitioners of medicine, sports, spas and cam. It releases new aspects of photo medicine in its support to gene therapy, lymphatics, sports and systemic diseases. It shows a segment of invention dedicated to treating malignancy also. The lymphatic section can support the prevention of diseases as breast cancer and correcti...

Weight? It Might Be Your Thyroid: It's Not Your Fault. It's Your Thyroid! the Permanent No Guilt Weight Loss System - Hardcover

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by Michael Dewayne Scott (Author)Ever wondered why you couldn't lose that extra weight despite diet and exercise? Do you feel like you have tried everything but nothing seems to work? It's not your fault. It might be your thyroid Very few people know what the thyroid is and what role it plays in our daily lives. Very few people know that it has a direct link to our metabolism. A problem with the thyroid could be the reason for those extra, unrelenting and difficult to lose pounds. Fortunately...

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Debunking the Bump: What the Data Really Says about Pregnancy's 165 Biggest Risks and Myths - Paperback

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by Daphne Adler (Author)Stay away from sushi! Cut out caffeine! Get rid of your cat! Step away from the microwave!Pregnant women are bombarded with "risk factors" they must avoid from the moment the stick turns pink. Heroic mothers-to-be sacrifice their favorite foods and activities for the sake of their baby, but with such long lists of "don'ts" and conflicting information, it is easy to feel overwhelmed. Daphne Adler, a mathematician, management consultant, and self-proclaimed "numbers junk...

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by Lin Visel (Artist), Joseph Bergin (Artist)After all this time, I can finally smoke a weed But . . . where do I even begin? Sprout, a wee babe of a Weeping Giant Sequoia, is psyched to smoke marijuana for the first time. But she stumbles on her first obstacle right away: she has no idea what she's doing A trio of helpful (and more mature) sequoias give her a dried cannabis flower and send her on a delightful journey of discovery. The forest is alive with wizened old animals who know the l...

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The Park Avenue Face: Secrets and Tips from a Top Facial Plastic Surgeon for Flawless, Undetectable Procedures and Treatments - Hardcover

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by Andrew Jacono (Author)Your face defines you. It influences how people perceive you at work, at play, and even at home. But what if something about your face doesn't make you feel like the real you? In The Park Avenue Face, dual board-certified facial plastic and reconstructive surgeon Dr. Andrew Jacono reveals how to achieve flawless, undetectable plastic surgery so you can fix what you don't like, restore what you've lost, or prevent signs of aging. From his elite Park Avenue aesthetic s...

The Woman Who Fooled the World: The True Story of Fake Wellness Guru Belle Gibson - Paperback

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by Beau Donelly (Author), Nick Toscano (Author)The jaw-dropping story of Instagram influencer and wellness scammer Belle Gibson, whose cancer diagnosis and cure was all a lie. NOW A NETFLIX LIMITED SERIES STARRING KAITLYN DEVER Entrepreneur. Inspiration. Guru. Australian wellness influencer Belle Gibson shot to fame after she convinced the world she had cured her terminal brain cancer with just a healthy diet. But there was one problem: she lied--she'd never had cancer. Gibson, a high school ...

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A Life Less Stressed: The Five Pillars of Health and Wellness - Paperback

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by Ron Ehrlich (Author)A holistic guide to the stresses that wear us down and the simple changes we can make to lead happier, healthier, and more resilient lives. Life has never been more stressful. It is no coincidence that chronic degenerative disorders such as cancer, heart disease, autoimmune illnesses, and mental-health conditions are on the rise. But if we want to tackle them, we need to look beyond their symptoms. That is the message of dentist and health advocate Dr Ron Ehrlich. He ex...

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Why Aren't We Dead Yet?: The Curious Person's Guide to the Immune System - Paperback

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by Idan Ben-Barak (Author)From highly respected microbiologist and the creator of the YouTube sensation "Dumb Ways to Die," comes this exploration of the immune system, what keeps it running, and how germs are destroyed... So how come we're not dead yet? In this lively and accessible book, Idan Ben-Barak tells us why. He explores the immune system and what keeps it running, how germs are destroyed, and why we develop immunities to certain disease-causing agents. He also examines the role of a...

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Letting Go: How to Plan for a Good Death - Paperback

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by Charlie Corke (Author)An important and timely introduction to, and discussion of, the kinds of decisions that individuals, families, and medical personnel face in a medical crisis Letting Go shows us how to start thinking about our end-of-life stage before we get there; how to make a living will that will help people make decisions on our behalf; and how we can maintain our dignity and autonomy for as long as possible. Drawing on many years of experience as an intensive-care specialist, an...

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The Angina Monologues: Surgery for Broken Hearts - Hardcover

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by Samer Nashef (Author)A pioneering cardiac surgeon expertly sews up the heart of surgery. The Angina Monologues speeds from the transporting of a donor's heart up the highway's shoulder, to cautionary stories of excessive intervention gone awry in US hospitals, to a traumatic trip to bring advanced cardiac surgery to the Palestinian West Bank. Nashef tells heartstopping stories of transplants, coronary artery bypasses, aorta repair, and cardiac arrest. He also delivers humane advice about m...

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This City Is Killing Me: Community Trauma and Toxic Stress in Urban America - Paperback

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by Jonathan Foiles (Author)Jonathan Foiles weaves together psychology and public policy, exploring the trauma underlying urbanization in a book Kirkus Reviews calls an "urgent call for reform."When Jonathan Foiles was a graduate student in social work, he had to choose between specializing in either mental health or public policy. But once he began working, he found it impossible to tell the two apart. As he counseled poor patients from Chicago's South and West Sides, he realized individual t...