Health Illness

This audiobook is nothing but the pure, beautiful sounds of thunderstorms. Relax and close your eyes as you let the experience of Pure Thunderstorm Sounds wash over you and feel the stress melt away. Perfect for sleep, insomnia, relaxation, and background noise.

A World-Renowned Doctor’s Natural Guide to Better Sleep: A CPAP Alternative That Just Takes a Few Minutes a Day Narrated by sleep apnea expert Dr. Dylan Petkus, MD, MPH, MS—featured in Healthline, Forbes, TIME, and Yahoo! Life—this guide was born from his own struggles with obstructive sleep apnea. Frustrated by the limited results from CPAPs and mouthguards, Dr. Petkus embarked on a two-year journey to find a natural method that eventually restored his ability to sleep soundly without the need for a CPAP.

Why do some of us get sick with greater frequency than others? What makes us more susceptible to illness? Are we doomed to get sick when our coworkers and family members do? Is there a secret to staying healthy? Joel Fuhrman, M.D., a leading expert and board-certified medical specialist in prevention and reversing disease, offers a comprehensive guide to superior health.

A riveting and candid account of a young journalist's awakening to a life of chronic illness, weaving together her personal story with reporting to shed light on how Americans live with long-term diagnoses today.

In Eat Dirt, Dr. Axe explains that it's essential to get a little "dirty" in our daily lives in order to support our gut bacteria and prevent leaky gut syndrome. Dr. Axe offers simple ways to get these needed microbes, from incorporating local honey and bee pollen into your diet to forgoing hand sanitizers and even ingesting a little probiotic-rich soil.

It's in our food, our clothes, and our homes. It's microplastic and it's everywhere—including our own bodies. Scientists are just beginning to discover how these tiny particles threaten health, but the studies are alarming. In A Poison Like No Other, Matt Simon reveals a whole new dimension to the plastic crisis.

Crohn's disease and ulcerative colitis are diseases that disrupt your body's ability to digest food, absorb nutrition, and eliminate waste in a healthy manner. Crohn's and Colitis For Dummies is the ultimate reference to these common forms of inflammatory bowel disease (IBD), including tips on how to recognize and control the symptoms, so you can get your life back.

In 2011, the Italian neurologist Dr Antonio Costantini began treating his Parkinson’s patients with high doses of B1. As a result, their symptoms improved by up to 70 percent with no obvious progression in the disease over the five years he worked with them. Yet there is still a lack of awareness about this valuable therapy amongst doctors and Parkinson’s nurses.

We are currently witnessing a paradigm shift in the understanding of autoimmune disease. The latest scientific research reveals that an individual’s microbiome can have a profound impact on inflammation throughout the body. In those with psoriasis or autoimmune arthritis, there is often a lack of beneficial bacteria that normally calm the immune system - known as “keystone” species. Without these species, harmful bacteria can flourish, the gut barrier becomes damaged, and the immune system runs wild.

The brain remains a mystery to medical research and science when it comes to chronic illness. Measuring deficits of the brain doesn't equate to knowing what's really wrong or what to do about it. Where can you turn to get answers and finally find healing? In Brain Saver Protocols, Cleanses, and Recipes, Anthony William, the Medical Medium, provides compassionate, life-altering guidance to help you understand and heal from a vast range of brain symptoms, diseases, and disorders, including anxiety, autism, and addiction; tumors, Parkinson's, and ALS; and many more.

ASMR, or Autonomous Sensory Meridian Response, is one of the biggest emerging trends in wellness and mindfulness. Proven to ease stress and anxiety, improve sleep, and enhance social connection, ASMR is a radical new form of sound healing with proven benefits similar to meditation. ASMR for Bed Time from beloved ASMRtist Emma WhispersRed is a must for anyone looking to ease anxiety, improve sleep, and find calm before bed.

A diagnosis of Parkinson's disease is as disorienting as it is devastating. The Complete Guide for People with Parkinson's Disease and Their Loved Ones helps make sense of what comes next and what can be done, not just for those suffering from the disease, but for their family and friends as well.

Our modern diet, high in low-quality carbohydrates, is damaging our bodies - producing a constant overload of sugar in our bloodstream that clogs up our arteries and piles hidden fat into our internal organs. The result has been a doubling in the number of type 2 diabetics,as well as a surge in those with a potentially hazardous condition - prediabetes. It is now known that even moderately elevated blood sugar levels can trigger heart disease, stroke, dementia, and cancer.

You might not have heard of misophonia, but if you are often infuriated by the sound of chewing, breathing, snoring, a clock ticking, or any other specific trigger, you may have experienced it. In fact, it’s thought that one in five of us have it. Sounds Like Misophonia addresses what the condition is, how it manifests, and provides a guide to managing it. By clinical psychologist Dr Jane Gregory, this is the first practical self-help book to make sense of the condition, and help you design your own treatment plan tailored to your unique experience.

Are you tired of confusing diet advice and lackluster recipes? Here’s a scientifically-proven way to enjoy delicious meals while transforming your health in just 21 days! Do you feel lost in the myriad of diet plans and health advice, feeling like you're trying everything but getting nowhere? It's frustrating, isn't it? You might have even wondered if eating healthy means giving up on tasty food altogether. But what if there's an approach to hit two positive goals with one stone: to indulge in scrumptious meals while improving your health at the same time?

Restore and relieve your gut with this comprehensive beginner’s guide equipped with 28 meal plans and an ulcerative-colitis-focused cookbook tailored for those who suffer from ulcerative colitis, want answers to relieve their symptoms and flare-ups as quickly as possible, and get their life back. Written by someone who once suffered from ulcerative colitis, leaky gut, chronic inflammation and fatigue, and the other painful illnesses those lead to for more than a decade and a half before finding real answers.

In this astonishing and startling book, award-winning science and history writer Robert Whitaker investigates a medical mystery: Why has the number of disabled mentally ill in the United States tripled over the past two decades? Every day, 1,100 adults and children are added to the government disability rolls because they have become newly disabled by mental illness, with this epidemic spreading most rapidly among our nations children. What is going on?

In Pain Performance, Ryan Whited and Matt Fitzgerald present a radically new way for athletes to understand and manage pain that exposes the shocking lack of evidence for modern medicine’s approach to pain and injury management. Based on many years of research and a greater appreciation of the complexity of pain as a lived experience, Whited’s revolutionary “Training as Treatment” method puts you in control of your pain experience as you build mental and physical resilience.

Diabetes has a cause. That very cause means that there is something you can do for your condition. By understanding the disease and what causes it, you can change the results you see in your own body. Even in many advanced cases, diabetes can be reversed at least partially, with reduced dependence on insulin and diabetes drugs.

Seattle spinal surgeon Dr. David Hanscom focuses on an aspect of chronic pain that the medical world has largely overlooked: you must calm your nervous system in order to get better. More than any other book about pain, Back in Control reveals how to quiet a turbocharged central nervous system and make a full recovery, with or without surgery.