Health Illness

Here is a deeply moving account of a couple's struggle with cancer and their journey to spiritual healing. Grace and Grit is the compelling story of the five-year journey of Ken Wilber and his wife, Treya Killam Wilber, through Treya's illness, treatment, and, finally, death.

Nos ancêtres ne connaissaient pas l’insomnie. Que peuvent-ils nous enseigner ? Durant des millénaires, l’humanité a dormi dans des conditions a priori peu propices au repos : dans les arbres, à même le sol, dans des abris sommaires, en groupe et à la merci du climat. En dépit de ces contraintes, l’insomnie n’a jamais été un problème. Aujourd’hui, alors que toutes les conditions de confort et de sécurité semblent réunies, nous devrions dormir mieux que jamais. Et pourtant... Pourquoi la qualité de notre sommeil s’est-elle dégradée ? Quand avons-nous oublié comment bien dormir

When a car crash sidelines Mickey just before softball season, she has to find a way to hold on to her spot as the catcher for a team expected to make a historic tournament run. Behind the plate is the only place she’s ever felt comfortable, and the painkillers she’s been prescribed can help her get there. The pills do more than take away pain; they make her feel good. But as the pressure to be Mickey Catalan heightens, her need increases, and it becomes less about pain and more about want, something that could send her spiraling out of control.

Dr. R. Paul St. Amand is a renowned endocrinologist and has taught at UCLA for over 43 years. He is currently assistant clinical professor at the UCLA School of Medicine, where he has developed a remarkable treatment for a painful disease that affects millions of people.

Your skeleton is a busy system of living tissue. Every day, bone is being broken down and replaced. But with osteoporosis, this process causes your bones to become weak and fragile. The disease often goes undetected until you have a fall or a painful fracture.

This welcome guide explains how to treat tics and Tourette syndrome using natural and alternative therapies, with a focus on environmental medicine and nutritional and dietary therapy. The status of behavioral and counseling therapies, EEG biofeedback, homeopathy, bodywork, energy medicine, and Chinese medicine as approaches are explored. Author Sheila Rogers DeMare discusses a range of categories of tics including spasmodic facial movements, eye blinking, mild sounds and vocalizations.

In the 1980s, American psychiatry announced that it was time to toss aside Freudian ideas of mental disorder because the true path to understanding and treating mental illness lay in brain science, biochemistry, and drugs. This sudden call to revolution, however, was not driven by any scientific breakthroughs. Nor was it as unprecedented as it seemed. Why had previous efforts stalled? Was this latest call really any different? In Mind Fixers, Anne Harrington offers the first comprehensive history of the troubled search for the biological basis of mental illness.

Do you suffer from rosacea? Have you lost hope that you can ever manage your skin condition? Have you already tested most of the rosacea-targeting products, treatments and meds, yet nothing has helped your skin? If you answered 'yes' to at least one of the above questions, then this book is for you.coming from a family with a prevalence of all sorts of chronic skin conditions (like eczema, rosacea, psoriasis and cystic acne), I completely broke down when I developed rosacea myself in my early thirties.

Dr. Michael Gershon has devoted his career to understanding the human bowel (the stomach, esophagus, small intestine, and colon). His 30 years of research have led to an extraordinary rediscovery: Nerve cells in the gut that act as a brain. This "second brain" can control our gut all by itself. Our two brains - the one in our head and the one in our bowel - must cooperate.

Want to know how to take care of your thyroid gland? Learn all about the thyroid gland, its hormones, its functions, and how you can keep it healthy. A healthy organ is a healthy body! Learn about how the thyroid function can go off balance. Know about the different disorders related to it, the causes, and how these can be managed. Learn about the thyroid diet: what is it, what can it do, and how you can use it for yourself.

Unlike the dystopian vision described in Brave New World, or the psychedelic vision described in his The Doors of Perception, in The Art of Seeing, Aldous Huxley focuses on the actual vision of the human eye. Documenting his own profound near-blindness and subsequent attempts to improve his own sight, Huxley offers a thorough instruction manual on the controversial alternative vision therapy exercises developed by W. H. Bates.

Ce qu’il faut savoir sur le cœur pour mieux le comprendre, bien le soigner et prévenir la maladie!

Almost six million Americans—about one in every ten people over the age of sixty-five—have Alzheimer’s disease or related dementias, and this number is projected to more than double by 2050. What is it like to live with and amid this increasingly prevalent condition—an affliction that some fear more than death? In My Father’s Brain, the distinguished physician and author Sandeep Jauhar sets his father’s descent into Alzheimer’s alongside his own journey toward understanding this disease and how it might best be coped with, if not cured.

High blood pressure is called a “silent killer” because it develops with no signs or symptoms. You may not know that you have high blood pressure until it has caused serious damage. But there’s good news: You can take charge of your blood pressure.

When Marcus moves to a new town, he doesn't have any friends. While practicing football for impending tryouts, he strikes up an unlikely friendship with former NFL star Charlie Popovich, nicknamed "The King of Pop". Charlie is a charismatic prankster, and the best football player Marcus has ever seen. But when his behavior starts getting more and more erratic, Marcus learns a secret: Charlie is suffering from early onset Alzheimer's from the concussions he sustained while playing professional football.

Dites adieu aux nuits difficiles grâce à une approche révolutionnaire ! Après avoir bouleversé vos journées avec la magie du matin, Isalou se penche sur la qualité de votre sommeil...et son constat est simple : dormir est un acte de confiance. Alors, entre l'anxiété, le stress et les tensions de vos vies accélérées, comment retrouver le chemin du bon sommeil réparateur ? Ce livre rend compte d'une nouvelle transformation : le passage du mode "survie" des insomnies au mode "sécurité" des nuits paisibles. Le secret ?

You may not know that you have Lyme. It can mimic every disease process, including Chronic Fatigue Syndrome, Fibromyalgia, autoimmune conditions like MS, psychiatric conditions like depression and anxiety, and cause significant memory and concentration problems, mimicking early dementia. It is called the "Great Imitator," and inaccurate testing - combined with a fierce, ongoing debate that questions chronic infection - makes it difficult for sufferers to find effective care.

The stressors of modern-day life have forced many of our nervous systems into a permanent state of fight or flight which can cause inflammation, chronic pain, anxiety, depression and more but there is a way to heal!

For the 20 million people who suffer from pelvic pain: the completely revised and updated guide for making sex feel good again.

Bedtime Stories for Stressed Adults is your gateway to tranquility, offering 45 captivating tales crafted to help you unwind, let go of anxiety, and drift effortlessly into deep, restorative sleep.