Health Systems

Written by a leading neuroscientist, Splitting tells the fascinating true story about headaches and the secrets they reveal about your brain and overall health. From migraines to sinus pain to tension headaches - and everything in between - Splitting separates fact from fiction, putting you in control and helping you practise habits that will protect you from headache.

If so, rest assured as we come together to reveal the latest scientific news on the human body’s superhighway: the vagus nerve. The vagus nerve is one of humanity’s most well-kept secrets and the groundbreaking truth behind this completely untapped aspect of human physiology is something that is sure to set anyone free. Even if none of the above questions are of your concern and you are simply looking to optimize your current health, activation, and stimulation of the vagus nerve far supersede any other self-care practice you have tried before.

When her once-glamorous and witty novelist-mother got Alzheimer's, Eleanor Cooney moved her from her beloved Connecticut home to California in order to care for her. In tense, searing prose, punctuated with the blackest of humor, Cooney documents the slow erosion of her mother's mind, the powerful bond the two shared, and her own descent into drink and despair.

If you're exhausted and in terrible pain, concerned about bills and need to take back your health, then Crystal's story is for you! The solution she used was a simple, powerful anti-inflammatory diet which promotes natural healing - at the source of the problem. With the right autoimmune protocol, you can quickly begin to reduce painful symptoms from lupus, chronic fatigue, fibromyalgia, arthritis, and other A.I. disease.

In How Your Brain Works, leading neuroscientists and New Scientist introduce the evolution and anatomy of the brain viewed through traits such as memory, emotions, sleep, sensing and perception. Ever wondered what's going on inside your head? You are your brain. Everything that makes you you, and all your experiences of the world, are somehow conjured up by 1.4 kilograms of grey matter inside your skull.

A regimen once followed by those diagnosed with gluten intolerance or celiac disease (a serious autoimmune disorder), gluten-free diets have become a panacea, "prescribed" not only by gastroenterologists but also by dieticians, nutritionists, naturopaths, trainers, psychiatrists, and neurologists. Believing that eliminating gluten is healthier or that it will help them lose weight, droves of people are adopting a gluten-free lifestyle.

In 1918, a world war raged, and a lethal strain of influenza circled the globe. In the midst of all this death, a bizarre disease appeared in Europe. Eventually known as encephalitis lethargica, or sleeping sickness, it spread worldwide, leaving millions dead or locked in institutions. Then, in 1927, it disappeared as suddenly as it had arrived. Asleep, set in 1920s and '30s New York, follows a group of neurologists through hospitals and asylums as they try to solve this epidemic and treat its victims - who learned the worst fate was not dying of it, but surviving it.

Rebooting My Brain is the true story of what happens when you get yanked out of your life by a crisis and have to get back on the ride all over again. With refreshing candor, Maria Ross shares how the relentless pace of her life came to a screeching halt when an undetected brain aneurysm ruptured and nearly killed her. Along her stubborn road back to health, her resulting cognitive and emotional challenges forced her sometimes kicking and screaming to reframe her life, her work and her identity.

In Navigating the Challenges of Concussion, expert clinicians and researchers in the fields of neurology and neuropsychology teamed together to provide up-to-date and evidence-based information for patients and families affected by concussion or those at increased risk of sustaining concussions.

As a writer, activist, and theology student, Lyndsey Medford was used to critiquing unsustainable medical, environmental, economic, and social systems from a theoretical perspective. But when her autoimmune disorder roared out of remission, she discovered that her own body's systems lived at the very real vortex of all those systems' dysfunction.

When the rug is pulled under from Nancy Laracy, a busy wife and mother of two who is diagnosed with a mixed connective tissue disease and fibromyalgia in her mid-thirties, she rebelliously adopts a baby red satin rabbit, Bunny Boy. So begins a deep, magical, and lifelong bond, where Bunny Boy and Nancy become inseparable companions in pain management.

This book will serve as an examination of a diet that has become a trend with celebrities and the main stream public. This book will provide the uneducated with a lot more information regarding the alkaline diet, which should be regarded as a lifestyle. This book will begin with a discussion about the facts surrounding this diet and will then examine how the alkaline diet has the ability to repair the immune system.

I know what a life-destroying disease Palmoplantar Pustulosis is. My passion is to help other fellow PPP sufferers to take control of their own health, which is the reason I ended up writing this book. I am focused on helping other PPP sufferers to find inspiration and motivation towards healing naturally and finding the right tools to succeed.

Adopting an anti-inflammatory diet can help to reduce inflammation throughout your body and may even lead to long-term health benefits. In this book, The Complete Anti-Inflammatory Diet for Beginners: Ultimate Guide to Restoring Your Immune System, Healing Inflammation, and Reversing Disease, you’ll find everything you need to know about why an anti-inflammatory diet may be suitable for you.

Do you feel like you have tried every new diet out there, without any real and long-lasting results? Sometimes the diet isn’t the problem, but a condition called insulin resistance is. But how do you control insulin resistance? And more importantly: How do you actually lose weight without sacrificing all of your favorite foods?

Are you thinking about your future and wonder if you will get to live with some financial stability? Does the stock market seem a bit scary and complicated to you right now? Don’t worry; everyone has been in your shoes when they first started out. The great thing is that you are getting out there at a very young age, and you can start investing from as little as the cost of a pizza! Many adults twice your age still don’t understand the stock market—here you are trying to live a financially independent life by giving yourself an advantage.

With a spectacular array of true stories and case studies of the hidden benefits of mess, A Perfect Mess overturns the accepted wisdom that tight schedules, organization, neatness, and consistency are the keys to success.

This book reveals: #1: How the ultra affluent and elite athletes take advantage of the single most effective anti-aging discovery yet known to mankind–Stem Cells and Exosomes. #2: But this book isn't just about health; it's about rejuvenating the mind and regenerating youthful health with a sprinkle of magic.

The yoga system of health is a culture that has been practiced by the yogis in India for thousands of years. Its roots lie buried deep in the past, but its message is addressed no less surely to the people of today, living in the restless atmosphere of the modern world. Yoga lays stress on bodily and mental poise and produces an equanimity of spirit that is most beneficial to the whole nervous system. It trains the student in the basic principles of health and creates a true placidity of nature that allows great intensity of activity of both mind and body, when such activity is necessary.

The information needed to obtain a better and more appropriate treatment is not secret, it is hiding in plain sight and is available to everybody who wishes to take the time to listen, compile, interpret, and draw conclusions from it. This book connects the dots for the listen and helps patients to navigate the maze of decisions that they have to make in the present-day medical system.