Medical Diseases

After a fifteen-year search, the author found a doctor whose elimination diet relieved her brain fog. This enabled her to complete her self-study and to construct an actionable new diagnosis: chronic ambient poisoning. Unseen by doctors and obscured by a myriad of false diagnoses, chronic ambient poisoning defies late modern, fragmented, accuracy-challenged medical systems. It also reveals that human-caused habitat injuries that afflict birds, bees, and other species are also affecting humans while driving evolved life toward death as asteroid strikes have done in the past.

At the peak of her career, classical homeopath and health-care columnist Katina Makris was stricken with a mysterious "flu". Only after five years of torment - two completely bedridden - and devastating blows to her professional and family life was Katina's illness finally diagnosed as Lyme disease.

Mysterious and misunderstood, distorted by biblical imagery of disfigurement and uncleanness, Hansen's disease or leprosy has all but disappeared from America's consciousness. In Carville, Louisiana, the closed doors of the nation's last center for the treatment of leprosy open to reveal stories of sadness, separation, and even strength in the face of what was once a life-wrenching diagnosis. Drawn from interviews with living patients and extensive research in the leprosarium's archives, Carville: Remembering Leprosy in America tells the stories of former patients.

Chet Tremaine is living his best life. A successful lawyer with a loyal best friend, the arts and culture of New York City at his doorstep, and a peaceful retreat in Connecticut, Chet has it figured out. Even when a freak tennis accident leaves him blind in one eye, Chet is confident he'll be able to bounce back. But then he starts hallucinating: unknown children playing in his living room, pine needles seasoning his salad, wire grids barring access to his bathroom. His doctor allays his worst fears, only to deliver an even more shocking diagnosis.

James Capuano's BEAST delivers the author's highly idiosyncratic, inspiring and informative take on his diagnosis of Stage IV colon cancer, and his long journey to remission. The book is sure to provide entertaining reassurance to others diagnosed with cancer in its various forms, as well as those who care about and for them. In the end, his message is this: No matter how hopeless or dire a situation may seem, nothing is inevitable, and the will - no, the conviction - to fight counts for a hell of a lot.

Thyroid management in the United States has not significantly changed over the past 40 years despite reams of new research that is mostly ignored or even vilified by the medical establishment. There has become a substantial difference between what is considered the standard of care of thyroid management and what the latest research and evidence shows is most beneficial. As a result, thyroid patients are feeling worse and getting less benefit than ever before despite using the standard thyroid treatment protocols.

AudioLearn Presents What Doctors Know About Heart Disease. Developed by a team of medical doctors and professionally narrated for easy listening, this guide is a great way to learn about everything today’s doctors know about heart disease. The information presented is accurate, up-to-date, and broken down into bite-sized sections. There is a summary after each section to review the most important points.

What's one of the leading causes of premature death in the Western world? Loneliness. And whom does loneliness kill? Who does it not? For every citizen in every one of the world's technologically advanced nations--from homemakers to businesspeople, from college students to school dropouts, from the elderly to the young--loneliness is an unrecognized, unguarded-against stalker.

This book covers the history of 12 important diseases and addresses public health responses and societal upheavals.

Sieben Frauen, sieben Leben, wie sie unterschiedlicher nicht sein könnten. Doch eines haben sie gemeinsam. Wie aus dem Nichts bekommen alle Frauen die Diagnose Gebärmutterhalskrebs. Für jede ist es ein Schock, wirft aus der Bahn. Das gewohnte Leben steht auf einmal still. Jedoch bedeutet die Diagnose Krebs nicht, dass man gleich daran stirbt. Es gibt Hoffnung. Mit Unterstützung von Freunden und Familie schaffen es Jessica, Sandra, Bettina, Heike, Katja, Tamara und Rachel die Diagnose anzunehmen, die Therapie zu meistern und an der Herausforderung innerlich daran zu wachsen.

Every 69 seconds, someone is diagnosed with Alzheimer's disease. Of the top 10 killers, it is the only disease for which there is no cure or treatment. For most people, there is nothing that they can do to fight back. But one family is doing all they can. The DeMoe family has the most devastating form of the disease that there is: early onset Alzheimer's, an inherited genetic mutation that causes the disease in 100 percent of cases, and has a 50 percent chance of being passed onto the next generation.

Prostate Cancer: A Comprehensive Integrative Guide is a must-have book for men with prostate cancer, for their caretakers, for health care providers and anyone seeking to understand how an integrative approach combining both conventional and alternative therapies to treating cancer offers far better outcomes.

Allie Cashel has suffered from chronic Lyme disease for 16 years - but much of the medical community refuses to recognize her symptoms as the result of infectious disease. In Suffering the Silence: Chronic Lyme Disease in an Age of Denial, Cashel paints a living portrait of what is often called post-treatment Lyme syndrome, featuring the stories of chronic Lyme patients from around the world and their struggle for recognition and treatment.

The Medical Medium is known around the world for his signature brand of healing, tapping into a higher power known as the Spirit. While he has long touted the benefits of celery juice in his previous books, this is his first in-depth exploration into the science behind celery juice and how it's able to produce so many miraculous things in the human body.

This isn't just a real-life story of a second chance at love - it is a story about a loving husband who would sacrifice everything to ensure his wife’s beautiful smile never wavers. Shana and Schirra’s story will take you on a journey into the joys in marriage, the pains cancer patients face, and the beauty in true love. They are proof that real love exists and it doesn’t need physical well-being to thrive. Through their faith in God and devotion to one another, an eternal love arises that cannot be replaced or shattered.

Albert Espinosa never wanted to write a book about cancer - so he didn’t. Instead, he shares his most touching, funny, tragic, and happy memories in the hopes that others, healthy and sick alike, can draw the same strength and vitality from them.

Cry. Laugh. Repeat. Who Turned Out the Lights is a ride into darkness, but not to despair. Ron Wilde's loss of sight, foot, family, and life as he knew it is a journey into the unknown, a chronicle surprisingly punctuated with humor, insight, and love.

When Laura Jensen Walker was diagnosed with breast cancer on her first wedding anniversary, she found humor to be healing in the midst of terrifying circumstances. In this energetic and hope-filled book, she draws on her faith and her sense of humor to encourage others going through the same thing. From discovering that "bald is beautiful" to navigating the world of saline breast implants, Walker recounts the highs and lows of coping with cancer.

Surviving Myotonic Dystrophy is about Ann S. Woodbury’s struggle to care for her family who have a rare disease - myotonic dystrophy (DM). Ann’s four children and her husband have DM. In 1998, at the time of the diagnosis, even the doctors didn’t know all of the effects of DM or that it was a brain disorder. Listening to this book will take you on a journey of understanding this disease and its effects on Ann’s family members.

The thrust of this book is nutrition and complimentary therapies for digital addiction, anxiety, bipolar, depression, and schizophrenia. Useful resources to find authoritative information on all the included mental disorders from the American medical perspective are included. Truisms that have been passed down through the ages about mental health that have stood the rigors of scientific inquiry are presented. The role of nutrition in ameliorating anxiety is discussed.