Mental Physical Health

There’s bad news and good news about the Cutter High School swim team. The bad news is that they don’t have a pool. The good news is that only one of them can swim anyway. A group of misfits brought together by T. J. Jones (the J is redundant), the Cutter All Night Mermen struggle to find their places in a school that has no place for them. T.J. is convinced that a varsity letter jacket - exclusive, revered, the symbol (as far as T.J. is concerned) of all that is screwed up at Cutter High - will also be an effective tool.

Pain is an inevitable part of existence, but severe debilitating or chronic pain is a pathological condition that diminishes the quality of life. The Brain and Pain explores the present and future of pain management, providing a comprehensive understanding based on the latest discoveries from many branches of neuroscience. Richard Ambronthe former director of a neuroscience lab that conducted leading research in this fieldexplains the science of how and why we feel pain.

After best-selling author Jean Carper discovered that she had the major susceptibility gene for Alzheimer's, she was determined to find all the latest scientific evidence on how to escape it. She discovered 100 surprisingly simple, scientifically tested ways to radically cut the odds of Alzheimer's, memory decline, and other forms of dementia.

Many people claim they would rather be diagnosed with cancer than dementia or Alzheimer's. What they may not realize is that decreased or impaired brain function is not a foregone conclusion as we get older. Our own lifestyle choices and habits can have a significant impact - for good or ill - on our brains. And that means there's hope. Drawing from the latest medical research, Dr. Richard Furman helps listeners understand brain health and shows them how to make three powerful lifestyle changes that can help decrease the probability of developing dementia or Alzheimer's.

Wondering when to expect baby's first word? Want to get your toddler talking? Worried your child is not speaking as clearly as his peers? When it comes to language acquisition, all parents have questions, and Time to Talk has the answers.

After years of researching practical solutions to the physical and mental problems and injuries he sustained during his 28 years of military service, author Christopher W. Pierce shares these solutions in Self-Health Andragogy: Self-Directed Learning Approach to Mental and Physical Self-Care.

Whether you're a seasoned herbalist or just starting your journey, Herbalism—Powerful Lost Remedies is your ultimate guide to harnessing the power of nature for your health and well-being. Explore the rich history of herbalism, from ancient Egyptian and Chinese practices to Native American remedies, and learn how these traditions continue to benefit us today. With step-by-step guides, you'll not only learn how to identify, grow, and harvest your own medicinal herbs but also how to create potent remedies right at home.

Congenital Heart Disease (CHD) is the most commonly diagnosed birth abnormality in the US. Little attention, however, has been paid to the psychosocial impacts on these individuals. Liza Morton and Tracy Livecchi are both mental health professionals who have developed a specialty in working with clients who have chronic medical conditions, and they are both themselves living with CHD. While their powerful personal stories are woven into the narrative, the book is focused on providing evidence-based coping and self-care skills for adults living with CHD.

Boldly claiming a space in which people with disabilities can be seen and heard as they are-not as others perceive them - About Us captures the voices of a community that has for too long been stereotyped and misrepresented. Speaking not only to those with disabilities, but also to their families, coworkers, and support networks, the authors in About Us offer intimate stories of how they navigate a world not built for them.

Introducing Somatic Exercise Made Simple, your personal guide to achieving profound mental and physical health through easy, accessible somatic exercises that fit effortlessly into your daily life.

The affirmations within this audiobook helped get me out of a very dark place which at the time felt like there was no light at the end of the tunnel. Once I began buying into these daily affirmations and applying them very subtly within my routine, this is when I began seeing a change in my overall character. I was happier, more grateful, kinder to others, and reassured of the amazing person I am and continue to be. Daily affirmations are what inspired me to write this audiobook, so that others could reach the peak and be the person that they have always dreamed of being.

Have you ever felt like you’re just merely existing? As if there’s no meaning to your life? Have you ever felt so out of touch with reality that you feel as though there’s nothing beyond your pain? Are you tired of feeling so hollow? This audiobook is the complete guide to improving your mental and physical health. It will teach you the art of living a better and more fulfilling life and give you a step-by-step road map on how to get there. You’ll find out the importance of things you didn’t think mattered, but most of all, you will fall in love with yourself.

While on a research trip in Peru, science journalist Alice Robb became hooked on lucid dreaming - the uncanny phenomenon in which a sleeping person can realize that they're dreaming and even control the dreamed experience. Finding these forays both puzzling and exhilarating, Robb dug deeper into the science of dreams at an extremely opportune moment: just as researchers began to understand why dreams exist. They aren't just random events; they have clear purposes. They help us learn and even overcome psychic trauma.

Elegantly written and deeply grounded in personal experience - works by Oliver Sacks come to mind - Physical Intelligence gives us a clear, illuminating examination of the intricate, mutually responsive relationship between the mind and the body as they engage (or don’t engage) in all manner of physical action. Ever wonder why you don’t walk into walls or off cliffs? How you decide if you can drive through a snowstorm? How high you are willing to climb up a ladder to change a lightbulb?

The rising rate of home foreclosures which stands at approximately one in 92 households in the United States has raised a national alarm. Medical issues account for approximately half of all home foreclosure filings and it appears that approximately one point five million American homeowners could lose their homes to foreclosure every year.

Recientes hallazgos científicos han demostrado que las bacterias que se encuentran en el intestino interactúan de manera sorprendentemente activa con el cerebro, influyendo así en su funcionamiento. En este audiolibro, el doctor Perlmutter nos explica cómo la salud de nuestra flora intestinal llega a determinar nuestro apetito, nuestro estado de ánimo e incluso el riesgo de padecer déficit de atención, alzheimer y esclerosis múltiple, entre otros padecimientos.

The miracles of modern medicine - and our overreliance on prescription drugs and surgical procedures - have obscured the evolutionary ability of the body to heal itself, as Oxford University researcher Jeremy Howick explains in this groundbreaking book. Wealthy countries have become highly dependent on medical intervention: On average, one-fifth of all Americans, half of the elderly British, and two-thirds of older Canadians take at least five prescription drugs per day; their lives a nonstop ritual of pill popping and managing side effects.

This book will explain to you the concept of mindfulness meditation. It will also explain the ways in which you can make mindfulness a way of your life. Most of us want peace in our lives but don’t want to pay the cost of slowing down. It is a misconception that a mindful life is a slow life, and this book will try to break it. It will also explain how cultivating mindfulness in everyday life is possible and practical.

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.

We are told that the only way we can lose weight is if we eat fewer calories than we burn off. Modern nutrition is based around this seemingly irrefutable fact, that it all comes down to "calories in vs calories out." There’s only one problem with the whole calorie theory, though: It is just plain wrong!