Wellness Syndrome

Weaving together family history, genetic discovery, and scenes from her life, Ami McKay tells the compelling, true-science story of her own family's unsettling legacy of hereditary cancer while exploring the challenges that come from carrying the mutation that not only killed many people you loved, but might also kill you.

More than one million people suffer from long COVID in the UK (with 400,000 people suffering symptoms for over a year) and many more globally. Yet there is no clear guidance available to the general public and lots of misinformation out there. This handbook cuts through the confusing advice. Written by the medical experts working with long COVID patients at one of the first specialist clinics set up, it is filled with helpful case studies and was written with the involvement of real long COVID sufferers.

In this groundbreaking debut, Charli Clement combines their own experiences alongside unique short profiles from individuals with chronic illness, to provide an intimate and insightful look at the complexities of living as an autistic and chronically ill person. From navigating your diagnosis and healthcare, learning how to manage pain and your own sensory needs to dealing with ableism, medical misogyny and transphobia, Clement offers practical advice and delves into the unique challenges faced by individuals living in this intersection.

Most people’s busy lives, combined with the absence of information on the subject of PCOS, has led many women to an unexplainable, uphill battle against acne, depression, irregular menstrual cycles, and weight gain. Even worse, infertility can be a very possible, albeit reversible, symptom of PCOS. In this book, you will find everything you need to know about reversing PCOS.

An IBS-focused cookbook tailored for those who suffer from irritable bowel syndrome, want answers to relieve their symptoms and flare-ups as fast as possible, and regain their lives back. Restore and relieve your gut with this comprehensive beginner’s guide equipped with over 102 delicious and IBS-safe recipes and a 28-day meal plan. Written by someone who once suffered from ulcerative colitis, leaky gut, chronic inflammation and fatigue, and the painful other illnesses those lead to for over a decade and a half before finding real answers.

What would it be like to see everyone as a friend? Twelve-year-old Eli D'Angelo has a genetic disorder that obliterates social inhibitions, making him irrepressibly friendly, indiscriminately trusting, and unconditionally loving toward everyone he meets. It also makes him enormously vulnerable. Eli lacks the innate skepticism that will help his peers navigate adolescence more safely - and vastly more successfully.

Up, Not Down Syndrome is a love letter and a map. Experience how it feels to think your life is over after having an unlovable baby. At first, the loss seems impossible to overcome. Alex becomes the author's greatest teacher. Love is stronger than fear. Everyone has gifts. The book consists of three parts: the story, the lessons that Alex taught the writer and Alex's perspective. Up, Not Down Syndrome is a promise to stay positive, no matter what: up, not down.

Chronic Fatigue Syndrome and Fibromyalgia affect millions of Americans and many more worldwide. While a single definitive cause for these syndromes has not been found, factors involved in triggering them include chronic stress, nutritional and hormone deficiencies, post viral illnesses and mildly insufficient adrenal function. The debilitating fatigue and joint/muscle pain caused by these very real illnesses, can seriously reduce the quality-of-life for those who experience them.

On the morning of August 23, 1973, a man wearing a wig, makeup, and a pair of sunglasses walked into the main branch of Sveriges Kreditbank, a prominent bank in central Stockholm. He ripped out a submachine gun, fired it into the ceiling, and shouted, "The party starts!" This was the beginning of a six-day hostage crisis - and media circus - that would mesmerize the world, drawing into its grip everyone from Sweden's most notorious outlaw to the prime minister himself.

Learn the golden rules of the keto diet, and avoid the common mistakes, so you can shed those extra pounds fast and get out of bed feeling energetic and bursting with life.

John Robison argues that Asperger's is about difference, not disability. In this book he offers stories from his own life and from the lives of other Aspergians to give the reader a window into the Aspergian mind. Equally important, he offers practical advice - to Aspergians, their parents, and educators - on how Asperians can improve the weak communication and social skills that keep them from taking full advantage of, or even recognizing, their often remarkable gifts.

The science is in on the many methods of intermittent fasting. The health benefits and metabolic benefits are significant and proven over and over: anti-aging effects, fat loss, weight loss, reduced hunger, clarity, and much more. Plus, learn about the carnivore diet: The newest rage in the low-carb community is the carnivore diet. People are reporting tremendously beneficial results in digestions, energy, and fat loss/weight loss. It's completely contradictory to what doctors have been preaching for years about diets.

On July 22, 2009, a special meeting was held with 24 leading scientists at the National Institutes of Health to discuss early findings that a newly discovered retrovirus was linked to chronic fatigue syndrome (CFS), prostate cancer, lymphoma, and eventually neurodevelopmental disorders in children. When Dr. Judy Mikovits finished her presentation the room was silent for a moment, then one of the scientists said, "Oh my God!" The resulting investigation would be like no other in science.

An estimated 32 to 48 million Americans and many more worldwide have IBS, or think they have it. This audiobook presents groundbreaking insights into the cause of IBS that have led to the recognition of and testing for a new disease, allergic contact enteritis, that can help and in many cases cure people who carry a diagnosis of IBS.

Most people have heard about Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder. Many of us believe that PTSD is a condition that is only diagnosed in veterans that are coming back from wars. But does PTSD exist in other people as well? The short answer is yes. PTSD is a disorder that can affect nearly anyone who has a reaction to some sort of trauma that they experienced or witnessed at any point in their life.

Everyone always ask me what it is like being autistic. The reality is, being autistic is unique to each person. In this audiobook, I explain an aspect of my autism called "escaping into imagination" and how I use it to create a make-believe world to accelerate how amazing my autism is. It has often been said that people with autism struggle with pretend-play. I feel this is a misunderstanding. Just because we do not pretend play like other kids does not mean we do not have imaginations or use them to pretend in our own world.

Julie fully expected to be breathing at the end of the trip - but driving into Death Valley felt like giving up, surrendering. She'd spent years battling a mysterious illness so extreme that she often couldn't turn over in her bed. The top specialists in the world were powerless to help, and research on her disease, chronic fatigue syndrome, was at a near standstill. Having exhausted the plausible ideas, Julie turned to an implausible one. Going against both her instincts and her training, she followed the advice of strangers she'd met on the Internet.

There is a vast array of different treatments and protocols for Lyme disease. The purpose of this audiobook is not to convince you of the one best treatment. If there is anything Dr. Jay has learned from the clients he and his team have worked with, it is that everything needs to be customized to the individual case. In this audiobook, Dr. Jay’s aim is to give you some of the best tips he has found to be game changers for those struggling with Lyme disease in their path to healing.

Paruresis is a condition that prevents people from urinating in public, sometimes even in their own homes if others are in adjacent rooms. The good news is that this anxiety disorder is highly treatable. The Secret Social Phobia: Shy Bladder Syndrome (Paruresis) offers strategies and easy-to-follow exercises to help you desensitize yourself to fear-producing situations and feel comfortable in public restrooms. Graduated exposure will help get you to the point where you can tolerate the anxiety of relieving yourself in a public washroom or other shared space.

If you have autoimmune disease, live with terrible fatigue, constant pain, and you need to take back your health, then you're going to want to hear Heidi's story. Many of us are told: But you don't look sick, or Get up, you're being lazy. Or perhaps dismissed - as I was - with: Come back when you're worse and I'll put you on steroids. Fortunately, there are better solutions available!