Prescription for Nutritional Healing: The A-to-Z Guide to Supplements (Prescription for Nutritional Healing: A-To-Z Guide to Supplements) Review

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(More customer reviews)This useful guide provides basic information on a wide range of nutritional supplements, incorporating cutting edge findings in the fields of nutrition and supplementation. This updated edition includes information on newer supplements and herbal remedies like MSM, IP6, colostrum, olive leaf extract and saw palmetto.
In Chapter One: Nutrition, Diet and Wellness, the author provides the basics of nutrition, from the 4 basic nutrients to the micronutrients plus guidelines for selecting and preparing foods. This section includes an interesting article on phytochemicals (biologically active substances in plants that give them their color and flavour).
The chapters that follow provides an overview of vitamins, minerals, amino acids and water, explaining their functions in the body and then providing a detailed discussion of the individual vitamins, minerals and amino acids. The chapter on water discusses various types like tap, artesian, bottled, sparkling, distilled and natural spring water.
The chapter on anti-oxidants looks at a wide spectrum of substances, from Alpha-Lipoic Acid to Zinc. The next chapter deals with enzymes, their role in the body and how they interact with foods. This includes a list of commercially available digestive enzymes.
Natural Food Supplements are discussed in detail, from Acidophilus to Yeast; this section includes entries on SAMe, Phosphatidylserine, MSM, Melatonin, Glucosamine, DHEA, CoQ10, Colloidal Silver, Creatine and Pregnenolone, providing the latest information.
The last chapter is devoted to herbs, including essential oils, extracts, teas, tinctures and wines. Here one can find information on anything from Acerola to Yucca, divided into the parts of the plant that is used, its phytochemical and nutrient content, its actions and uses and further comments on the plant.
The valuable and handy guide concludes with a thorough index. Another excellent guide to supplements is Earl Mindell's Supplement Bible. For a more thorough treatment of nutritional healing, I recommend James and Phyllis Balch's extensive work Prescription For Nutritional Healing.

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Prescription for Nutritional Healing, now in its third edition, has long been America's bestselling book on natural health, with nearly 6 million copies in print. Prescription for Nutritional Healing: The A-to-Z Guide to Supplements draws on that respected resource to present authoritative information about some three hundred fifty of the most important supplements available today in a handy, pocket-sized format. Revised and expanded from the first edition, which sold nearly 400,000 copies, it covers how these supplements work, how to use them, and what to look for when choosing supplement products. Here is a straightforward, easty-to-understand guide to vitamins, minerals, amino acids, enzymes, antioxidants, phytochemicals, herbs, and more.

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Choosing Health: Dr. Force's Functional Selfcare Workbook Review

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(More customer reviews)I am a Naturopathic Medical Doctor and own several hundred books on health care. Out of all these books, I feel "Choosing Health" is the most valuable. The information in this book is so useful, that I provide a copy to every new patient in my naturopathic practice. It makes my job much easier.
The only other books like this are Dr. Balch's Nutritional Rx, Andrew Weil's Optimal Wellness, The Encyclopedia of Natural Medicine, and Linda Page's book. I think this book beats them hands down.
This book avoids the common pitfall of most natural health book, i.e. green drugs. Green drugs are herbs or natural remedies that are used like prescription drugs. Each condition has a list of natural "cures", e.g. for headache - Feverfew. Dr. Force allows the reader to develope a plan based on their individual and unique cause(s) rather than the symptom (headache)
This book is unique because it provides comprehensive details on the "elements of health." These are essential lifestyle choices that patients make for themselves. This is the first but most important step in healing any chronic pain or illness. Dr. Force calls these essential elements "functional self care".
Dr. Force also has included a health questionaire section that allows a person to discover their functional health weaknesses. Functional health weaknesses are the organs, glands, or systems that are not working optimally, but have not progressed to the point where they could be identified in a blood test, xray or mri. Identifying and correcting these problems before they manifest in tissue damage is the beauty of this approach. This book provides patients with this valuable tool.

There is great section that helps patients make sense of standard blood work, chem screen and CBC. This is invaluable for the patient that wants a deeper understanding of their blood chemistry instead of their doctor just telling them, "everything looks ok." OK, compared to what? This section alone is worth the price of the book.
The most common complaint in my practice is fatigue and stress. Dr. Force has a wonderful section on the causes and the physiologic effects of stress. His suggestions for improving adrenal dysfunction resulting from stress are comprehensive and very useful.
As a practicing physician, Dr. Force has not put himself or other doctors out of business. He clearly states that this book does not replace health care from a physician. People need both: healthcare and selfcare. A healthy person should get a yearly physical and a health tune up. Others that are not healthy should incorporate the "elements of health" and the functional self care suggestions. If they don't improve, then they should see their physician for health care.
When this book receives the kind of publicity and reception it deserves and people follow the suggestions, it will truly transform our medical system. The conventional medical "disease care" system is failing miserably. This book should be required reading for all doctors, parents, and anyone interested in truly improving someones health.
This is a great book. Do yourself a favor, buy a copy for yourself, a few more for your family and friends, and lastly a copy for your doctor, chiropractor, naturopath. If they won't read it, I'd suggest you find a different doctor.

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The Choosing Health Workbook gives you the tools and strategies of Functional Selfcare, a completely unique approach that puts you in control over your own health.Functional Selfcare consists of two parts:1. The Elements of Health are those components essential to a healthy lifestyle and include strategies for supporting body, body chemistry, and mind and spirit.2. Self-Directed Selfcare includes the tools for evaluating the exact status of your health using home tests, graphing the function of your body systems from a health questionnaire, and reading your own lab results clearly, easily, and with complete understanding.Practicing Functional Selfcare gives you knowledge about your body and what works to improve and protect your health. You will be able to measure the results on your health from any drug, nutritional supplement, diet, exercise regimen, or lifestyle habit.Additionally, you will know from this workbook what stress is and is not, how dramatically it affects your health, how to measure yourself what stage of stress your body is in and how it has affected your health, know what to do to restore your health from the ravages of stress, and measure the improvement in your health objectively.

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Earl Mindell's Vitamin Bible for the 21st Century Review

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(More customer reviews)Dr. Mindell knows how to take the confusion out of the many times confusing subject of nutrition. He has an amazing ability to take complex subjects and make them easily understandable and usable by the reader.
And the Vitamin Bible is extremely comprehensive. I've seen this book on the counter of many nutrition stores where proprietor and customer use it as a reference.
If you finally want to resolve your confusions and unanswered questions about nutrition this book is for you.

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Introducing the new and improved Vitamin Bible by nutrition expert, Earl Mindell.Discover how to enhance your energy, put the zing back in your sex life and expand your life using this world-renowned guide to the correct use of vitamins, supplements and alternative therapies.In this updated edition, Earl Mindell explores the natural alternatives to Viagra, Prozac, and Valium, outlines healing activities for people suffering from arthritis and victims of strokes, and debunks dangerous and potentially life-threatening "miracle cures". Learn everything you ever needed to know about what you can do to live a longer, happier and healthier life.The Vitamin Bible of the 21st Century is one of the best selling popular medical books of all time and an essential addition to your personal medical library.

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The Beginner's Guide to Natural Living Review

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(More customer reviews)I just love this book...I found out about it through a friend & read it in one night, now I keep it on my nightstand as a reference guide. I am a want-a-be naturalist & I try my best. This book gives me the knowledge and inspiration to stay on track. I purchaed 6 more books for my 20 something kids and close friends. Alot of the knowledge in the book I already knew, reading it gave me the power to incorprate the basics into my daily life. I know that I will not go Vegan however I am much smarter about my choices...I think everyone should have this book and use it as a reference guide to healther living.

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The Beginner's Guide to Natural Living is a straightforward, well-researched, comprehensive and easy to understand step-by-step guide to the hows and whys of nearly every aspect of natural living. This book is an inspiring wealth of information, and includes everything you need to know to implement lasting change in your life and your health. Author Larry Cook, former publisher of two popular natural living magazines, has finally encapsulated his in-depth knowledge on natural living in book form. This book presents clear guidance on everything from what to eat—and what NOT to eat—to how to choose quality natural products, which supplements to use on a regular basis, how to chose a natural doctor, why to go to a holistic dentist, and why and how to detoxify your body. It should also inspire you to implement a confidence building exercise routine. And just as important as the how is the why—the book provides a thought-provoking exposé of the pervasive, toxic manipulation of our food supply as well as an exploration of the realities of conventional medicine, which uses a disease management and drug therapy model while simultaneously suppressing the use of effective, all-natural treatment modalities. To help you further your education in all of these matters, a thorough list of book suggestions is provided throughout the book and collected in the Bibliography. Larry's detailed explanations and generous advice (right down to shopping lists, recipes and meal plans) make this guide an absolute gem if you want to know where to begin to confidently change your lifestyle. Buy it today, follow his trustworthy guidance, and begin reaping the many rewards of living the natural lifestyle!

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