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Good Energy: The Surprising Connection Between Metabolism and Limitless Health
A bold new vision for optimizing our health now and in the future
What if depression, anxiety, infertility, insomnia, heart disease, erectile dysfunction, type 2 diabetes, Alzheimer’s, dementia, cancer and many other health conditions that torture and shorten our lives actually have the same root cause?
Our ability to prevent and reverse these conditions - and feel incredible today - is under our control and simpler than we think. The key is our metabolic function - the most important and least understood factor in our overall health. As Dr. Casey Means explains in this groundbreaking book, nearly every health problem we face can be explained by how well the cells in our body create and use energy. To live free from frustrating symptoms and life-threatening disease, we need our cells to be optimally powered so that they can create “good energy,” the essential fuel that impacts every aspect of our physical and mental wellbeing.
If you are battling minor signals of “bad energy” inside your body, it is often a warning sign that more life-threatening illness may emerge later in life. But here’s the good news: for the first time ever, we can monitor our metabolic health in great detail and learn how to improve it ourselves.
Weaving together cutting-edge research and personal stories, as well as groundbreaking data from the health technology company Dr. Means founded, Good Energy offers an essential four-week plan and explains:
The five biomarkers that determine your risk for a deadly disease.
How to use inexpensive tools and technology to “see inside your body” and take action.
Why dietary philosophies are designed to confuse us, and six lifelong food principles you can implement whether you’re carnivore or vegan.
The crucial links between sleep, circadian rhythm, and metabolism
A new framework for exercise focused on building simple movement into everyday activities
How cold and heat exposure helps build our body’s resilience
Steps to navigate the medical system to get what you need for optimal health
Good Energy offers a new, cutting-edge understanding of the true cause of illness that until now has remained hidden. It will help you optimize your ability to live well and stay well at every age.
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May 24, 2024
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Change Your Diet, Change Your Mind: A Powerful Plan to Improve Mood, Overcome Anxiety, and Protect Memory for a Lifetime of Optimal Mental Health
Georgia Ede |
Combine the surprising truth about brain food with the cutting-edge science of brain metabolism to achieve extraordinary improvements to your emotional, cognitive, and physical health.
Are you struggling with attention problems, mood swings, food obsession, or depression? Whatever the issue, you have far more control over your thoughts, feelings, and behavior than you realize. Although medications may bring some relief, in Change Your Diet, Change Your Mind, Dr. Georgia Ede reveals that the most powerful way to change brain chemistry is with food, because that’s where brain chemicals come from in the first place.
In this provocative, illuminating guide, Dr. Ede explains why nearly everything we think we know about brain-healthy diets is wrong. We've been told the way to protect our brains is with superfoods, supplements, and plant-based diets rich in whole grains and legumes, but the science tells a different story: not only do these strategies often fail, but some can even work against us. The truth about brain food is that meat is not dangerous, vegan diets are not healthier, and antioxidants are not the answer.
Change Your Diet, Change Your Mind will empower you to:
understand how unscientific research methods drive fickle nutrition headlines and illogical dietary guidelines
weigh the risks and benefits of your favorite foods so you can make your own informed choices about what to eat
evaluate yourself for signs of insulin resistance—the silent metabolic disease that robs your brain of the energy it needs to thrive
improve your mental health with a choice of moderate-carbohydrate and ketogenic diets that you can personalize to your food preferences and health goals
Drawing on a wide range of scientific disciplines including biochemistry, neuroscience, and botany, Dr. Ede will ignite your curiosity about the fascinating world of food and its role in nourishing, protecting, and energizing your brain.
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Jan 24, 2024
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Rethinking Diabetes: What Science Reveals About Diet, Insulin, and Successful Treatments
Gary Taubes |
An eye-opening investigation into the history of diabetes research and treatment by the award-winning journalist and best-selling author of Why We Get Fat
Before the discovery of insulin, diabetes was treated almost exclusively through diet, from subsistence on meat, to reliance on fats, to repeated fasting and near-starvation regimens. After two centuries of conflicting medical advice, most authorities today believe that those with diabetes can have the same dietary freedom enjoyed by the rest of us, leaving the job of controlling their disease to insulin therapy and other blood-sugar-lowering medications. Rather than embark on “futile” efforts to restrict sugar or carbohydrate intake, people with diabetes can lead a normal life, complete with the occasional ice-cream cake, side of fries, or soda.
These guiding principles, however, have been accompanied by an explosive rise in diabetes over the last fifty years, particularly among underserved populations. And the health of those with diabetes is expected to continue to deteriorate inexorably over time, with ever-increasing financial, physical, and psychological burdens. In Rethinking Diabetes, Gary Taubes explores the history underpinning the treatment of diabetes, types 1 and 2, elucidating how decades-old research that is rife with misconceptions has continued to influence the guidance physicians offer—at the expense of their patients’ long-term well-being.
The result of Taubes’s work is a reimagining of diabetes care that argues for a recentering of diet—particularly, fewer carbohydrates and more fat—over a reliance on insulin. Taubes argues critically and passionately that doctors and medical researchers should question the established wisdom that may have enabled the current epidemic of diabetes and obesity, and renew their focus on clinical trials to resolve controversies that are now a century in the making.
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Jan 2, 2024
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Forever Strong: A New, Science-Based Strategy for Aging Well
Gabrielle Lyon |
INSTANT NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER * USA TODAY BESTSELLER * WALL STREET JOURNAL BESTSELLER
Learn how to reboot your metabolism, build strength, and extend your life with this accessible new guidebook that demonstrates the importance of muscle for health and longevity from the founder of the Institute for Muscle-Centric Medicine®.
After years of watching patients cycle through her practice, Dr. Gabrielle Lyon noticed a pattern. While her patients struggled with a wide range of conditions, they all suffered from the same core problem: they had too little muscle rather than too much fat.
When we think about muscle, we tend to think about strength or aesthetics, but in reality, muscle accounts for so much more than that. As the body’s largest endocrine organ, muscle actually determines everything about the trajectory of health and aging. Many of the conditions Dr. Lyon’s patients were experiencing were actually symptoms of underdeveloped or unhealthy muscle.
Now, Dr. Lyon offers an easy-to-follow food, fitness, and self-care program anchored in evidence and pioneering research that teaches you how to optimize muscle—no matter your age or health background. Discover how to overcome everything from obesity to autoimmune disorders and avoid diseases like Alzheimer’s, hypertension, and diabetes by following Dr. Lyon’s powerful new approach to becoming forever strong.
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Oct 17, 2023
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UNHOLY TRINITY: How Carbs, Sugar & Oils Make Us Fat, Sick & Addicted and How to Escape Their Grip
“Get this book!”
--DR. MARK HYMAN, 15X New York Times Bestselling Author
“Incredible amount of scientific research.”
--DR. LOU IGNARRO, Nobel Prize in Medicine Winner
“Must Read”
--Dr. Eric Berg, World’s Most-Watched YouTube Health Channel
In 1930 the US obesity rate was 1 percent. Today, it’s almost 50 percent. Never before has a population gotten so fat and sick so fast.
What’s happening? The UNHOLY TRINITY.
Join Heart Attack Survivor Turned Wellness Warrior, Daniel Trevor, as he sheds light on the self-inflicted diseases of our time.
Discover the truth about Big Food, Big Pharma, and Big Medicine, where financial interests often overshadow your health and well-being.
UNHOLY TRINITY has been endorsed by some of the most prominent physicians, scientists, and health writers in the world, including a winner of the Nobel Prize in Medicine for discovering Nitric Oxide.
Find out:
What’s the best overall predictor of your longevity?
Why is chronic high blood sugar a pre-cancerous condition?
Why do people with high cholesterol live the longest?
What’s the most important low-cost health test you’ve never had?
What’s the number one killer of women 10X breast cancer?
Why do low-fat diets lower men’s testosterone?
Why are stents unnecessary 85% of the time?
What large studies proved stents don’t prevent heart attacks?
Why can’t stress tests predict your heart attack?
What population eats the most meat and enjoys the longest lifespan?
What’s in most packaged foods to stimulate your opiate receptors?
Why are Blue Zones called vegetarian when in fact they eat meat?
Discover why consuming industrially refined and processed carbohydrates, sugar, and vegetable seed oils (UNHOLY TRINITY) accelerates aging, triggers severe weight gain, and started many new-age ailments.
Symptom-free, Daniel Trevor thought he was “Mr. Healthy” but was an undiagnosed Type 2 diabetic, which was the root cause of his undiagnosed heart disease, undiagnosed fatty liver disease, and undiagnosed osteoporosis. Having studied technical data throughout his life he decided to dive into medical and nutrition science to discover how this could happen to him.
Using the latest 21st century science that he researched and discovered, he was able to reverse all four silent conditions. Find out how.
This book is your practical guide to escape from destructive dietary habits and the hidden agendas of massive industries — get a copy now!
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Sep 25, 2023
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Fiat Food: Why Inflation Destroyed Our Health and How Bitcoin Fixes It
THE REAL COST OF INFLATION ON A COUNTRY can be best seen not through government-sanctioned data points circulated throughout the corporate sponsored media, but in the financial, physical, and mental health of its citizenry. Officials point to the increase of paper wealth as evidence that their stewardship in both the economy and nutrition has led to a rise in the quality of life. In reality, the past fifty years has seen the true standard of living for most Americans plummet. Debasement of the currency has left the American people poorer, and through the resulting degradation of the nutrients of their food supply, sicker than at any time in recent history. What follows is an examination of one of the most compelling “who[1]done-its” in American history. In Fiat Food, Lysiak unravels a plot by the largest institutions of American power and the outsized ramifications it has had on modern civilization.
“IN TERMS OF THE LIVES CUT SHORT, it would be no exaggeration to say that 20th century nutrition science and government food policies are the biggest crime in history, putting genocides and man-made famines to shame. Matthew Lysiak provides a gripping forensic investigation into the barely believable sequence of events, spanning over a century, which led to the complete overhaul of the modern diet and the current obesity, diabetes, and autoimmune disease epidemic ravaging our species.”
—SAIFEDEAN AMMOUS Internationally Best-selling Economist and Author
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Sep 25, 2023
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9
The Ancestral Diet Revolution
Chris A Knobbe |
Could the diet of our ancestors prevent, treat, and reverse most cases of overweight, coronary heart disease (CHD), cancer, type 2 diabetes, metabolic syndrome, Alzheimer’s disease, dementia, age-related macular degeneration (AMD), and autoimmune disease, including multiple sclerosis, rheumatoid arthritis, lupus, Crohn’s disease, and ulcerative colitis, as well as most other chronic, degenerative diseases? And is this a diet plan that is simple, effective, and allows one to eat to their heart’s content? The simple answers are yes, and yes!
This book presents a vast body of published and original research that results in profound conclusions: Overweight, obesity, and most all chronic diseases can be prevented simply by the elimination of processed foods and vegetable oils from the diet. And while the science and evidence presented are immense, the tenets of the authors’ advice are deceptively simple. Primarily, by eliminating the major processed food components – refined flour, sugars, and most vegetable oils – we can prevent and reverse most chronic diseases. Simultaneously, excess weight drops effortlessly, and energy increases, while fatigue, brain fog, and a myriad of other mysterious symptoms generally disappear. The effects of aging are obviously delayed. Most people are shocked at their results, including the authors.
And what is the single most important component of an ancestral diet? The answer is as simple as the elimination of vegetable oils – oils that are extremely high in omega-6 fats – which are highly pro-oxidative, pro-inflammatory, toxic, and nutrient deficient. Come witness for yourself… the evidence is beyond compelling… it even meets the Bradford Hill criteria of ‘proof,’ as the authors have clearly demonstrated.
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May 14, 2023
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Hidden Dangers: The Truth About Seed Oils and Their Impact on Our Health (Nourishing Generations: A Cookbook for Your Family, Fertility, and Maternal Wellness)
Only 60 pages!
Hidden Dangers: The Truth About Seed Oils and Their Impact on Our Health
In a world where we are constantly bombarded with health advice, it can be difficult to discern fact from fiction. In "Hidden Dangers: The Truth About Seed Oils and Their Impact on Our Health," author Olivia Phillips takes a deep dive into the often overlooked and misunderstood world of seed oils. With a critical and investigative eye, Phillips explores the history, production, and consumption of these ubiquitous cooking oils, revealing the shocking truth about their impact on our well-being.
Uncovering the potential risks associated with seed oil consumption
Practical solutions to help readers make informed decisions about their dietary choices
Providing alternative sources of healthy fats
Debunking common myths about cooking oils
This book uncovers how the seed oil industry has manipulated public opinion and scientific research to promote their products as healthy, despite mounting evidence of their potential dangers. From the seed oil's connection to chronic inflammation and obesity to their role in the development of cardiovascular disease, the author exposes the dark side of these seemingly innocent oils.
A must-read for anyone concerned with their well-being and the truth behind the foods we consume, "Hidden Dangers: The Truth About Seed Oils and Their Impact on Our Health" is a compelling and eye-opening investigation into one of the most controversial and deceptive aspects of the modern food industry. Prepare to have your understanding of nutrition and the food industry forever changed.
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Apr 26, 2023
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Ketogenic: The Science of Therapeutic Carbohydrate Restriction in Human Health [Textbook 1st Edition]
Angela Stanton |
Tim Noakes |
Ketogenic: The Science of Therapeutic Carbohydrate Restriction in Human Health presents the most up-to-date and evidence-based science and research available in the field of TCR, with the purpose of training medical and allied healthcare professionals on the effective therapeutic use of low-carbohydrate and ketogenic nutrition in clinical practice. This book explores the appropriate, safe, and effective use of TCR to improve patient outcomes in a broad range of chronic metabolic conditions and aims to promote health.
Focused on lifestyle management, health support and the treatment of diseases rooted in poor nutrition, this book explores the role of food and lifestyle modification as medicine and is a valuable resource for nutritionists, dietitians and medical professionals who provide diet-related counselling, as well as those researching or studying related areas.
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Apr 15, 2023
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In Defence of Meat
In today's society, the livestock industry is often blamed for various global issues, and the production of meat and cured meats have been stigmatized as a significant contributor. However, it is crucial to provide accurate information on these matters. Environmental journalist Andrea Bertaglio shares the perspectives of breeders, producers, and omnivorous individuals to remind the public that farming is not always as portrayed in some animal rights videos on the internet and television. Though the industry does have its challenges, it is essential to present a balanced view to avoid confusion and misinformation.
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Mar 23, 2023
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Arguments against veganism
"Arguments Against Veganism" is a comprehensive and thought-provoking book that takes a critical look at the vegan lifestyle. We'll explore the psychological aspects, potential health risks, ethical dilemmas, and environmental consequences of a meat-free diet. With a balanced and nuanced approach, the book provides readers with a deeper understanding of the complex issues surrounding the vegan lifestyle, and challenges commonly held beliefs and misconceptions. Whether you're a die-hard vegan or a skeptic looking for answers, this is a must-read for anyone seeking a more nuanced perspective on this important topic.
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Mar 12, 2023
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Living Paleo Style: Overcome The Ancestral-Modern Mismatch to Regain Your Natural Wellbeing
Miki Ben-Dor |
Only a few generations ago, we lived in direct and constant contact with nature in a tightly-knit group of hunter-gatherers. Autonomy, intimacy, and equality ruled, and our authenticity could be freely and fully expressed. Paleoanthropologist Dr. Miki Ben-Dor proposes actual cognitive and dietary means to ameliorate the emotional and physiological discontent that stems from the mismatch between modern life and our evolutionary past. A summary of the book in the first pages and summaries at the head of each chapter provide quickly accessible to-do lists.
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Feb 10, 2023
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Omega Balance
Learn how to live a happier and healthier life by finding the right balance of omega fatty acids in your diet.
Omega-3 and omega-6 fatty acids are essential in the human diet. In Omega Balance, noted scientist Anthony J. Hulbert explains how the balance between these fatty acids in the human food chain has changed over the last half-century and the very serious negative health impacts this imbalance has created.
An imbalance of these omega fats contributes to increased rates of obesity, diabetes, cardiovascular diseases, allergies, asthma, as well as cancer and a variety of other inflammatory diseases. Omega balance is also important for normal brain function, and an imbalance in these fatty acids is associated with depression, mood disorders, and neurodegenerative diseases.
Hulbert provides extensive information on the omega balance of different foods and discusses fascinating details about human evolution, dietary changes throughout history, the effect of diet on human development and physiological processes, and more. He investigates the paleo diet of our ancestors and describes the dramatic changes that have accompanied the increased ultra-processing of modern foods. Omega Balance is an essential guide to understanding a significant problem in our modern food chain and will make us rethink the food we eat.
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Jan 17, 2023
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9
Toxic Superfoods: How Oxalate Overload Is Making You Sick--and How to Get Better
An acclaimed nutrition educator reveals how the foods you’re eating to get healthy might be making you sick.
“Sally Norton’s well-researched book makes a truly important contribution to the literature in revealing just how much oxalates can damage the human body.”—Nina Teicholz, author of The Big Fat Surprise
If you’re eating a healthy diet and you’re still dealing with fatigue, inflammation, anxiety, recurrent injuries, or chronic pain, the problem could be your spinach, almonds, sweet potatoes, and other trusted plant foods. And your key to vibrant health may be quitting these so-called superfoods.
After suffering for decades from chronic health problems, nutrition educator Sally K. Norton, MPH, discovered that the culprits were the chemical toxins called oxalates lurking within her “healthy,” organic plant-heavy diet. She shines light on how our modern diets are overloaded with oxalates and offers fresh solutions including:
• A complete, research-backed program to safely reverse your oxalate load
• Comprehensive charts and resources on foods to avoid and better alternatives
• Guidance to improve your energy, optimize mood and brain performance, and find true relief from chronic pain
In this groundbreaking guide, Norton reveals that the popular dictum to “eat more plants” can be misleading. Toxic Superfoods gives health-seekers a chance for improved energy, optimum brain performance, graceful aging, and true relief from chronic pain.
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Jan 3, 2023
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10
Brain Energy: A Revolutionary Breakthrough in Understanding Mental Health--and Improving Treatment for Anxiety, Depression, OCD, PTSD, and More
Chris Palmer |
This is the book that will forever change the way we understand and treat mental health.
If you or someone you love is affected by mental illness, it might change your life.
We are in the midst of a global mental health crisis, and mental illnesses are on the rise. But what causes mental illness? And why are mental health problems so hard to treat? Drawing on decades of research, Harvard psychiatrist Dr. Chris Palmer outlines a revolutionary new understanding that for the first time unites our existing knowledge about mental illness within a single framework: Mental disorders are metabolic disorders of the brain.
Brain Energy explains this new understanding of mental illness in detail, from symptoms and risk factors to what is happening in brain cells. Palmer also sheds light on the new treatment pathways this theory opens up—which apply to all mental disorders, including anxiety, depression, ADHD, alcoholism, eating disorders, bipolar disorder, autism, and even schizophrenia. Brain Energy pairs cutting-edge science with practical advice and strategies to help people reclaim their mental health.
This groundbreaking book reveals:
Why classifying mental disorders as “separate” conditions is misleading
The clear connections between mental illness and disorders linked to metabolism, including diabetes, heart attacks, strokes, pain disorders, obesity, Alzheimer’s disease, and epilepsy
The link between metabolism and every factor known to play a role in mental health, including genetics, inflammation, hormones, neurotransmitters, sleep, stress, and trauma
The evidence that current mental health treatments, including both medications and therapies, likely work by affecting metabolism
New treatments available today that readers can use to promote long-term healing
Palmer puts together the pieces of the mental illness puzzle to provide answers and offer hope. Brain Energy will transform the field of mental health, and the lives of countless people around the world.
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Nov 15, 2022
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Wild New World: The Epic Story of Animals and People in America
Winner of the 2023 Rachel Carson Environment Book Award
Winner of the 2023 National Outdoor Book Award for Natural History Literature
Shortlisted for the 2023 Phi Beta Kappa Society Ralph Waldo Emerson Award
A Kirkus Reviews Best Nonfiction Book of 2022
A deep-time history of animals and humans in North America, by the best-selling and award-winning author of Coyote America.
In 1908, near Folsom, New Mexico, a cowboy discovered the remains of a herd of extinct giant bison. By examining flint points embedded in the bones, archeologists later determined that a band of humans had killed and butchered the animals 12,450 years ago. This discovery vastly expanded America’s known human history but also revealed the long-standing danger Homo sapiens presented to the continent’s evolutionary richness.
Distinguished author Dan Flores’s ambitious history chronicles the epoch in which humans and animals have coexisted in the “wild new world” of North America―a place shaped both by its own grand evolutionary forces and by momentous arrivals from Asia, Africa, and Europe. With portraits of iconic creatures such as mammoths, horses, wolves, and bison, Flores describes the evolution and historical ecology of North America like never before.
The arrival of humans precipitated an extraordinary disruption of this teeming environment. Flores treats humans not as a species apart but as a new animal entering two continents that had never seen our likes before. He shows how our long past as carnivorous hunters helped us settle America, initially establishing a coast-to-coast culture that lasted longer than the present United States. But humanity’s success had devastating consequences for other creatures. In telling this epic story, Flores traces the origins of today’s “Sixth Extinction” to the spread of humans around the world; tracks the story of a hundred centuries of Native America; explains how Old World ideologies precipitated 400 years of market-driven slaughter that devastated so many ancient American species; and explores the decline and miraculous recovery of species in recent decades.
In thrilling narrative style, informed by genomic science, evolutionary biology, and environmental history, Flores celebrates the astonishing bestiary that arose on our continent and introduces the complex human cultures and individuals who hastened its eradication, studied America’s animals, and moved heaven and earth to rescue them. Eons in scope and continental in scale, Wild New World is a sweeping yet intimate Big History of the animal-human story in America.
40 illustrations and 4 maps
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Oct 25, 2022
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Metabolic Madness: Understand Why Metabolic Health Is Key to Mental Health (Your Keys to Success)
Rachel S Brown |
Address underlying inflammation in mental disorders.
Uncover why metabolic health is crucial for mental health.
Uncover approaches to managing mental disorder that target underlying root cause of illness.
Use these techniques to relieve symptoms of mental illness and even help with treatment failure!
This book exposes different options for diet for mental health and troubleshooting if things aren't working!
In fact, here's just a sample of what you'll see:
* Why what you eat may be causing or perpetuating your symptoms
* Why and how dietary approaches can help you to heal underlying metabolic dysfunction
* The role of inflammation in mental disorder
*The importance of oxidative stress in mental disorder
... and much, MUCH More!
And best of all, this eye-opening book will give you a better understanding of why you may have become unwell in the first place and what you can do about it.
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Jul 13, 2022
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The Keto Solution for Kidney Disease: Reversing Metabolic Disorders with a Ketogenic Diet
The answer is probably in your kidneys. As the body’s filters, the kidneys are responsible for removing toxins, balancing acid-base levels, and distributing critical nutrients. When your kidneys get damaged, it can manifest in cardiovascular disease, lung disease diabetes, and many, many other medical issues.
There is a medical-nutritional management option for improving kidney function—a pH Balanced Ketogenic Diet, created specifically for better kidney health. Ketogenic therapy has been proven to reverse the effects of insulin resistance, metabolic syndrome, and mycotoxins on the body. I know this because I’ve seen it in my own body, and in hundreds of my clients.
The Keto Solution for Healthy Kidneys is your guidebook for transforming your health. Private practice functional dietitian Teresa Rodriguez details the groundbreaking science and provides tips and recipes you can implement today. The power to change the future of your health is in your hands!
Teresa Rodriguez, RDN, IFNCP, CNSC, LDN, CLT, has been a Registered Dietitian Nutritionist (RDN) for more than twenty-seven years. She is an Advanced Practice Registered Dietitian with a specialty in renal nutrition, nutrition support, mitochondrial health, ketogenic approach, and identifying adverse food reactions with an emphasis on food sensitivities as part of an Integrative and Functional Nutrition plan.
Teresa was able to find and treat her own problems through a method of controlled nutrition protocols and evidence-based medicine. Her goal is to empower individuals with the necessary nutrition therapy knowledge to help control their disease and positively impact their quality of life. She coaches her patients and their families about the safe and effective use of nutrition therapies and protocols for metabolic diseases, auto-immune diseases, critical care issues, neurological disorders, and environmental toxicity. She is the author of The Keto Solution for Kidney Disease: Reversing Metabolic Disorders with a Ketogenic Diet.
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Jun 27, 2022
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What Your Food Ate: How to Heal Our Land and Reclaim Our Health
David R. Montgomery |
Are you really what you eat?
David R. Montgomery and Anne Biklé take us far beyond the well-worn adage to deliver a new truth: the roots of good health start on farms. What Your Food Ate marshals evidence from recent and forgotten science to illustrate how the health of the soil ripples through to that of crops, livestock, and ultimately us.
The long-running partnerships through which crops and soil life nourish one another suffuse plant and animal foods in the human diet with an array of compounds and nutrients our bodies need to protect us from pathogens and chronic ailments. Unfortunately, conventional agricultural practices unravel these vital partnerships and thereby undercut our well-being. Can farmers and ranchers produce enough nutrient-dense food to feed us all? Can we have quality and quantity?
With their trademark thoroughness and knack for integrating information across numerous scientific fields, Montgomery and Biklé chart the way forward. Navigating discoveries and epiphanies about the world beneath our feet, they reveal why regenerative farming practices hold the key to healing sick soil and untapped potential for improving human health.
Humanity’s hallmark endeavors of agriculture and medicine emerged from our understanding of the natural world—and still depend on it. Montgomery and Biklé eloquently update this fundamental reality and show us why what’s good for the land is good for us, too. What Your Food Ate is a must-read for farmers, eaters, chefs, doctors, and anyone concerned with reversing the modern epidemic of chronic diseases and mitigating climate change.
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Jun 21, 2022
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The Great Plant-Based Con: Why eating a plants-only diet won't improve your health or save the planet
Plant-based is best for health, go vegan to help save the planet, eat less meat... Almost every day we are bombarded with the seemingly incontrovertible message that we must reduce our consumption of meat and dairy - or eliminate them from our diets altogether.
But what if the pervasive message that the plant-based diet will improve our health and save the planet is misleading - or even false? What if removing animal foods from our diet is a serious threat to human health, and a red herring in the fight against climate change.
In THE GREAT PLANT-BASED CON, Jayne Buxton demonstrates that each of these 'what-ifs' is, in fact, a reality. Drawing on the work of numerous health experts and researchers, she uncovers how the separate efforts of a constellation of individuals, companies and organisations are leading us down a dietary road that will have severe repercussions for our health and wellbeing, and for the future of the planet.
THE GREAT PLANT-BASED CON is neither anti-plant nor anti-vegan - it is a call for us to take an honest look at the facts about human diets and their effect on the environment. Shocking and eye-opening, this book outlines everything you need to know to make more informed decisions about the food you choose to eat.
The book even recommends this very website! (the old domain)
Professor Noakes is one among a carnivore community
that is sizeable and growing. A Twitter search for
carnivores will turn up thousands of results. Carnivore
advocates such as Dr Shawn Baker (@SBakerMD, otherwise
known as the Carnivore King), Dr Paul Saladino
(@CarnivoreMD), and Carnivore Aurelius (@ketoaurelius)
number their Twitter followers in the many tens of
thousands. A Facebook group called Women Carnivore
Tribe has almost 24,000 members. Travis Statham's
website, carniway.nyc, which is 'dedicated to the science
and history of a carnivorous way of eating', attracts new
members every day, many of whom submit their stories of
health regained via the diet.
Published:
Jun 9, 2022
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10