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Superfoods are known for their extraordinary health and healing properties. Among all the superfoods, there is one that stands head and shoulders above the rest, and that is coconut, and more specifically, coconut oil. Coconut oil contains the highest natural source of medium chain fatty acids—a unique type of fat with remarkable health-promoting properties. These special fatty acids are crucial for achieving optimal health and make coconut oil not just a health food, but a super health food.

Your skeleton is a busy system of living tissue. Every day, bone is being broken down and replaced. But with osteoporosis, this process causes your bones to become weak and fragile. The disease often goes undetected until you have a fall or a painful fracture.

Ruth's tribe are her lively children and her filmmaker husband, Simon, who has motor neurone disease and can communicate only with his eyes. Ruth's other tribe are the friends who gather at the cove in Greystones, Co. Wicklow, and regularly throw themselves into the freezing cold water just for kicks. The Tragic Wives' Swimming Club, as they jokingly call themselves, meet to cope with the extreme challenges life puts in their way, not to mention the monster waves rolling over the horizon.

Bone on Bone is a total lifestyle guide for optimal health and pain-free living. Dr. Meredith Warner—an orthopedic surgeon who performed combat surgery in Iraq and Afghanistan, operates an orthopedic practice, and teaches surgical residents—shows how the same underlying principles that extend life, reduce heart disease, prevent diabetes, and decrease incidences of dementia should be applied to the overall care for orthopedic problems.

This workbook offers listeners a 30 day structured journal to identify, express, and process psychological issues that may be causing back pain, neck pain, fibromyalgia, irritable bowel syndrome, tension headaches, TMJ, and other disorders. This workbook also features sections on self-compassion, self-esteem, and gratitude that have proven utility in helping you feel better and heal.

Worldwide, there are more than 10 million people living with Parkinson's disease (PD). In the US alone, approximately one million Americans live with PD and approximately 60,000 more are diagnosed each year. Internationally renowned as both a neurologist and a leading researcher, Dr. Okun has been referred to as the voice of these patients and a world authority on Parkinson's disease. His positive and optimistic approach has helped countless people manage their symptoms and achieve happiness despite them.

This guided meditation for multiple sclerosis (MS) is designed as a natural, mind-body treatment for MS, to complement standard medical treatment. It is particularly effective aid in combating fatigue, stress and pain. Continued listening to positive affirmations and guided imagery for multiple...

Your Bones contains everything you need to know for healthy bones in one book, providing scientifically based advice which highlights natural prevention and treatment strategies. This updated and expanded edition includes many new studies on the dangers of the bisphosphonate drugs and an in depth discussion of two new drugs with potential adverse effects. Also new: more information on bone-busting patent medicines, calcium supplementation options, strontium, vitamin K2, and zinc as well as a section on bone-building exercise.

Are you gaining weight and losing your natural energy? Does your body feel totally burnt out, and you just can't figure out why? The answer is inflammation! The anti-inflammation diet plan will show you how to take the simple but absolutely necessary steps required to rescue your health, happiness, and longevity from the flames.

Get Your Life Back offers a step-by-step plan to relieve pain fast, support natural healing, and help you regain control of your life. Created by Dr. Ron Daulton, Jr.—a chiropractor with over 20 years of experience—this guide has helped thousands reclaim their mobility and energy.

Rheumatoid arthritis (RA), a disease characterized by inflammation of the joints, is one of the most disabling forms of arthritis and affects over two million people in the United States. Without proper treatment it can lead to long-term joint damage, chronic pain, loss of function, and...

Dr. Colbert discusses new medical breakthroughs as well as the most up-to-date findings to give hope to all who are afflicted with arthritis. Discover life-changing treatments and learn to apply good nutritional principles to prevent the onset of arthritis.

When back pain strikes, it can ruin your life. Reaching for painkillers and going the bed rest route can be ineffective and even dangerous for your health. Inspired by my experience with reversing my severe lower back pain and fueled by a vibrant enthusiasm to share these exercise routines with anyone who has back pain, I began to research how to quickly cure back pain at home. In The Essential Lower Back Pain Exercise Guide, you'll learn about my 21-day lower back pain relief program that anyone can use to eliminate lower back pain, reverse bad posture, and get better sleep.

In this short, researched audiobook, Dr. Maloney explains how habitual pain responses can be caused by both physical and emotional triggers. These triggers form a map of your pain, and finding that map can lead to results when nothing else will work. Dr. Maloney gives an overview of his map of the back, along with patient examples that worked. Then he gives advice on how to map your own back. Ever a realist, Dr. Maloney ends his audiobook with 10 things patients should try before resorting to surgery.

Progressive Muscle Relaxation according to Jacobson: Tense muscles are often the result of stress or anxiety. This audiobook, supported by soothing music, will teach you the technique of tightening and relaxing specific muscle groups in sequence. All exercises are explained in great detail. Beginner and advanced level.

When you have chronic clicking, popping, or pain in your jaw, it can make everything that much more difficult. It is already hard enough deciding what to make for dinner, but even worse when nothing sounds good, because it is too painful to eat anything other than soup or pasta. And it's not just eating - severe pain in your jaw can also affect your sleep, ability to talk, and overall ability to function.

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.

Listen to Strong Bones for Life: A Comprehensive Guide to Understanding and Managing Osteoporosis. Get valuable tips on testing, fall prevention strategies, how to manage daily life with osteoporosis, cope with pain and fractures, deal with emotions, and find support networks and other resources. Find out about alternative therapies, proper diet and exercise, detoxification, supplements, mind-body practices, and promising advances in research and future developments.

Chair yoga offers a powerful cocktail of benefits tailor-made for your golden years. Its your secret pathway to a life of increased energy, reduced stress, and improved strength and balance. All you need to unlock its incredible benefits and launch into the future with energy and vitality is this clear and compelling audiobook and a chair, of course!

Multiple sclerosis (MS) is a chronic, unpredictable autoimmune disease that affects millions of people worldwide. It poses unique challenges for people with MS and their care partners because the symptoms (many of which are invisible to others) are so variable from day to day and month to month. Multiple Sclerosis For Dummies helps you and your loved ones understand the importance of early treatment and become familiar with all of the latest treatment options and therapies.