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Total wellness: Improve your health by understanding and cooperating with your body's natural healing systems
Binding: Unknown Binding
Label: Prima Publishing
Manufacturer: Prima Publishing
Number Of Pages: 419
Publication Date: 1998
Publisher: Prima Publishing
Studio: Prima Publishing
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We have all been told to ?eat right,? ?exercise,? and ?reduce stress.? Although these clichés offer good general advice, how do they meet the specific health concerns of an individual? Each of us has unique needs for optimizing our own health. In his latest book, Total Wellness, Dr. Joseph Pizzorno teaches us how to pinpoint exactly what our bodies need to be healthy.
Written in a clear and understandable style, this book covers each of the major body systems, describing how they work, how to recognize when something is not working correctly, and how to make it work again. Pizzorno teaches the reader to listen to the body?s messages and to use lifestyle modifications and natural medicines to reestablish optimal health. Many of the diseases discussed in the book can be resolved through self-treatment techniques such as:
Take herbal bitters with meals to improve nutritional status and digestion
Eat colorful fruits and vegetables normalize inflammatory function
Use Siberian ginseng to increase DHEA levels to help the regulatory system
Regularly consume garlic and onions to boost the detoxification systems
Take Vitamin A and Beta-carotene to strengthen the immune system
Each chapter begins with a list of common symptoms that would indicate an imbalance in a particular system, as well as behaviors that increase the risk for an imbalance. The author includes case ?stories? of patients he?s treated for many of the conditions. Tips for translating the body?s messages, charts and tables explaining the conditions, and appendices directing the reader to the exact information he needs makes the book the ultimate reference for people who want to make themselves well.
Customer Reviews
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Rating:  - Excellent wellness book, timeless, helpful in understanding the body
This is another excellent book from Joseph Pizzorno. I purchased my first edition in 1997 and this book still has a prominent place on my book shelf. I refer to it often. The information is timeless and true. This isn't a "fad" or "flash in the pan" way to look at your own health and wellness but a very clear, concise, understandable way to maintain a healthy body. I would strongly suggest that anyone interested in understanding their body consider purchasing this book.
Rating: - Informative, engaging and empowering
There is a curious 'mixed-bag' of reviews for 'Total Wellness' here, but I would ask those of you 'sitting on the fence' to at least observe that of the 6 reviews here (at the time of writing this), five of them give a full 5-stars and only one bucks this trend. That ratio, at the very least, surely speaks volumes. I feel it important to address this, not because I have any desire to enter into debate, but simply because I'd consider it very sad indeed if anyone passed this book by, simply because ... Read More
Rating:  - Vitalism, Teleology, Spiritism -- Naturopathy's Core Articles of Faith:
This book abundantly illustrates the central naturopathic belief 'amalgam' -- that health and disease are due to, and are managed through manipulation of, 'a teleological vital force spirit' -- per: "our self-healing abilities -- the life-force within each of us, which naturopathic physicians call the vis medicatrix naturae [...] this teleological force, the healer within [p.333]"; "our vital force, the vis medicatrix naturae [p.003]"; "vis medicatrix naturae(life-force) [p.026]"; "life force(or spirit)[p.024]." ... Read More
Rating: - This book is great
Pizzorno has a gift for writing about medicine. He seamlessly shifts between general concepts and specific, illustrative examples. This book is simply amazing. Its the best book I have ever read on natural medicine. Its not a collection of recipes for how to use supplements; its a clear, understandable explanation of why and how they work. If you want to understand why natural medicine works, read this book.
Rating: - Excellent Resource
this book is an excellent resource. Well written, logical and easy to understand. Documentation of various methods of supporting the body's own healing capacity is quite interesting and a real relief from the approach taking by the conventional medical model which tends to ignore the inherent healing capabilties of the body and in many cases works against them (knowingly and unknowingly). I can't recommend this book highly enough. It is a real winner ! Anyone who reads it will come away with something which ... Read More
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