Health Matters Sonoma: Recent Episodes
Ned Hoke
About he Shaolin Way: 10 Modern Secrets of Survival from a Shaolin Kung Fu Grandmaster Paperbac
Born in the projects of Spanish Harlem to a disabled mother and an abusive father, Steve DeMasco spent most of his childhood lost and angry. Drifting from one job to another, he stalked the streets as a troubled youth, barely surviving while all of his peers were either dead or in jail, until he found himself on the steps of the Shaolin Temple.
Originating more than 1,500 years ago in ancient China, the Shaolin monks were simple farmers and worshippers of Buddhism who learned to protect themselves from the constant danger of bandits and overlords with a kind of "meditation in motion," a nonlethal form of self-defense that didn't violate their vows of peace. As their legend grew, they became known as the Shaolin Fighting Monks, revered across the land for their spiritual dedication, enlightened message, and amazing fighting skills.
DeMasco entered the Shaolin Temple to battle the demons of his past. But he got more than he bargained for. Besides learning how to wield weapons and take on multiple attackers at once, he discovered an ancient philosophy that helped melt away preconceived notions of the world, and gave him a powerful platform on which to live and grow. In The Shaolin Way, he adapts these teachings for the modern world, singling out ten secrets of survival that can help anyone live a more fulfilled life.
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About The Case for Medicare for All
Largely privately funded with relatively little public regulation, the United States healthcare system is both expensive and inefficient, providing poor care to large parts of the population.For decades, Americans have wrestled with how to fix their broken healthcare system. In this razor-sharp contribution to the healthcare debate, leading economist and former adviser to Bernie Sanders Gerald Friedman recommends that we build on what works: a Medicare system that already efficiently provides healthcare for millions of Americans. Rejecting the discredited idea that healthcare should be treated like any other commodity, Friedman shows that healthcare is distinctive and can be best provided only through universal program of social insurance. Deftly exposing the absurdities of the opponents of reform, Friedman shows in detail how the solution to our health care crisis is staring us in the face: enroll everyone in Medicare to improve the health of all Americans.This bold and brilliantly argued book is essential reading for anyone who wants to see Congress and the White House act to provide America with a 21st century healthcare system.
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About Metabolical: The Lure and the Lies of Processed Food, Nutrition, and Modern Medicine
Dr. Robert Lustig, a pediatric neuroendocrinologist who has long been on the cutting edge of medicine and science, challenges our current healthcare paradigm which has gone off the rails under the influence of Big Food, Big Pharma, and Big Government.
You can’t solve a problem if you don’t know what the problem is. One of Lustig’s singular gifts as a communicator is his ability to “connect the dots” for the general reader, in order to unpack the scientific data and concepts behind his arguments, as he tells the “real story of food” and “the story of real food.”
Metabolical weaves the interconnected strands of nutrition, health/disease, medicine, environment, and society into a completely new fabric by proving on a scientific basis a series of iconoclastic revelations, among them:
Medicine for chronic disease treats symptoms, not the disease itself
You can diagnose your own biochemical profile
Chronic diseases are not "druggable," but they are "foodable"
Processed food isn’t just toxic, it’s addictive
The war between vegan and keto is a false war—the combatants are on the same side
Big Food, Big Pharma, and Big Government are on the other side
Making the case that food is the only lever we have to effect biochemical change to improve our health, Lustig explains what to eat based on two novel criteria: protect the liver, and feed the gut. He insists that if we do not fix our food and change the way we eat, we will continue to court chronic disease, bankrupt healthcare, and threaten the planet. But there is hope: this book explains what’s needed to fix all three.
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About
Dr. Robert Lustig, a pediatric neuroendocrinologist who has long been on the cutting edge of medicine and science, challenges our current healthcare paradigm which has gone off the rails under the influence of Big Food, Big Pharma, and Big Government.
You can’t solve a problem if you don’t know what the problem is. One of Lustig’s singular gifts as a communicator is his ability to “connect the dots” for the general reader, in order to unpack the scientific data and concepts behind his arguments, as he tells the “real story of food” and “the story of real food.”
Metabolical weaves the interconnected strands of nutrition, health/disease, medicine, environment, and society into a completely new fabric by proving on a scientific basis a series of iconoclastic revelations, among them:
Medicine for chronic disease treats symptoms, not the disease itself
You can diagnose your own biochemical profile
Chronic diseases are not "druggable," but they are "foodable"
Processed food isn’t just toxic, it’s addictive
The war between vegan and keto is a false war—the combatants are on the same side
Big Food, Big Pharma, and Big Government are on the other side
Making the case that food is the only lever we have to effect biochemical change to improve our health, Lustig explains what to eat based on two novel criteria: protect the liver, and feed the gut. He insists that if we do not fix our food and change the way we eat, we will continue to court chronic disease, bankrupt healthcare, and threaten the planet. But there is hope: this book explains what’s needed to fix all three
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Ned gets interviewed by host Elia Haworth on KWMR Original Minds
About Original Minds
On alternate Saturday mornings, I interview people with creative minds–farmers to physicists. Our conversations are about their work, passions and life-lessons. I often interview locals from Coastal Marin- who we may know but not know their rich backstories. Each person brings fresh ideas, insights and inspiration.
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About La Luz Center
In 1985, the wine industry was booming in Sonoma Valley. Hundreds of workers were hired from Mexico, Central and South America to work in the vineyards. On weekends they attended church where they met Ligia Booker. Born in Colombia to a large philanthropic family, Ligia saw Sonoma Valley through the eyes of an immigrant. She learned that the vineyard worker families had basic unmet needs like language skills and access to food, clothing and housing; assistance with medical, legal and financial issues presented more complicated, longer term challenges.
Ligia and a group of Sonoma residents came together to provide needed assistance and began to call themselves La Luz, Spanish for “The Light”. Over the years, La Luz Center has expanded capabilities through strong community partnerships and a talented, resourceful La Luz staff that now delivers a wide-range of programs, services and responsive support to families in Sonoma Valley.
Ligia understood the unique relationship between the people of The Springs and the economy of Sonoma Valley. The Latino community, now comprising approximately 28% of the Sonoma Valley population and 58% of our public school enrollment, significantly contributes to the vitality of the Valley. La Luz Center continues to bring “The Light” to Sonoma Valley residents and we invite you to explore our website to learn more about current La Luz Center partnerships, services, and programs.
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About Bicycling with Butterflies: My 10,201-Mile Journey Following the Monarch Migration
Outdoor educator and field researcher Sara Dykman made history when she became the first person to bicycle alongside monarch butterflies on their storied annual migration—a round-trip adventure that included three countries and more than 10,000 miles. Equally remarkable, she did it solo, on a bike cobbled together from used parts. Her panniers were recycled buckets.In Bicycling with Butterflies, Dykman recounts her incredible journey and the dramatic ups and downs of the nearly nine-month odyssey. We’re beside her as she navigates unmapped roads in foreign countries, checks roadside milkweed for monarch eggs, and shares her passion with eager schoolchildren, skeptical bar patrons, and unimpressed border officials. We also meet some of the ardent monarch stewards who supported her efforts, from citizen scientists and researchers to farmers and high-rise city dwellers.With both humor and humility, Dykman offers a compelling story, confirming the urgency of saving the threatened monarch migration—and the other threatened systems of nature that affect the survival of us all.
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About 72 Reasons to be Vegan: Why Plant-Based. Why Now.
Better sex, glowing skin, and more money…by going veganDid you know that if you adopt a vegan diet you can enjoy better sex? Save money? Have glowing skin? You can ward off Alzheimer’s, Type 2 diabetes, rheumatoid arthritis, and other metabolic diseases. You can eat delicious burgers. Help save the planet. Join the cool kids, like Gandhi, Tolstoy, Leonardo—and Kyrie Irving, Kat Von D, and Joaquin Phoenix. Oh, and did we mention have better sex? (It’s about blood flow.)Those are just some of the 72 reasons we should all be vegan, as compiled and persuasively argued by Gene Stone and Kathy Freston, two of the leading voices in the ever-growing movement to eat a plant-based diet. While plenty of books tell you how to go vegan, 72 Reasons to Be Vegan is the book that tells you why. And it does so in a way that emphasizes not what you’d be giving up, but what you’d be gaining."Bestselling vegan activist Kathy Freston and the movement’s best chronicler, Gene Stone, team up to give us 72 reasons to go plant based (and better sex is just one of them!) A must-read for anyone concerned about the future of our planet, their own health, or the moral ramifications of meat-eating.”—Dan Buettner, National Geographic Fellow and author of The Blue Zones
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About The Ayurvedic Reset Diet: Radiant Health through Fasting, Mono-Diet, and Smart Food Combining
A step-by-step guide to Ayurvedic dietary resets to gently cleanse your digestive system and reboot your body and mind• Presents easy-to-follow instructions for a full 6- or 8-week Ayurvedic rest diet, as well as a simplified 1-week plan, detailing what to eat and drink day by day• Includes recipes, mindful eating tips, and meal prepping techniques• Explains the healing science of Ayurveda, the rejuvenating benefits of fasting and mono-diets, and how to maximize nutrient absorption with food combining
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About CSBA
Related LinksCSBA is the nonprofit education association representing the elected officials who govern public school districts and county offices of education. With a membership of nearly 1,000 educational agencies statewide, CSBA brings together school governing boards, and administrators from districts and county offices of education to advocate for effective policies that advance the education and well-being of the state’s more than 6 million school-age children. A membership-driven association, CSBA provides policy resources and training to members, and represents the statewide interests of public education through legal, political legislative, community and media advocacy.
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Existing federal law, the federal Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act (PPACA), requires each state to establish an American Health Benefit Exchange to facilitate the purchase of qualified health benefit plans by qualified individuals and qualified small employers. PPACA defines a “qualified health plan” as a plan that, among other requirements, provides an essential health benefits package. Existing state law creates the California Health Benefit Exchange, also known as Covered California, to facilitate the enrollment of qualified individuals and qualified small employers in qualified health plans as required under PPACA.
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About Telehealth
What does telehealth mean?
Telehealth — sometimes called telemedicine — is the use of electronic information and telecommunication technologies to provide care when you and the doctor aren’t in the same place at the same time. If you have a phone or a device with internet access, you already have everything you need to get medical care or services through telehealth — you may be able to:
Talk to your doctor live over the phone or video chat.
Send and receive messages from your doctor using chat messaging, email, secure messaging, and secure file exchange.
Use remote patient monitoring so your doctor can check on you at home. For example, you might use a device to gather ECG or other vitals to help your doctor stay informed on your progress.
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About Made in China: A Prisoner, an SOS Letter, and the Hidden Cost of America's Cheap Goods
n Made in China, investigative journalist Amelia Pang pulls back the curtain on Sun’s story and the stories of others like him, including the persecuted Uyghur minority group whose abuse and exploitation is rapidly gathering steam. What she reveals is a closely guarded network of laogai—forced labor camps—that power the rapid pace of American consumerism. Through extensive interviews and firsthand reportage, Pang shows us the true cost of America’s cheap goods and shares what is ultimately a call to action—urging us to ask more questions and demand more answers from the companies we patronize.
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About Liberating Yourself from Lyme: An Integrative and Intuitive Guide to Healing Lyme Disease
Learn to understand what your body is telling you and discover the optimum treatment path for your unique Lyme symptoms• Shares the authors’ 10-year journeys to overcome chronic Lyme and details their successful healing protocol• Reveals how to increase your sensitivity to what your body is telling you to discover remedies and healing actions for your individual symptoms• Explores the antibiotics, herbs, diet, exercise, beliefs, immune health, and self-healing meditations that the authors used for a complete healing
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About Peter Fairfield
Peter Fairfield has a private practice Marin County specializing in family practice, pain and emotional issues. His clinical practice is founded on 40 years of experience and research into an East/West functional model of mood, behavior, addiction. Peter is currently developing a certificate/Doctorial program in “Mood, Behavior & Transformation” (OM Psychiatry).
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About Active Dreaming: Journeying Beyond Self-Limitation to a Life of Wild Freedom
Active Dreaming is a way of being fully of this world while maintaining constant contact with another world, the world-behind-the-world, where the deeper logic and purpose of our lives are to be found. Active Dreaming offers three core areas of practice: talking and walking our dreams to bring energy and guidance from the dreamworld into everyday life; shamanic lucid dreaming; and conscious living.
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About MYLES SPAR, MD, MPH
“You know what winning means to you; I can help make sure your health will get you there.”
Myles Spar, MD is a leading authority in Integrative Men’s Health as an author, teacher, researcher, TED talk speaker, contributor to Men’s Journal and the L.A. Times, expert on Dr. Oz and The Doctors TV shows and faculty member of UCLA, University of Arizona and Duke University Schools of Medicine.
Dr. Spar is board-certified in Internal Medicine, having graduated from the University of Michigan Medical School. He completed fellowships in Health Services Research at UCLA (where he earned a masters in public health) and in Integrative Medicine at the University of Arizona.
Dr. Spar’s focus has always been about empowering men to achieve their goals through greater health. The men’s performance company where Dr. Spar oversees all clinical programs as Chief Medical Officer is called Vault Health. Vault brings men’s health to you, incorporating techniques to help men win at what matters to them.
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You Can Reverse Alzheimer's! We are no longer at the mercy of our DNA. The recent discovery of epigenetics--the science of understanding how to control the expression of our own genes--has given us the exciting new power to make conscious choices that reprogram our genetic destiny. In Reversing Alzheimer's, Dr. Timothy Smith shows you how to apply this new science to improve cognition and reverse Alzheimer's disease. Now, whether you have a healthy, dementia-free brain is completely up to you. In Reversing Alzheimer's you will learn
How to enhance the brain's the ability to grow, heal, and adapt
Which foods, herbs, vitamins, and minerals nourish your brain
How intermittent fasting can dramatically lower your risk of dementia
Which fats destroy the brain and which heal it. Reversing Alzheimer's will empower you to turn on the epigenetic control of genes that prevent--and even reverse--Alzheimer's disease.
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About Feeling Great: The Revolutionary New Treatment for Depression and Anxiety
Feeling Great is based on 40 years of research and more than 40,000 hours treating individuals with severe mood problems. The goal is not just a rapid and complete elimination of negative feelings but the development of joy and enlightenment.
In Feeling Great, Dr. David Burns reveals that our negative moods do not result from what's wrong with us, but rather--what's right with us. And when you listen and suddenly hear what your negative thoughts and feelings are trying to tell you, suddenly you won't need them anymore, and recovery will be just a stone's throw away.
Dr. Burns will provide you with inspiring and mind-blowing case studies along with more than 50 amazing tools to crush the negative thoughts that rob you of happiness and self-esteem.
Are you tired of feeling
Down, depressed, or unhappy?
Anxious, panicky, or insecure?
You can change the way you feel!
You owe it to yourself to FEEL GREAT!
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About Perfectly Paired
A moving, behind-the-scenes look at the making of one of Napa Valley’s most legendary wineries, Silver Oak Cellars. Bonny Meyer, co-founder and wife of wine legend Justin Meyer, provides an intimate portrayal of the love affair that infused Silver Oak’s magical cabernet.
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Tapestry of Health artfully synthesizes the complex world of healthy living into a set of clear principles in guiding you to feel your best and thrive at your highest potential through evidence-based integrative medicine treatment of body, mind and spirit.
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About A Family Guide To Covid
In A Family Guide to Covid, William A. Haseltine answers tough questions about Covid-19 honestly, with equal measures of clarity and compassion.
A new disease has spread across our world. Schools have shut down, people around the world have been asked to stay home, businesses are shuttered, economies are crashing.
The sad state of affairs is not entirely new for Dr. Haseltine who remembers how polio overshadowed his young life. As he got older, he realized that diseases didn't just harm individuals, they crippled communities and devastated entire countries. He became a scientist, dedicating his life to understanding the diseases that threaten us most and figuring out ways to stop and prevent them.
Today, Dr. Haseltine finds that his children, his grandchildren and many of his friends and extended family members are coming to him with question after question. Why have our lives changed? Are my children in danger? When will this be over? Will there be a vaccine or a cure and if so, when? When will our lives return to normal?
This book attempts to answer those questions about COVID-19 honestly, with equal measures of clarity and compassion. It is written especially for those who are faced with the difficult task of not only protecting themselves, but of protecting their families, their children, their spouses, and their parents.
Split into two sections, the first section seeks to give answers to questions that children and grandchildren may ask. Each question has in fact been asked by someone under twelve, some as young as four and five. The second section provides short answers to many of the difficult questions adults from ages eighteen to one hundred and ten ask themselves to understand this new reality. Again these are real questions people have asked.
As our understanding of Covid-19 evolves, so too will this book. When a purchase is made, readers will be given entry to a password protected section of Dr. Haseltine's website. There, readers can download subsequent editions freely and have the most up to date answers to the most critical Covid questions of the day.
As Dr. Haseltine sees it, "Our children and grandchildren will one day look back as I do and remember a time when disease stalked the streets and changed their life. My hope is that some of those children will be inspired to dedicate their lives to science and medicine so that their own children and grandchildren and for that matter no child anywhere should have to endure what they did."
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About Flashback Girl: Lessons on Resilience from a Burn Survivor
At the age of four, Dr. Lise Deguire suffered third-degree burns on 65% of her body as the result of both maternal and corporate negligence. Against the odds, she lived through the trauma, beginning decades of treatment as a burn survivor. Some chapters of this gripping journey focus on early events, including the story of the fire, her years of painful surgeries in the hospital, social isolation and bullying. Other chapters focus on her adult life, such as her struggles to find romantic love, being a parent, and her work as a clinical psychologist. Dr. Deguire recounts her childhood with two narcissistic parents and their futile struggles to find happiness. She tells the tragic story of her family, which includes artistic genius, stark neglect, and four suicides. Most importantly, she explains her long but ultimately triumphant path towards love, health, and life satisfaction.The voice of Flashback Girl is warm and engaging. Despite the seriousness of the subject, the tone of the book is positive and humorous, without self-pity. The aim is to inspire those who suffer to keep pushing on. If the author can make it, despite the tremendous odds against her, there is hope for all.
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About Steven Quay
Steven Quay is the CEO of Atossa Therapeutics Inc. (Nasdaq:ATOS), a clinical-stage biopharmaceutical company developing novel therapeutics for breast cancer and COVID-19. He received his M.D. and Ph.D. from The University of Michigan, was a postdoctoral fellow in the Chemistry Department at MIT with Nobel Laureate H. Gobind Khorana, a resident at the Harvard-MGH Hospital, and spent almost a decade on the faculty of Stanford University School of Medicine. A TEDx talk he delivered on breast cancer prevention has been viewed over 200,000 times. His 300+ contributions to medicine have been cited over 9,900 times, placing him in the top 1% of scientists worldwide. He holds 87 US patents and has invented seven FDA-approved pharmaceuticals which have helped over 80 million people.
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ABOUT AMC The mission of the Appalachian Mountain Club is to foster the protection, enjoyment, and understanding of the outdoors. We envision a world where our natural resources are healthy, loved, and always protected, and where the outdoors occupies a place of central importance in every person’s life.
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About Spiritual Practice for Crazy Times: Powerful Tools to Cultivate Calm, Clarity, and Courage
A practical guide to surviving and thriving in a world gone madDo you ever feel torn between finding refuge and staying informed and engaged? Have you ever felt too stressed out to meditate? Too anxious to roll out your yoga mat or pray?The truth is, when the world gets chaotic and confounding, we need spiritual practice more than ever. That's when our souls need sustenance the most. That's when we really need to recharge and ground ourselves to take on the challenge.This concise, compassionate guide will help you access the silent sanctuary within you. It's filled with practical tools that provide spiritual support at a moment's notice, in whatever time you have, with whatever attention you can spare.Expert teacher Philip Goldberg draws on authoritative texts and masters from every spiritual path, especially the empirical methods of the Yoga tradition--as well as contemporary psychology, scientific research, and decades of interviews and personal experience. The result is a wide range of techniques to relieve the mind and body, refresh the spirit, and gird you for constructive action. You'll get insightful instruction in practices ranging from deep meditation to cognitive reframing to "spiritual space management," from silently communing with nature to actively engaging with spiritual companions. And you'll find detailed guidelines for creating a regular practice routine--along with an inventory of supplementary methods--that suits your personal needs and lifestyle.This breezy, thorough, pragmatic book will help you find refuge and healing from the crazy times we're living in--and it will prepare you for taking robust steps to help restore sanity in the world around you.
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About Stop the Bleed
While more than 1 million people have now been trained to STOP THE BLEED®, that’s just a start. Our goal is to train 200 million. Why? Because the purpose of the STOP THE BLEED® campaign is to make our nation more resilient by better preparing the public to save lives if people nearby are severely bleeding. This preparation is being done by raising awareness and teaching people how to learn three quick actions to control serious bleeding.
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About Blood on the Wall National Geographic Documentary
The film primarily follows two parties hoping to make it past the US border. There’s Ludy, a seventeen-year-old girl with no family who has been a rape victen in Guatemala and is traveling with her boyfriend in the caravan for protection. The other focus is on a mother named Sara and her large family of kids ranging from teenagers to a toddler. Their long and perilous journey is chronicled as they desperately fight for their survival.
This two-hour documentary juxtaposes their stories against background information of how life south of the border has evolved into its current hostile state and the USA’s involvement in it. The film is somewhat bookended by a heroin runner in Arizona, a US resident who isn’t nervous every time she goes through border patrol on her way in and out. The history of how heroin and crack production became a way of life and a source of power is well documented throughout the film.
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Dr. Daniel Laroche is Director of Glaucoma Services and President of Advanced Eyecare of New York. He is affiliated with the New York Eye and Ear Infirmary, and Assistant Professor of Ophthalmology at the Mount Sinai School of Medicine, New York.
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About The Nature of Nature
Enric Sala wants to change the world--and in this compelling book, he shows us how. Once we appreciate how nature works, he asserts, we will understand why conservation is economically wise and essential to our survival.Here Sala, director of National Geographic's Pristine Seas project (which has succeeded in protecting more than 5 million sq km of ocean), tells the story of his scientific awakening and his transition from academia to activism--as he puts it, he was tired of writing the obituary of the ocean. His revelations are surprising, sometimes counterintuitive: More sharks signal a healthier ocean; crop diversity, not intensive monoculture farming, is the key to feeding the planet.Using fascinating examples from his expeditions and those of other scientists, Sala shows the economic wisdom of making room for nature, even as the population becomes more urbanized. In a sober epilogue, he shows how saving nature can save us all, by reversing conditions that led to the coronavirus pandemic and preventing other global catastrophes. With a foreword from Prince Charles and an introduction from E. O. Wilson, this powerful book will change the way you think about our world--and our future.
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About Douglas Kratt
Dr. Douglas Kratt, a 1998 graduate of the UW School of Veterinary Medicine, is a small animal practitioner from La Crosse, Wisconsin, where he and his wife, Dr. Kimberly Kratt, own Central Animal Hospital.
Dr. Kratt most recently served as AVMA president-elect and, prior to that, was chair of the AVMA House Advisory Committee. He has also served on the AVMA Strategic Management Committee and Task Force on Volunteer Engagement. He was Wisconsin's delegate to the AVMA House of Delegates, president of the Wisconsin Veterinary Medical Association, and has served in many other capacities for his state.
As well as being active in various local civic activities, Dr. Kratt established medical and preventative care protocols for police canines and donates veterinary care to the Wisconsin State Patrol K9s, the Onalaska Police Department, Campbell Police Department, Holmen Police Department, and Tomah's Police Department K9s.
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About Dr. Malika Fair
Malika Fair, MD, MPH is the senior director of health equity partnerships and programs at the AAMC and an associate clinical professor and practicing physician in the Department of Emergency Medicine of the George Washington University School of Medicine and Health Sciences.
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About Dr. David Hanscom
Dr. Hanscom is an orthopedic complex spinal deformity surgeon who was based in Seattle, WA. He quit his surgical practice in 2018 of over 32 years to focus on teaching people how to break the grip of chronic mental and physical pain. His mission is to re-introduce true healing into medicine. He feels that doctors should be given the time to listen and understand their patients. Difficult life situations surrounding their medical problems have a tremendous impact on care and outcomes.
He was part of the movement that began in the 1980’s that espoused that persistent low back pain (LBP) was best solved with surgery. However, he happened to combine forces with several national-level rehabilitation physicians early in his career and quickly noticed that patients were having better outcomes when surgery was combined with a thoughtful rehab approach. When the data came out in 1993 that the success rate for a fusion for LBP was less than 30% at two-year follow up, he immediately stopped performing the procedure. In the meantime, he descended into his own deep pit of suffering from severe chronic pain for 15 years. It began with a panic attack and he eventually developed 17 different physical symptoms. He didn’t understand what hit him, and no one could offer an explanation.
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About Firefighter Zen: A Field Guide to Thriving in Tough Times
That’s the motto of firefighters, like Hersch Wilson, who spend their lives walking toward, rather than away from, danger and suffering. As in Zen practice, firefighters are trained to be fully in the moment and present to each heartbeat, each life at hand. In this unique collection of true stories and practical wisdom, Wilson shares the Zen-like techniques that allow people like him to stay grounded while navigating danger, comforting others, and coping with their personal response to each crisis. Every life contains the unexpected and the unwelcome. How you cope with those inevitable events, more than the events themselves, defines the quality of your life. Firefighter Zen is an invaluable guide to meeting every day with your best calm, resilient, and optimistic self.
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About Peter Fairfield
Peter Fairfield has a private practice Marin County specializing in family practice, pain and emotional issues. His clinical practice is founded on 40 years of experience and research into an East/West functional model of mood, behavior, addiction. Peter is currently developing a certificate/Doctorial program in “Mood, Behavior & Transformation” (OM Psychiatry).
Fun Fact: Peter toured with PINK FLOYD on their 1989 European to
About: Mark Engelman
Recognized as one of the top doctors in functional integrative medicine, Dr. Mark R. Engelman has advanced degrees and certifications in functional, metabolic, anti-aging and stem cell medicine. He has an unblemished record in practice. Engelman Health Institute is advanced science, and personalized care. This "new medicine" incorporates the best of traditional practices and natural and alternative diagnostic modalities. The approach has been featured in media such as New York Times, Huffington Post, The Oprah Winfrey Show, Dr. Oz and numerous prestigious publications.
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About Love in the Time of Corona: Advice from a Sex Therapist for Couples in Quarantine
Do you want to get the most out of your time together in quarantine?Sex therapist Dr. Diana Wiley tells you how to: Enjoy a more sensual and sexual connection with your partner. Relieve stress and strengthen your relationship.* Have more fun!Dr. Diana gives advice and prescribes fun and easy exercises to get to know your partner better, plan your date night at home, be more playful, and even try something new in the bedroom. She offers helpful guidance on using touch to relieve stress and revitalize your senses. Learn ways to integrate gratitude and mindfulness into your sex life. All of these contribute to increased pleasure and satisfaction. You’ll even learn about “pandemic sex!”
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About Dr. Juan P. Frias, MD
Dr. Frias, a native of Chile, completed his undergraduate studies at the University of Florida and received his medical degree from Vanderbilt University School of Medicine. After serving 5 years as a General Medical Officer in the US Navy, he completed his training in Internal Medicine at Vanderbilt University and the University of Tennessee, and his Fellowship in Endocrinology, Diabetes and Metabolism at the University of California, San Diego. Dr. Frías has held leadership positions in Clinical and Medical Affairs at Eli Lilly, Amylin Pharmaceuticals, Pfizer, and Johnson and Johnson, where he served as Chief Medical Officer and Global Vice President of Clinical and Medical Affairs, Diabetes Care. Dr. Frías has held academic positions at the University of Colorado Health Sciences Center, Barbara Davis Center for Diabetes, and the University of California San Diego School of Medicine, where he is currently on the clinical faculty. He is also active in the non-profit organization Taking Control of Your Diabetes (TCOYD), where he lectures at the organization’s Latino Initiative patient conferences and provides continuing medical education for healthcare providers. Dr. Frías has been involved in diabetes and metabolism-related research for over 15 years and has authored numerous publications in this field.
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About Dr. Steven Quay https://drquay.com/
I’ve dedicated my life to the medical field. I received my M.D., M.A. and Ph.D. from The University of Michigan. I was a postdoctoral fellow at MIT with Nobel Laureate H. Gobind Khorana and a resident at the Harvard-Massachusetts General Hospital. I was on the faculty of Stanford University School of Medicine for almost a decade.
I also have founded six pharmaceutical startups and invented seven FDA-approved medicines, which have benefitted over 80 million people, and…
I am currently founder, Chairman, and CEO of Seattle-based Atossa Therapeutics, Inc. (NASDAQ: ATOS) a clinical-stage biopharmaceutical company developing novel therapeutics and delivery methods for breast cancer and other breast conditions.
One that may prove to prevent COVID
And one that may relieve patients of their symptoms to the point that they would be able to come off of ventilators and walk out of the hospital.
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ABOUTDr. Abby Lev (San Francisco Bay Area, CA) is a Clinical Psychologist,CBT Online Founder, Mediator, Author, and Executive Coach and Directorof the Bay Area CBT Center. Her team specializes in CognitiveBehavioral Therapy (CBT) to help individuals and couples breakunhelpful patterns, develop healthier habits, and improve all areas oflife. Dr. Lev has coauthored three relationship therapy books: 1.“Acceptance and Commitment Therapy for Couples” 2. “Acceptance andCommitment Therapy for Interpersonal Problems” and 3. “TheInterpersonal Problems Workbook.” Dr. Lev founded CBTOnline, an onlineplatform that connects people with therapists specializing in CBT, andoffers a library of online CBT resources. Dr. Lev utilizesevidence-based practices, including CBT, ACT (Acceptance andCommitment Therapy), and Schema Therapy to help people who arestruggling with a variety of issues live a happier and more fulfillinglife. Dr. Lev has worked with people who are struggling withrelationship problems, anxiety, trauma, depression, emotionaldysregulation, body image issues, work related stress, OCD and mooddisorders. Her work has been featured in Psych Central, HelloGiggles,Best Life, Business.com, KGO 810 AM The Chip Franklin Show,Psychologists Off the Clock, Healing Powers Podcast, and many more.https://bayareacbtcenter.com/dr-avigail-lev/CBT Online https://cbtonline.com/
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Peter Fairfield OMD, LAc He is a medical intuitive and has practiced Oriental medicine, acupuncture and natural healing for over 45 years specializing in transformative and psychiatric issues.His work bringing relief, hope and new perspectives with a heightened ability to freely move forward with life’s goal’s, possibilities and creative expression. His work branches in two innovative and related areas.The first area is clinically focused in the OM psychiatry (Oriental Medical). This includes pathologies and diseases directly related to stress and trauma, head injuries and other specific physical and sensory complaints.
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Contemplative programs for inmates and organized Buddhist prison groups have have offered promising avenues for reform and rehabilitation. Advocates in the early nineteenth century believed that sile
Prison meditation programs based on Buddhist, Hindu, and Daoist teachings first gained attention in the 1970s and 1980s, with organized efforts to explore Buddhism in particular taking off in the 1980s. The creation of the Prison Dharma Network (now the Prison Mindfulness Institute) in the late 1980s marked a turning point, with former inmates and dharma instructors working closely together to address the unique challenges faced by imprisoned practitioners and explore ways to offer long term support as prisoners face important transitions.
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About Overcoming Binge Eating For Dummies
Control binge eating and get on the path to recovery
Overcoming Binge Eating for Dummies provides trusted information, resources, tools, and activities to help you and your loved ones understand your binge eating — and gain control over it. Written with compassion and authority, it uses stories and examples from the authors' work with clients they've helped to overcome this complicated disorder.
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Ned talks with Carmela Carlyle about the benefits of Yoga and Laughter
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In this inspirational book, Gloria Burgess uses the touching story of her father's relationship with William Faulkner as a starting point to explore a classic topic: how to bring forth the character qualities of love, wisdom, trust, faith, gratitude, creative action, vision, and integrity. Burgess declares the sacred promises of legacy living as part of a transformational process that helps us connect to our past by honoring those who came before us, living with intention in the present, and freeing our talents so we can realize our potential. Dare to Ware Your Soul on the Outside also includes practical exercises for fostering greater authenticity and purpose in our lives.
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About SoulSpace: Transform Your Home, Transform Your Life -- Creating a Home That Is Free of Clutter, Full of Beauty, and Inspired by You
Xorin Balbes created his eight-stage SoulSpace process to help his clients create homes that reflect and celebrate what is essential about their inhabitants. The process works for any budget, anytime, anywhere and results in inspiration, self-discovery, and practical solutions. Through the stages — assess, release, cleanse, dream, discover, create, elevate, and celebrate — you will explore not only the design of your abode but also your own interior: how you think, feel, and sense the world. Empowered with this self-knowledge, you will discover fresh ways to declutter, refresh, and enhance your living space. Xorin’s wonderfully unique technique will nurture and transform both your soul and your home.
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About Exercise is Medicine
Aging, despite its dismal reputation, is actually one of the great mysteries of the universe. Why don't we just reproduce, then exit fast, like salmon? Could aging just be one big evolutionary accident? Is senescence, the gradual falling apart of our bodies, at least partially avoidable? Can we extend the healthy lifespan and reduce the lingering, debilitating effects of senescence?In this book, investigative health journalist Judy Foreman suggests that we actually can, and the key element is exercise, through its myriad effects on dozens of molecules in the brain, the muscles, and other organs. It's no secret, of course, that exercise is good for you and that exercise can extend longevity. What Foreman uncovers through extensive research into evolutionary biology, exercise physiology, and the new field of geroscience is exactly why exercise is so powerful - the mechanisms now being discovered that account for the vast and varied effects of exercise all over the body. Though Foreman also delves into pills designed to combat aging and so-called exercise "mimetics," or pills that purport to produce the effects of exercise without the sweat, her resounding conclusion is that exercise itself is by far the most effective, and safest, strategy for promoting a long, healthy life. In addition to providing a fascinating look at the science of exercise's effects on the body, Foreman also provides answers to the most commonly asked practical questions about exercise.
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St. John’s, A Refuge for Health
We live in an era where it is standard practice to attack the basic civil and human rights of immigrants; separate children from their families at the border; deny asylum without trial; imprison immigrants for extended periods of time in dilapidated detention facilities; allow immigrant children to die without medical care while in our custody; and shut down the federal government over a wall that should not and will not ever be built.
At St. John’s, we have seen firsthand the fear these human rights violations have created. Adolescents caring for and bringing in their younger siblings for annual physicals or medical visits because their parents have been deported. Patients asking for extra bottles of their diabetes medication so they have a reserve, or requesting copies of their children’s medical records so they have them should they be deported. Or hundreds of patients running out of our waiting room because of a rumor that immigration authorities were arresting people “around the corner” from the clinic.
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About Peter Fairfield
Peter Fairfield has spent 40 years working out the East/West physiology of personality and transcendence and their relation to the disease process. This includes a special emphasis with emotional and psychiatric issues and is especially interested in working with children, adolescents, and teens as well as adults. He teaches seminars internationally and is the author of my new book, Deep Happy.
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About Dr. Julie Gatza
Dr. Julie Gatza, D.C. is the holistic leader of Florida Wellness Institute, being a third generation chiropractor with 25 years of clinical experience. Dr. Julie has extensive experience in Applied Kinesiology, Chiropractic, Nutrition, Detoxification and Spinal Decompression. She has successfully helped infants as young as one day old, to patients in their 90s, and those in between.
Dr. Julie Gatza's focus has always been to get to the bottom of what is actually causing her patient's health problems and she works with our Medical Team within her expertise. And she does so without the use of drugs or surgery. Because of this natural and holistic method she has been able to help people when no one else could.
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About Occupy the Economy: Challenging Capitalism
Today’s economic crisis is capitalism’s worst since the Great Depression. Millions have lost their jobs, homes and healthcare while those who work watch their pensions, benefits and job security decline. As more and more are impacted by the crisis, the system continues to make the very wealthy even richer. In eye-opening interviews with prominent economist Richard Wolff, David Barsamian probes the root causes of the current economic crisis, its unjust social consequences, and what can and should be done to turn things around. While others blame corrupt bankers and unregulated speculators, the government, or even the poor who borrowed, the authors show that the causes of the crisis run much deeper. They reach back to the 1970s when the capitalist system itself shifted, ending the century-old pattern of rising wages for U.S. workers and thereby enabling the top 1% to become ultra-rich at the expense of the 99%. Since then, economic injustice has become chronic and further corrupted politics. The Occupy movement, by articulating deep indignation with the whole system, mobilizes huge numbers who seek basic change. Occupying the Economy not only clarifies and analyzes the crisis in U.S. capitalism today, it also points toward solutions that can shape a far better future for all.
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About Dr. Anne Coleman
Anne L Coleman, M.D., Ph.D., has begun her one-year term as the 124th president of the American Academy of Ophthalmology. A glaucoma specialist and educator with a deep commitment to expanding access to quality eye care, Dr. Coleman was elected to leadership by the Academy’s community of 32,000 ophthalmologists. Dr. Coleman begins her term with a challenge to Academy members: Make 2020 the year to step up your effort to provide access to quality eye care – for everyone who needs it.
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Film Maker Vivienne Verdon-Roe is an Oscar-winning filmmaker who teaches a form of enlightenment breathwork called "wisdom Healing" She offers many free online classes eachweek
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About Say Yes to Life: 7 Keys to Living Full Out From Within
Many of us sometimes feel that life has dealt us a bad hand and we often judge ourselves hard for our failures. We often think, “If only I had the right partner, a better body, more money, or a great job...then I’d be happy.” But research tells us that while having these things can make us happier in the short term, long term happiness is actually an inside job.
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About You Can Beat the Odds: Surprising Factors Behind Chronic Illness and Cancer: The Surprising Factors Behind Chronic Illness & Cancer
A compendium of essential information for a lifelong program of how to stay strong and healthy. This practical guide helps you become skilled at using scientifically-based and time-tested techniques that have helped survivors of cancer and chronic diseases for more than a decade. You will learn that there are surprising risk factors – greater than smoking, diet, or cholesterol – that can make the difference between robust health and life-threatening disease. Even your genetic inheritance isn’t as fixed as you might have imagined.
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Dr. Michael Lewis, MD
Founder of the Brain Health Education and Research Institute
New weapon arrives in the war on drug abuse:
Study finds CBD oil limits cravings and anxiety in heroin users
Study at: https://doi.org/10.1176/appi.ajp.2019.18101191)
Individuals suffering from heroin and opioid use disorder may have a
new, natural, non-prescription medication for breaking their drug
addiction: CBD oil extracted from the hemp plant.
In a study published in the May, 2019 online edition of the American
Journal of Psychiatry, researchers at Mount Sanai Hospital reported
that CBD (cannabidiol), a non-psychoactive chemical compound naturally
occurring in hemp and cannabis plants, was able to reduce cravings and
anxiety for individuals attempting to break their addiction to heroin
drugs and showed significant promise for treating individuals with
heroin and opioid use disorder.
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Stuart Eisendrath, MD, is the author of When Antidepressants Aren’t
Enough and the founding director of the University of California San
Francisco Depression Center. A senior clinician and research
psychiatrist at UCSF, his lectures on mindfulness-based cognitive
therapy for University of California TV have been viewed more than 1.5
million times. Visit him online at http://www.stuarteisendrath.com.
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About One-Moment Meditation: Stillness for People on the Go
Think of all the moments you "lose": stuck in traffic, standing in line, waiting for a download. And think of all the moments you "waste": working when you're not focused, or fiddling with your phone. What if each of these moments offered you an extraordinary opportunity? In One-Moment Meditation, Martin Boroson distils the philosophy of time into a simple form of meditation that you can do anywhere, anytime. It begins with an exercise that takes just one minute per day. With practice, this takes less and less time, until it takes no time at all. Then each and every moment gives you a chance to reduce stress, refresh your mind, and open yourself to new possibilities. Playful, profound, and above all, practical, One-Moment Meditation teaches you that inner peace is not a distant goal reserved for saints and sages, and it doesn't take a lot of time: it only takes a moment.
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About SoulSpace: Transform Your Home, Transform Your Life -- Creating a Home That Is Free of Clutter, Full of Beauty, and Inspired by You
Xorin Balbes created his eight-stage SoulSpace process to help his clients create homes that reflect and celebrate what is essential about their inhabitants. The process works for any budget, anytime, anywhere and results in inspiration, self-discovery, and practical solutions. Through the stages — assess, release, cleanse, dream, discover, create, elevate, and celebrate — you will explore not only the design of your abode but also your own interior: how you think, feel, and sense the world. Empowered with this self-knowledge, you will discover fresh ways to declutter, refresh, and enhance your living space. Xorin’s wonderfully unique technique will nurture and transform both your soul and your home.
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About The Chinese Medicinal Herb Farm: A Cultivator's Guide to Small-Scale Organic Herb Production
A leading light in the field of medicinal herb cultivation, The Chinese Medicinal Herb Farm is the first cultivation guide of its kind, and presents invaluable information for growers interested in producing high-quality efficacious herbs in all climates of the US, with the historical connectedness of ancient practitioners.
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About Andy Couturier:
ANDY COUTURIER is the son of a biographer and a civil rights activist. During his four years of living in Japan, he wrote for the Japan Times; worked with local environmentalists fighting large dam projects, rainforest destruction, and huge electric power plants; taught English; and studied the interconnections between Japanese aesthetics and innovative new forms of writing. In California, he and his partner built their own house using only hand tools, developing a piece of raw land into a functioning rural homestead with solar and hydro-electric power, running hot and cold water, and a Japanese-style bath.
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About The Sacred Science
Eight people. Eight illnesses. One journey into the heart of the Amazon jungle. They went looking for alternatives to the modern medicines that failed them. What they found would change their lives forever.
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About Ordinary Sacred: The Simple Beauty of Everyday Life
There is a hidden meaning, a hidden beauty, in life’s most ordinary moments. It is the beauty of the human heart revealed, where what we have in common is greater than what keeps us apart. If we can learn to see the beauty in these moments, whether they are in the light or in the shadow, we become witnesses to the spiritual, testimonies to the sacred. We become true artists of the ordinary, and our life becomes a masterpiece, painted in the colors of the heart.
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Virtually everyone fears mental deterioration as they age. But in the past thirty years neuroscientists have discovered that the brain is actually designed to improve throughout life. How can you encourage this improvement? Brain Power shares practical, state-of-the-evidence answers in this inspiring, fun-to-read plan for action. The authors have interviewed physicians, gerontologists, and neuroscientists; studied the habits of men and women who epitomize healthy aging; and applied what they describe in their own lives. The resulting guidance — along with the accompanying downloadable Brain Sync audio program — can help you activate unused brain areas, tone mental muscles, and enliven every faculty.
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About Are You Tired and Wired?: Your Proven 30-Day Program for Overcoming Adrenal Fatigue and Feeling Fantastic Again
Do you wake up every morning feeling exhausted, overwhelmed and stressed? Are you constantly reaching for coffee, soft drinks or some other promise of energy just to keep yourself going? Do you struggle through the day - tired, irritable, forgetful, depressed and craving sweets - only to have trouble sleeping at night? If you answered yes to any or all of these questions - you're not alone. In fact, hundreds of thousands of women are fighting these same feelings as they strive to live the lives they want. In "Are You Tired and Wired?, Marcelle Pick, author of "The Core Balance Diet", gives you the knowledge and tools to overcome this epidemic of fatigue. You can discover the hidden epidemic of adrenal dysfunction that is the root cause of major health problem. You can find out why the modern world causes our adrenal glands to become overloaded and the simple plan that breaks free from this dangerous pattern. You can enjoy easy diet and lifestyle changes in a clear, easy-to-follow formu
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About Knock and the Door Will Open: 6 Keys to Mastering the Art of Living
Successful psychic medium Jeffrey Wands invites you to embark on a wondrous journey of discovery and harness the power within. Jeffrey believes that each of us is a giant treasure chest waiting to be filled with the gifts that we’ve been given, but most of us have not summoned the courage to open ourselves up to discover our personal treasures. When you are brave enough, you can change your mind and change your life. Here, Jeffrey breaks the process down into six simple, easy-to-follow keys:
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AboutGlad No Matter What: Transforming Loss and Change into Gift and Opportunity
Though SARK has empowered millions to live their creative dreams, manage their businesses, and savor personal connections, the deaths of her mother and cat and the end of a treasured relationship tested her ability to walk her talk. But as Glad No Matter What shows, she journeyed through the spirals and layers of grief and loss and emerged stronger and more whole. In this inspiring book, she shares the insights she found along the way — practical strategies we can all use to cultivate profound, positive transformation through, rather than despite, life’s inevitable travails.
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About The Divine Name: Invoke the Sacred Sound That Can Heal and Transform
What if there was a technique for sounding the personalname of God that could change the world? This revised-edition book—featuring three all-new chapters on Jonathan Goldman’s recent discoveries regarding the Divine Name, including information on the Angel of Sound—is a step-by-step process of vibratory activation that will allow you to experience the power, majesty, and healing of this extraordinary sound. Also included are audio downloads of instructional material and a sacred sound invocation that will help you learn to intone and more powerfully experience the Divine Name yourself, enabling you to revel in its astounding transformational properties. In this groundbreaking and award-winning work, Jonathan shares his incredible discovery of the Divine Name, a universal sound that, when intoned, can bring harmony and healing to ourselves and the planet. This sound, encoded within our DNA, is said to be the personal name of God, once found in the religious texts that link over half the world’s population. Prohibited and then lost for nearly 2,500 years, the Divine Name is available once again. When vocalized, it is a sound that has the ability to resonate both the physical body and subtle energy fields of anyone who intones it—irrespective of religion, tradition, or belief. It has the power to usher in a new era of human consciousness, uniting us in healing, peace, and oneness.
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About Rewire Your Brain For Love
In Rewire Your Brain for Love, neuropsychologist and psychotherapist Marsha Lucas, PhD, helps you untangle those relationship snarls, bringing together the latest neuroscience with a practice consistently heralded by top academic institutions for its effectiveness in changing the brain: the practice of mindfulness meditation.
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About The God Complex
Inspired by actual events, The God Complex takes readers on a thrill ride through Chinese medicine. Discover the secrets of the Orient as you embark on a 'factional' adventure pitting Eastern medicine against its critics in the West. Each clue brings you one step closer to solving the mystery and uncovering an ancient secret that connects Chinese medicine to martial arts
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About: Fire Monks: Zen Mind Meets Wildfire
In June 2008 more than two thousand wildfires, all started by a single lightning storm, blazed across the state of California. Tassajara, the oldest Zen Buddhist monastery in the United States, was at particular risk. Set deep in the Ventana wilderness north of Big Sur, the center is connected to the outside world by a single unpaved road. If fire entered the canyon, there would be no way out.
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About Feeding the Hungry Ghost: Life, Faith, and What to Eat for Dinner A Satisfying Diet for Unsatisfying Time
What do we turn to for both everyday sustenance and seasonal celebration? Food. Often, though, we’re like the hungry ghosts of Taoist lore, eating mindlessly, wandering aimlessly, and wanting more — more than food itself can provide. Ellen Kanner believes that if we put in a little thought and preparation, every meal can feed not only our bodies but our souls and our communities as well. Warm, wicked, and one-of-a-kind, Ellen offers an irreverent approach to bringing reverence into daily living — and eating. She presents global vegan recipes that call you to the table, stories that make you stand up and cheer, and gentle nudges that aim to serve up what we’re hungry for: a more vital self, more loving and meaningful connections, a nourished and nourishing world, and great food, too. Feeding the Hungry Ghost will challenge you to decide: keep reading or start cooking?
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About Fire Monks: Zen Mind Meets Wildfire
In June 2008 more than two thousand wildfires, all started by a single lightning storm, blazed across the state of California. Tassajara, the oldest Zen Buddhist monastery in the United States, was at particular risk. Set deep in the Ventana wilderness north of Big Sur, the center is connected to the outside world by a single unpaved road. If fire entered the canyon, there would be no way out.
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/Guest Dr. Adam Richards is a Team member of the "Global Health Access Program"
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John R. Shearer is the President of "California Physicians Alliance" Comes in to talk about Single Payer Insurance.
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California Physicians Alliance (CaPA) is a voice for physicians, providers and advocates who want a health care system that works for us all.
We want better outcomes for our patients. We work to end health disparities and the financial hardship that results from our current fragmented system.
We want physicians to be free to focus on patient care without undo burden of bureaucratic oversight and onerous administrative tasks.
We are entering an era of significant change in how health care is financed and delivered. CaPA offers an opportunity for our members to have a voice in shaping the future of health care by formulating, educating and advocating for legislative reforms that move us in a better direction.
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About An Uncertain Inheritance: Writers on Caring for Family
Thirty million people today care for ailing family members in their own homes—a number that will increase dramatically over the next decade as baby boomers enter old age, as soldiers return home from war mentally and physically wounded, as medical advances extend lives and health insurance fails to cover them.
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Colette Bizal the Director of the "Sky Hill institute" School of Wholistic Healing Arts
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About The Self-hypnosis Diet: Use the Power of Your Mind to Reach Your Perfect Weight
What's missing from the hundreds of diets on the market to help us achieve healthier bodies? "The most important element, teaches Dr. Steven Gurgevich, is not in the body but in your mind." As a key member of Dr. Andrew Weil's physician's training program, Dr. Gurgevich has brought hypnosis to the forefront of modern medicine. With The Self-Hypnosis Diet, he shows that anyone can use medical hypnosis to achieve long-term success in shifting our appetites to healthier foods and reaching our desired weight.
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Margarita Dodd Subject: Essential Feng Shui Creating the Life You Want
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09-26-07 Guest: Teresa Rousseau by Dr. Ned Hoke
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06-20-07 Guest: Dr. Jeffrey Low by Dr. Ned Hoke
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About Guest Sara Miles -Take This Bread : A Radical Conversion
Early one morning, for no earthly reason, Sara Miles, raised an atheist, wandered into a church, received communion, and found herself transformed–embracing a faith she’d once scorned. A lesbian left-wing journalist who’d covered revolutions around the world, Miles didn’t discover a religion that was about angels or good behavior or piety; her faith centered on real hunger, real food, and real bodies. Before long, she turned the bread she ate at communion into tons of groceries, piled on the church’s altar to be given away. Within a few years, she and the people she served had started nearly a dozen food pantries in the poorest parts of their city.
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About Your Immortal Body of Light
"My name is Mitchell." Thus begins, Your Immortal Body of Light, a fascinating and true story that takes Mitchell E. Gibson, M.D. out of his ordinary consciousness and into the inner realms of his being. Dr. Gibson was Chief Resident in Psychiatry at a large inner city medical center when he began his journey, expanding his consciousness using meditation. On his quest, he actually encounters an ancient 'god of healing' known as Djehuti (pronounced Dee-jan-tee), or Thoth. Being a psychiatrist, Gibson more than wavered before accepting that he was indeed speaking with an actual entity but the experience persisted and eventually Djehuti revealed profound information to Gibson, about the formation of the soul and the causes of mental illness. Your Immortal Body of Light is a credible and highly readable adventure into the land of magic and miracles invoked by meditation. Not since the release of Tranceformers: Shamans of the 21st Century by John Jay Harper has there been such a heartfelt sharing of what it means to be contacted by a "deceased" colleague and how to apply those insights to understanding the physics and metaphysics of creation. In this book the author travels beyond the illusive veil of "reality" to bridge the gap between cultures and centuries. Dr. Gibson reveals how Words of Power invoke transformation in body-mind-spirit as scholar Jeremy Naydler declared in Temple of the Cosmos: The Ancient Egyptian Experience of the Sacred. "It is no coincidence that Thoth, the Lord of Speech, who in the Beginning uttered the primordial sounds that thickened into tangible substances and thus brought the world into existence, was also the originator of writing." That is, your world will never be the same once you put these writings into practice to create a life that is a dream come true too. Both fascinating and chilling this is not your everyday spiritual awakening story. Lee Levinson, Emmy Winning Television Producer "Your Immortal Body of Light" is alternatively a sensitive and compelling portrait of one man's spiritual and emotional journey into the unknown. The author's recounting of his personal experiences are reflected in outstanding visual sequences and dramatic character interaction that make this true story resonate with an air of authenticity that will impact audiences everywhere. Five Stars Highly Recommended... Kirkus Reviews "Nourishing soul food for the spiritually inclined."
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About A Woman's Body Balanced By Nature: Great health for the rest of your life
Walk in the abundant and divine health today... and forever!
When your body, mind and spirit function in concert,you are healthy! That's the unique message in Janet Maccaro's newest book in which she shows women how to achive balance and stay free from anxiety, depression, worry, and physical maladies.
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About The Genie in Your Genes: Epigenetic Medicine and the New Biology of Intention
Your genes respond to your thoughts, emotions and beliefs. The way you use your mind shapes your brain, turning genes on and off in ways that can dramatically affect your health and wellbeing. In this best-selling, award-winning book, researcher Dawson Church reveals the exciting applications of the new science of Epigenetics (epi=above, i.e. control above the level of the gene) to healing. Citing hundreds of scientific studies, and telling the stories of dozens of people who have used his ideas for their own healing, he shows how you can apply these discoveries in your own life. He explains how electromagnetic energy flows in your body and affects your cells, and how the new fields of energy medicine and energy psychology can help cases that are beyond the reach of conventional medicine. He shows how your hormonal, neurological, connective tissue, and neutrotransmitter systems all work in harmony to conduct a coordinated flow of information throughout your body. As you take conscious control of the process, you produce a positive effect on your health, becoming an "epigenetic engineer" of your own wellbeing. Practical and scientific, this book has transformed the lives of tens of thousands of people. This new edition is updated with the latest research and clinical breakthroughs.
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01-10-07 Guest: Joel Kramer - Yoga As Self-Transformation by Dr. Ned Hoke
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About Losing Weight When Diets Fail: The Clinically Proven Power Programming Method for Amazingly Easy, Fail-Proof, Diet-Free Weight Loss
Your subconscious mind is like a computer, says author Dr. Tom Kersting. For years you've been programming it with eating habits that make you overweight. The Kersting solution for losing weight and keeping it off is power programming,-his method for uninstalling the subconscious mind's make-me-fat software and replacing it with new programming that will make you want to exercise and eat wholesome foods in moderation.
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About The Hepatitis C Help Book: A Groundbreaking Treatment Program Combining Western and Eastern Medicine for Maximum Wellness and Healing
Hepatitis C has been called "the emergent and preeminent public-health problem of the twenty-first century--surpassing HIV." It has also been dubbed "The Shadow Epidemic," because it is one of the most clandestine of viruses and infects healthy people who have no idea they are being attacked by something they can't even detect. Now, the two experts on Hepatitis C who teamed up to write the first comprehensive guide to orthodox and alternative treatment options have revised and fully updated the book to include recent findings in the field. Along with programs for self-care, nutritional and fitness plans and a comprehensive Western and Chinese medical treatment program, the revised edition also includes important new self-help information for the growing number of people who are considering or undergoing interferon treatment, including updated information on vial load and the optimum interferon protocol.
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About Soul Wisdom: Practical Soul Treasures to Transform Your Life
This introductory book in the Soul Power series takes integrative medicine to a whole new and exciting place far beyond “mind over matter,” emphasizing instead the concept of “soul over matter.” Soul Wisdom is Dr. Sha’s gift from the Divine, the wisdom of a higher power channeled into a practical guide for anyone interested in opening their souls to heal their bodies and minds.
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About Feeding the Hungry Ghost: Life, Faith, and What to Eat for Dinner - A Satisfying Diet for Unsatisfying Time
What do we turn to for both everyday sustenance and seasonal celebration? Food. Often, though, we’re like the hungry ghosts of Taoist lore, eating mindlessly, wandering aimlessly, and wanting more — more than food itself can provide. Ellen Kanner believes that if we put in a little thought and preparation, every meal can feed not only our bodies but our souls and our communities as well. Warm, wicked, and one-of-a-kind, Ellen offers an irreverent approach to bringing reverence into daily living — and eating. She presents global vegan recipes that call you to the table, stories that make you stand up and cheer, and gentle nudges that aim to serve up what we’re hungry for: a more vital self, more loving and meaningful connections, a nourished and nourishing world, and great food, too. Feeding the Hungry Ghost will challenge you to decide: keep reading or start cooking?
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about Stop the Thyroid Madness: A Patient Revolution Against Decades of Inferior Treatment
With even more pages, a new chapter on foods and supplements, and additions throughout the entire book, this informative Second Edition of the ever-popular classic, "Stop the Thyroid Madness: A Patient Revolution Against Decades of Inferior Treatment", continues to break ground as the ONLY thyroid patient-to-patient book on the market. It addresses a 60+ year, international thyroid treatment scandal involving the use of T4-only medications like Synthroid and other T4-only meds, as well as the TSH lab test--both which have left hundreds of millions worldwide either undiagnosed or undertreated. It explains in detail: 1) what medications work far better and why; 2) which labwork is better than others, and how to read the results (i.e., it has nothing to do with just being "in range"); 3) how a huge body of thyroid patients fall into adrenal fatigue/HPA dysfunction as a result of poor treatment by doctors, plus what patients have learned in treating it; 4) a long list of causes of hypothyroidism; 5) cutting-edge treatment of Hashimotos's disease and gluten intolerance; 6) why patients need to be aware of Reverse T3, plus how to treat it; 7) how to discover and treat low levels of Vit. D, B12, ferritin and iron, iodine and more deficiencies which doctors can miss. As always, this "Bible of Thyroid Treatment", as successfully experienced by patients worldwide, strives to educate the reader in order to bring this on-going and scandal-breaking information into doctors offices worldwide, and create needed change.
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About The Emotion Code
In The Emotion Code, renowned holistic physician and lecturer Dr. Bradley Nelson skillfully lays bare the inner workings of the subconscious mind. He reveals how emotionally-charged events from your past can still be haunting you in the form of "trapped emotions"; emotional energies that literally inhabit your body. Dr. Nelson explains clearly and concisely how trapped emotions can create pain, malfunction and eventual disease. In addition, trapped emotions can exert a dramatic effect on how you think, the choices that you make, and how successful you will be. Perhaps the most important discovery that Dr. Nelson has made is that trapped emotional energies will often gather around the heart, creating a "Heart-Wall" that may block you from giving and receiving love freely. The Emotion Code is a powerful and simple way to rid yourself of unseen baggage. Releasing trapped emotions often results in the sudden disappearance of physical problems, self-sabotage, and recurring relationship difficulties. Filled with real-world examples from many years of clinical practice, The Emotion Code is a distinct and authoritative new work that is destined to become an instant classic on self-healing.
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About Capture: Unraveling the Mystery of Mental Suffering
Why do we think, feel, and act in ways we wished we did not? For decades, New York Times bestselling author Dr. David A Kessler has studied this question with regard to tobacco, food, and drugs. Over the course of these investigations, he identified one underlying mechanism common to a broad range of human suffering. This phenomenon—capture—is the process by which our attention is hijacked and our brains commandeered by forces outside our control.
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About Natasha Trenev
Natasha Trenev is a world renowned expert in the field of probiotics. She brings her family’s 750-year history and knowledge of cultured products to you. Through this Web site, she will share her vast knowledge on health, enabling you to improve your well being and vitality by using high-quality probiotics.
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About Loneliness Has an Antidote: The Feeling of Closeness
Loneliness isn’t something that happens only when we are physically alone. It can also happen when we are with people. Online friends, followers, or “likers” don’t necessarily add up to much when you crave fulfilling interaction, and satisfying, long-term relationships are not a mystery to be left up to chance (or technology). The good news is that, according to relationship coach Kira Asatryan, loneliness has a reliable antidote: the feeling of closeness. We can and should cultivate closeness in our relationships using the steps outlined in this book: knowing, caring, and mastering closeness.
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Health Matters w/ Guest Dr. Molly Bourne Medical Director for Hospice By the Bay
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About Bethany Staffieri
Bethany Staffieri is certified as a Western Medicine Herbalist, a Certified Naturalist, Ancestral Skills and Wild Foods Forager, and has a BFA in Art from the Academy of Art in San Francisco, CA. Bethany loves to create and share delicious homemade food. She has been fermenting vegetables and teaching the craft for the past five years in the Humbolt area through the Arcata CoOp Community Kitchen and Humbolt State University's OhSNAP program.
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About:
Robyn O’Brien is not the most likely candidate for an antiestablishment crusade. A Houston native from a conservative family, this MBA and married mother of four was not someone who gave much thought to misguided government agencies and chemicals in our food—until the day her youngest daughter had a violent allergic reaction to eggs, and everything changed. The Unhealthy Truth is both the story of how one brave woman chose to take on the system and a call to action that shows how each of us can do our part and keep our own families safe.
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About A Return to Healing: Radical Health Care Reform and the Future of Medicine
For several decades, a rapidly emerging person-centered medical paradigm has catalyzed a renaissance in the understanding of lifelong wellness, and this timely book presents the inspiring story of this new medicine, revealing how it can unlock the door to a health care system that works for all Americans. This resource explains how corporatized medicine only gets to work once disease occurs, while integrative medicine prioritizes prevention and noninvasive treatments as the first line of defense, blending the best-evidenced solutions from both mainstream and alternative healing modalities. It argues that single-payer national health insurance is a necessary but insufficient solution and suggests a genuine return to healing by combining regulatory reform with support for a transformed medical paradigm. Rich with the latest research in both biomedical science and health care policy, this is a superb guide to the future of medicine.
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About The Heartfulness Way
Heartfulness is an ideal, a spiritual way of living by and from the heart that is inclusive of all ideologies, beliefs, and religions. In this heart-centered book, a student in conversation with his teacher, Kamlesh D. Patel—affectionately known as Daaji, the fourth and current spiritual guide of the century-old Heartfulness tradition—present a unique method of meditation with the power to facilitate an immediate, tangible spiritual experience, irrespective of a person’s faith.
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Jamie Kitman and Dr Ned Hoke discuss lead in gasoline
Check out Jamie's Article Here
https://www.thenation.com/article/worse-than-lead/
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10-11-18 Jamie Kitman New York Bureau Chief Automobile Magazine by Dr. Ned Hoke
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Health Matters w/Guest Talibah Chiku is a Spiritual Counselor of Clear Vision Associates
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10 - 04 - 18 1 Year anniversary of The Sonoma Fires by Dr. Ned Hoke
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ABOUT MHN
Men's Health Network (MHN) is a national non-profit organization whose mission is to reach men, boys, and their families where they live, work, play, and pray with health awareness and disease prevention messages and tools, screening programs, educational materials, advocacy opportunities, and patient navigation.
About Salvatore Giorgianni
Salvatore J. Giorgianni, Pharm. D is an expert in men's health and is a registered pharmacist. He is recognized expert in drug regulatory and U.S. pharmaceutical policy as well as in organizational reputation management and strategic alliance development. He has authored, co-authored or presented some 200 works in health care, industry regulation and business. He is an advisor and board member to several health advocacy associations including: Men's Health Network; American Osteopathic Medical Foundation; Kappa Psi Scholarship Foundation; Nurse Practitioner Health Care Foundation and the National Association for Continence.
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About Vintage House
Vintage House is a unique senior center noted not just for its impressive facility but for the wealth of opportunities it provides the community’s boomers and seniors to learn, grow, have fun and make new friends.
We offer over 60 programs and services a week, many in collaboration with allied senior service providers. The result is a remarkable variety of relevant and timely programs and resources.
We are a volunteer-supported membership organization, not a government agency. Membership is open to everyone in the community who supports our mission, and volunteer opportunities abound.
Vintage House is located just off Sonoma Plaza on First Street East. Our modern center features classrooms, activity areas, a well-stocked library, a commercial kitchen and Stone Hall—our spacious hotel-style banquet venue with theater-quality projection and sound systems.
Our goal is to help Sonoma boomers and seniors lead happier, healthier lives. And we’ve been successfully doing that for many years.
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Dr. Stephen Krauss co-founder of Atmospheric Water Systems, Inc. talks about pure water vs. bottled water vs tap water
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09 - 13 - 18 Author Marcela Magda Popa MD Keep Away From GRAS Generally Recognized As Safe by Dr. Ned Hoke
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Food, Inc. reveals surprising — and often shocking truths — about what we eat, how it's produced, who we have become as a nation and where we are going from here. Food, Inc. will be accompanied by Notes on Milk, a short variation of the 2007 feature documentary Milk in the Land: Ballad of an American Drink. Ariana Gerstein and Monteith McCollum, whose Hybrid aired on POV in 2002, take a quirky and poetic look at some lesser-known aspects of America’s favorite drink: the industry’s spiritual underpinnings, politics and the struggle of independent farmers.
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About The Awakened Woman's Guide to Everlasting Love
In today's disconnected, distracted world, it seems like deep love gets harder to maintain every day. We spend more time looking at screens than at each other, cycle through new partners every time the spark starts to fade, and wall away our feelings until we become strangers who share a house and kids. But underneath all this, our souls long for an unbreakable love which deepens over time and lovemaking that gets hotter, not cooler, inside a lifetime commitment.
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About Chakra Frequencies: Tantra of Sound
In this step-by-step guide, sound healing pioneer Jonathan Goldman and his wife, holistic psychotherapist Andi Goldman, reveal specific ways the voice can resonate the physical and subtle bodies, including 7 powerful chanted Bija Mantras and sacred vowel sounds to balance and align the chakras. Providing exercises with breath, tone, mantras, and seed sounds, the authors show how to practice sound healing either individually or with a partner to strengthen relationships, reach deeper emotional levels, enhance communication, reduce stress, achieve inner balance, and create harmony with those around you as well as the whole planet. The accompanying 60-minute CD offers correct pronunciation and examples of the Bija Mantras, sacred vowels, seed sounds, and vocal exercises in the book as well as recordings of Pythagorean tuning forks, crystal bowls, Tibetan singing bowls, and Tibetan bells, providing the perfect backdrop for beginning a personal or partnered healing sound practice.
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Christian Wilde is an author/researcher who has appeared as a favorite guest on hundreds of radio shows and has been a medical 'go to' commentator over 396 times on George Noory's number 1 international radio show airing to millions of nightly listeners in the US and Canada, Armed Forces Radio, Sirius and computers worldwide.
He has authored two landmark books, Hidden Causes of Heart Attack and Stroke and Miracle Stem Cell heart Repair. He also authors the Christian Wilde Stem Cell and Turmeric Research Report covering more than 87 catastrophic diseases.
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About Julia Brody:
Dr. Julia Brody and her team at the Silent Spring Institute in Massachusetts are well-known pioneers in exploring linkages between toxic chemicals exposures and breast cancer, prompted by the high incidence of breast cancer in Cape Cod. Upholding the legacy of Rachel Carson in exploring how environmental threats contribute to disease incidence, Brody has produced compelling results from her work in Cape Cod. Recent work has brought her team to Richmond and Bolinas where the team as tested a number of homes for the presence of toxic chemicals in indoor and outdoor air. Householders in both towns found the results surprising. Like most people, they assumed that exposures to toxicants occurred primarily if one were to live near an industrial area, a military facility or near the site of some sort of chemical accident.
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our mission
Thrive Wellness Bangles enable you to wear your wellness and empower your daily choices toward your personal goals. We believe that infinite possibilities all start with the simple act of drinking 8 glasses of water a day.
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Dr. Ned Hoke and Jason Hargraves discuss Trump's new health insurance policies and policy options.
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About Life's Dreamz
Would you like to know more about dream interpretation and dream symbols?
There are a few people in every family that question the need to examine dreams. Are these residual reels really for our benefit? For many millennia, a dozen cultures would answer, Only if we use them.
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About Boycott! The Academy And Justicefor Palestine
This title is part of American Studies Now and available as an e-book first. Visit ucpress.edu/go/americanstudiesnow to learn more.
The Boycott, Divestment, and Sanctions movement (BDS) has expanded rapidly though controversially in the United States in the last five years. The academic boycott of Israeli academic institutions is a key component of this movement. What is this boycott? Why does it make sense? And why is this an American Studies issue? In this short essential book, Sunaina Maira addresses these key questions. Boycott! situates the academic boycott in the broader history of boycotts in the United States as well as in Palestine and shows how it has evolved into a transnational social movement that has spurred profound intellectual and political shifts. It explores the movement’s implications for antiracist, feminist, queer, and academic labor organizing and examines the boycott in the context of debates about Palestine, Zionism, race, rights-based politics, academic freedom, decolonization, and neoliberal capitalism.
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Sooner or Later offers patient, family and caregivers a safe place to help process turbulent emotions during the diagnosis phase of a serious or terminal illness and remain sane, rational and in control.
In large print for easy reading, the book includes pertinent questions to ask specialists written in a way the reader and provider understand to empower patients and their families to seek the appropriate level of care.
Sooner or Later provides the information and tools to take control and make good decisions to maintain the best quality of life.
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About Sick Weather and Dave Switzer
Mission: To provide the most accurate, predictive and meaningful sickness forecast in the world.
Vision: We envision a world in which Sickweather's responsible and open curation of both clinical and anecdotal sickness data will create a singular, trusted global health surveillance system for the purpose of reducing healthcare costs and decelerating the spread of illness.
Values: To respect each other and our company with transparency and honesty. To never rest on our laurels or make assumptions about things we don't know. To always iterate and evaluate our products and services. To respect our users' privacy and the privacy of the users whose data we collect. And to never use perfect attendance as the measure of good health.
Dave Switzer, Director of Client & Media Relations
Dave is a communications leader delivering creative solutions to engage and inform a broad range of stakeholders leading to educated decision making. Emphasis on providing practical solutions which improve knowledge, increase understanding, deepen engagement, promote the brand and empower people. He is experienced in for-profit and non-profit sectors understanding the complexities and opportunities for both, including former senior roles at the Fike Corporation and the PKD Foundation.
About Dr. Mitchell A. Cohn, DO
My training, like that of all Osteopathic Physicians, encompasses the full range of medical science, pharmacology, and surgery. I have, however, always been drawn to manual medicine, the art and science of using touch to diagnose and treat health problems, especially muscular and skeletal disorders. This Osteopathic Manipulative Medicine (OMM) has been likened by my patients to a form of ‘Super-chiropractic’ – super because OMM is more all-encompassing, not just focused on the spine, and is the product of training in ALL areas of medicine and surgery.
Since we DO’s can do anything MD’s can do and a great deal more regarding manipulation than many chiropractors, I call us the ‘Elite, Complete Physicians.’
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About The Body Ecology Diet: Recovering Your Health and Rebuilding Your Immunity
If you’re experiencing discomfort, fatigue, or other symptoms that won’t go away no matter what you do or how many doctors you see, chances are you’re one of the millions unknowingly suffering from a systemic fungal/yeast infection, "the hidden invader." The result of an imbalance starting in your internal ecosystem, this can be a key factor in headaches, joint and muscle pain, depression, cancer, food allergies, digestive problems, autism, and other immune-related disorders. The Body Ecology Diet reveals how to restore and maintain the "inner ecology" your body needs to function properly, and eliminate or control the symptoms that rob you of the joy of living. Tens of thousands of people have already benefited from the Body Ecology way of life—Donna Gates shows you, step-by-step, how to eat your way to better health and well-being . . . deliciously, easily, and inexpensively! In this book, you will learn how to: use seven basic universal principles as tools to gain mastery over every health challenge you may encounter; focus on your inner ecology to create ideal digestive balance; conquer cravings with strategies for satisfying snacking and for dining away from home; and plan meals with dozens of delectable recipes, an array of menus, and detailed shopping lists.bo
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About Sonoma Shambhala's evernt
Come join us for this Summer Morning Book Study happening on four consecutive Sundays in August. This class will meet for 4 Sundays after Sunday Morning Practice. We will take a closer look at readings and teachings from Ani Pema Chödrön's Book, The Wisdom of No Escape and the Path of Loving-Kindness, and how these teachings apply to our current everyday experiences. This program is open to anyone, and if you register in advance for all four Sundays, you will have the opportunity to take advantage of our pre-registration discount pricing. Registeration is open now, see below. You are also welcome to drop in for one or more Sundays and pay at the door.
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The Tenth Door is a multi-award winning memoir and a spiritual hero's journey. In these pages Michele Hébert shares her extraordinary spiritual journey with legendary yoga and meditation master Walt Baptiste. Intimate, captivating and unexpectedly humorous, her story transcends the world of physical yoga and brings to life the teachings shared by many wisdom traditions and their relevance to modern living. Journeying with the author, you are transported from Cleveland to San Francisco to four years of near solitude in the jungles of Central America. As the country moves from seeming tranquility to revolution, Hébert comes fact to face with challenges that test her devotion, her carefully cultivated yoga and meditation discipline, and even her earthly existence. Throughout its pages, The Tenth Door explains many spiritual principles and practices that are practical and enlightening for anyone stepping onto the spiritual path and for seasoned travelers as well.
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Tai Chi, the more commonly practiced form of Qigong in this country, has received significant media attention. Time Magazine in an article on Tai Chi benefits called Tai Chi “the perfect exercise.”, while The Wall Street Journal recently did a front page lifestyle story entitled Qigong The Next Yoga: A Sweat Free Workout—Tiger Woods’ Secret Weapon?
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July's Kitchen Concert features Judy Bowles and Jessica Terwilliger! Get out of the heat this Sunday, July 29 and enjoy a beverage and some wonderful songs!
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About One Soul, One Love, One Heart: the Sacred Path to Healing All Relationships"
How do we heal our difficult relationships and nurture our healthy ones? What is their significance in our spiritual life? In this deeply moving, groundbreaking book, John E. Welshons answers these questions and many more. He shows why the path to real and lasting happiness lies in recognizing that we are all One, and in living in that awareness. He shows us how to heal our most difficult relationships by transforming them into our greatest spiritual lessons and how to love, forgive, and care for our fellow human beings — even those we find most difficult to love and forgive. With compassion and wisdom, Welshons invites us into a revolutionary new understanding of ourselves, our spiritual life, our world, and all our relationships.
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About Joy Stephenson-Laws
Joy Stephenson-Laws is founder of Proactive Health Labs (pH), a revolutionary health care company that provides consumers with the information and tools they need to achieve optimal health. Ms. Stephenson-Laws, who brings more than three decades of health care experience to her role with pH, believes that the better educated people are about how to proactively protect their health, the more benefits of a healthy life they will enjoy. These include a greater sense of well-being, enhanced performance of daily activities, more energy, disease prevention, and a speedier recovery and better outcome from any medical treatment they may need. Being more educated also allows people to better partner with their health care providers in making choices about lifestyle and health care management.
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About Parenting is a Contact Sport: 8 Ways to Stay Connected to Your Kids for Life
Parenting is a Contact Sport will help parents build permanent and powerful relationships with their children that will see them through tough challenges.
Skillfully balancing information from her years as a therapist and her experience as the mother of two girls, the author guides the readers through the biggest problem areas of parenting, including communication, discipline, belonging, honesty, and self-esteem. Readers will learn that the key is establishing a connection through physical, verbal, and even unspoken contact.
This book will stimulate thinking about families and provide courage to improve, renew, or repair damaged relationships. Providing specific behavioral advice supported by anecdotal material, the author coaches readers through the tough spots of making contact and deepening bonds - in the present and for the future.
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About Jaws the story of a hidden epidemic
There's a silent epidemic in western civilization, and it is right under our noses. Our jaws are getting smaller and our teeth crooked and crowded, creating not only aesthetic challenges but also difficulties with breathing. Modern orthodontics has persuaded us that braces and oral devices can correct these problems. While teeth can certainly be straightened, what about the underlying causes of this rapid shift in oral evolution and the health risks posed by obstructed airways?
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About The Tyranny of Oil: The World's Most Powerful Industry--and What We Must Do to Stop It
In the tradition of the Academy Award-winning documentary An Inconvenient Truth, Antonia Juhasz’s The Tyranny of Oil offers a chilling exposé of the modern American oil industry and its dire abuse of power. A leading international trade and finance policy expert and the author of The Bush Agenda, Juhasz presents eye-opening truths about a potentially catastrophic global energy crisis that only promises to get much worse in the coming years—and provides possible solutions for meaningful change. Terry Tamminen, former Secretary of the California Environmental Protection Agency, calls The Tyranny of Oil “a bold blueprint for ending the madness,” and the Christian Science Monitor tells us, “a good first step toward true energy independence is to read this insightful book.”
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Many people are dealing with addiction and abuse issues. Others suffer from physical ailments. Some are recovering from the emotional fallout of growing up in a dysfunctional family. My Big Book of Healing provides one-stop shopping for anyone in search of emotional and physical health.
Renowned author and spiritual teacher Echo Bodine shows readers how they can heal from eighteen illnesses, addictions, and "distractions," including:
the debilitating power of secrets
chemical dependencies
excessive weightloss or weight gain
stress and depression
fear and resentment
loss and grieving
After exploring these common personal issues, Bodine offers concrete, easy-to-understand guidance on where and how to find the deep inner healing necessary to overcome these issues. She takes readers through such healing solutions as 12-Step groups to Lifework clinics to therapy and good medical help.
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Partnering with Nature: The Wild Path to Reconnecting with the Earth
In today’s world, it’s often too easy to forget about the world outside the window. People struggle daily with stressful jobs, trapped under fluorescent lighting, staring at glowing screens, or surrounded by concrete when they could be outdoors, acknowledging the gifts of natural world. In the face of its absence, we are finally beginning to understand that our connection with nature—plants, trees, animals, and the energy of the earth itself—is more than a luxury; it is a necessary and vital part of our existence. In Partnering with Nature, Catriona MacGregor weaves together historical, spiritual, and scientific examples to emphasize the importance of creating a vital relationship with our natural surroundings. Our separation from nature leads to several devastating effects, whether through stress, feeling a lack of purpose, or the heedless destruction of our environment. Through her exploration of the energies that link humans, animals, and the natural world, she shows how we can learn from nature as we develop our spirituality and ourselves. Through diverse approaches, Catriona offers the reader a solid understanding of why a connection with the Earth is vital to our existence, and how a revival of that connection opens doors to a myriad of benefits in our environment and in our health, our daily lives, and our happiness.
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About The Tao of Rejuvenation: Fundamental Principles of Health, Longevity, and Essential Well-Being
Throughout history Taoists, Christians, the yogis of northern India, and others have learned that the secret of longevity and even bodily rejuvenation lies in unlocking the body's own healing "somas" (or higher chemistry). Traditionally, however, the principles and techniques behind their discoveries have been hidden, transmitted only from teacher to student. Fortunately, these esoteric secrets are but the ultimate expression of a time-tested body of traditional healing wisdom that has taken strong root in the Western world, where it has been clarified and amplified by a new generation of healers and spiritual practitioners. The Tao of Rejuvenation is an inspiring and very well-written guide to the underlying principles and basic practices essential to our ability to not only achieve longevity and bodily rejuvenation, but also to lead a vital, balanced, and happy life. Written in a clear, rational, and highly readable style, it is a book that speaks to all modern men and women ready and willing to assume responsibility for their own destiny.
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Based on Gabor Mate’s two decades of experience as a medical doctor and his groundbreaking work with the severely addicted on Vancouver’s skid row, In the Realm of Hungry Ghosts radically reenvisions this much misunderstood field by taking a holistic approach. Dr. Mate presents addiction not as a discrete phenomenon confined to an unfortunate or weak-willed few, but as a continuum that runs throughout (and perhaps underpins) our society; not a medical "condition" distinct from the lives it affects, rather the result of a complex interplay among personal history, emotional, and neurological development, brain chemistry, and the drugs (and behaviors) of addiction. Simplifying a wide array of brain and addiction research findings from around the globe, the book avoids glib self-help remedies, instead promoting a thorough and compassionate self-understanding as the first key to healing and wellness.
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Management team is made up of like-minded individuals with a common goal to help people get mental health services. We are led by Dr. John Huber, as Chairman, a mental health professional and university professor that has been in mental health for over twenty years. His experience began as a School Psychologist.
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Today, he is in private practice as a Clinical Forensic Psychologist, and he is a practitioner with privileges at two long term acute care hospitals. In addition, he taught undergraduate and graduate psychology at Texas State University from 1996 until 2017. Dr. Huber will provide the public face for Mainstream Mental Health.
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About Leaning into Sharp Points: Practical Guidance and Nurturing Support for Caregivers
Whether you’re coping with a loved one who has received a terminal diagnosis, has a long-term illness or disability, or suffers with dementia, caregiving is challenging and crucial. Those who face this responsibility, whether occasionally or 24/7, are brushing up against life’s sharpest point. In this book, Stan Goldberg offers an honest, caring, and comprehensive guide to those on this journey. Everyone wants to “do the right thing,” and this book provides the often-elusive how-to — from bedside etiquette to advice on initiating difficult conversations, caring for oneself while caring for another, navigating rapid changes in your loved one’s condition, and even offering “permission” for them to die. Goldberg’s stories demonstrate how to address the most difficult topics and will facilitate more open and useful communication and caregiving.
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About Adam Lehman
Adam Lehman, T.N.P. (Traditional Naturopathic Practitioner), En.K. (Energy Kinesiologist), currently resides in Petaluma, California. He is the Founder/Director of the North Bay Center of BioEnergetic Health, a private Wellness Consulting practice located in Sonoma, California, and the Institute of BioEnergetic Arts & Sciences. The Institute is the educational part of the center, offering self-help and professional training workshops based on Energy Kinesiology (muscle testing) and HeartMath emotional self-regulation and coherence methods.
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About Barbara Marx Hubbard
Barbara Marx Hubbard has been called “the voice for conscious evolution of our time” by Deepak Chopra and is the subject of Neale Donald Walsh’s book “The Mother of Invention.” Barbara is a prolific author of 9 books, a visionary social innovator and educator, and is also the co-founder and co-chair of The Foundation for Conscious Evolution and president of Evolutionary Academy.
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About Dr. Effie Chow
Dr. Effie Chow, founder of EWAHA is a Qigong Grandmaster and California Certified Acupuncturist and has been practicing for over 30 years. She is also an international health practitioner, a U.S. Department of Health and Human Services advisor and a public health and psychiatric nurse with a Masters in Behavioral Sciences and a Ph.D. in Higher Education. View her Profile and accreditations on our page.
About Dr. David Lewis and Brain Health Education
Brain Health Education and Research Institute was founded by Dr. Michael Lewis in 2011 to pursue educational and research endeavors to further our knowledge of natural and nutritional ways to improve brain health. The initial focus of the Institute is educating providers and the public on the use of omega-3 fatty acids for the prevention, treatment, and rehabilitation of the brain prior to or following injury such as traumatic brain injury or concussion. With Dr. Lewis’ 30-plus years of military experience, a special emphasis is working towards improving the care and outcomes of our military personnel and veterans who have experienced psychological or physical trauma to the brain.
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About Joyful Evolution: A Guide for Loving Co-creation with Your Conscious, Subconscious and Superconscious Selves (Transforming Yourself with Multidimensional Psychology)
Excerpted from back cover of book: This truly revolutionary book introduces a new Multi-Dimensional Psychology that radically accelerates your spiritual growth by giving you a vastly expanded picture of who you are, showing you how you can fully love and integrate your conscious, subconscious and superconscious selves. Joyful Evolution provides the understanding and tools to fully resolve your inner conflicts and remove blockages, so your three selves can fully contribute to their shared higher soul purpose. With playful humor, Joyful Evolution helps you understand and evolve any difficult subconscious parts like your inner parents, inner teenager or critic, and former personalities from your living library of lives. It offers techniques to resolve polarities, build psychic protection, and recreate your subconscious timelines. Included are fascinating case histories, personal stories, and dozens of meditations and exercises from the author's work with hundreds of international clients.
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About Accident: Michigan's Insurance Model for America
When the state of Michigan set up its unique auto insurance system in 1973, they probably didn’t know it would become the gold standard for insurance in all of the United States. People around the country continue to lack access to essential medical care that could dramatically improve their quality of life. They are filing for bankruptcy due to their unpaid medical bills; meanwhile their medical providers are struggling to make ends meet with perpetually dwindling reimbursements. Michigan has a successful model for insurance that solves these problems while creating thousands of jobs and saving billions in Medicaid costs, with a $20 billion fund to prove it.
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About Staying Grounded in Shifting Sand: Awakening Soul Consciousness for the New Millennium
Staying Grounded in Shifting Sand provides insightful stories and ideas to support your spiritual journey and help you answer your soul's calling. Inside you'll read how to step fully into who you are as an awakened soul being. You'll shift how you experience your world using the affirmations, meditations, and visualizations provided in each chapter. Linda's new process called 'Transformational Empowerment' shows six key steps for manifesting your heart's desire and fulfilling your soul contracts.
Read this insightful book to deepen your spiritual life and radiate your Divine Light.
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About Turbo Metabolism: 8 Weeks to a New You: Preventing and Reversing Diabetes, Obesity, Heart Disease, and Other Metabolic Diseases by Treating the Causes
Turbocharge your metabolism for vitality, energy, and lifelong health
As the modern Western lifestyle spreads around the globe, so too does metabolic syndrome -- a cluster of symptoms that increases the risk of developing heart disease, stroke, diabetes, and other conditions. The good news: metabolic syndrome can be tamed by a sensible program of exercise, natural foods, stress management, and quality sleep. In this concise and lively book, Dr. Vij distills a mass of medical research into a simple, effective program for vibrant health. Avoiding fads and gimmicks, he provides practical advice, case studies of ordinary people, and brief sections that debunk common medical myths. By following Dr. Vij's evidence-based methods, you can manage diabetes, avoid related metabolic conditions, lose weight, and live a healthier, happier life with energy to spare.
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About The Digestive Health Solution: Your personalized five-step plan for inside-out digestive wellness
Comprehensive and accessible! This interactive book enables you to have better digestive health for life! When your insides are working properly, all of you is so much healthier. Under the guidance of expert naturopath and communicator Ben Brown, you will explore the mind-body connection, food intolerances and the keys to a healthy digestive system before learning how to address your health issues and quality-of-life needs with a five-step plan that is uniquely yours.
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About Religion in Medicine Volume 1 and 2
The purpose of this treatise is: 1) to draw attention to the presence of situations arising within medical practice in which religious beliefs play an important role. 2) to emphasize the fact that most students and many doctors are given insufficient training in such matters, which are of considerable import to a fair percentage of the public. 3) to provide a few examples of what is meant by a religio-medical situation, and a bibliography for further exploration by the initiate in such matters.
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About Why Physicians Die by Suicide: Lessons Learned from Their Families and Others Who Cared
Physicians are known to be a group of professionals who are at risk of taking their own lives. In this easy-to-read book, Dr. Michael Myers, a psychiatrist and specialist in physician health, attempts to explain the mystery of why some doctors, despite their calling and the adoration of their families, patients, students and colleagues, perish by suicide. He combines the powerful and gripping insights of dozens of bereaved people whom he interviewed for this project with disguised stories from his decades long clinical practice to shed some light on this national tragedy.
About Carla Fine
Carla Fine is the author of nine books, including No Time to Say Goodbye: Surviving the Suicide of a Loved One; Touched by Suicide: Hope and Healing After Loss; Strong, Smart, and Bold: Empowering Girls for Life; and Married to Medicine: An Intimate Portrait of Doctors' Wives. She lectures frequently throughout the U.S. and internationally about how suicide affects those who have been left behind. Carla lives in New York City and her website is www.carlafine.com
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About Soul Courage:
Have you ever thought about who you really are and why you're here? Most people share the understanding that Life is about more than the experiences of the Body and the Mind, but it takes a special kind of courage to also engage one's Soul in our daily encounters.
Knowing this is one thing. Knowing how to do it is another. There are no schools offering courses in Soul Connection. There is, however, this book--offering a clearly articulated path to such a connection with yourself and others. A path that has the potential to create some of the most enriching experiences in your life, allowing you to come alive in ways that can utterly transform your journey of self-awareness to one of soul-awareness.
Tara-jenelle Walsch tells us that with Soul Courage this and more are within our reach. And, we are assured, the rewards can be extraordinary--forever changing the way you view yourself and the world.
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About Josh Hendrix:
Born and raised in the Bluegrass State and a University of Kentucky alumnus, Mr. Hendrix relocated back to Central Kentucky in 2014 on a mission to help rebuild the US hemp industry. Seeing a need to bring farmers, processors, manufacturers and supporters of the industry together, Mr. Hendrix founded the Kentucky Hemp Industries Association that summer and still serves on the Board of Directors. He also became an active member of the Kentucky Hemp Industries Council where he now serves as Treasurer on the Board of Directors. In 2015 he created and became President of Hendrix Hemp, a licensed hemp producer that manages hemp cultivation on his family’s, Mayflower Farm, in Mount Sterling, KY. In early 2016 Mr. Hendrix was appointed to the Technical Advisory Council for the National Hemp Association and accepted a role on the Senior Advisory Board of the institutional trading platform for hemp, Seed CX. Currently Mr. Hendrix serves as the Director of Business Development – Domestic Production for CV Sciences, Inc. where he works with numerous universities, farmers, businesses, and organizations to help facilitate the infrastructure necessary to establish a modern domestic supply chain for hemp in the United States.
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About the Author
Born and raised in the small town of Millry, Alabama, Tory Minus is a proud mother of 4 and Founder and Executive Director of the Alabama Institute of Medicine (AIM). She also played an instrumental role in the formation and passing of the TJ Atchison Spinal Cord Injury Research Act, also known as "TJ's Law," which provides funding for spinal cord injury research in Alabama. Because of personal events involving family illness, Tory saw that while significant progress has been made for some clinical research in the southeast, there is a tremendous lack of funding and education for progressive regenerative medicine therapies. Tory continues to be an active advocate for further education on the benefits of stem cell research.
About Inevitable Collision: The Inspiring Story That Brought Stem Cell Research to Conservative America
On September 25, 2010, Tory Minus received the devastating news that a family friend, 21-year-old TJ Atchison, had been in a terrible automobile accident and, despite thorough care, was paralyzed from the chest down. Based on many factors surrounding TJ's condition, doctors determined he was the perfect candidate for a new clinical trial using a drug containing embryonic stem cells that was designed to regenerate damaged spinal cord tissue. This was the first trial of its kind to involve a human candidate, and would end up being the start of Tory's courageous journey to document this clinical trial and raise awareness and funding for embryonic stem cells research across the nation, especially to those within "conservative" America.
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01-05-11 Guest: Lee Gooding Executive Director of “Helping American Veterans Endure" by Dr. Ned Hoke
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About Through the Flames: Overcoming Disaster Through Compassion, Patience, and Determination
After miraculously surviving a plane crash in Myanmar, Allan Lokos shares what his long and painful recovery process is teaching him about humanity’s ability to survive—and even thrive—in the face of suffering.
In Through the Flames, Allan Lokos tells the terrifying story of being on board a plane on Christmas Day with his wife, Susanna, when it crashed and exploded in flames. Lokos was severely burned in the accident, and in the days and weeks following the crash, Susanna was told by the many doctors who examined Lokos that he would not survive.
As founder and guiding teacher of the Community Meditation Center in New York City, Lokos had spent decades cultivating compassion and non-attachment. Since the plane crash, his Buddhist practice has been mightily tested. In this inspiring account of his against-all-odds recovery, Lokos uses his experience as a window through which to examine the challenge of human suffering in general and addresses the question of how we can thrive in the midst of pain and uncertainty.
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About The Abundance of Less: Lessons in Simple Living from Rural Japan
Andy Couturier captures the texture of sustainable lives well lived in these ten profiles of ordinary—yet exceptional—men and women who left behind mainstream existences in urban Japan to live surrounded by the luxuries of nature, art, friends, delicious food, and an abundance of time. Drawing on traditional Eastern spiritual wisdom and culture, these pioneers describe the profound personal transformations they underwent as they escaped the stress, consumerism, busyness, and dependence on technology of modern life. This intimate and evocative book tells of their fulfilling lives as artists, philosophers, and farmers who rely on themselves for happiness and sustenance. By inviting readers to enter into the essence of these individuals’ days, Couturier shows us how we too can bring more meaning and richness to our own lives.
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About Birth of a Psychedelic Culture: Conversations about Leary, the Harvard Experiments, Millbrook and the Sixties
No understanding of the history of the sixties could be complete without a grasp of the work of Leary, Alpert, and Metzner, the cultural resistance to their experiments, and the way in which psychoactive drug use became a part of contemporary society. Next Generation Independent Book Awards Finalist, Birth of a Psychedelic Culture explores these experiments and their cultural milieu through never before seen photographs, personal accounts of authors Ralph Metzner and Ram Dass, and conversations with luminaries such as Aldous Huxley, Charles Mingus, Allen Ginsberg, William Burroughs and others that appeared on the scene.
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About Dr. Wanye Sodano
Dr. Wayne L. Sodano is a Board Certified Chiropractic Internist, Diplomate of the American Clinical Board of Nutrition, and Certified Functional Medicine Practitioner who has practiced and taught post graduate programs since 1985. He is a former instructor with the American Board of Chiropractic Internists, currently dedicates his time to research and development in the areas of integrative and functional medicine, and teaches distance learning and live post graduate programs nationwide and internationally. He also serves as the Director of Clinical Support and Education with Doctors Choice, a professional laboratory and diagnostic services company that also offers a multitude of services to physicians.
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About Behind the Curtain: A Peek at Life from within the ER
Revealing and unflinching, Behind the Curtain offers an unfiltered look inside the real-life traumas and triumphs that define emergency medicine. Dr. Jeffrey Sterling’s authentic and enthralling collection of stories represents his unique journey as an ER physician. Both an enlightening memoir and an unforgiving mirror reflecting the best and worst of human behavior, Behind the Curtain unveils the insidious consequences of everyday risks and seemingly innocuous habits.
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About Adam Lehman
Adam Lehman, T.N.P. (Traditional Naturopathic Practitioner), En.K. (Energy Kinesiologist), currently resides in Petaluma, California. He is the Founder/Director of the North Bay Center of BioEnergetic Health, a private Wellness Consulting practice located in Sonoma, California, and the Institute of BioEnergetic Arts & Sciences. The Institute is the educational part of the center, offering self-help and professional training workshops based on Energy Kinesiology (muscle testing) and HeartMath emotional self-regulation and coherence methods.
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About Dr. Raphael Kellman's book The Microbiome Diet: The Scientifically Proven Way to Restore Your Gut Health and Achieve Permanent Weight Loss
The groundbreaking program that connects the microbiome and gut health to healthy weight loss, complete with a 3-phase plan and recipes
Cutting-edge science has shown that the microbiome is the key to overall mental and physical health--and the secret behind healthy, sustainable weight loss.
About Dr. Steve Barrer's book Exercise Will Hurt You
A (Philadelphia Magazine) Top Doc’s case for moderation in running, cycling, skiing, and other things we do because we think our bodies are invincible.
When was it decided that exercise could only be good for you? Leading neurosurgeon Dr. Steve Barrer argues—based on his extensive career treating exercise-related injuries, a cornucopia of his own personal injuries from exercise over the years, and ample scientific data—that we ought to change the way we think about exercise.
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About Dr. Mark R. Engelman M.D., FSCM,
Recognized as one of the top doctors in functional integrative medicine, Dr. Mark R. Engelman has advanced degrees and certifications in functional, metabolic, anti-aging and stem cell medicine. He has an unblemished record in practice. Engelman Health Institute is advanced science, and personalized care. This "new medicine" incorporates the best of traditional practices and natural and alternative diagnostic modalities. The approach has been featured in media such as New York Times, Huffington Post, The Oprah Winfrey Show, Dr. Oz and numerous prestigious publications.
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About Siddhartha's Brain: Unlocking the Ancient Science of Enlightenment
A groundbreaking exploration of the “science of enlightenment,” told through the lens of the journey of Siddhartha (better known as Buddha), by Guardian science editor James Kingsland.
About James Kingsland
JAMES KINGSLAND is a science and medical journalist with twenty-five years' experience working for publications including New Scientist, Nature and most recently the Guardian, where he was a commissioning editor and contributor for its Notes & Theories blog. On his own blog, Plastic Brain, he writes about neuroscience and Buddhist psychology.
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David Helvarg is an author and Executive Director of Blue Frontier, an ocean conservation and policy group (www.bluefront.org). He has written six books, Blue Frontier (now available on Kindle), The War Against the Greens, 50 Ways to Save the Ocean, Rescue Warriors, Saved by the Sea and The Golden Shore.
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About Rewilding Our Hearts: Building Pathways of Compassion and Coexistence
In wildlife conservation, rewilding refers to restoring habitats and creating corridors between preserved lands to allow declining populations to rebound. Marc Bekoff, one of the world’s leading animal experts and activists, here applies rewilding to human attitudes. Rewilding Our Hearts invites readers to do the essential work of becoming reenchanted with the world, acting from the inside out, and dissolving false boundaries to truly connect with both nature and themselves.
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Multilingual sustainability / business development / strategic marketing professional with more than 20 years FMCG and international dairy industry experience.
Strong focus on sustainability and innovation from product concept development (drinkable skin care, bone health) to processes (development of web based tools to facilitate collaboration and decision making and development of web based carbon footprint calculators) and smart packaging and the Internet of Things.
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About Sick to Death
When filmmaker Maggie Hadleigh-West is advised to drink radioactive iodine to quell her overactive thyroid, her life-long symptoms worsen. SICK TO DEATH! follows Maggie’s quest for personal health and medical justice for the 59 million individuals in the US who are sick and suffering from thyroid disease as a result of failed testing, big pharma monopolies and a bounty of medical knowledge that has fallen into obscurity.
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About Dr. Thomas Cowan and Human Heart, Cosmic Heart: A Doctor’s Quest to Understand, Treat, and Prevent Cardiovascular Disease
Thomas Cowan was a 20-year-old Duke grad―bright, skeptical, and already disillusioned with industrial capitalism―when he joined the Peace Corps in the mid-1970s for a two-year tour in Swaziland. There, he encountered the work of Rudolf Steiner and Weston A. Price―two men whose ideas would fascinate and challenge him for decades to come.
Both drawn to the art of healing and repelled by the way medicine was―and continues to be―practiced in the United States, Cowan returned from Swaziland, went to medical school, and established a practice in New Hampshire and, later, San Francisco. For years, as he raised his three children, suffered the setback of divorce, and struggled with a heart condition, he remained intrigued by the work of Price and Steiner and, in particular, with Steiner’s provocative claim that the heart is not a pump. Determined to practice medicine in a way that promoted healing rather than compounded ailments, Cowan dedicated himself to understanding whether Steiner’s claim could possibly be true. And if Steiner was correct, what, then, is the heart? What is its true role in the human body?
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About Body Kindness: Transform Your Health from the Inside Out--and Never Say Diet Again
Imagine a graph with two lines. One indicates happiness, the other tracks how you feel about your body. If you’re like millions of people, the lines do not intersect. But what if they did?
This practical, inspirational, and visually lively book shows you how to create a healthier and happier life by treating yourself with compassion rather than shame. It shows the way to a sense of well-being attained by understanding how to love, connect, and care for yourself—and that includes your mind as well as your body.
About Rebecca Scritchfield
Thank you for reading Body Kindness! My husband and I joke that she is our "third baby". We have two real children, ages 3 and 5. Indeed, this project has been a labor of love for the last few years of my life. It's very personal and important work. Too many of us have suffered at the relentless pressure to diet and strive for a perfect body. There was a time when I thought weight loss pursuits were health pursuits. L
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About Dr. Jennifer Mericer:
My passion is serving women with fertility issues, pelvic pain, general wellness matters, holistic breast care and newborn/infant craniosacral balancing.
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About Life And Death Behind The Brick And Razor-Code Red Diamond:
Enter The Fast Paced World Of Correctional Medicine where Split Second Decisions Are Made preventing A Patient From Bleeding To Death. Also Get Health And Wellness Tips as Well. Also Great Points are Reviewed in Detail to Strategically Assist Teenagers in Defense against Bullying, Peer Pressure, Drug Abuse, Gang membership, STD's And So Much More
About Dr. Isaac Alexis:
Isaac Alexis, MD, completed an internship in trauma surgery at Cornell University at New York Hospital of Queens. Dr. Alexis served as medical director at the Department of Justice as well as director of infection control and chair of the quality improvement medical committee. He has several years of correctional medicine under his belt
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About To Heal a Wounded Heart: The Transformative Power of Buddhism and Psychotherapy in Action
Early on in her clinical practice, psychoanalyst Pilar Jennings was presented with a particularly difficult case: a six-year-old girl who, traumatized by loss, had stopped speaking. Challenged by the limitations of her training to respond effectively to the isolating effect of childhood trauma, Jennings takes the unconventional path of inviting her friend Lama Pema—a kindly Tibetan Buddhist monk who experienced his own life-shaping trauma at a very young age—into their sessions. In the warm therapeutic space they create, the young girl slowly begins to heal. The result is a fascinating case study of the intersection of Western psychology and Buddhist teachings. Pilar’s story is for therapists, parents, Buddhists, or any of us who hold out the hope that even the deepest childhood wounds can be the portal to our capacity to love and be loved.
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Dr Ned Hoke read excerpts from Unretirement: How Baby Boomers Are Changing the Way We Think About Work, Community and the Good Life
about Unretirement: How Baby Boomers Are Changing the Way We Think About Work, Community and the Good Life
The budget battles of recent years have amplified the warnings of demographic doomsayers who predicted that a wave of baby boomers would bleed America dry, bankrupting Social Security and Medicare as they faded into an impoverished old age. On the contrary, argues award-winning journalist Chris Farrell, we are instead on the verge of a broad, positive transformation of our economy and society.
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