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The New York Times bestselling authors of Super Brain and Super Genes present a groundbreaking, landmark work on the supreme importance of protecting our immunity to ensure lifelong health. “The Healing Self is a quantum leap forward in the integration of science, medicine, wisdom, and health.”—Arianna Huffington
In the face of environmental toxins, potential epidemics, superbugs, and the accelerated aging process, the significance of achieving optimum health has never been more crucial—and the burden to achieve it now rests on individuals making the right lifestyle choices every day.
That means you. You—not doctors, not pharmaceutical companies—are ultimately responsible for your own health.
Deepak Chopra and Rudolph E. Tanzi want to help readers make the best decisions possible when it comes to creating a holistic and transformative health plan for longevity. The Healing Self closely examines how we can best manage chronic stress and inflammation, which are emerging as the primary detriments to well-being. It also offers a cutting-edge seven-day action plan, which outlines the key tools everyone needs to develop their own effective and personalized path to self-healing.
The Healing Self, then, is a call to action, a proven, strategic program that will arm readers with the information they need to protect themselves and achieve lifelong wellness.
There is a new revolution unfolding in health today. That revolution is you.
The New York Times bestselling authors of Super Brain and Super Genes present a groundbreaking, landmark work on the supreme importance of protecting our immunity to ensure lifelong health. “The Healing Self is a quantum leap forward in the integration of science, medicine, wisdom, and health.”—Arianna Huffington
In the face of environmental toxins, potential epidemics, superbugs, and the accelerated aging process, the significance of achieving optimum health has never been more crucial—and the burden to achieve it now rests on individuals making the right lifestyle choices every day.
That means you. You—not doctors, not pharmaceutical companies—are ultimately responsible for your own health.
Deepak Chopra and Rudolph E. Tanzi want to help readers make the best decisions possible when it comes to creating a holistic and transformative health plan for longevity. The Healing Self closely examines how we can best manage chronic stress and inflammation, which are emerging as the primary detriments to well-being. It also offers a cutting-edge seven-day action plan, which outlines the key tools everyone needs to develop their own effective and personalized path to self-healing.
The Healing Self, then, is a call to action, a proven, strategic program that will arm readers with the information they need to protect themselves and achieve lifelong wellness.
There is a new revolution unfolding in health today. That revolution is you.
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Getting Real, Getting Started
Let’s get real about staying healthy. Everyone wants to stay healthy as long as possible, but we’re confused about how to do this. Conflicting information keeps appearing, backed up by studies that disagree as often as they agree. Eagerly followed fads come and go. Even very basic questions—is milk good for adults? do eggs increase cholesterol levels? how is obesity connected to type 2 diabetes? why are allergies on the rise?—have been thrown into doubt.
We wind up taking the attitude that life is a gamble, and anyone who stays vital and vigorous for seventy or eighty years has been very lucky. The deeper reason we hold this attitude is that we feel the odds are stacked against us. Life isn’t an upward arc. After your prime years, getting sick is inevitable. Every adult is statistically at risk for heart disease and cancer, the two leading causes of death in this country. Most people’s greatest fear, Alzheimer’s disease, apparently strikes at random and is incurable.
The gambling model for staying healthy is taught in medical school, only in a more scientific way. Despite all the marvels of modern medicine, a great deal remains uncertain. A specific cause of disease like a cold virus only makes a certain percentage of people sick, not everyone. Standard treatments all involve some degree of unpredictability, working better for some patients than others, and sometimes not at all. Reducing risks is how prevention is defined. By eating right, exercising regularly, and avoiding toxins like alcohol and tobacco, a person isn’t actually attacking the cause of major disorders like diabetes, coronary artery disease, and cancer. Instead, the odds of getting sick are going up or down. The average person doesn’t realize that these risks apply to big groups as measured by statistics. They don’t predict what will happen to the individual. There will always be someone who does everything right but gets sick anyway, while someone else who has paid almost no attention to their health dodges the bullet.
Even if you’re blessed with good luck, the day will come when the best doctors in the world cannot help you. Through no fault of your own, there will be a breakdown in your health, and the casino will start to gain its advantage. Here’s why.
Seven Reasons Medical Care Stops Working
• The doctor doesn’t know what caused you to get sick.
• There’s no drug or surgery that will resolve the situation.
• The available treatments are too risky, toxic, expensive, or all three.
• The side effects of the treatment outweigh the benefits.
• Your condition is too far advanced to be reversed.
• You’re too old to treat safely or with much hope of recovery.
• Somewhere along the line, a doctor made a mistake.
When any of these breakdowns in medical care occur, whatever happens next is out of your control, and your doctor’s. After three centuries of scientific medicine making huge strides—a legacy the authors deeply respect—it’s becoming obvious that the gambling model for staying healthy needs to be replaced. Too many unacceptable things are happening:
• People are living longer and yet on average suffer eight to ten years of bad health and one to three years of disability at the end.
• Cancer is still approached with grim fatalism despite the fact that up to two-thirds of cancers are preventable.
• An estimated 400,000 people die every year due to medical...
About the Author-
DEEPAK CHOPRA MD, FACP, is a world renowned pioneer in integrative medicine and personal transformation, the founder of the Chopra Foundation, and cofounder of Jiyo.com and the Chopra Center for Wellbeing. TIME magazine has described Dr. Chopra as "One of the top 100 heroes and icons of the century.” Dr. Chopra is Board Certified in Internal Medicine, Endocrinology and Metabolism, a Fellow of the American College of Physicians, Clinical Professor in Medicine at the University of California, San Diego, Researcher, Neurology and Psychiatry, at Massachusetts General Hospital, Adjunct Professor at Kellogg School of Executive Management at Northwestern, Adjunct Professor at Columbia Business School, Columbia University and Professor of Consciousness Studies at Sofia University. The World Post and The Huffington Post global internet survey ranked “Chopra #17 influential thinker in the world and #1 in Medicine.” In conjunction with his medical achievements, he is recognized as a prolific author of more than 85 books translated into over forty-three languages, with twenty-five New York Times Bestsellers including You Are the Universe (February 2017, Harmony). DR. RUDOLPH E. TANZI, Ph.D., a New York Times bestselling author, is Professor of Neurology and holder of the Joseph P. and Rose F. Kennedy Endowed Chair in Neurology at Harvard University. He serves as the Vice-Chair of Neurology and Director of the Genetics and Aging Research Unit at Massachusetts General Hospital. Dr. Tanzi is a pioneer in studies aimed at identifying genes for neurological disease. He co-discovered all three genes that cause early-onset familial Alzheimer's Disease (AD), including the first AD gene, and currently spearheads the Alzheimer's Genome Project. He is also developing new therapies for treating and preventing AD based on his genetic discoveries. Dr. Tanzi was named to TIME magazine's TIME 100 Most Influential People" for 2015, and to the list of Harvard 100 Most Influential Alumni. He has also received the highly prestigious Smithsonian American Ingenuity Award for his pioneering studies of Alzheimer's disease. He has professionally played keyboards with Joe Perry and Aerosmith, and is the host of Super Brain on public television.
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September 15, 2017
Having worked together on Super Brain and Super Genes, both bases for PBS specials, Chopra and Tanzi now promote the idea of living a long, healthy life through strengthened immunity.
Copyright 2017 Library Journal, LLC Used with permission.
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