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El fin del Alzheimer
by Dale E. BredesenTodos sabemos de alguien que le ha ganado la batalla al cáncer, pero nadie conoce ningún sobreviviente de Alzheimer... hasta ahora. El doctor Dale E. Bredesen, experto en enfermedades neurodegenerativas reconocido internacionalmente, reúne en esta obra los resultados de más de treinta años de investigación médica de vanguardia para crear un sofisticado e innovador programa, práctico y fácil de seguir, con un objetivo sin precedentes: prevenir y revertir los devastadores efectos del Alzheimer y otras formas de inflamación cerebral. En este libro aprenderemos que el Alzheimer no es una sola enfermedad, como se considera desde el punto de vista terapéutico, sino la suma de varios trastornos altamente influenciados por desequilibrios en 36 factores metabólicos capaces de detonar "encogimiento" cerebral. Este libro explica el protocolo científico diseñado para reequilibrar esos mecanismos por medio de ajustes al estilo de vida, incluyendo micronutrientes, niveles hormonales, estrés y calidad del sueño. Bredesen explora el papel central que desempeña la alimentación en el deterioro cognitivo, así como la importancia de la autofagia, la cual implica un estricto ayuno nocturno. Los resultados son sorprendentes: de los diez primeros pacientes atendidos con el protocolo aquí descrito, nueve mostraron una reversión significativa durante los primeros meses del tratamiento, y desde entonces son cientos los pacientes y especialistas médicos que han atestiguado la insólita mejoría. Prepárate para descubrir aquí el inicio de una nueva era: el comienzo del fin del Alzheimer.
El fin del alzheimer. El programa
by Dale Bredesen«Un libro que […] ilumina nuestra lucha en la oscuridad, ofrece un camino científico claro para terminar el azote de una enfermedad que roba la mente a millones». Doctor Mark Hyman, autor de los bestsellers Come grasa y adelgaza y La solución del azúcar en la sangre. En El fin del Alzheimer, Dale Bredesen expuso la ciencia de trás de su revolucionario y novedoso protocolo, el primero en prevenir y revertir los síntomas de la enfermedad de Alzheimer. En esta ocasión, traza a detalle el programa que aplica con sus propios pacientes, en su consultorio. Es tan accesible que se puede modificar para cubrir las necesidades de cualquier persona, a cualquier edad. Lo que conocemos como enfermedad de Alzheimer es más bien una respuesta protectora del cerebro ante una gran variedad de agresiones: inflamación, resistencia a la insulina, toxinas, infecciones, niveles inadecuados de nutrientes, hormonas y factores de crecimiento. Pero gracias a la investigación científica del doctor Bredesen, hoy podemos descubrir exactamente que detonan esas agresiones y evitarlas al mejorar nuestra alimentación y estilo de vida. Con anécdotas inspiradoras de pacientes que ya han revertido su deterioro cognitivo y progresan de manera cotidiana, este libro brinda una esperanza sin precedente para quienes padecen esta enfermedad, la cual ya ha dejado de ser mortal. [Críticas/Reseñas]
A Final Arc of Sky
by Jennifer CulkinA critical care and emergency flight nurse, Jennifer Culkin is no stranger to death and its dramas. Her memoir plunges the reader into chaotic scenes where she struggles to keep seriously injured patients alive while wedged against the door of an Augusta 109A helicopter. She pulls us into the NICU (neonatal intensive care unit), where she works on babies born too soon, as well as into the PICU (pediatric intensive care unit), where she cares for kids seemingly too small to contain their devastating illnesses. Through these experiences, Culkin explores the overlap between her work and her private life, where her caregiving must eventually be extended to accommodate her sons, her dying mother, then her father, and finally, as she adjusts to life with multiple sclerosis herself. In the closing chapter, Culkin writes of friends and colleagues injured or killed in helicopter crashes, calling again on her constant awareness of the fragility of life.
The Final Crossing: Learning to Die in Order to Live
by Scott Eberle"The River Styx isn't far ahead. When it's time for the final crossing, doc, I want you there at the helm." Hearing these words from Steven Foster, hospice physician Scott Eberle unhesitatingly responded, "I give you my word, Steven. If it's within my powers, I'll be there." In a matter of weeks, Steven would be dead, having succumbed to a genetic lung disease at the young age of 64. THE FINAL CROSSING is the story of the journey these two people made together across the river that separates the living from the dead. Steven and his wife, Meredith, had spent nearly thirty years exploring, creating, and enacting wilderness rites of passage - a form of symbolic death. Scott had spent nearly twenty years learning to help others through the rite of passage that is physical death, and more recently he had also begun working as a wilderness guide. As Scott writes in the book, "while symbolic dying and literal dying are obviously not the same, they are deeply connected". During Steven's final days, the lessons they taught each other -- about symbolic and physical death -- were profound. As an old medieval prayer says, "To be blessed in death, one must learn to live. To be blessed in life, one must learn to die". Visit www.thefinalcrossing.com. "This book is itself a right of passage. Extraordinary insights shared by two remarkable people, one dying, the other the inner life and decisions of the physician and friend attending this fine fellow preparing to head into death. This is the best work of its sort I have come across. There are so many levels, so many books in this book that it might well become a teaching text in many classrooms". Stephen Levine, author of "Who Dies?," "Healing into Life and Death" and "A Year to Live".
Final Exam
by Pauline W. ChenA brilliant young transplant surgeon brings moral intensity and narrative drama to the most powerful and vexing questions of medicine and the human condition. When Pauline Chen began medical school twenty years ago, she dreamed of saving lives. What she did not count on was how much death would be a part of her work. Almost immediately, Chen found herself wrestling with medicine’s most profound paradox, that a profession premised on caring for the ill also systematically depersonalizes dying. Final Examfollows Chen over the course of her education, training, and practice as she grapples at strikingly close range with the problem of mortality, and struggles to reconcile the lessons of her training with her innate knowledge of shared humanity, and to separate her ideas about healing from her fierce desire to cure. From her first dissection of a cadaver in gross anatomy to the moment she first puts a scalpel to a living person; from the first time she witnesses someone flatlining in the emergency room to the first time she pronounces a patient dead, Chen is struck by her own mortal fears: there was a dying friend she could not call; a young patient’s tortured death she could not forget; even the sense of shared kinship with a corpse she could not cast aside when asked to saw its pelvis in two. Gradually, as she confronts the ways in which her fears have incapacitated her, she begins to reject what she has been taught about suppressing her feelings for her patients, and she begins to carve out a new role for herself as a physician and as human being. Chen’s transfixing and beautiful rumination on how doctors negotiate the ineluctable fact of death becomes, in the end, a brilliant questioning of how we should live. Moving and provocative, motored equally by clinical expertise and extraordinary personal grace, this is a piercing and compassionate journey into the heart of a world that is hidden and yet touches all of our lives. A superb addition to the best medical literature of our time.
Final Exit: The Practicalities of Self-deliverance and Assisted Suicide for the Dying (3rd edition)
by Derek HumphryThe first edition offered people with terminal illness a choice on how and when to end their suffering. This revised and updated third edition goes far beyond the original to provide new information about the legality of the personal issues involved.
Final Gifts: Understanding The Special Awareness, Needs, and Communications of the Dying
by Patricia Kelley Maggie CallananThe authors provide a compassionate and readable book to help both those who are dying and those who are providing care for them. The authors (hospice workers) gently address common stages experienced by those who are terminally ill. A highly useful book.
Final Season
by Tim GreenFrom New York Times bestselling author and former NFL player Tim Green comes a gripping, deeply personal standalone football novel about a star middle school quarterback faced with a life-changing decision after his dad is diagnosed with ALS. Perfect for fans of Mike Lupica! With two all-star college football players for brothers and a former Atlanta Falcons defensive lineman for a father, it is only natural for sixth-grade quarterback Benjamin Redd to follow in their footsteps.However, after his dad receives a heartbreaking ALS diagnosis—connected to all those hard hits and tackles he took on the field—Ben’s mom becomes more determined than ever to get Ben to quit football.Ben isn’t playing just for himself though. This might be his dad’s last chance to coach. And his teammates need a quarterback that can lead them to the championships. But as Ben watches the heavy toll ALS takes on his dad’s body, he begins to question if this should be his final season after all.
Finally Full, Finally Slim: 30 Days to Permanent Weight Loss One Portion at a Time
by Lisa R. YoungWe're surrounded by food portions we've been led to believe are normal-64-ounce sodas, personal pizzas large enough to feed several people, and steaks and pastas that fill an entire plate. No wonder obesity rates in America have reached an all-time high. We eat oversize portions, gain weight, and try the latest fad diet, which only adds to our confusion about how to lose weight. Nutritionist and portion-size expert Dr. Lisa R. Young says the solution is simple: Eat foods you love in reasonable portions, and you will lose your excess weight and keep it off for good.Finally Full, Finally Slim shows you how to permanently lose weight by right-sizing your portions without eliminating entire food groups or staring at an empty plate. Within these pages, Dr. Young outlines thirty days' worth of simple changes to help you shed pounds and provides a portion plan that ensures you will feel satisfied. She expertly describes the relevance of diet to health and steers you toward whole foods and away from clever marketing claims that may be secretly sabotaging your weight-loss efforts. You'll learn useful strategies for how to eat out, enjoy special occasions, and indulge in a favorite treat without tipping the scale. And because weight loss is about more than food, Dr. Young addresses the whole person-your mind-set, environment, habits, and life-through research-based advice. You'll learn how relationships, gratitude, self-compassion, and sleep patterns, for instance, can make a difference. Portion control outlives all fad diets because it isn't a diet. It's a lifestyle.
Finally Thin!: How I Lost More Than 200 Pounds and Kept Them Off--and How You Can, Too
by Kim BensenThe ultimate companion to any diet—featuring ten steps that will give you the information and motivation to achieve your own success on any weight-loss plan. Kim Bensen knows about weight loss. And weight gain. For decades, she tried every diet there was, but nothing seemed to work – for long anyway – and she yo-yoed her way to 350 pounds. But she never gave up and in 2001, despite years of heartbreak and discouragement, Kim tried again. This timewasdifferent and the results were phenomenal: 212 pounds lost forever, fourteen dress sizes, four ring sizes, one and a half shoe sizes, and 200 points of cholesterol gone for good! In the end, Kim not only changed her health and size, but also her career. The clamor of “How did you do it?” by desperately struggling individuals as well as the national media motivated her to sit down and pen into words what she had put into action. InFinally Thin!,Kim Bensen recounts her own success story and then breaks down her success into a ten-step system, showing readers exactly how she accomplished her weight-loss goal. From choosing the right diet for your needs to setting realistic goals, finding support, eating out, recovering from a slipup, the keys to maintenance, and even 75 recipes, this book covers it all in an upbeat, inspirational, and approachable tone. A must-have for anyone trying to lose weight,Finally Thin!will help dieters break free of the yo-yo cycle and achieve their ultimate goal—once and for all.
Finally Thin! How I Lost Over 200 Pounds and Kept Them Off-- And How You Can Too
by Kim BensenBensen recounts how she lost more than 200 pounds, and then breaks down her success into a 10-step system that readers can follow. From choosing the right diet to the keys to keeping the weight off, this book covers it all in an upbeat, inspirational, and approachable tone.
Financial Vipers of Venice
by Joseph P. FarrellIn this sequel to Babylon's Banskters. The banksters have moved from Mesopotamia via Rome to Venice. There, they have manipulated popes and bullion prices, clipped coins, sacked Constantinople, destroyed rival Florence, waged war, burned "heretics" and suppressed hidden secrets threatening their financial supremacy... until Giordano Bruno and Christopher Columbus, broke the banking cartel's control of information and bullion...
Financing Medicine: The British Experience Since 1750 (Routledge Studies in the Social History of Medicine #Vol. 24)
by Martin Gorsky Sally SheardFinancing Medicine brings together a collection of essays dealing with the financing of medical care in Britain since the mid-eighteenth century, with a view to addressing two major issues: Why did the funding of the British health system develop in the way it did? What were the ramifications of these arrangements for the nature and extent of health care before the NHS? The book also goes on to explore the 'lessons' and legacies of the past which bear upon developments under the NHS. The contributors to this volume provide a sustained and detailed examination of the model of health care which preceded the NHS - an organization whose distinctive features hold such fascination for the scholars of health systems - and their insights illuminate current debates on the future of the NHS. For students and scholars of the history of medicine, this will prove essential reading.
The Finch in My Brain: How I forgot how to read but found how to live
by Martino Sclavi'Whenever I see Martino I am reminded of how little I know about life and death compared to him. How we don't know what is within us or what may lie on the other side. I hope it's as magical and beautiful as this book.' --Russell BrandWhen film producer Martino Sclavi began experiencing intense headaches, he attributed them to his frenetic lifestyle. As it turned out, he had grade 4 brain cancer and was given 18 months to live. After undergoing brain surgery - while awake - Martino found he had lost the ability to recognise words. His response was to close his eyes and begin to move his fingers across the keyboard to write this, an account of life before diagnosis and since. Defying all predictions Martino is still very much alive, words read out to him by the monotone of a computerised voice he calls Alex. But he must now live in a new way. This book - that he has written but cannot read - charts the effects of his experience: on his relationship with his young son, his marriage, his work and with himself. In the wake of his illness, everything must be reconfigured and Martino is made to question the habits, dreams and beliefs of his old life and confront the present. What he finds is strange and beautiful. Searching for the words between life and death, Sclavi shows that with determination and a subtle, persistent sense of humour, it is possible to change the story of our lives.
The Finch in My Brain: How I forgot how to read but found how to live
by Martino Sclavi'It's eerily joyful to write a foreword for Martino Sclavi's book because five years ago I accepted that he was going to die.' Russell Brand. Diagnosed with fatal brain cancer, the treatment that follows renders the writer of this extraordinary memoir unable to recognise words. This is the inspiring story he can no longer read. With a foreword by Russell Brand.This is the story of a successful Italian-born, London-based film writer who is suddenly, wholly unexpectedly diagnosed with stage four brain cancer. The prognosis is bad: there's a 98% likelihood he'll be dead within 18 months. He undergoes two operations, including one in which he must remain awake throughout. Part of his brain is removed, the part that enables us to recognise written words - to read. As someone who relies on words for their livelihood, their very identity, this presents impossible questions as to what happens next. Defying all predictions, Martino is still very much alive five years on, and is writing and being read to by a monotonous computerised voice he calls Alex. His marriage suffered, his relationship with his young son - whom he will never read bedtime stories to again - must be reconfigured and he is made to question all that his previous life gave him, along with his habits, dreams and beliefs.As Sclavi faces the reality of the narrative he's been presented by doctors, he shows us that with determination, it is possible to change that narrative, and in doing so inspires and empowers us all to believe that it is possible to change the story of our lives.'Whenever I see Martino I am reminded of how little I know about life and death compared to him. How we don't know what is within us or what may life on the other side. I hope it's as magical and beautiful as this book.'Russell Brand.(P)2017 Hodder & Stoughton Limited
Find Calm: Helpful Tips and Friendly Advice on Finding Peace
by Anna BarnesBursting with tips, centring statements and soothing activities, Find Calm will help you to feel more at ease in the world and better equipped to deal with the things that really matter.
Find Calm: Helpful Tips and Friendly Advice on Finding Peace
by Anna BarnesBursting with tips, centring statements and soothing activities, Find Calm will help you to feel more at ease in the world and better equipped to deal with the things that really matter.
Find Peace with Meditation: Flash
by Naomi OzaniecThe books in this bite-sized new series contain no complicated techniques or tricky materials, making them ideal for the busy, the time-pressured or the merely curious. Find Peace with Meditation is a short, simple and to-the-point guide to learning how to meditate in a few short steps. Even if you are completely new to meditation in just 96 pages you will discover how to master the essential principles and follow some simple guided meditations.
Find Peace with Meditation: Flash
by Naomi OzaniecThe books in this bite-sized new series contain no complicated techniques or tricky materials, making them ideal for the busy, the time-pressured or the merely curious. Find Peace with Meditation is a short, simple and to-the-point guide to learning how to meditate in a few short steps. Even if you are completely new to meditation in just 96 pages you will discover how to master the essential principles and follow some simple guided meditations.
Find Peace With Tai Chi: A beginner's guide to the ideas and essential principles of Tai Chi (Teach Yourself General)
by Robert ParryThis is the perfect introduction for beginners who want to learn the essential principles behind Tai Chi without overcomplicated instructions or confusing detail. You will learn the basic ideas and get into the Tai Chi way of thinking before picking up the 'form' and exercises through a series of simple illustrations designed for all abilities, leaving you with the perfect antidote to the stresses of 21st-century life.NOT GOT MUCH TIME?One, five and ten-minute introductions to key principles to get you started.AUTHOR INSIGHTSLots of instant help with common problems and quick tips for success, based onthe author's many years of experience.TEST YOURSELFTests in the book and online to keep track of your progress.EXTEND YOUR KNOWLEDGEExtra online articles at www.teachyourself.com to give you a richer understanding of tai chi.FIVE THINGS TO REMEMBERQuick refreshers to help you remember the key facts.TRY THISInnovative exercises illustrate what you've learnt and how to use it.
Find Peace With Tai Chi: A beginner's guide to the ideas and essential principles of Tai Chi
by Robert ParryThis is the perfect introduction for beginners who want to learn the essential principles behind Tai Chi without overcomplicated instructions or confusing detail. You will learn the basic ideas and get into the Tai Chi way of thinking before picking up the 'form' and exercises through a series of simple illustrations designed for all abilities, leaving you with the perfect antidote to the stresses of 21st-century life.NOT GOT MUCH TIME?One, five and ten-minute introductions to key principles to get you started.AUTHOR INSIGHTSLots of instant help with common problems and quick tips for success, based onthe author's many years of experience.TEST YOURSELFTests in the book and online to keep track of your progress.EXTEND YOUR KNOWLEDGEExtra online articles at www.teachyourself.com to give you a richer understanding of tai chi.FIVE THINGS TO REMEMBERQuick refreshers to help you remember the key facts.TRY THISInnovative exercises illustrate what you've learnt and how to use it.
Find Your Flow: Essential Chakras (Now Age series) (Now Age Series)
by Sushma SagarLet your energy flow.You are made of energy. Within your body are 7 important energy centres that look after and influence the health of your body and mind - the chakras. With this short and simple expert guide, understand how the chakras can influence your everyday life. Discover how to draw on your energy to invite the good vibes in and heal your energy field to empower yourself every day to achieve your goals.
Find Your Focus: How to avoid distractions and improve your focus
by Alison DaviesIn a world where technology is killing our attention spans and we're incapable of focusing for more than a short period of time - whether it's being addicted to endlessly scrolling TikTok, getting distracted by the constant ping of emails, picking up your phone multiple times a minute to check Instagram, or trying to do too many tasks at once - learn how to sharpen your concentration and make 'focus' your new super-power.Find Your Focus will look at how our attention spans work, why they are impacted, and provide exercises, tips and techniques to help improve your focus. Chapters could include things such as Mind Watching, Attention Seeking, Apply and Try, Memory Building and Distraction Busting, and will teach you how to notice when your focus is lacking and how to build healthy habits into everyday to bring your mind back to the present.
Find Your Focus: How to avoid distractions and improve your focus
by Alison DaviesIn a world where technology is killing our attention spans and we're incapable of focusing for more than a short period of time - whether it's being addicted to endlessly scrolling TikTok, getting distracted by the constant ping of emails, picking up your phone multiple times a minute to check Instagram, or trying to do too many tasks at once - learn how to sharpen your concentration and make 'focus' your new super-power.Find Your Focus will look at how our attention spans work, why they are impacted, and provide exercises, tips and techniques to help improve your focus. Chapters could include things such as Mind Watching, Attention Seeking, Apply and Try, Memory Building and Distraction Busting, and will teach you how to notice when your focus is lacking and how to build healthy habits into everyday to bring your mind back to the present.
Find Your Focus Zone
by Lucy Jo PalladinoBeing able to perform any task with full attention has become of the great unspoken-about challenges of modern life. As our culture has become more high-speed, techno-stressed, information-cluttered and media-saturated, we are getting pushed out of our focus zones without even realising it. If you work in a modern office, it is likely you are suffering from 'information fatigue syndrome', which means that even naturally bright and creative people are rendered incapable of making swift decisions, problem-solving efficiently or able to maintain appropriate energy levels. Award-winning psychologist Lucy Jo Palladino offers practical solutions for anyone juggling too much, who finds themselves in a state of 'continuous partial attention', seemingly unable to do any one task with full concentration. In order to help people combat the negative aspects of 'always-on' information culture, Palladino has come up with a new set of skills that will help readers beat distraction and win the fight against information overload. She provides eight sets of 'keys' that will unlock your best attention and help you balance adrenaline levels, even when you are under pressure or facing dull tasks. Rooted in sports performance psychology, yet practical and user-friendly, Palladino's cutting-edge methods will help you stay focused and enhance your performance in all areas of daily life where concentration is required.