Showing posts with label medicine. Show all posts
Showing posts with label medicine. Show all posts

Tuesday, June 11, 2024

The Living Medicine... Why It Will Rescue Us When Antibiotics Fail by Lina Zeldovich

★★★★★  The publisher provided a copy for review. 
An engaging and readable look at alternatives to antibiotics. Phages are readily available, proven in other parts of the world, and just coming to light in the West. 

Read this if you are interested in medicine, natural healing, or have an antibiotic-resistant illness. I found it fascinating and highly recommend it. At the very least, you'll have something to talk about with friends - and perhaps you'll even gain an alternative to suggest to someone in medical crisis.

Sunday, September 17, 2023

Let Food Be Your Medicine by Dr. Steve Kringold

★★★★ ☐ The publisher has provided a copy for review. 

Intake affects output, right? That's good science and practice. We're all thinking about health, aging, and staying active with maximum energy. 

What if a fix (or bump up) was as simple as eating well?

Kringold puts it all together - nutrition, motion, rest, reducing stress ... and a volume that doesn't offer startling new insights. But if you pick up this one book, you'll have a compilation of sound counsel for eating well, rounding out your nutritional needs, examining your lifestyle for natural prevention, and a boost in the right direction if you need cures for unhealthy habits. 

A bonus is link to a short how-to: "Health Coach Secrets."

Wednesday, July 5, 2023

Mindset Medicine by Mari L. McCarthy


★★★  The publisher has provided a copy for review. 

There's not much to be said for living your life without awareness, is there? McCarthy encourages health through the process of keeping a journal to record intentions, self-affirmations, habits, and accomplishments. Sleep. Exercise. Mindfulness. And other basics are included. 

So she's not offering new information but new ways to apply what you already know to your life. With journaling prompts to get your started and keep you going, this may be a valuable kick-start to a new healthier you. If you're stuck on the journey to well-being or just want to remind yourself to live a more healthy lifestyle, pick up a copy.

Friday, July 12, 2019

Llewellyn's Complete Book of Essential Oils by Sandra Kynes

★★☐☐ ☐ The publisher has provided a copy for review.
Essential oils: you've encountered them in pharmacies, on gift shop shelves, and at holistic medicine displays.

Kynes presents a what, why, what for, and how to of using these oils in religious practice (she's a modern witch) and home life. While my faith conflicts directly with hers, I found some of the ideas for health useful. I skipped the religious chapters.  I suggest you do the same.

Read with caution - it's as much a philosophy of religion as a manual for using naturopathic aids. (It fascinates me that earth-as-mother religions are presented without apology while ancient faiths such as Christianity are censored.)

Recommended with the same cautions.