"At your last health checkup, your healthcare team said your heart medications are working well and your cholesterol numbers are improving. Also, there's a new medicine for arthritis if you'd like to try it for your joint pain. All good news, yet you still don'f feel all that great and you're not a big fan of the ever-increasing size of your pill box. Might there be other ways to boost your health besides medications, injections and other medical interventions? Could acupuncture really help with knee pain? Does massage therapy do more than just boost feel-good endorphins? Is CBD helpful? How do you find high-quality supplements?
Mayo Clinic experts provide answers to these questions and more in this new guide. Inside this book, you’ll read about:
- How the physical, mental and emotional aspects of your self impact your health
- The fundamentals of taking care of your whole person
- How spirituality, in any form, can bring purpose and meaning to your life
- How connecting back to nature can increase your health
- How to optimize your health in an overmedicalized society, even when you're managing a chronic illness
You'll also find an A-Z list of over 30 complementary therapies in use today—many of them ancient, some new. Each section provides a description of the therapy and when it might be helpful, what the research says about it and what Mayo Clinic's take is on it. You'll learn how Mayo Clinic uses specific therapies in its own departments to supplement conventional treatments such as cancer care and rehabilitation after surgery.
Whether you’re seeking to boost your overall well-being or manage a chronic condition in noninvasive holistic ways, this book can help you learn additional ways to live better."
"The expertise of Mayo Clinic available to you in this guide to integrative therapiescan help you achieve personal wellness. Discover how techniques and therapies once seen as alternative are being used alongside conventional medicine and how
you can integrate them into your life, too, whether you’re seeking to manage a chronic condition or boost your overall well-being.
Inside this book, you’ll read about:
• Relaxation techniques that can help keep stress from spiraling out of control
• How spirituality, in any form, can bring purpose and meaning to your life
• Use of herbs and supplements to help treat a variety of conditions and symptoms
• Spa therapies and how they can boost your wellness
• Conditions that integrative medicine is commonly used to treat"
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