the history of medicine from primitive times through early civilizations, classical antiquity, the Middle Ages, the Renaissance, and up to the mid-twentieth century. Edwin H. Ackerknecht accomplsihes this task and he does it with verve, clarity, and style

The ABCs of Hormones is a welcome addition to the Keats's family of Good Health Guides. Author Jack Challem, who has written extensively in the health field, says that "hormones are unquestionably among medicine's most powerful, more remarkable drugs."

The body produces at least 200 different hormones. Challem chose the ten most common to describe in detail: melatonin, DHEA, pregnenolone, estrogen, testosterone, insulin, thyroid, adrenocortical, and human growth hormones. Challem gives a brief explanation of how each hormone works, and the symptoms of hormonal imbalance. He then discusses natural alternatives for each.

Wonderful book on collection of famous quotes, aphorisms and thoughts from wide range of famous and infamous people throughout time.

A great little volume of notable quotes

The follow-on to Age Wave. Another from the master in this field of Boomer economics and mega trends. We consider this another must have in your library.

You can live to be a hundred and enjoy each of those years as a fully functioning person--or so says Chopra (Unconditional Life, 1991, etc.) in this challenging work. An intriguing set of Census Bureau statistics cited here notes that the number of centenarians is twice what it was ten years ago- -and is expected to double again by the millennium. Prolonging fruitful lives is not a question of mind over matter, Chopra contends, but, rather, of mind and matter--mind and body

out of print

This receives our highest recommendation. Suzanne combines her celebrity status with a powerful message.

A very informative book about free radicals, anti-oxidants and longevity, focusing on the role of Alpha Lipoic Acid and its use in anti-aging in general, cancer, diabetes, heart disease and in neuroprotection. Other chapters deal with this role of this potent anti-oxidant in inflammatory disorders, HIV, and vision disorders like macular degeneration, cataracts and glaucoma

A meticulous and lucid writer and editor. Highly recommended read.

As the editor-in-chief of Prevention Magazine Health Books, Bill Gottlieb created the 10-million copy self-care bestseller, The Doctors Book of Home Remedies, and was the author of the 1.5 million copy alternative health bestseller, New Choices in Natural Healing. Now, Bill has once again created a groundbreaking booka book that can help anyone safely, successfully and naturally self-treat 160 everyday and serious health conditions: Alternative Cures.

To write this unique book, Bill interviewed over 300 of America's top natural cliniciansdoctors, herbalists, nutritionists and more. You'll discover over 1000 of their most effective, practical and safest natural remedies for an A-to-Z of health problems, from arthritis, back pain and high cholesterol, to repetitive strain injury, weight gain and yeast infections. Plus, every chapter of Alternative Cures has a guide to the best alternative and conventional professional care for the condition it covers.

And, you'll find essential safety information for every remedy featured in the book. Once you look at it, we think you'll agree: There's never been a more useful, reader-friendly, get-better book about alternative health and healing than Alternative Cures.

Based on the pioneering treatment plans of 37 alternative medicine cancer specialists, this book guides you through the safest and most effective treatment alternatives known today. Learn how leading practitioners use herbs, nutrition, supplements, diet, oxygen, enzymes, glandular extracts, homeopathic remedies, plus specialized new substances such as Ukrain, Essiac, Carnivora, Iscador, 714X, shark cartilage, and many other to prevent and reverse cancer.

Save your heart from disease, attack, stroke, high blood pressure, and the dangers of angioplasty, bypass, and other invasive surgeries--12 top physicians explain their proven, safe, nontoxic, and successful heart-saving treatments.

The Definitive Guide is known as the Bible of alternative medicine. You may very well want to use a dictionary stand for this hefty tome; it weighs in at more than 1,000 pages. Nearly 400 doctors (M.D.s, Ph.D.s, naturopaths, Doctors of Oriental Medicine, and osteopaths) contribute their cutting-edge knowledge, and the list of names is impressive. You'll find words of advice from Joseph Pizzorno, the president of Bastyr University in Seattle, Washington; C. Norman Shealy, the cofounder of the American Holistic Medical Association; Nobel laureate Linus Pauling; Deepak Chopra; and Joan Borysenko, author and director of the Mind-Body Health Sciences in Boulder, Colorado.

A classic study of medicine in antiquity, Ancient Medicine brings together much of Ludwig Edelstein's most important work on a subject that occupied him throughout a distinguished career. Included is his widely known translation of and commentary on the Hippocratic Oath, as well as his other writings on the oath which demonstrate how atypical it is of Greek medical thought. The book also explores the influence of empiricism and skepticism on Greek and Roman medicine, the practice of anatomy and dietetics in antiquity, and the relation of ancient medicine to ancient philosophy.

From an enthusiatic online review:

The scope of this book was amazing! The entire content and lay out was easy to use. The ammount of information contained within is amazing. It is without a doubt the most complete and comprehensive book of it's kind. I would recommend this book to any one who wants a more complete understanding of herbs, vitamins, diet..etc.

I have had the pleasure of meeting and discussing this book with the author Joseph Marion he is a very knowledgeable person in this field and should be commended on his hard work in putting this manual together, it's long over due coming.

A technical, but fascinating look at anti-oxidant biochemistry. Shows the interaction and "redox" connections between Vitamin C, Vitamin E and gluathione. Packed with highly valuable information.

A delightfull little book that measures all parameters of happiness.

In these pages is a collection of 24 self-tests developed by Dr. Janda, a clinical psychologist. The answers to these tests measure the reader's overall happiness-in everything from career and finances to health and relationships. Then the reader can see how their scores on these tests compare with those of others.

Next, Dr. Janda demonstrates techniques proven to increase happiness-and how the reader can implement them. Illuminated with personal anecdotes and relevant case histories, Are You Happy? Also includes accessible summaries of the latest psychological studies that reveal what truly makes people happy.

The book was developed after working with over 500 cancer patients and organizing 3 international symposiums on the subject. The information contained in BCN is both scientifically backed with references and clinically proven in the hospital with patients. This information helps cancer patients to improve quality and quantity of life. BCN had been translated into Japanese and Chinese and is being translated into Korean. BCN had become a home study continuing education course for registered

Focusing on the social, intellectual, and political context in which medical education took place, Thomas Neville Bonner offers a detailed analysis of transformations in medical instruction in the United Kingdom, France, Germany, and the United States between the Enlightenment and World War II. From a unique comparative perspective, this study considers how divergent approaches to medical instruction in these countries mirrored as well as impacted their particular cultural contexts.

Dr. Superko's excellent book will change the way many doctors treat (and PREVENT) heart disease by testing for the "cardiac fingerprints" that help determine each person's UNIQUE risk factors for diseases of the coronary & carotid arteries (as well as peripheral vascular arteries)…if the doctors read this book.

By testing for ALL of the major risk factors, doctors will now be able to devise a "battle plan" that is tailored to the individual patient. This will no doubt significantly reduce the individual's risk of suffering a coronary "event" (as well as strokes and other disorders associated with diseased arteries).

From a reviewer on line:

After 11 years of battling this illness, 5 surgeries, consultations with doctors from top medical centers in the US, I was fortunate enough to find Dr. Goldstein. Although the book is difficult reading (and reading is not easy for us with this disorder due to cognitive problems), his results are spectacular and he has probably defined a new class of disease: neurosomatic disorders, for which some experts feel he deserves a Nobel Prize. His understanding of the brain and the use of neuropharmacology is unparalleled. Worth the effort to read, the case histories are not at all exaggerated….spend a few days in his waiting room and you will quickly see the results he produces and meet long time patients who are much improved.

My only regret is that he is unable to communicate his vast understanding of the brain to the general public.

Better Sex Through Chemistry gives detailed information on the new "prosexual" drugs and nutrients. Included are substances that can enhance human sexuality and performance. Better Sex Through Chemistry also offers effective treatments for sexual difficulties. Making use of the new prosexual drugs and nutrients can also improve overall health. Many of these substances have a wide range of health benefits and have been shown in scientific studies to enhance immune function, slow aging, alleviate depression, assist fat loss, improve memory and cognition, and more. The prosexual drugs and nutrients selected for extensive coverage in Better Sex Through Chemistry all feature a high level of safety. Better Sex Through Chemistry explains how each drug or nutrient works, how it can be obtained, and how to use it (including complete information on dosage, precautions, and other safety issues). Better Sex Through Chemistry is a excellent reference book on a major health issue.

this may be the closest to a "definitive" textbook on Nutritonal Influences, biochemistry that you can find. Exceptionally authoratiative and well written. You will be hard pressed to not find the most detailed explanations of various biochemical functions and processes anywhere

Superb book, comprehensive well-illustrated. For clinicians, serious students and academicians.

great source book

Dr Dean is one of the world's leading physicians in the new field of anti-aging medicine. One of the most important markers to determine how fast or indeed how slowly someone is aging is being determined through the use of clinical tests which include assays of blood, urine, hair etc., but also other markers such as memory tests, reaction times and skin thickness/ bone density etc. For the first time it is possible to determine someones "biological age" instead of just their chronological age. Dr. Dean explores all these avenues in this book, it explains in detail how to accomplish these tests and frankly should be on every doctor's shelf who has an interest in this "ultimate form of preventative medicine."

I have read a lot of the reviews, both positive and negative and have to say, that until you try this program, completely try it 100%, then no, it probably won't work for you. I am finishing up week 8 in my second challenge and as a 42-year old woman, this program WORKS. I have lost weight, slowly and properly, I have lost inches, but most importantly I have gained tons of energy, self-esteem and confidence…. If you follow the program and nutrition/eating recommendations, you can't but help gain energy and lose the weight….

I do not claim to be any kind of expert in exercise or nutrition, but this works!!! As Bill says, "Change Your Mind - Change Your Body - Change Your Life!" Anything worth having is worth working hard for and this is no exception. After being on the program, you won't want to feed your body junk anymore. I love the workouts and crave them now!! I love the feeling of being strong and healthy. After 12 weeks is over, hopefully this will become a lifestyle for you, as it will be for me. As one reviewer said, the pictures in the book are the exception, but with continued persistence, you can achieve the same results!! I can see it in me and love every minute of it!!

Economists and financial wizards William Sterling and Stephen Waite take an in depth look at how America's baby boomers have transformed the nation's--and the world's--economy, and how that transformation must inevitably--and radically--alter its course as the boomers age. The authors show listeners that there are strategies they can use, both as private individuals and collectively as a nation, to stay ahead of the all-important demographics curve and prosper during the "age wave". Unabridged. Available now. --This text refers to an out of print or unavailable edition of this title.

In this powerful, prescient book, economists and financial wizards William Sterling and Stephen Waite take an in-depth look at how America's baby boomers have transformed the nation's - and the world's - economy and how that transformation must inevitably - and radically - alter its course as the boomers age. But the economic "big chill" won't freeze you if you're prepared for it. As Sterling and Waite show, there are strategies we can use, both as private individuals and collectively as a nation, to prosper during the "age wave." Privatizing social security, applying market principles to the health care system, rethinking the concept of retirement, tapping creatively into the potential gold mine on the Internet, using demographics to pinpoint growth industries: these are among the prescriptive suggestions that the authors, who successfully manage over $30 billion, show will work just as successfully for you

Recent events may seemed to have changed all of the above, but the demographics still remain powerful.

A must read for the next step in any Longevity and Anti-Aging program. Includes a four-part program that involves nutritional, stress-relieving, pharmacological, and mind-body exercises therapies to overcome the effects of brain aging, a guide helps readers over forty control a hormone called cortisol and improve their mental acuity.

State of the art website and an essential text reference in any small comprehensive library. Anything by Eugene Braunwald is worth purchasing.

Bill Gates explain how to turn your hardware and software into a powerful, evolving network of information. Looking at the digital systems in place at Microsoft and other leading corporations, Gates shows how your company can:

Convert every paper process to a digital processs -- and end information among traditional departments

Use networks to create fast-reacting virtual treams to work together among traditional departments,/li>

Decrease cycle time by using digital transactions with suppliers and partners to get products out before the competition

Knock down the walls of your company and electronically build new business relationships and new markets.

My dad is an MD and was skeptical when my mom (herself an RN) insisted on having Chelation Therapy over 10 years ago. My mom was not far from the exit from this life from many different ailments (including arteries which were 90% clogged). After several treatments, mom's health perked up so much that my dad became a believer and went in for Chelation Therapy himself (his arteries were also mostly clogged). Mom and Dad are still alive and in pretty good health.

My uncle had serious heart disease caused by clogged arteries, and was already in line to get open heart surgery when mom told him about what Chelation Therapy did for her. So my uncle dropped his open-heart surgery for the Chelation Therapy and never looked back.

My copy of the book is the 1990 printing of the book that my mom gave me after she became a "convert." I have been spreading the word to anybody I know who has heart problems.

Thank you Dr. Elmer Cranton for your dedication to Chelation Therapy and for saving so many lives.

In the tradition of Innumeracy by John Allen Paulos, German scientist Gerd Gigerenzer offers his own take on numerical illiteracy. "In Western countries, most children learn to read and write, but even in adulthood, many people do not know how to think with numbers," he writes. "I focus on the most important form of innumeracy in everyday life, statistical innumeracy--that is, the inability to reason about uncertainties and risk." The author wisely uses concrete examples from the real world to make his points, and he shows the devastating impact of this problem. In one example, he describes a surgeon who advised many of his patients to accept prophylactic mastectomies in order to dodge breast cancer. In a two-year period, this doctor convinced 90 "high-risk" women without cancer to sacrifice their breasts "in a heroic exchange for the certainty of saving their lives and protecting their loved ones from suffering and loss." But Gigerenzer shows that the vast majority of these women (84 of them, to be exact) would not have developed breast cancer at all. If the doctor or his patients had a better understanding of probabilities, they might have chosen a different course. Fans of Innumeracy will enjoy Calculated Risks, as will anyone who appreciates a good puzzle over numbers. --John Miller

still one of the sources to start your search.

This is the book that explains not only the conection and the actions of vitamin C on cancer, but also explains the use of the chemotherapy and radiotherapy in the kinds of cancers that it is necessary, and in what kinds it is not. There are many case histories that are covered and the explanations on how vitamin c is really woking on all types of cancers, and why the experience of both, ( the late great two time nobel price winner: Linus Pauling), and the Scottish oncologist: Ewan Cameron, that in 10 years of therapy with thousands of patients make the book possible to be published. This is Linus Pauling's last book before he died in 8.19.1994. In short, and in general, it is really a great combination of a chemist, and an oncologist.

As a physician who developed cancer herself, Dr. Lorraine Day was well aware that physicians are more afraid of cancer than patients are, because doctors KNOW that chemotherapy, radiation and surgery are NOT the answer to cancer.

She will help you understand why you don't need to fear cancer. She explains to you in terms you can understand all the confusing medical jargon you will hear from doctors. By following the orderly system of evaluation that she presents, you can then make calm, intelligent decisions about the best treatment methods for you.

Lorraine Day website

Dr. Moss has put together an excellent resource for people looking into non-toxic cancer treatments. Ralph was thrust into the alternative medicine scene when he brought positive laetrile studies to the public's attention in the1970s when people were saying there was no evidence of laetrile's efficacy. Since then he has been an important voice of reason in the fight for alternatives.

This book is a well-researched sourcebook for new and innovative cancer treatments. The book is divided into various sections. The first is "Vitamins," where Moss provides research on vitamins, such as Vitamin D, on cancer research. Moss details studies that have been conducted with vitamins.

Other sections include, "Minerals" such as Calcium, "Herbs" such as Aloe, "Diets" such as Gerson, and "Less Toxic Resources" such as Amygdalin and Hydrazine Sulfate. In total he lists over 100 therapies.

At the end of each section there are resources for each therapy. For instance, he gives addresses of clinics using the methods.

The Ralph Moss Website

Mr. Haught, an investigative journalist, started out to do an expose on a "quack", and soon found himself writing about a grand conspiracy to suppress a holistic cure for cancer. He details the coverup of Dr. Gerson's work with documentary evidence from books, newspapers and even the Congressional Record.

This book is inspiring for patients with advanced cancer, since there are many stories of patients alive years after their physicians sent them home to die, including five presented by Dr. Gerson to the Pepper-Neely Subcommittee of the Senate in 1946. It is also maddening and frustrating to realize that millions of people have died unnecessarily of cancer because of therapies not are not considered "scientific". What legitimizes "scientific?"

Another classic and "must have" in any medical professionals library.

The leading annually updated general medical text! CMDT 2004 is the most comprehensive, reliable, and timely reference available to answer common questions in everyday clinical practice. Written in a concise, easy-to-read style, the text covers all aspects of outpatient and inpatient care as well as authoritative descriptions of new developments in medicine. It includes information on over 1,000 diseases and disorders with an emphasis on prevention and cost-effective treatments. CMDT 2004 also features updated information on drug dosages and updated therapeutic options in HIV, including an approach to multi-drug antiretroviral therapies.

Another absolute classic in the Lange series.

THE MOST CURRENT AND COMPREHENSIVE SOURCE OF CLINICALLY FOCUSED INFORMATION ON PEDIATRICS

NEW STATE-OF-THE-ART 16TH EDITION Everything clinicians need to treat children from birth and infancy through adolescence

Puts at your fingertips at-a-glance diagnostic essentials and typical features of disorders, followed by clinical findings…differential diagnosis…complications…treatment…and prognosis Applies to both ambulatory and inpatient pediatrics Points you to the best sources of pediatric data online Provides the latest drug information, including medications for psychiatric disorders

Offers expanded material on end-of-life care

Solidly supported by research, Defy Aging explains for lay and professional readers the "mental ABCs" - 4 Attitudes, 36 Beliefs, and 4 Coping Skills that foster vital longevity. It is a very practical self-help book that focuses on what works and helps the reader develop and implement an individualized, personalized life vision, mission, purpose and strategies.

It is critically acclaimed by Dr. Bernie Siegel, Betty Friedan, Dr. Ronald Katz, (Pres. Amer. Academy of Anti-Aging Medicine) and 4 past presidents of the Amer. Psychological Assoc.

An excellent road map and tool kit to assist you in creating a longer, healthier, more joyful life. Read and learn how to be too busy to die, and become ageless by losing track of time. –Bernie Siegel, MD, Author of Love, Medicine, and Miracles and Peace, Love and Healing

So think there are scant good scientific studies on DHEA? Think this has not be "well studied?" This is the scholarly and exhaustive answer to those uninformed assertions. But, at this price, only recommended for only most devoted and probably limited audience

Few neuroscientists today would defend Cartesian dualism--the idea that mind and body are separate--but Damasio takes one more leap: Not only are philosophers wrong to separate brain and body, but psychology's separation of reason from emotion is also wrong.

Most neuroscientists agree that what we call the mind reflects the functions of the nervous system--in short, crudely speaking, the body. Modern science, however, has transferred the old mind- body split into a brain-body dichotomy in which the brain occupies a hierarchically privileged place.

But Damasio (Neurology/Univ. of Iowa College of Medicine) democratizes the relationship between brain and body; he posits a powerful interdependence in which our physical experience of the world around us is central to the creation of our sense of self, and colors our behavior. His persuasive argument begins with Phineas Gage, a 19th-century railway worker who suffered brain damage when an iron rod shot through his head like a missile, destroying his left eye and parts of his frontal lobes. The result was not a loss of speech or memory but profound personality and emotional changes and an inability to make rational judgments about the present and future.

Damasio and his wife, Hanna, have studied patients with similar frontal-lobe damage and similar effects: IQ, memory, and language are intact, but there is a lack of feeling and an inability to put current events in context and make future judgments. These points are eloquently expressed, along with the anatomical/physiological evidence linking the frontal cortices with sensory-motor areas and emotional networks that feed forward and backward from the body surface and internal organs.

Damasio is the first to admit that he cannot prove all he says. In the meantime, one can read with pleasure and share the excitement of a neuroscientist who sees that in the union of the many parts of the human brain lies its strength.

Fountain of youth or just another hopeful fad preying on aging baby boomers? You decide. Dr. Sahelian has collected testimonials from doctors, researchers and patients. He's interviewed researchers on both sides of the fence. He's combed the medical literature for studies and has interpreted them into plain English. His bias is in favor of DHEA but he cautions us to look carefully at the studies and not get caught up in the hype

DHEA (dehydroepiandrosterone) is an adrenal hormone naturally produced in large quantities during our youth. Current research has found that its production begins to decline around the age of 25 and could possibly be the link between youth and aging. Using DHEA, doctors are treading conditions such as cancer, menopause, Alzheimer's, AIDS, diabetes, Heart Disease, Chronic Fatigue, Osteoporosis, obesity, stress, lupus, and aging. DHEA: The Fountain of Youth Discovered provides all the information and important precautions needed to make an informed decision about prescribing or taking DHEA. Alana Pascal has thoroughly researched her subject and presents her findings in clear, concise language the is immediately accessible by the non-specialist general reader.

[Dr. Ash is a careful and meticulous practitioner in New York with a large and successful alternative medicine practice.]

The book that advanced the new protein revolution along with Dr. Atkins. This gets one of our highest recommendations.]

For years experts have been telling Americans what to eat and what not to eat. Fat, they told us, was the enemy. Then it was salt, then sugar, then cholesterol… and on it goes.

Americans listened and they lost -- but not their excess fat. What they lost was their health and waistlines. Americans are the fattest people on earth… and why? Mainly because of the food they eat.

In this scientific and revolutionary book, based on Nobel Prize-winning research, medical visionary and former Massachusetts Institute of Technology researcher Dr. Barry Sears makes peak physical and mental performance, as well as permanent fat loss, simple for you to understand and achieve.

With lists of good and bad carbohydrates, easy-to-follow food blocks and delicious recipes, The Zone provides all you need to begin your journey toward permanent fat loss, great health and all-round peak performance. In balance, your body will not only burn fat, but you'll fight heart disease, diabetes, PMS, chronic fatigue, depression and cancer, as well as alleviate the painful symptoms of diseases such as multiple sclerosis and HIV.

This Zone state of exceptional health is well-known to champion athletes. Your own journey toward it can begin with your next meal. You will no longer think of food as merely an item of pleasure or a means to appease hunger. Food is your medicine and your ticket to that state of ultimate body balance, strength and great health: the Zone.

Anything from Eurgene Braunwald is highly recommended. He is the master. He was my Chief of Medicine while I was in Medical School at UCSD

The highly-anticipated follow-up book to Exploring Planet Earth, this Christian and homeschool hit takes a look at medical practices from the ancient past to the present, including biographical sketches of famous persons of medicine. Featuring study questions at the end of each chapter, coupled with dozens of illustrations, this book gives middle-school through junior-high students a strong introduction into the study of medicine. Exploring the History of Medicine is suitable for family study and discussion.

[This timeless classic will never lose its lustre or topicalness. The story seems to renew itself forever and ever. Just look at the copyright date -- 1841!]

Why do otherwise intelligent individuals form seething masses of idiocy when they engage in collective action? Why do financially sensible people jump lemming-like into hare-brained speculative frenzies--only to jump broker-like out of windows when their fantasies dissolve? We may think that the Great Crash of 1929, junk bonds of the '80s, and over-valued high-tech stocks of the '90s are peculiarly 20th century aberrations, but Mackay's classic--first published in 1841--shows that the madness and confusion of crowds knows no limits, and has no temporal bounds. These are extraordinarily illuminating,and, unfortunately, entertaining tales of chicanery, greed and naivete. Essential reading for any student of human nature or the transmission of ideas.

In fact, cases such as Tulipomania in 1624--when Tulip bulbs traded at a higher price than gold--suggest the existence of what I would dub "Mackay's Law of Mass Action:" when it comes to the effect of social behavior on the intelligence of individuals, 1+1 is often less than 2, and sometimes considerably less than 0.

With today's mind-bending array of scientific knowledge, it is possible to prevent nearly 90% of the maladies that kill us, including heart disease, cancer, diabetes, kidney disease, and liver disease. Ray Kurzweil and Terry Grossman start the reader on a fantastic journey to undreamed-of vitality with a comprehensive investigation into the cutting-edge science on diet, metabolism, genetics, toxins and detoxification, the hormones involved with aging and youth, exercise, stress reduction, and more. By following their program, which includes such simple recommendations as drinking alkaline water and taking specific nutritional supplements to enhance your immune system and slow the aging process on a cellular level, anyone will be able to immediately add years of healthy, active living to his life.

[Read anything by Dharma Singh Khlasa. These are all highly recommended sources.]

The author, a physician and a yogi, follows up on his Meditation as Medicine with this guide to nutritional therapy. Together with drinking recommended juices and taking vitamins and herbs, this diet, according to Khalsa, will lead to a healthier, disease-free life. He bases his program on the seven principles of yoga nutritional therapy: body detoxification; the use of organic products; elimination of genetically engineered foods; eating only clean protein (e.g., fish, soy, beans, legumes); fresh juices and supplements; cooking consciously and eating mindfully; and a complete transition to a yoga nutrition therapy diet.

Fans of Andrew Weil (Eating Well for Optimum Health) and Deepak Chopra (How to Know God) will appreciate the author's combination of spirituality and diet. Khalsa offers a low-fat diet that is rich in grains, organic fruits and vegetables and non-meat protein. A variety of useful recipes with these components are included here as well as suggestions for maintaining peaceful meal times and a spiritually balanced life.

Although this particular nutritional program should improve physical well-being, he also maintains that his nutritional plan can reverse many serious diseases. Interestingly enough, Khalsa is not opposed to hormone replacement therapy for specific conditions and uses it in his practice.

In response to requests from patients, colleagues and the general public, we have written a comprehensive, easy-to-read guide to "feel sexier, think smarter and have more energy" based on sound scientific principles and the success of the well-founded medical practices we employ at California HealthSpan Institute to improve the quality and quantity of life to hundreds of patients nationally and internationally through a hormonally correct diet, appropriate exercise, bio-identical hormone replacement therapy, brain boosting medications and exercises and stress reduction techniques.

[The first, and still the best, source for understanding chelation therapy. What does it do and why is it recommended.]

From an online reviewer:

"Forty Something Forever" by Harold and Arline Brecher, is, with the exception of its title, one of the best investigative reports and consumer guides ever written in the field of medicine.

What is most impressive is the fact that all statements are backed up by substantial medical authorities and references, including names, addresses, and phone numbers of many doctors and organizations all across the USA.

After reading the book I rejected the risk of a second bypass surgery and decided to try chelation therapy in the Big Island of Hawaii where I live. I chose the medical supervision of Doctor Clif Arrington, recommended by the book for this region and voted one of the island's two best doctors.

Not only did my personal experience more than confirm all I had read in the book, but I was exposed to other patients, and, after hearing one astounding story after another, I undertook the task of interviewing several for the good doctor's website. …

I recommend that you get copies of this book to give to those suffering from any of the conditions best treated by chelation therapy.

In 'A Paradigm Shift from "Cure"', Friedan believes the assumption of age being likened to sickness or debility keeps the medical community and even the elderly themselves from dealing with the symptoms of legitimate illnesses. The role of functional assessment is important in treating the elderly, saying, "A new version of the old-fashioned family doctor, trained to treat the whole person, is what is needed." She goes on to say "Doctors and nurses must go beyond medicine's two traditional goals: " to cure disease and to prevent disease." Their goal now has to be to preserve and improve the quality of life for the older person." For Friedan, the paradigm shift is one from the passive medical model of care of the elderly to actually controlling their own age.

Friedan undertakes issues that haven't truly been addressed before, so as a gerontologist this book is important to me. She opens our eyes to the social implications the decline model holds for our elderly, and the paradigm shift that needs to take place if we are going to look at the abilities and qualities that may develop or emerge in men and women in later life, and contemplate new possibilities for their use.

Going beyond, or the transcendence of age is how Friedan concludes her journey. Given the new possibilities old age holds, she believes the elderly have to be pioneers of a new kind of age. She found these people all across the country, applauding old age instead of dreading it. She sees old age as an opportunity for a new beginning, a new horizon, to do the things you never had the chance to do before. These people were continuing to evolve and grow into their new age. Those who originally were searching for the fountain of youth, found the fountain of age instead.

A STARTLING CONTRAST exists between the economic and health conditions experienced by the early settlers and what they had been led to expect…"

Rocca (history of medicine, Karolinska Institutet, Stockholm) offers a comprehensive study of how Galen sought to establish the brain as the regent part, or hegemonikon, of the body, using a rigorous anatomical epistemology and a set of physiological arguments that were sophisticated but necessarily limited by the knowledge of his time. He includes a general introduction for non-specialists summarizing the circumstances that led to Galen's establishment in Rome, and explaining how Galen produced and disseminated his anatomical and physiological writings while some medical sects were denying the importance of anatomical science.

[Quite possibly one of the best science writers today. Interesting, provocative and topical -- always.]

Science writer Matt Ridley has found a way to tell someone else's story without being accused of plagiarism. Genome: The Autobiography of a Species in 23 Chapters delves deep within your body (and, to be fair, Ridley's too) looking for dirt dug up by the Human Genome Project. Each chapter pries one gene out of its chromosome and focuses on its role in our development and adult life, but also goes further, exploring the implications of genetic research and our quickly changing social attitudes toward this information.

Genome shies away from the "tedious biochemical middle managers" that only a nerd could love and instead goes for the A-material: genes associated with cancer, intelligence, sex (of course), and more.

Readers unfamiliar with the jargon of genetic research needn't fear; Ridley provides a quick, clear guide to the few words and concepts he must use to translate hard science into English. His writing is informal, relaxed, and playful, guiding the reader so effortlessly through our 23 chromosomes that by the end we wish we had more. He believes that the Human Genome Project will be as world-changing as the splitting of the atom; if so, he is helping us prepare for exciting times--the hope of a cure for cancer contrasts starkly with the horrors of newly empowered eugenicists. Anyone interested in the future of the body should get a head start with the clever, engrossing Genome.

[Still the standard and most authoratative textbook for pharmacologic information. It is "the bible" for subject of pharmacology and now biotechnology. Now in its 10th edition]

In 1761 German physician Leopold Auenbrugger remarked, "It has always been the fate of those who have illustrated or improved the arts and sciences by their discoveries to be beset by envy, malice, hatred, destruction and calumny." Following Great Feuds in Science, Hellman (Beyond Your Senses) now documents 10 dramatic medical disputes.

Hal Hellman tells the stories of the ten most heated and important disputes of medical science. Featuring a mix of famous and lesser-known stories, Great Feuds in Medicine includes the fascinating accounts of William Harvey's battle with the medical establishment over his discovery of the circulation of blood; Louis Pasteur's fight over his theory of germs; and the nasty dispute between American Robert Gallo and French researcher Luc Montagnier over who discovered the HIV virus.

[The first and must read for anyone contemplating any form of growth hormone replacement or augmentation.]

Introduces a medically proven program designed to stimulate the body's human growth hormone to help readers reverse the aging process, reduce fat, strengthen the immune system, enhance sex life, lower blood pressure and cholesterol, and improve memory and thinking ability.

[Still the leading classic and most authoratative textbook in Internal Medicine]

This book is the Bible of Internal Medicine. Anyone considering a career in medicine should have this book in their library. Comprehensive and well written, it is the gold standard of medical textbooks

[Probably more misunderstood than any other hormone -- testosterone. No it doesn't turn meek men into raging linebackers. And it doesn't turn poor hitters into home run kings. The research on testosterone actually spans over 60 years. Here is a new an innovative discussion.]

Since the early 1970s, when studies of testosterone first gained wide public attention, this principal male sex hormone has taken the rap for a range of characteristics or behaviors, including low intelligence, rape, and road rage. The truth is both remarkably more complex and more interesting scientifically. From prehistory to the present, testosterone has played a significant role in the development of human society as well as in romantic, marital, and parental relationships. It affects women as well as men in such areas as language ability, cognition, and spatial orientation.

Interweaving intimate case histories with first hand scientific research, Heroes, Rogues and Lovers engagingly explains the animal within us all, revealing testosterone's function in human evolution and its role in surprising links between animal and human behaviors.

The ancient text translated.

In Hippocrates in a World of Pagans and Christians, Temkin shows how the perennial appeal of Hippocratic practice helped establish the relationship between scientific medicine and monotheistic religion. After the first century, Hippocratic medicine competed with powerful beliefs in religious healers from Asclepius to Jesus. Yet the ascendance of Christianity, Temkin explains, did not diminish the stature of Hippocratic science. Hippocrates, after all, saw nature as a divine and orderly power that caused growth and supplied "health." Hippocratic doctors could easily exchange the cult of Asclepius for the worship of Christ. But they could not sacrifice their belief in nature as the basis of health, disease, and therapy without renouncing their science. In compromise, the Church accepted Hippocratic medicine with the proviso that the Christian physician shun all pagan or heretical interpretations of naturalism--he must not, for example, believenature to be divine, the soul a mere function of the brain, or himself the true savior of the sick.

This work is a sampling of the Hippocratic Corpus, a collection of ancient Greek medical works. Hippocrates himself may have written some, but certainly not all, of the texts. The collection spans centuries and contains slightly differing views. This makes for a fuller picture of ancient Greek medicine. As one reads through the book, the reader gets a real sense of the medical theories and "facts" of the time. A majority of Hippocratic Writings is concerned with internal medicine and diseases.

Univ. of Pisa, Italy. Presents the proceedings from the workshop held in Pisa, Italy, HRT in Climacteric and Aging Brain, on March 15-18, 2003. Analyzes the changes occurring through the climacteric transition and aging, estrogens, and the effects on brain cells.

Book Description In recent years there has been increased interest in the possibility that hormone replacement therapy may have a significant impact on neurological function in the aging female. It has been hypothesized that estrogens may even have a protective role in the onset of Alzheimer's or other dementias. This volume draws together leading experts to review the existing scientific data and present a consensus view that will be a practical aid to clinicians. The book offers a state-of-the-art summary of current knowledge that gives readers a better understanding of the potential benefits of hormone therapy when treating Alzheimer's and other dementias.

Alright guys…forget all the glossy magazines and latest studies. This little book tells you everything you really did not want to know about YOUR body. And then you can't unknow what you know…it's then up to you to make use of the very factual information and make the best of what you've got to work with.

A Medquest publication

Why is there so much confusion out there about hormone replacement? To really grasp this, one must understand the political and profit motivations behind many of the studies, and understand the physiology of the endocrine system very well. Dr. Rouzier has such understanding and knowledge coupled with a tremendous sense of integrity, and a great compassion for people who want to feel well and want to learn how to take charge of their health.

[There is more than just Viagra, Levitra or Cialis. Another provocative text.]

According to Dr. Barbara Keesling, who spent ten years as a sex therapist, any man can master the simple techniques presented in HOW TO MAKE LOVE ALL NIGHT (and Drive a Woman Wild).

In a forthright, practical, and lively style, Dr. Keesling provides a series of exercises and techniques for men to prolong lovemaking regardless of age or experience. There are exercises for the body and exercises for the mind so that the sensual experience lasts and lasts and lasts! And as with anything new, the key to success is practice, practice, practice!

Written for both the man and his partner, HOW TO MAKE LOVE ALL NIGHT guides the reader from the basics to advanced exercises. With anecdotes from several men who have achieved success following Dr. Keesling's methods, this is a book that can open up a whole new world of pleasure so what do you have to lose—except sleep?

from a online reviewer:

Reading this book is the best thing I ever did. This book opened my eyes. I am a male and I was very hopeless at dating until I read this book. It taught me techniques in easy understandable terms. It taught me how to understand women, how to express myself and how to get dates one after another. I love this book so much I will tell every man I know to buy this book. In fact I purchased 3 copies for my friends. I know now how to understand the womans language, how to express myself and how to act.

John Eagan writes with respect and insight. It changed my thinking and attitude and turn my life around. It will do the same for you.

It has ever been a race to meet the deadlines, blindly following up the routine work pressures and sacrificing the wee hours of life in order to gain achievement to label n brand it as 'success' - This is the major folly of most efficient people at workplace who pay a price missing wider opportunities to enhance better future.

The game is all about Working wisely and not Damn Hard as the Author advice cool tips on how to succeed in Business with a shapened job performance pulling in the effective measures to take charge of total control of time schedules.

Hypothyroidism -- low thyroid function -- is one of the gland disturbances that many people suffer from without even realizing it. It can be the cause of low energy or constant fatigue that is one of the most common complaints brought to doctors. It may be responsible for chronic headaches, repeated infections, unyielding skin problems, or circulatory difficulties. Even more frightening, it can be a major factor in heart disease, lung cancer, and emphysema. And it is responsible for many emotional and mental disturbances. Hypothyroidism: The Unsuspected Illness explains low thyroid function in easy, understandable language. It tells how it may be affecting your health and your life.

Dr. Broda Barnes and Lawrence Galton tell what the thyroid gland is, how it works, the problems its dysfunction can induce. They detail case histories of patients, often thought hopeless, whose problems were discovered to be related to hypothyroidism and were cured by Dr. Barnes's simple effective techniques. And they discuss whether you too may be hypothyroid, affected by a condition even a physician may not recognize.

An enormously complex and controversial figure in Medical history. Lionized and demonized, maie what you will, but this is a good start.

Iconoclast is a thoughtful, wonderfully crafted, solidly researched account of an uncommon life that far exceeds Abraham Flexner's association with reform in medical education.

Although the 1910 report became famous for its stinging description of particular medical schools -- he referred to Chicago and its 14 medical schools, for example, as "a disgrace to the State whose laws permit its existence . . . Indescribably foul . . . The plague spot of the nation" -- it was largely successful in creating a single model of medical education characterized by a philosophy that is still current. "An education in medicine," wrote Flexner, "involves both learning and learning how; the student cannot effectively know, unless he knows how."

Although the report is more than 90 years old, many of its recommendations are still relevant -- particularly those concerning the physician as a "social instrument . . . Whose function is fast becoming social and preventive, rather than individual and curative."

75 remarkable individuals whose greatest acheivements occurred or were recognized in the second half of their lives. They all succeeded in making their later years productive and fulfilling. A remarkable idea

There are currently some 50,000 people over the age of 100 in the US. Perls, a professor of medicine at Harvard Medical School and a geriatrician, and Silver, a neuropsychologist and a clinical instructor in psychology at Harvard Medical School, offer a bold new vision of a greatly extended and healthier life span. They report on a study of some 100 centenarians and identify lifestyle patterns, vitamins, and medications that contribute to aging well. Includes profiles and b&w photos of centenarians

We have not personally reviewed this book. There are very good resources now available. The most important point is to find a physician who will not "go by the book" and one that sees the balance between old fashioned clinical acumen and good laboratory confirmation. Does he or she listen? Are thye using state-of-the-art testing or the standard out of date testing?

This is the most comprehensive, well researched, and best written book on this subject. The author is not a doctor but is so thoroughly informed on this subject through her own exhaustive research as well as through her collaboration and consultaton with recognized experts in many health disciplines including the medical field. She is someone who has suffered with hypothyroidism and has made it her mission to help others.

I am an RN and I have read many other books on this subject and she is more thorough and professional in her approach than I've seen in most other books on the topic.

[One of my favorite authors from so long ago, returns again with a fresh perspective on the sociology of longevity and aging.]

Three decades after publishing his classic The Making of a Counter Culture — and after two brushes with death — Theodore Roszak was forced to confront his mortality and that of a generation of baby boomers who never realized they were subject to the same laws of aging as their predecessors.

In Longevity Revolution, Roszak turns his critical eye to what he calls “the implications of mass longevity as a social phenomenon.” Revised for paperback publication, the book counters conventional views of elders as burdens, seeing them instead as the culture’s great resource. Roszak explores in detail such critical issues as economics, politics, medicine, ethics, biotechnology, the class divide, and the fetish for youthfulness that dominate American culture.

He envisions a world in which elders are honored for their insights, values, and abilities in creating a more compassionate society This edition includes a new introduction, updated statistics, and two new chapters on retirement and grandparenting.

[Coming to grips with a rather silly notion: is there a Male menopause, the author has developed an approach that legitimizes the phenomenon. While we do not agree with his philosophy that is passive and accepting, it is, nevertheless, a valid contribution to the literature. There is no doubt that the phenomenon exists. It has a later onset than women, typically occurring at age 54-56. But is is not menopause. It is Andropause. And it is real. We call it the dwindles. Most commonly presenting as depression and loss of motivation and spirit."]

After years of jokes about the male "midlife crisis," male menopause is today recognized as a true event, occurring in millions of men between the ages of forty and fifty-five. In this groundbreaking and much-lauded book, author Jed Diamond shows that male menopause involves dramatic chemical and physiological changes that affect everything from a mans view on life to his ability to attain and maintain an erection.

Another absolute classic. Short sweet and concise. This the fundemental guide to the nervous system.

Univ. of Michigan, Ann Arbor. Clinically oriented overview of human neuroanatomy, neuropharmacology, and neurophysiology. Features in updated edition include case studies and follow-ups of disease localization, pathology, and patient management and numerous MRIs illustrating structural relationship.

From our most recommended author comes another best seller. Our mantra: less fat and carbohydrates, more protein. High quality protein. So you can see that we do not entirely agree with the notion that fat does not make any difference -- it does. But the substance of Dr. Sears And Dr. Atkins is undeniable -- more protein.

from the book:

Flying in the face of conventional dietary thinking, and after years of comprehensive scientific research, Dr. Sears discovered that "eating fat doesn't make you fat." His phenomenally successful first book, The Zone, introduced the world to to groundbreaking health plan that for hundreds of thousands of readers has become the magic key to maintaining a consistent level of physical and mental well-being -- a healthful state known as "The Zone."

Now Dr. Sears takes his breakthrough scientific discoveries and stunning success a step further with Mastering the Zone, which not only presents delicious, completely original Zone-favorable recipes that are easy to prepare and taste as good as they are good for you, but also offers a practical guide to fine-tuning your place in the Zone.

From one of the leading "alternative" physicians in the country comes a must-read text. As we have said, testosterone is so highly misunderstood. Dr. Wright demystifies all of this.

With conventional medicine so bent on testosterone as the "bad guy," bringing declining hormone levels back to healthy levels makes sense. Women have hormone imbalance from estrogen dominance and lack of progesterone production - are we guys exempt?

I especially enjoy Dr. Wright's emphasis on natural testosterone supplementation at normal psysiological levels instead of synthetic testosterone at much higher doses with all the side effects. And he has the studies to back him up.

Once one understands that pharmaceutical companies cannot patent natural products, then it makes sense why many doctors are not educated in using natural products when appropiate. Dr. Wright's work is timely, relavent, and a fun read. I highly recommend it to any man over 40.