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Healing Hormones: How to Turn on Natural Chemicals to Reduce Stress

Autor Mark J. Estren, Beverly A. Potter
en Limba Engleză Paperback – 4 noi 2013
Healing Hormones tackles a huge, attention-getting subject. TV and radio shows, websites telling people to take it easy, slow down, de-stress to feel better, live longer, be a better parent and more loving mate. But how? The prescriptions are disappointing: Yoga? Time-consuming and difficult for many. Prescription drugs? Costly, subject to abuse and may not be helpful. Naturopathic remedies? Unproven, untested and often ineffective.

Healing Hormones has a better answer: show readers how to harness their own bodies' heal producing chemicals to improve their lives. Healing Hormones takes the take-care-of-yourself trend a step beyond where it has been before. Author Mark J. Estren, Ph.D., investigates five body-produced hormones that counter the stress response to make life better, calmer and more relaxed. The five healing hormones are dopamine, nitric oxide, endorphins, oxytocin, and serotonin.

Healing Hormones will be readers' top choice to learn the pluses and minuses of the remarkable hormones that drive their health and happiness or undercut it. Estren—who has more than 20 years of experience writing about medical issues and research for patients and their families—explains how to harness the power of these healing hormones in clear, easily understandable language.
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Specificații

ISBN-13: 9781579511678
ISBN-10: 1579511678
Pagini: 171
Ilustrații: B&W illustrations throughout, Charts, Tables
Dimensiuni: 140 x 213 x 13 mm
Greutate: 0.2 kg
Editura: Ronin Publishing (CA)

Cuprins

Chapter 1: Stressors and the stress response
Chapter 2: First line of defense—the relaxation response
Chapter 3: Nitric oxide for heart health
Chapter 4: Get Smart about Dopamine
Chapter 5: Endorphins, the paradoxical healers
Chapter 6: Serotonin—Take It Easy
Chapter 7: Oxytocin—Cuddle Chemical
Chapter 8: Oxytocin's Dark Side
Chapter 9: Harnessing Hormones
Chapter 10: Effective De-stressing

Notă biografică

Mark J. Estren, Ph.D., is a nationally known journalist and Pulitzer winner and was named one of the "People to Watch" by Fortune magazine. Dr. Estren is a regular contributor to The Washington Post, and Bottom Line. He lives in Ft. Myers, FL. Beverly A. Potter, Ph.D,, received her doctorate from Stanford University. Preferring "Docpotter", her work blends philosophies of humanistic psychology, social learning theory and Eastern philosophies to create inspiring and original ways of handling difficulties encountered in today's stressful world. She is the author of several self-help books, including Overcoming Job Burnout: How to Renew Enthusiasm for Work and The Worrywart's Companion: 21 Ways to Soothe Yourself and Worry Smart. Her offices are in Oakland, CA.

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Feeling stressed? Overwhelmed? About to jump out of your skin from pressures of everyday life? We all feel that way at times: ready to explode from everything going on - unrelenting demands, all the time. So we take medicines, see doctors, overeat, even use alcohol or drugs. Still the pressures mount. It's unbearable! There must be a better way!
There is. Your body knows what to do. Your body makes healing hormones that fight stress, promoting calm and balance. Nitric oxide, dopamine, endorphins, serotonin and oxytocin will help you cope with the demands of living in our hectic modern world - if you let your body do its job!
"Healing Hormones"shows what you can do to help yourself without pills or supplements. It shows that stress is not what most people think - not something "out there." "Stress is a response" to external events - positive or negative. Since stress is your reaction, you can learn to control runaway stress by encouraging your body to produce anti-stress chemicals that will keep you calmer and better balanced.
"Healing Hormones" shows how we create stress by reacting to what we think is happening around us - not what is really happening. We make our own reality - one much more stress-filled than it has to be. Since we make it, we can change it. "Healing Hormones" tells how.
A wonderful counterbalance to the pressures urging us to take more medicines and look outside ourselves for health, "Healing Hormones" explains how you can be healthier and happier - today and every day.