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“What can I do to feel better?” For years, millions of adults who suffer from irritable bowel syndrome (IBS) have asked this question, often to be met with scientifically unfounded or inadequate advice. The low-FODMAP diet is the long-awaited answer. Authors Sue Shepherd and Peter Gibson explain what causes digestive distress and how the low-FODMAP diet helps.

In the quiet sanctuary of sleep, your body, mind, and soul can find restoration and rejuvenation. Deep sleep is not just a biological necessity-it's a sacred journey that can profoundly impact your waking life. In this sleep meditation album, renowned intuitive expert and best-selling author...

Welcome to AcuPro, a show dedicated to making Chinese medicine & acupuncture easy to grasp and fun to learn.Hi, I’m your host, Clara Cohen. I support practitioners & students like you in changing the world one patient at a time. My goal is to share my passion for TCM and empower YOU to achieve superior patient care.I love to showcase the amazing benefits of Acupuncture, because after all, Chinese medicine ROCKS!I created FREE Chinese medicine treatment protocols, Acupuncture case studies, free online TCM courses, and over 500 educational videos on my website resource page. You can access it ...

What if you could see the toll that over-work, too much sugar or bad sleep really take on your system? What if you knew what boosts your energy, and what saps it, and when you are heading for burnout? What if you could feel more vitality and joy, have stronger will power and live longer? With the aid of your phone, smartwatch or a wearable heart rate monitor and The Pulse Cure, you can. The key lies in measuring your heart rate variability - the distance between your heart beats - which indicates what is happening in your autonomic nervous system.

In Reversing Dry Eye Syndrome, ophthalmologist Steven Maskin introduced listeners to Dry Eye syndrome, explaining what the syndrome is, why it occurs, and how it can best be managed and treated. In Your Dry Eye Mystery Solved, he reveals his recent discoveries and treatments for Meibomian gland dysfunction (MGD), an underlying disease that leads to Dry Eye syndrome and involves blockage of the oil-producing tear glands within the eyelids.

The Lupus Academy has been providing accredited education in SLE for healthcare professionals since 2012 and in this monthly podcast Raquel Faria, an Internal Medicine Consultant at the Centro Hospitalar in Porto, will talk with experts from the Lupus Academy Steering Committee about SLE highlights of congresses, we will discuss difficult cases and we have an annual episode where we review all the exciting things that have been happening in lupus that year.

Million around the world suffer from insomnia and other sleep disorders every day. But there is a solution, and it’s called Deep Sleep Hypnosis! Hypnosis can help you get better rest, feel more relaxed, and even overcome anxiety or depression that might be keeping you up at night. Imagine how great it will feel to wake up feeling rested after a good night’s sleep without any fatigue throughout the day. After listening to the scripts inside for only a few nights, we guarantee that you'll wake up feeling refreshed and ready to take on whatever challenges come your way!

Guided imagery is a holistic, mind-body technique that consists of healing words and hypnotic images, set to soothing music, to provide natural symptom relief. Repeated listening once or twice a day for 2-3 weeks ensures maximum impact. Designed for either muscular or migraine headaches, this...

There's nothing funny about cancer. But humour can help take away some of its terrible power. 'Riveting. funny-sad. And so real. I have a friend-crush on Shormishtha now!' Anuja Chauhan 'Cancer picked the wrong girl, but you picked the right book. I laughed through tears and till I teared up.'...

We grew up believing certain things about sleep, but are they true? Learn the real facts about night owls, naps, nightcaps, and more in this short educational piece by the experts at Arianna Huffington’s Thrive Global. Huffington became a pioneer for ending global burnout after she herself experienced a life-changing event and collapsed from sleep deprivation....

The book we've all (certainly every woman between 25 and 75) been waiting for. Classy, chic, convincing, funny, wise, well-written and very timely. It's the ultimate non-diet book, which nonetheless shows us how to eat with balance, control and above all pleasure. Chuck out all the radical diet books, think about what you eat and why, and then enjoy eating the right things (and some of the wrong ones) intelligently, and in smaller portions. Eat, like a French woman, with your head not your stomach.

Best-selling author Mary Roach returns with a new adventure to the invisible realm we carry around inside. Roach takes us down the hatch on an unforgettable tour. The alimentary canal is classic Mary Roach terrain: The questions explored in Gulp are as taboo, in their way, as the cadavers in Stiff and every bit as surreal as the universe of zero gravity explored in Packing for Mars. Why is crunchy food so appealing? Why is it so hard to find words for flavors and smells? Why doesn’t the stomach digest itself? How much can you eat before your stomach bursts?

MasterChef winner and restaurateur Tim Anderson, with the help of Dr Giles Yeo, ventures into his bowels.

Since the beginning of the 20th century, cancer rates have increased exponentially - now affecting almost 50 percent of the American population. Conventional treatment continues to rely on chemotherapy, surgery, and radiation to attack cancer cells. Yet research has repeatedly shown that 95 percent of cancer cases are directly linked to diet and lifestyle. The Metabolic Approach to Cancer is the audiobook we have been waiting for - it offers an innovative, metabolic-focused nutrition protocol that actually works.

Growing Young: A Doctor's Guide to the New Anti-Aging, by physician and health journalist Marcus L. Gitterle, M.D., is about the revolutionary changes that have taken place in Anti-Aging over the past 10 years, and how to access those breakthroughs to prevent illness and slow and even reverse the aging process. This book enables anyone to begin a powerful anti-aging program immediately, regardless of his or her budget or preexisting health conditions.

When her once-glamorous and witty novelist-mother got Alzheimer's, Eleanor Cooney moved her from her beloved Connecticut home to California in order to care for her. In tense, searing prose, punctuated with the blackest of humor, Cooney documents the slow erosion of her mother's mind, the powerful bond the two shared, and her own descent into drink and despair.

Sleep is the hottest of hot topics. Experts queue up to warn us that lack of sleep, or the wrong kind, will bring down a bewildering array of dire consequences. But how do we keep from being overwhelmed by this deluge of data? What if all this knowledge just feeds anxiety and drives sleep even further from our grasp? Heather Darwall-Smith's message is simple: don't panic! Humans are biologically programmed to sleep - and by interrogating the factors that might impede this innate instinct, we can make changes in our lifestyles and find our way back to good sleep.

Rheumatology reviews of key topics for your exams and clinical practice, whether you're exercising, grocery shopping, driving, or whatever else it is you choose to do unshackled from your desk.

Feeling safe is key to being able to fall asleep. Learn how to become your own eye of the storm and find quiet when everything around you may be chaotic and stressful.

In this sound bath experience, renowned sound therapist, meditation teacher, and author Sara Auster harnesses the power of peaceful sounds and quiet guidance to help calm your mind and relax your body before bed. Linger softly in the pre-slumber state as Sara helps you access a gentle transition into restful sleep. She will guide your breathing while playing a variety of soothing, overtone-emitting instruments, including tuning forks, crystal singing bowls, and more. Sara has specially designed these recordings with the intention for rest and, ultimately, sleep.