Download or read book State of the Heart written by Haider Warraich and published by Macmillan + ORM. This book was released on 2019-07-23 with total page 213 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In State of the Heart, Dr. Haider Warraich takes readers inside the ER, inside patients' rooms, and inside the history and science of cardiac disease. State of the Heart traces the entire arc of the heart, from the very first time it was depicted on stone tablets, to a future in which it may very well become redundant. While heart disease has been around for a while, the type of heart disease people have, why they have it, and how it’s treated is changing. Yet, the golden age of heart science is only just beginning. And with treatments of heart disease altering the very definitions of human life and death, there is no better time to look at the present and future of heart disease, the doctors and nurses who treat it, the patients and caregivers who live with it, and the stories they hold close to their chests. More people die of heart disease than any other disease in the world and when any form of heart disease progresses, it can result in the development of heart failure. Heart failure affects millions and can affect anyone at anytime, a child recovering from a viral infection, a woman who has just given birth or a cancer patient receiving chemotherapy. Yet new technology to treat heart failure is fundamentally changing just what it means to be human. Mechanical pumps can be surgically sown into patients’ hearts and when patients with these pumps get really sick, sometimes they don’t need a doctor or a surgeon—they need a mechanic. In State of the Heart, the journey to rid the world of heart disease is shown to be reflective of the journey of medical science at large. We are learning not only that women have as much heart disease as men, but that the type of heart disease women experience is diametrically different from that in men. We are learning that heart disease and cancer may have more in common than we could have imagined. And we are learning how human evolution itself may have led to the epidemic of heart disease. In understanding how our knowledge of the heart evolved, State of the Heart traces the twisting and turning road that science has taken—filled with potholes and blind turns—all the way back to its very origin.

Download or read book WHAT YOUR DOCTOR MAY NOT TELL YOU ABOUT TM HEART DISEASE written by Mark Houston and published by Hachette UK. This book was released on 2012-02-06 with total page 141 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A groundbreaking program that reveals what really causes heart disease-- and what can be done to prevent and treat its devastating effects on long-term health. Coronary heart disease has long been the number one killer in this country, and for decades, we have been told about five basic risk factors: elevated cholesterol, high blood pressure, diabetes, obesity, and smoking. But the truth is that heart disease is much more complex-- with close to 400 risk factors! In this innovative guide, Dr. Mark Houston helps readers discover the causes of heart disease, how to prevent and treat its debilitating effects via nutrition, nutritional supplements, exercise, weight management, and lays to rest to various myths (cholesterol is not the primary cause) based on scientific studies and medical publications. Readers will also learn how to identify the risk factors most likely to endanger them and construct an arsenal of non-pharmacological preventative strategies that can counteract this most deadly disease.

Download or read book An Untold Medical Story Coronary Blood Flow Heart Attack Prediction Prevention and Treatment written by Gunnar Sevelius M. D. and published by AuthorHouse. This book was released on 2011-04 with total page 183 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The book describes Dr. Sevelius' long career as medical scientist, pursuing specifically what can be learned from a radiocardiogram (RCG), the recording through the skin of the heart flow, the cardiac output (CO), the most fundamental of all body functions. The RCG has been slow in acceptance in clinical medicine. One worry has been the radiation. The radiation is approximately one-third that of a chest x-ray and should be of minor concern with proper education. Another difficulty is how to interpret the results. Other techniques for CO measurements have had similar problems, not because the techniques were wrong but because the interpretation was based on wrong premises with too wide a standard deviation for proper diagnosis in clinical work. Dr. Sevelius introduces two new assessments: hemodynamic and metabolic. With these interpretations the heart as a pump is first judged according to the size of simultaneously measured blood volume it has to pump and second, separately, as to how large a body the heart has to supply with oxygen. The hemodynamic evaluation of the heart flow is found to be a good predictor to a within six-month pending heart attack. This would make the RCG an exceptionally simple and useful tool for diagnosis in clinical medicine. This book collects Dr. Sevelius' work in digital format to make it easily available. It is Dr. Sevelius' hope that his work will inspire some young scientists to follow up his work because of its wide application in modern medicine.

Download or read book THE UNTOLD TRUTH written by KRATISHA SINGH and published by WRITERS ARMY PUBLICATIONS. This book was released on with total page 176 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Everyone has that one secret which they never disclose. Sometimes we want to confess our feelings, and we eagerly wait for the right time to outburst our heart infront of those whom we loved the most but that right time never comes. 'The Untold Truth', is a key to unlock the untold truth of various writers from all over India and abroad . This anthology is a collection of Short Stories, Poems, Open-Letters and Quotes which uncover the mysteries of their unspoken truth.

Download or read book Before It Happens To You written by Jonathan Sackner Bernstein and published by Da Capo Lifelong Books. This book was released on 2004-01-08 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: You hear about it all too often: an otherwise completely healthy person struck down by heart attack in the prime of life. The result of hidden heart disease--the first symptoms of which are slightly high cholesterol or blood pressure-this is the kind of tragedy that sends us running to the doctor for a physical. But today's medical guidelines don't indicate treatment for most; based on the cost-effectiveness of treatment for society, lifesaving medications are withheld for high-risk patients. It doesn't have to be this way.Under the Don't Die Young! plan, concerned readers are screened for heart disease with a few doctor-ordered blood tests and, depending on the findings, treated with up to four medications: an aspirin, an ACE-inhibitor, a statin, and a beta-blocker. The scientific evidence for this strategy is overwhelming: The medications work, they stave off heart disease, and bring heart health back. Their use cuts an individual's risk of heart attack in half-even without starting an exercise program, or cutting back on saturated fats.Explaining the science as well as how to talk to doctors about their necessary involvement, Don't Die Young! will help more people identify and treat their heart problems. Providing both a pound of prevention and treatment advice for those who already know they have heart disease, it will save lives.

Download or read book The Untold Truth written by Spencer Jean, CBIS and published by Author House. This book was released on 2014-03 with total page 129 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Spencer Jean bares his soul throughout his autobiography, explaining the never-before-told details of the suffering concussions have inflicted upon his life. He explains his first and last concussions, and everything in between. the events that take place throughout the book are explicit and have never before been heard by anyone. He explains how he hid his concussions from his coaches, teammates, parents and even doctors. He shares the consequences and life changes that concussions have imposed on his life. Some of the material may be hard to hear. He spares no details throughout the book. He explains how he took all of the negatives he suffered and turned them into a corporation that helps others prevent what he went through--and what will ultimately be his demise.

Download or read book The Heart of Everything That Is written by Bob Drury and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 2013 with total page 432 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Draws on Red Cloud's autobiography, which was lost for nearly a hundred years, to present the story of the great Oglala Sioux chief who was the only Plains Indian to defeat the United States Army in a war.

Download or read book Invoking Your Inner Therapist in Heart Failure written by Kris Vijay and published by . This book was released on 2020-10-02 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book Why We Get Sick written by Benjamin Bikman and published by BenBella Books. This book was released on 2020-07-21 with total page 186 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A scientist reveals the groundbreaking evidence linking many major diseases, including cancer, diabetes, and Alzheimer's disease, to a common root cause—insulin resistance—and shares an easy, effective plan to reverse and prevent it. We are sick. Around the world, we struggle with diseases that were once considered rare. Cancer, heart disease, Alzheimer's disease, and diabetes affect millions each year; many people are also struggling with hypertension, weight gain, fatty liver, dementia, low testosterone, menstrual irregularities and infertility, and more. We treat the symptoms, not realizing that all of these diseases and disorders have something in common. Each of them is caused or made worse by a condition known as insulin resistance. And you might have it. Odds are you do—over half of all adults in the United States are insulin resistant, with most other countries either worse or not far behind. In Why We Get Sick, internationally renowned scientist and pathophysiology professor Benjamin Bikman explores why insulin resistance has become so prevalent and why it matters. Unless we recognize it and take steps to reverse the trend, major chronic diseases will be even more widespread. But reversing insulin resistance is possible, and Bikman offers an evidence-based plan to stop and prevent it, with helpful food lists, meal suggestions, easy exercise principles, and more. Full of surprising research and practical advice, Why We Get Sick will help you to take control of your health.

Download or read book The Untold Truth written by Howard D. Linson and published by . This book was released on 2012 with total page 400 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An Army veteran explains his point of view on how gay and bisexual people are treated in the military. He includes his own experiences with how the ODon't Ask, Don't TellO policy affected his career.

Download or read book The Cholesterol Myths written by Uffe Ravnskov and published by New Trends Publishing. This book was released on 2002 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book Shrinks written by Jeffrey A. Lieberman and published by Little, Brown Spark. This book was released on 2015-03-10 with total page 313 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The inspiration for the PBS series Mysterious of Mental Illness, Shrinks brilliantly tells the "astonishing" story of psychiatry's origins, demise, and redemption (Siddhartha Mukherjee). Psychiatry has come a long way since the days of chaining "lunatics" in cold cells and parading them as freakish marvels before a gaping public. But, as Jeffrey Lieberman, MD, the former president of the American Psychiatric Association, reveals in his extraordinary and eye-opening book, the path to legitimacy for "the black sheep of medicine" has been anything but smooth. In Shrinks, Dr. Lieberman traces the field from its birth as a mystic pseudo-science through its adolescence as a cult of "shrinks" to its late blooming maturity — beginning after World War II — as a science-driven profession that saves lives. With fascinating case studies and portraits of the luminaries of the field — from Sigmund Freud to Eric Kandel — Shrinks is a gripping and illuminating read, and an urgent call-to-arms to dispel the stigma of mental illnesses by treating them as diseases rather than unfortunate states of mind. “A lucid popular history...At once skeptical and triumphalist. It shows just how far psychiatry has come.” —Julia M. Klein, Boston Globe

Download or read book The Great Cholesterol Myth Revised and Expanded written by Jonny Bowden and published by Fair Winds Press. This book was released on 2020-08-04 with total page 243 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The best-selling book on heart disease, updated with the latest research and clinical findings on high-fat/ketogenic diets, sugar, genetics, and other factors. Heart disease is the #1 killer. However, traditional heart disease protocols—with their emphasis on lowering cholesterol—have it all wrong. Emerging science is showing that cholesterol levels are a poor predictor of heart disease and that standard prescriptions for lowering it, such as ineffective low-fat/high-carb diets and serious, side-effect-causing statin drugs, obscure the real causes of heart disease. Even doctors at leading institutions have been misled for years based on creative reporting of research results from pharmaceutical companies intent on supporting the $31-billion-a-year cholesterol-lowering drug industry. The Great Cholesterol Myth reveals the real culprits of heart disease, including: inflammation, fibrinogen, triglycerides, homocysteine, belly fat, triglyceride to HDL ratios, and high glycemic levels. Best-selling health authors Jonny Bowden, PhD, and Stephen Sinatra, MD, give readers a four-part strategy based on the latest studies and clinical findings for effectively preventing, managing, and reversing heart disease, focusing on diet, exercise, supplements, and stress and anger management. Myths vs. Facts Myth: High cholesterol is the cause of heart disease. Fact: Cholesterol is only a minor player in the cascade of inflammation which is a cause of heart disease. Myth: Saturated fat is dangerous. Fact: Saturated fats are not dangerous. The killer fats are the transfats from partially hydrogenated oils. â?? Myth: The higher the cholesterol, the shorter the lifespan. Fact: Higher cholesterol protects you from gastrointestinal disease, pulmonary disease, and hemorrhagic stroke. Myth: High cholesterol is a predictor of heart attack. Fact: There is no correlation between cholesterol and heart attacks. Myth: Lowering cholesterol with statin drugs will prolong your life. Fact: There is no data to show that statins have a significant impact on longevity. Myth: Statin drugs are safe. Fact: Statin drugs can be extremely toxic including causing death. Myth: Statin drugs are useful in men, women, and the elderly. Fact: Statin drugs do the best job in middle-aged men with coronary disease. Myth: Statin drugs are useful in middle-aged men with coronary artery disease because of its impact on cholesterol. Fact: Statin drugs reduce inflammation and improve blood viscosity (thinning blood). Statins are extremely helpful in men with low HDL and coronary artery disease.

Download or read book The Song of Our Scars written by Haider Warraich and published by Hachette UK. This book was released on 2022-04-19 with total page 339 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A doctor’s personal and unsparing account of how modern medicine’s failure to understand pain has made care less effective In The Song of Our Scars, physician Haider Warraich offers a bold reexamination of the nature of pain, not as a simple physical sensation, but as a cultural experience. Warraich, himself a sufferer of chronic pain, considers the ways our notions of pain have been shaped not just by science but by politics and power, by whose suffering mattered and whose didn’t. He weaves a provocative history from the Renaissance, when pain transformed into a medical issue, through the racial legacy of pain tolerance, to the opiate epidemics of both the nineteenth and twenty-first centuries, to the cutting edge of present-day pain science. The conclusion is clear: only by reckoning with both pain’s complicated history and its biology can today’s doctors adequately treat their patients’ suffering. Trenchant and deeply felt, The Song of Our Scars is an indictment of a broken system and a plea for a more holistic understanding of the human body.

Download or read book Nature Red in Tooth and Claw written by Michael Murray and published by Oxford University Press on Demand. This book was released on 2008-06-19 with total page 220 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Those who believe in God often puzzle over how God could permit evil and suffering in the world. Nature Red in Tooth and Claw focuses specifically on non-human animal suffering, and whether or not it raises problems for belief in the existence of a perfectly good creator.

Download or read book The Untold Truth about Heart Disease written by Brooklyn Lucas and published by Independently Published. This book was released on 2024-06-10 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Heart disease. It's the leading cause of death globally, claiming millions of lives each year. But what if the story we've been told about heart disease is incomplete? The Untold Truth About Heart Disease: A Comprehensive Guide to Understanding and Preventing Cardiovascular Issues shatters myths and empowers you to take charge of your heart health. This groundbreaking book goes beyond traditional one-size-fits-all approaches, revealing: The Untold Truths: Discover how personalized medicine, genetic testing, and modifiable risk factors are revolutionizing heart disease prevention and treatment. Your Unique Heart: Unveil the intricate workings of your heart and the diverse risk factors that can impact its health. A Path to Prevention: Learn how to craft a personalized plan to manage stress, prioritize a heart-healthy diet, and embrace a lifestyle that promotes longevity. The Power of Proactive Management: Explore the potential of genetic testing and collaborate with your doctor to develop a personalized treatment plan tailored to your specific needs. The Future of Heart Health: Get a glimpse into the exciting possibilities of precision medicine and its potential to transform heart disease management. You're not alone in this journey. This comprehensive guide equips you with valuable resources, including: Understanding Risk Factors: Delve into the science behind high blood pressure, cholesterol, inflammation, and other factors that can impact heart health. Actionable Strategies: Discover practical tips for managing stress, incorporating regular exercise, and making dietary choices that support a healthy heart. Support Networks: Learn about patient advocacy organizations, support groups, and genetic counseling services available to empower you on your path to optimal heart health. "The Untold Truth About Heart Disease" is more than just a book; it's a call to action. Armed with knowledge and practical strategies, you can rewrite the narrative of heart health. Take control of your well-being, embrace a proactive approach, and embark on a journey towards a vibrant, heart-healthy life.

Download or read book Dark Castle Nor and the Untold Truth written by Lucky Wright and published by Strategic Book Publishing. This book was released on 2012-02-01 with total page 259 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: During the Eleventh Century in Wales, a clan of elves met their demise, or so everyone believed. Miraculously, they survived in caverns underground for ninety-one years, their existence becoming legend. A young elf, Tril, is shown disturbing visions by the spirits of atrocities taking place above, at Castle Nor. He must act. To turn his head would be turning away from God. The clan is furious. Tril, his girlfriend Lily, and a young wolf are going to expose them all once again to the world above, causing their death sentence. Given the combined tools of vision, logic, sharp teeth, youth and compassion, the trio set out to do what the clan insists is impossible: restore justice. Novelist Robin Duggan and her daughter set out for Wales from Torrance, California. Their mission: look for clues verifying pages torn from a diary penned by Lady Alaine, found in the ruins of a castle by one of Robin's ancestors. Robin believes the story is true, and why not? God designed dinosaurs. Elves would hardly be a small step from center.: