Used throughout the ages for its healing and immune
properties, mushrooms have always been a focus of the mysterious and mystical.
But, has the potential for a healthy life been right under our feet this whole
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HEALTHY AGING
By Dr. Andrew Weil. Dr. Weil has been an authoritative and companionable
guide through a uniquely effective combination of traditional and
nontraditional approaches to health and healthy living. Now he gives us abook
about aging that is unlike any other in the breadth and depth of its
information and understanding. At the heart of Healthy Aging is
Dr. Weil’s belief that although aging is an irreversible process, there are
myriad things we can do to keep our minds and bodies in good working order
through all phases of life. To that end, he draws on the new science of
biogerentology (the biology of aging) as well as on the secrets of healthy
longevity—diet, activity, and attitude—that he has gathered firsthand from
cultures around the world. Informative, practical, and uplifting. 304 pages,
hardcover. | |
 Spontaneous
Healing:
How to Discover & Enhance
Your Body's Natural Ability to Maintain & Heal Itself
This was book that really put Andrew Weil on the map and public speaker
circuit and it was totally deserved. A wonderful mix of Weil's personal
journey of being disaffected with the medical system, his travels abroad to
look for answers he could only find at home, stories of patients that taught
him key concepts about the body's inherent capacity to heal itself, and
discussion of herbal and mind/body research that has influenced his work are
only some of the main concepts he expounds upon in this volume. The main crux
of the book is short and sweet: the body can heal itself because it is a
healing system. | |
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 Medicinal
Mushrooms:
An Exploration of Tradition, Healing, & Cultures
By Christopher Hobbs. As an herbalist who has had this book for several
years, I find that I return to the book again and again. Chris Hobbs puts
together research and his own clinical background on a wide variety of
mushrooms. Highly recommended. (By Karen Vaughan "Herblady") | |
 Shiitake:
The Healing Mushroom
By Kenneth Jones. Shiitake The Healing Mushroom represents a very good
first attempt to bring detailed information about the nutritional and
medicinal merits of this exotic Asian mushroom to the general public.
According to Mr. Jones, besides tasting sinfully good steamed or sauted in
butter and garlic, shiitake has many 'bioactive' compounds that either
stimulate, boost, supplement or somehow enhance the disease fighting
capability of our immune system. (by Gregory McMahan)
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