Chronic fatigue is a symptom, not a condition in its own right, and can have many causes. Those possible causes need careful investigation. Modern medicine relies heavily on the results of blood tests and has narrowed the ranges of these tests to exclude all but the clear-cut cases. This leaves many sufferers with 'normal' results but far from normal symptoms. In his latest book, naturopath Martin Budd brings together what the range of causes may be, how they can be investigated, and how individuals with chronic fatigue can be treated. With a greater understanding of what underlies chronic fatigue, many sufferers may find their way out of the downward spiral of unending exhaustion.

Why Am I So Exhausted: Understanding chronic fatigue syndrome

Health, Fitness & Dieting

Budd, Martin

Diseases & Physical Ailments

Hammersmith Health Books

With 33 years' experience in health and social care, Suzan Collins was delivering training on best practice when she was first contacted with the news that her mother had broken her leg at her nursing home and been transferred to hospital. There followed a chain of ongoing bad practice and poor care that Suzan, with all her knowledge and experience of 'the system' could not influence. What had really happened? Who was responsible? How could they be called to account? How could this be prevented from happening again? What would you do in her place? Share her experience and what she learned that could help you and those you care for.

Beyond My Control: Why the Health and Social Care System Need Not Have Failed My Mother

Suzan Collins

This life-changing book is based on the essential premise that Modern Western Medicine, driven by vested interests, is failing to address the root causes of disease processes. Symptom-suppressing medication and poly-pharmacy are resulting in an escalation of disease and a system of so-called health care which is not sustainable.
 In Sustainable Medicine Dr Sarah Myhill aims to empower people to heal themselves through addressing the underlying causes of their diseases. She presents a logical progression from symptoms to identifying the underlying mechanisms, to the relevant interventions, tests and tools with which to tackle the root causes of their symptoms.
 Contents
 Symptoms - our early-warning system * The mechanisms by which symptoms and diseases are produced and how to identify these mechanisms through tests * The tools of the trade to correct and treat mechanisms of disease: The Basic Package - what we should all be doing all the time; The Bolt-on Extras - the therapeutic tools of the trade * Treatment - the choice of tools for particular disease * Case histories
 Hammersmith Press is an independent publishing house producing books for the general public and health professionals that promote better health and well-being through a greater understanding of the human body and mind, with a particular emphasis on the importance of nutrition and diet. 
 Some of the areas we publish in include: 
 -Neuro-linguistic Programming (NLP) -Overcoming Chronic Fatigue Syndrome -Natural Health &amp; Weight Loss -Holistic Medicine -Thyroid Health -Medical stories -Healthy eating -Traditional medicines -Infertility -Menopause -Diabetes

Sustainable Medicine: whistle-blowing on 21st century medical practice

Sarah Myhill

Alternative Medicine

The Urban Caveman: paleo-friendly recipes for the 21st century

Eve Gilmore

Nutrition

In The Mediterranean Zone, Dr Barry Sears, founder of The Zone Diet, shows you how to eat a delicious and sustainable diet that will: stop weight gain and strip away 'toxic' fat; free you from inflammation and hormonal chaos; reverse diabetes and protect you from Alzheimer's; lighten your mood as well as your body; allow you to break out of the diet-and-exercise trap for good! Incorporating the principles of the Zone diet and the fundamental benefits of the much-loved Mediterranean diet, the Mediterranean Zone offers an easy-to-follow guide to eating and living better, based on the latest scientific research.

Mediterranean Zone

Cookbooks, Food & Wine

Barry Sears

Special Diet

Many people are diagnosed with IBS a catch-all for chronic gut problems for which no cause can be found - but what if a parasite named Giardia lamblia were the cause? Medical herbalist Susan Koten explains in detail in a step-by-step approach how to detect and treat this common but under-recognised parasite using natural herbal medicine. Based on many years of helping tackle digestive disorders, she explains the signs, symptoms and treatments for both lay persons and professional naturopathic therapists. Understanding what Giardia is and its connection with the malaria parasite is key to overcoming it. Throughout she includes case studies to explain and illustrate her approach. Anyone with unexplained digestive problems should investigate this.

Irritable Bowel Syndrome and Giardia

Susan Koten

Parenting & Relationships

The Zone' is not a celebrity fad diet but the physiological state we should all be in but are mostly (about 99%) not. It can be measured using evidence-based markers of wellness and achieved through nutritional rules that will surprise many of those currently focused on gluten-free' and low-carb'. If you are in the Zone you are free from inflammation and also able to RESOLVE any inflammation arising from injury or infection; unresolved inflammation lies behind all chronic diseases of civilisation'. Barry Sear's latest book goes back to the basics to explain why the primary drug' to keep inflammation in balance is nutrition. Learn: Why inflammation makes you fat, sick and age faster; Why much of inflammation begins in the gut; Why anti-inflammatory drugs inhibit resolution; How Pro-resolution Nutrition can get you into, and keep you in, The Zone. Are you ready to live to 100 years old

Understanding the Zone: Why Everything You Think You Know About Nutrition is Probably Wrong

Sears, Barry

The User's Manual is a transformative guide to the principles of Traditional Chinese Medicine for the 21st century, showing how these differ from those underlying Western medicine, what that means in practice and how we can help our bodies to heal themselves and thereby achieve a longer, healthier life. Books about TCM tend to be thousands of years old, very detailed and without reference to contemporary scientific knowledge. As a former computer engineer, Alex Wu draws parallels between the way a computer functions and the functioning of the human body in order to interpret the key concepts within Chinese medicine so that they become significantly easier to understand for today's readers. As he explains, Chinese medicine provides a dramatically different point of view to that of Western medicine, in particular its foundation belief that the body has a powerful self-healing system that must be nurtured and encouraged, not stifled with symptom-suppressing treatments. Taking the simple examples of gout, psoriasis, the common cold and today's obesity epidemic, the author explores the TCM and conventional medical approaches, showing how promoting body energy and self-healing can resolve the `incurable'. Alex Wu says: `Many readers have used the simple methods described in this book to achieve a healthy lifestyle and thereby improve their health within a short time... Modern medicine has not made significant advances in many chronic conditions for many years. It may be that the problem stems from its basic philosophy.' Here is an opportunity to look at health and medicine from a completely different point of view.

A User's Manual for the Human Body: How Traditional Chinese Medicine helps the body to heal itself

Wu, Alex

A user's manual for the human body: how traditional Chinese medicine helps the body to heal itself

Wu, Alex (author.)

OCD is often trivialized as an issue with cleanliness, but for sufferers and those who live with them and/or care for them, it can be life changing, keeping them the slaves of their anxieties. The most common question asked by parents, partners and friends of OCD sufferers is `What can I do?' Lynn Crilly, based on successful support of her own daughter and other sufferers, finally provides some positive, practical answers. Illustrated with observations and anecdotes from carers and sufferers themselves, Hope with OCD explains the many varieties of OCD, how to spot them, the possible causes and drivers and gives a balanced guide to available treatments - both mainstream and `alternative' - in the context of what has worked in her experience. She gives hope for breaking free to a full, obsession-free life.

Hope with OCD: A self-help guide to obsessive- compulsive disorder for parents, carers and sufferers

Lynn Crilly

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