You Can Beat the Odds: The Surprising Factors Behind Chronic Illness and Cancer - Softcover

Brenda Stockdale

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1591810795 ISBN 13: 9781591810797

Publisher: Sentient Publications, 2009

Synopsis

This book takes a step forward in addressing the underpinnings of illness, collating ground-breaking discoveries in genetics with time-tested techniques for optimal healing. Each technique boosts not only the quality of your life but even the way your body responds to daily stress, a virus, or serious illness. Get Started Now exercises help you personalize your program and integrate insights quickly into your everyday life. You'll also learn how a medical professional used each concept in their own healing.

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From the Publisher

This book takes a step forward in addressing the underpinnings of illness, so that you can help yourself recover from disease and stay healthy. Each technique offered boosts not only the quality of your life but even the way your body responds to daily stress, a virus, or serious illness. Learn how to optimize immunity and activate healing genes with your own personal program of healing technologies that go beyond diet and exercise.

This is an essential guide for people facing chronic or catastrophic illness and their family members, people interested in optimizing their genetic potential and reducing risk factors, and health professionals. Health insurance companies will be interested in the evidence linking these strategies with a reduction in doctor visits, few complications and side effects, better patient compliance and reduced patient care cost overall.

About the Author

BRENDA STOCKDALE is the director of mind/body medicine for RC Cancer Centers. She has conducted the most comprehensive health psychology program in Georgia for more than thirteen years. She has also been the National Program Director for the cancer support organization founded by best-selling author and surgeon, Bernie Siegel, MD. Brenda has been featured on Oprah, NPR and other TV talk shows, as well as in a variety of print media.

Brenda developed a groundbreaking health psychology program for primary care settings specializing in preventive medicine, autoimmunity, and stress-related conditions. A leader in her field, she has taught, presented workshops, and lectured nationally over the last fifteen years for a variety of corporate and special interest groups. She is a clinician in the field of behavioral medicine, but it is her own experience with life-altering and catastrophic illness that anchors the subject in an intimate way. She is actively engaged in educating health professionals in the practical application of mind/body medicine, and her workshops and programs have been implemented in hospital settings, oncology practices, and cancer centers around the country.

In her private practice she specializes in preventive medicine and stress related disorders including autoimmunity, chronic fatigue syndrome, high blood pressure, diabetes and lifestyle management. She lives in Atlanta, Georgia

Edition details

• Publisher: Sentient Publications
• Publication date: 2009
• ISBN 10: 1591810795
• ISBN 13: 9781591810797
• Binding: Paperback
• Language: English
• Number of pages: 319