Your Health Destiny: How to Unlock Your Natural Ability to Overcome Illness, Feel Better, and Live Longer

An internist and clinical instructor at Harvard Medical School fuses Eastern practices with cutting edge Western medicine to help you connect body and mind to transform your health today and tomorrow.

Over the course of her decades-long career, Dr. Eva Selhub has discovered a fundamental truth: health, happiness, and strength are often a direct result of the affirmative choices we make, regardless of whatever genetic or environmental setbacks we face. When our bodies get sick, we often feel out of control—a cycle of fear that leaves us feeling vulnerable and helpless, desperate for medication or tests that will make us well. But illness shouldn’t make us afraid. We do have control over our wellbeing, contends Dr. Selhub, and we can make choices that can positively influence any health issue, big or small, acute or chronic. It’s all about perception—how you view yourself, your resources, and your circumstances. Drawing on findings in the emerging field of epigenetics, she reveals how we can bolster the mind-body connection and actually change the way our DNA operates.

In Your Health Destiny, Dr. Selhub teaches you how to pay attention to your body’s signals, to understand what these signals mean, and to make the right choices that will bring amazing results to your health, now and for the future. You will discover ways to prevent disease from happening or getting worse; and even find that you can reverse the disease process all together.

We have more power than we think. Your Health Destiny shows you how to harness it to improve your life.

Based on the latest scientific research and twenty years of clinical experience, this guide reveals the prescriptions that can transform your health, with no side effects:

• Stress Management Techniques: Learn why stress is more than just a feeling and how to reprogram your body’s response to it, turning off the fight-or-flight cycle that can make you sick.
• The Science of Neuroplasticity: Understand how your thoughts, beliefs, and emotions can physically change the landscape of your brain and how to use this power to create new pathways to well-being.
• Immune System Support: Bolster your body’s 24-hour security system with targeted nutrition that strengthens your natural defenses against everything from the common cold to chronic disease.
• Anti-Inflammatory Nutrition: Discover which foods fuel your body’s healing mechanisms and which ones trigger inflammation, with practical advice on what to eat to feel better and stay healthy.
• Mindfulness and Meditation: Based on Dr. Selhub’s work at the Benson-Henry Institute, learn simple practices to quiet your mind, listen to your body’s whispers, and restore balance.

Eva Selhub, M.D., is a lecturer in medicine at Harvard Medical School and a clinical associate of the Massachusetts General Hospital. She was medical director and senior physician at the Benson-Henry Institute for Mind/Body Medicine at the Massachusetts General Hospital for thirteen years. A trained internist and board certified in internal medicine, Dr. Selhub runs a private practice as a comprehensive medical specialist and transformation consultant.