Healing Options: A Report on Graves' Disease Treatments, 2nd Edition - Softcover

Flax, Kate

9780966598117: Healing Options: A Report on Graves' Disease Treatments, 2nd Edition

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0966598113 ISBN 13: 9780966598117

Publisher: Sally Breer, 2001

This book examines standard and supplementary treatments for Graves' disease (a chronic illness) from a patient's point of view. But a bigger question is: Do you wish to heal yourself? Do you wish to be chronically well? If your answer to this query is yes, then this book is for you.

The book has practical information:

*�Naming possible symptoms
*�Identifying professional help
*�Learning how to educate yourself
*�Learning how to start a support group
*�Learning how to change your diet, lifestyle, and exercise
*�Describing a modern physician
*�Examining our belief systems about illness, health, and doctors
*�Defining Graves' disease; who gets Graves' disease; women and Graves' disease;
* Graves' disease and its causes; Graves' disease, genetics and children;
* Graves' disease and the environment
*�Looking at thyroid hormone and other medications
*�Studying Thyroid Eye Disease
*�Examining treatment options
*�Learning about the laboratories and blood tests
*�Learning about complementary treatments

as well as recommended reading lists, an information directory, a glossary and an index.

This book will help you make informed decisions with your medical partner. A support group colleague says, "This is the book that I wish I had when I was first diagnosed."

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About the Author:

Kate Flax lives in and practices healing arts in Tappan, New York. She runs a support group for thyroid patients, their families, friends, and doctors which is sponsored by the National Graves' Disease Foundation and Nyack Hospital.

Kate lives in Tappan with her charming, talented, and humorous husband; gorgeous and wise teenage daughter; the world's softest and sweetest bunny rabbit, LuLu, and their very loving dog, Missy.

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