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Healthy, Wealthy, and Wise August 2022 |
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Healthy Heart, Healthy Brain: The Proven Personalized Path to Protect Your Memory...
by Bradley Bale, MD, and Amy Doneen, DNP
What it is: a unique and comprehensive program to prevent chronic diseases and memory loss in people of all ages regardless of their body type, medical history, or genes.
What's inside: medical methods to prevent diseases of aging, the best and worst foods for your heart, how genetics raise cardiovascular risks, heart attack prevention tips, and much more.
About the authors: Bradley Bale, MD, and Amy Doneen, DNP, are the world-renowned cardiologists who founded the Heart Attack & Stroke Prevention Center, where they utilize the BaleDoneen Method outlined in their book.
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State Change: End Anxiety, Beat Burnout, and Ignite a New Baseline of Energy and Flow
by Robin Berzin
What it is: a 30-day program for reaching a new level of energy, clarity, and calm, based on a paradigm shifting idea: You have to change your body to change your mind and mood.
What's inside: cutting-edge research and patient examples to tell how our bodies drive our minds, mood, and energy levels and how to treat common imbalances in the body to achieve a state change.
About the author: Dr. Robin Berzin is the founder and CEO of Parsley Health, a nationally renowned holistic health service where she treats the whole patient, yielding remarkable results for those with gastrointestinal, hormone-related, autoimmune, and mental health conditions.
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| This Is Not a Book About Benedict Cumberbatch: The Joy of Loving Something... by Tabitha CarvanWhat it is: a reflective and irreverent meditation on the power of our passions to help us get through tough times, express ourselves, and form connections with other devotees of whatever -- or whoever -- we feel enthusiastic about.
Read it for: the skillful balance of serious observations about topics like motherhood and identity with and a self-aware sense of humor.
Book buzz: This book is a "weird-in-the-best-way account of self-discovery that brims with humor and insight" (Publishers Weekly). |
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| Surviving: Why We Stay and How We Leave Abusive Relationships by Beverly GoodenWhat it is: a candid and reflective exploration of surviving domestic violence and the complex social, psychological, and financial forces that keep people trapped in abusive relationships.
Read it for: the unflinching look at abusive relationships from the inside; the valuable advice for people who are ready to leave and compassion for those who are not; the examination of the unique obstacles faced by domestic violence survivors with marginalized identities.
Try these next: No Visible Bruises by Rachel Louise Snyder; Fire Shut Up in My Bones by Charles M. Blow. |
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A Life in Light: Meditations on Impermanence
by Mary Bray Pipher
What it is: Sensitive meditations from a “solar-powered” writer (Kirkus Reviews).
What it's about: Drawing from her experience as a psychologist specializing in women, trauma, and the effects of culture on mental health, Pipher looks to what shaped her as a woman, one who has suffered darkness throughout her life but was always drawn to the light.
Topics include: Pipher's difficult childhood being separated from her parents, accepting love and kindness from her grandmother and ceramics teacher, aging, loneliness, and happiness.
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| Overthinking About You: Navigating Romantic Relationships When You Have Anxiety, OCD... by Allison RaskinWhat it's about: how to handle the complexities of dating and relationships while managing mental illness.
Topics include: how and when to disclose to new partners; self-aware (but not self-conscious) understanding of how your symptoms present; and how to navigate breakups.
About the author: Writer and comedian Allison Raskin co-hosts the podcast and YouTube series Just Between Us with fellow BuzzFeed alum Gaby Dunn. The pair also co-authored the novel I Hate Everyone But You and its sequel Please Send Help. |
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| The Secret Life of Secrets: How Our Inner Worlds Shape Well-Being, Relationships, and... by Michael SlepianWhat it's about: the psychological aspects of secrets including why we keep them, how they affect us, and what it means to share them with each other.
Read it for: the thorough scientific research, which is condensed and explained in a way that's accessible to general readers.
Try these next: Useful Delusions by Shankar Vedantam; The State of Affairs by Esther Perel. |
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Ageless: The New Science of Getting Older Without Getting Old
by Andrew Steele
The question: Could humans find a way to become old without getting elderly, a phenomenon otherwise known as "biological immortality"?
The answer: lies at the cellular level, which is where Andrew Steele takes us, studying every aspect of the cell--DNA, mitochondria, stem cells, our immune systems, and more-- in an effort to forestall or reverse the body's (currently) inevitable decline.
Did you know? There are age-related genes that, when manipulated, can lead to a tenfold increase in life span! In worms, anyway.
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| Don't Trust Your Gut: Using Data to Get What You Really Want in Life by Seth Stephens-DavidowitzWhat it's about: how and why to make data-informed decisions about your career, relationships, leisure time, and more.
For fans of: Dataclysm by Christian Rudder; Smarter Faster Better by Charles Duhigg.
About the author: Economist and former Google data scientist Seth Stephens-Davidowitz is a New York Times op-ed columnist known for his previous data-focused book Everybody Lies. |
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| Golden: The Power of Silence in A World of Noise by Justin Zorn and Leigh MarzWhat it's about: the psychological, scientific, spiritual, and philosophical aspects of silence and its benefits in a society full of noise.
Advice includes: building small, regular moments of quiet into your workday, which the authors call "the healthy successor to the smoke break."
Did you know? Scientists have observed that the slowdown in global shipping during the pandemic and the subsequent decrease in sea noise has resulted in reduced stress levels in marine life. |
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