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'I haven't had a drink since August 2022. My journey from wild party girl to an alcohol-free mother of two has involved walking, step by step, through shame, guilt, anxiety and grief to finally reach a place of hope and healing. I feel relieved and grateful to be free from the place I felt stuck in, because giving up drinking hasn't been easy for me. I feel vulnerable sharing my own story and nervous about the way people might react, but I also know that it's important for me to do this.'Millie Mackintosh took the decision to go alcohol free after observing the impact drinking alcohol was having on her health and wellbeing. Now, more than two years into her sober curious journey, Millie shares her full experience with honesty and warmth, from the events that led to her decision to stop drinking, through to the positive effects of the alcohol-free lifestyle she enjoys today. Writing with NHS GP Dr Ellie Cannon, Bad Drunk combines practical, scientific advice with Millie's personal experience - what has worked for her, what hasn't, what she has struggled with as well as tips and advice on how to navigate the road ahead. Whether you're simply looking to cut back your alcohol consumption, you're ready to quit drinking altogether or you want to understand how to help a loved one, Bad Drunk will be an essential guide that will help you make decisions for your future health and happiness.

In this interactive journal, Lucinda Light guides you towards deeper emotional intelligence and genuine self-love

Presents prebiotics as food component and the potential of various prebiotics and their safety, proven health implications, mechanisms of action, and use in consumption. Overviews highly dynamic gut molecular ecology and diversity. Covers topics including certain prebiotics as functional foods, prebiotic regulatory issues, etc.

> Explores the benefits of practicing yoga on social life and humanity. Discusses impact of yoga on the socioemotional development and happiness.

Sew your way through the menopause with creativity, confidence and a joyful riot of color! Discover 10 beginner-friendly sewing projects to create beautiful accessories and wearables for yourself, or to gift to friends. Feel good while making the projects and feel even better using them: the act of sewing can help to curb brain fog and anxiety, while the finished pieces will keep you cool, relieve insomnia, and hopefully inspire some pampering and self-care. >Whether you're a sewing newbie or dusting off old skills, Jenni and Kay have crafted beginner-friendly projects that are as practical as they are beautiful. Whip up a chic potion pouch for those essential pick-me-ups, or an elegant eye mask to banish sleepless nights. Stay cool and stylish with a breezy cover-up, or find moments of calm in slow-stitching a charming log-cabin placemat. Here's what you'll find inside: An introduction to the menopause, and the benefits of crafting on wellbeing, from Dr Hannah Davies (BSc MBBS MRCGP), who specializes in menopause and lifestyle medicine at the world-renowned Newson Health Clinic10 unique sewing projects designed to ease the various physical and mental discomforts that come with menopause, from insomnia and memory loss to brain fogFull-size pull-out patterns to make creating the garments easyInspiring photos, step-by-step instructions and easy-to-follow illustrations to guide you through each projectA handy chapter on essential sewing techniques for both beginners or for those needing a crash courseDesigner spotlights, celebrating a range of female indie fabric designers whose fabrics have been used throughout the book: Sally Kelly, Karen Lewis, Rashida Coleman-Hale and Alice CarolineMenopause Makes is both a celebration of creativity and an invitation to self-care. Sew away the symptoms and stitch together a new chapter of confidence and craftiness! A word from Jenni and Kay: We're so glad you've discovered our book! Its mission is to bring colour and creativity into the lives of women experiencing peri-menopause and menopause; to build their skills and confidence in sewing, and to make projects that have the ability to positively impact their mood and daily lives.Each project in this book provides a hand-made solution to the challenges faced during this massive hormonal shift, and is designed to be both functional and fun.Together, we hope to make a foggy time feel clearer, and counter any feelings of loneliness and isolation by building a strong, creative community of 'Menopausal Makers' around the world. #menopausemakes #creativemenopause Short description/annotation

In the midst of life's whirlwinds, Dr. Maky Zanganeh, an indefatigable cancer biotech CEO and businesswoman found herself at a crossroads. Her ambitious accomplishments with various projects came to an abrupt halt when fate interjected with two profound challenges: a personal battle with cancer and the global upheaval of healthcare treatment brought about by the COVID-19 pandemic. This confluence of events, rather than breaking her spirit, became a catalyst for introspection and writing.

Technology can feel overwhelming. Robots stealing our jobs, big Tech taking over the world, endless social media doomscrolling...But behind the scaremongering there are fascinating innovations developing for how technology can make our lives better and longer-lasting. There are tremendously exciting developments in preventing disease, health monitoring, slowing our ageing and improving our well-being.This book will be an antidote to all the negativity about where tech is taking us. It will instead tell a positive story from the front-line of health to show the exciting ways we are learning to improve ourselves and work WITH, rather than AGAINST technology to make our lives better.

"Unified Systems Fitness Design proposes a new fitness framework that encompasses all fitness indicators in a holistic and comprehensive manner, striving to provide a comprehensive and inclusive definition of physical fitness, one that considers all attributes contributing to overall well-being, crafting a flexible framework that can adapt to diverse contexts and purposes of physical fitness assessments. This new book is divided into two parts. Part 1 explores redefining and reconstructing the concepts of an inclusive and holistic fitness framework. In Part 2, the reader is encouraged to embark on a journey to discover the interconnected system functions of physiological health, homeostasis, motor control, and energy regulation. Part 3 reinforces the role of wellness in the Unified Systems Fitness Design, guided by the principles of inclusion and equity, in the decision-making process. Finally, the perpetual complementation theory emerged from the design, making sense of the cyclical connection between the system functions for health and skill and strengthening the Health-Ability-Task Suitability (HATS) Framework. There are still many uncharted territories in the realm of fitness and wellness. Unified Systems Fitness Design addresses these gaps in the literature and practice and seeks to inspire a transformative worldview that urges the reader to question the existing paradigms and explore innovative, inclusive approaches that cater to people with unique needs. In doing so, this exciting new volume aims to establish a common language for researchers and practitioners in the field, offering accurate and concise descriptions of each fitness component and its associated indicators in a universally understood terminology"--

"Discover the enduring wisdom and healing power of plant medicine. Curative and restorative for our health, plants have supported humanity for millennia. While the wisdom of plant medicine has not changed dramatically, the ailments of our modern digital age have. In this book, herbalist Ruth A. Blanding infused evidence-based knowledge with her deep connection to the earth to provide everyday remedies with ancient roots. You'll learn to work with medicinal herbs in ways that reconnect you to nature's healing energy and address the root causes of many modern ailments so you can feel balanced, healthy, and whole again"--

For too long, women have been led to believe that hormones are our enemies. With concerns brushed off by doctors, we find ourselves struggling with our hormones, and blaming them for bloating, stress, tiredness and so much more. But what if they aren't the problem?Your hormones are your superpower - only, they can't thrive without your help. Founder of the Positive Method, Hannah Alderson, will show you just how simple that can be. Driven by her own health obstacles, Alderson has collaborated closely with world-leading scientists to research our hormones and discovered how to build an ecosystem that works. Learn why creating a happier hormone habitat is about diet, balance, movement, sleep, honesty and choices. And take action: from taming triggers to optimising hormones, Alderson's six-pillar approach and evidence-based hacks open the door to a world of positive change. Whether you seek renewed energy, quality sleep or sharper focus, address underlying problems and find your happy today.

Details nutraceuticals that can help control and manage obesity. Clarifies key aspects of nutraceuticals including sources, extraction, chemistry, mechanisms of action, pharmacology, bioavailability, safety, and various applications. Overviews the prevalence, complications, and current treatment regimens related to obesity.

The Aging Stronger Fix offers a realistic and sustainable 3-tier functional fitness approach that builds strength and mobility for your later years.

Highlights the working solutions as well as open problems and future challenges in the use of nutraceuticals in sexual disorder research. Discusses the remedial properties that nutraceuticals possess that can be applied to a range of sexual disorders. Covers use of nutraceuticals for male, female as well as general sexual disorders.

Fight cancer, Alzheimers Disease, heart attacks, diabetes, and more with plant-based essential Omega-3 the elixir of life from the sea Omega-3 fatty acids have played a crucial role in the evolution of our intelligence. Due to our evolutionary history, however, we can efficiently utilize only aquatic omega-3 fatty acids. Yet, fish and seafood are no longer sufficiently available to us due to overfishing of the worlds oceans, not to mention their contamination with pollutants. Algae oil is a purely plant-based source of aquatic omega-3 fatty acids and at the same time the only sustainable alternative to address the worldwide deficiency of aquatic omega-3 fatty acids. This deficiency is partly responsible for nearly all modern diseasesranging from heart attacks to stroke, from depression to Alzheimers, and from diabetes to cancer. During childhood development, a deficit of this essential brain-building substance leads to severe impairments in emotional, social, and rational intelligencenot least to ADHD and autism. Regular intake of algae oil prevents life-threatening omega-3 deficiency and makes an essential contribution to healthy living. In The Algae Oil Revolution, renowned scientist and bestselling author Michael Nehls introduces the reader to this sustainable and accessible substance, explains why and how it can prevent a range of diseases, and also sheds light on what this discovery means for the future of global human health.

This book is not about aspirational living; it's about practical living. It's about looking at the world around you and finding where it's at fault, rather than blaming yourself. It's about dropping the comfortable prisons we create for ourselves to find the real freedom and happiness we deserve. We live in a world that is overfed but malnourished, sunlight deficient, overly competitive, sedentary, and sleep deprived. Our blood pressure and stress levels are at record highs, our mental health at record lows. Our eyes are strained from looking at screens all the time, and our backs are killing us. We buy far too much of what we don't need, and we aren't even pooing in the right position!Yet step outside, maybe walk a few minutes down the road, and you will inevitably see plants bursting with nourishment, hear calming birdsong, breath in fresh air, move your stiff body. Perhaps we have the answer to all our modern malaises right here, outside our own homes. Perhaps it is time for a New Wild Order. Join forager, author, dad, and everyday fella Andy Hamilton, as he answers his own call of the wild, and discovers how it might just save his life - and yours.

From classical Greece to Roe v. Wade, a long-overdue history of abortion through changing social and cultural climates.

Twenty years ago, The Reiki Sourcebook revolutionized the Reiki community with its comprehensive coverage of the history, practice, and philosophy of the system of Reiki. It meticulously tracks every significant aspect from the system's inception in early 1900s Japan to the West and back to Japan. This anniversary edition celebrates the depth of research and clarity that this book has brought to the Reiki community. With an introduction for beginners and a chronological history that answers questions like Where did the attunement process come from? and Which hand positions are correct?, these pages explain and illustrate techniques from both Japan and the West. This is the definitive manual for anyone with a particular interest in the system of Reiki, Japanese healing practices, or a more general interest in complementary health. Reiki authors and teachers Bronwen Logan and Frans Stiene, co-founders of the International House of Reiki, have worked with the system of Reiki and conducted research on its Japanese origins across Europe, Asia, North America, Australia, and Japan. Bronwen, who now resides in the Blue Mountains near Sydney, Australia, has since launched her own initiative, Reiki with Bronwen, to further explore and teach the practice. Frans has returned to his roots and teaches from his hometown of Haarlem in the Netherlands. Together, they continue to share their extensive knowledge and experience with Reiki practitioners worldwide.

If you know ten women, then you know endometriosis. At least one of them has it.

Unlock your inner glow with face massage. Discover facial massage and face yoga routines to transform your physical appearance and your inner well-being. Discover the power of nurturing your skin and your spirit from home. This book will show you how to achieve a naturally beautiful complexion with easy-to-follow daily routines in facial massage. Facial massage has many proven benefits, from aiding digestion to respiratory health. Top facialist Ksenija Selivanova explains the science behind lymphatic drainage and its impact on vitality. Learn specialized massages to:· release tension, reduce anxiety and aid restful sleep· lessen the appearance of existing lines, prevent new ones, reduce puffiness and brighten the whole face· improve concerns such as double chin, crow's feet, mouth lines, headaches and forehead tension, teeth grinding and jaw clenchingWith easy-to-follow rejuvenating rituals that take as little as two minutes, you can integrate face massage self-care into your life to unlock your inner glow, regardless of age or budget. Embrace the power of touch, and let your inner radiance shine through.