Aviva Romm
Author of Botanical Medicines for Women’s Health
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Recommended by Aviva Romm
“As anyone who has used a Band-Aid approach to treating endometriosis knows, one method alone is rarely successful at preserving fertility and quality of life—or at maintaining hope. To address this condition, we need a smart, integrative framework and a multitude of healing modalities with a nourishing approach at the forefront. You will find these tools in this book.” (from Amazon)
Treat your endo by treating yourself to the right foods. Endometriosis feels like an endless challenge, but you can give your body a boost in the battle against pain and bloating. The 4-Week Endometriosis Diet Plan shows you how to manage endo naturally by taking control of what you eat―which has been proven to help you feel better. This up-to-date, month-long plan is designed to reverse malnutrition, balance blood sugar, and reduce your discomfort―while letting you customize meals for your body. The recipes for breakfast, lunch, dinner, and dessert include tasty ingredients like garden veggies, fresh fish, healing herbs, grass-fed meats, and more. Keep tabs on your progress with a symptom tracker, and discover lifestyle adjustments that could further reduce your endometriosis symptoms. The 4-Week Endometriosis Diet Plan includes: Guide to endo―Learn what endometriosis means, why it's hard to diagnose, what range of treatments are available―and that you're not alone.4 healing weeks―Address your endometriosis symptoms with a 28-day meal plan, including nutrition facts and shopping lists.75 nourishing recipes―Enjoy flavorful dishes like Moroccan Turkey and Sweet Potato Breakfast Bake, Summer Herbed Carrots, Lemon Walnut Mackerel, Mum's Flourless Chocolate Cake, and more.Keep your body―and taste buds―happy with The 4-Week Endometriosis Diet Plan.
Recommended by Aviva Romm
“The pursuit of wellness can be overwhelming and confusing in a sea of conflicting health information. You might begin to feel you need to be a doctor yourself to sort through what’s true and what’s hype about the basics like food, sleep, and exercise. It is the reliable answers to these core questions - how to eat, sleep, move, protect, unwind, and connect, that my friend and colleague Dr. Lipman brings to us in living color and in a delightfully refreshing style that I know will finally let you say, with a sigh of relief, “I’ve got this, I know How to Be Well." The guidance he presents is at once deceptively simple and yet profoundly elegant and universally true. These are the very answers that will allow your body to unlock its own innate healing capacity to prevent and reverse chronic disease so that you not only have many years in your life, but much life in your years.” (from Amazon)
In How to Be Well, best-selling author and leading health expert Dr. Frank Lipman shares his formula for lifelong vitality—the Good Medicine Mandala. Illustrated by a circular system of six rings, the Good Medicine Mandala contains more than 100 simple steps to what really works to improve and strengthen your resilience, functioning, and overall health. In this invaluable book, you will learn how to: EAT: master the very building blocks of life—food SLEEP: reprioritize and restore one of your most fundamental needs MOVE: ensure the body moves in all the ways that nature intended it to PROTECT: mitigate and prevent the invisible assaults of everyday toxins UNWIND: consciously switch off to allow for complete mental and physiological reprieve CONNECT: awaken and enhance a sense of belonging and meaning How to Be Well is a unique handbook with everyday habits and practices you can deploy to live your best, healthiest, and happiest life.
Recommended by Aviva Romm
“Much of the modern illness we face is a reflection of life out of balance -- with nature, with daily rhythms, with ourselves. Maria Noel Groves offers readers an opportunity to return to nature by returning to ourselves. This is the beginning of our healing.” (from Amazon)
Silver Nautilus Book Award Winner for Health & Healing An antacid or an aspirin may soothe your pain, but it doesn’t cure the cause of your symptoms. Headaches, indigestion, fatigue, allergies, anxiety, eczema, high blood pressure, and other conditions are clues to a deeper imbalance in your body, and learning to read those clues is a key step in maintaining optimal health. Herbalist Maria Noël Groves shows you how to read your body’s signals and support your own wellness with herbal remedies and other natural treatments. You’ll learn how each of your major body systems — respiratory, digestive, immune, nervous, memory, reproductive, circulatory, and more — optimally functions, and you’ll discover how to use natural remedies to nourish and repair problem areas, restore lost vitality, support your body as a whole, and prevent future problems. Groves includes in-depth instructions, with step-by-step photographs, for making your own herbal remedies, as well as expert guidance on buying and effectively using commercial preparations.