Be Fruitful

Zusatztext “Many women dream of becoming pregnant! but few ever stop to think about the possibility of having trouble with it. While there are no guarantees! it makes sense to do everything possible to boost the chances of baby-making. Victoria Maizes’s Be Fruitful is just the guidebook to prepare you—physically! emotionally! and spiritually. Maizes is that all-too-rare medical professional! a family physician trained in Western medicine who values the power of alternative medicine.” Informationen zum Autor Victoria Maizes, MD, is the founding executive director of the Andrew Weil Center for Integrative Medicine and a professor of medicine, family medicine, and public health at the University of Arizona. An internationally recognized leader in integrative medicine, Dr. Maizes lectures worldwide to academic and community audiences on women’s health, vitality, environmental health, nutrition, and cancer. She is the author of Be Fruitful and Heal Faster, the editor of the Oxford University textbook Integrative Women’s Health, as well as the cohost of the Body of Wonder podcast.Andrew Weil MD, a graduate of Harvard College and Harvard Medical School and the founder and director of the Arizona Center for Integrative Medicine. Dr. Weil is the author of many bestselling books, including Healthy Aging ,  Spontaneous Healing, and 8 Weeks to Optimum Health. Klappentext From an internationally recognized integrative physician! a thorough guide to fertility that encompasses all aspects of female well-being to help women prepare their bodies for easy conception! pregnancy! and the delivery of healthy babies. Be Fruitful INTRODUCTION With excitement, joy, and perhaps a bit of trepidation, you’re considering having a baby. This primal urge is an intrinsic part of being human. What could be more natural or straightforward? Every day, women become pregnant, sometimes unintentionally. On the other hand, many women have difficulty conceiving, which can be emotionally traumatic, exhausting, or frustrating. My opinion is that pregnancy is well worth preparing for. Whether it’s ensuring that you are immune to chicken pox, taking a multivitamin with folic acid to reduce neural tube defects, or approaching your ideal weight to avoid gestational diabetes, we know that there are things you can do to prepare your body for conception and to up the odds of bearing a healthy child. Those activities, and much more, are the subject of this book. Conception, happily, is a dream that most couples achieve. Yet we’ve all heard anxiety-fueling stories of frustration and heartbreak, even for people in their twenties. This anecdotal evidence has many women asking whether there’s some kind of fertility crisis today. Is it now harder to get pregnant for some reason? The answer is “maybe.” The U.S. birth rate is about the same as it was in the mid-1980s (down from a high point in 1990). But the current statistics may be bolstered by the success of assisted-reproduction technologies that didn’t exist in the past. Certainly there are challenges to fertility today that our mothers and grandmothers never faced: new birth control methods; unprecedented cultural pressure to be thin—and, on the flip side, epidemic obesity—both of which take a toll; high rates of hormone-disrupting stress; a fast-food diet that leads many to consume the exact opposite foods from those that bolster fertility; and environmental toxins permeating everything from our water bottles to our lip gloss to the food we eat and the air we breathe. In this book, I use the principles of integrative medicine to provide you with up-to-date information on nutrition, the mind-body connection, the vitamins you should be taking, and the environmental chemicals that you will want ...

Dettagli sul prodotto

• Autori: Victoria Maizes, Victoria/ Andrew Weil Maizes, MD Victoria Maizes, Victoria Maizes MD
• Con la collaborazione di: Md Andrew Weil (Prefazione)
• Editore: Scribner USA
• Lingue: Inglese
• Formato: Tascabile
• Pubblicazione: 05.02.2013
• EAN: 9781451645477
• ISBN: 978-1-4516-4547-7
• Pagine: 288
• Categoria: Guide e manuali > Salute