The Healing Self: Supercharge your Immune System and Stay Well for Life

" The Healing Self is a breakthrough book in self-care for a wide audience. Immunity, the body's ability to ward off disease, can no longer be taken for granted. Current trends in public health are disturbing. From increased jet travel, allowing newly mutated bacteria and viruses to have a worldwide reach, to antibiotic-resistant strains of bacteria that are outstripping new drugs to fight them, to an increase in deaths from hospital-acquired infections, to an aging population whose childhood vaccinations are losing their effectiveness, our well-being is at a dangerous crossroads. Yet Drs Chopra and Tanzi see hope. They offer new ways of increasing the body's immune system by stimulating the brain and our genes, thereby helping us to fight off illness and disease. The exciting new discovery that the brain possesses its own lymphatic system means it is also tied into the body's general immune system. This knowledge can now be used together with new facts about the gut microbiome and, when these are combined with changes in lifestyle, diet and stress reduction, there is no doubt that this has important implications for our immune systems"-- Library of Congress.