on Feb 10th, 2006What Your Doctor Hasn’t Told You and the Health Store Clerk Doesn’t Know
Have you ever walked into a hardware store and asked the clerk for a screw? If he looked at you a little funny, maybe it’s because he misinterpreted your request. What you wanted was a little metal device that requires a screwdriver, not a detour down a provocative sexual alley into human desire.
Alternative or complimentary medicine aims to be your source for solutions to problems that have no known cure, so “whatever works” becomes a familiar motto to those who have exhausted the normal medical channels.
Finding an authority who knows how to seperate the pure quackery from the “hey, you never know” usually means the difference between being named a junior after your dad and having the letters M.D. after your name. Dr. Edward Schneider is of the latter. Read with gusto, but our advice, as always, is to bring your salt shaker and eat a grain about every five pages.
What Your Doctor Hasn’t Told You and the Health Store Clerk Doesn’t Know
by Edward Schneider
Book Description
A discerning guide to alternative therapies for common health problems.
Millions of Americans turn to alternative medicine to treat chronic health problems when conventional medicine fails. Yet few doctors or health store clerks and alternative practitioners know what treatments are safe and effective.
In this book, Edward Schneider, a leading researcher and clinician at the University of Southern California, arms readers with an overview of the latest medical research, then offers a proven formula for the best integrative therapy available to treat the most common health issues. From supplements and herbs, to acupuncture and yoga, What Your Doctor Hasn’t Told You and the Health Store Clerk Doesn’t Know outlines the myriad therapies used for:
- sleep problems
- joint, back, and neck pain
- depression and anxiety
- PMS and menopause
- prostate health
- heart disease and cancer
- memory loss, and more
An authoritative yet friendly guide, complete with hard-to-find dosage guidelines and advice on what therapies are just not worth your money, and packed with the type of information readers can take to the health store aisles and to their doctor, this book is essential reading for anyone considering alternative remedies
About the Author
Edward L. Schnneider, M.D., one of the nation’s leading experts on aging, and currently dean emeritus in gerontology at the University of Southern California, Los Angeles, as well as a practicing clinician, was formerly the deputy director of the National Institutes of Health’s Institute on Aging. He has edited eleven books and written more than 180 scholarly articles. His television appearances include 20/20, Good Morning America, 48 Hours, and Larry King Live, and he is often quoted in such publications as Newsweek, Time, The New York Times, and The Wall Street Journal.
Leigh Ann Hirschman has cowritten and edited numerous books, including The Chronic Pain Solution by James N. Dillard.