The Vagus Nerve
By Ann Baldwin
A practical, science-based techniques that can be used to improve vagal performance with the goal of restoring and maintaining mind-body health. The book provides a clear understanding of the importance and benefits of self-regulating the autonomic nervous system. This nerve controls the stress response, regulates digestion, modulates the immune system, and releases an anti-inflammatory neurotransmitter. Each chapter provides practical, evidence-based methods that can be used to stimulate the ventral vagal complex, illustrated by a case history from a complementary medicine or holistic practice.
Handspring Publishing
Rethinking Diabetes
By Gary Taubes
In Rethinking Diabetes, Gary Taubes explores the history underpinning the treatment of diabetes, types 1 and 2, elucidating how decades-old research that is rife with misconceptions has continued to influence the guidance physicians offer—at the expense of their patients’ long-term well-being. The result of Taubes’s work is a reimagining of diabetes care that argues for a recentering of diet—particularly, fewer carbohydrates and more fat—over a reliance on insulin. Taubes argues critically and passionately that doctors and medical researchers should question the established wisdom that may have enabled the current epidemic of diabetes and obesity.
Penguin Random House
Podcast
Are life-saving medicines hiding in the world’s coldest places?
By Normand Voyer
Could the next wonder drug be somewhere in Canada’s snowy north? Take a trip to this beautiful, frigid landscape as chemist Normand Voyer explores the mysterious molecular treasures found in plants thriving in the cold. These scarcely investigated organisms could hold immense medical promise, he says – so long as we work quickly enough to discover them.
Apple Podcast
