This book is designed as a comprehensive guide for healthcare professionals, holistic practitioners, individuals seeking improved health, and anyone interested in a science-based approach to well-being that emphasizes cooperation with nature rather than dominance. It bridges the gap between the physiological and psychological impacts of stress on the microbiome, offering both theoretical insights and practical applications for a healthier future. The book challenges the prevailing narrative of disease and pathology by shifting our understanding towards health. It introduces readers to the awe-inspiring world of the microbiome, revealing that our bodies are not just individual entities, but superorganisms intricately connected to trillions of microbes. These microbes, outnumbering our own cells 10 to 1, create a complex and diverse ecosystem that plays a fundamental role in shaping who we are. The author's exploration of this new understanding reshapes our perception of humanity, emphasizing that we are no longer just "I" but rather a collective "we." The book underscores the critical importance of nurturing a healthy inner garden for our microbiome to flourish as the primary means to create health. FEATURES: <ul> <li>Discusses the microbiome's significance in multiple aspects of human health, including the gut-brain connection, skin microbiome, and cellular regulation</li> <li>Offers practical advice on how to modify your microbiome through dietary choices, including the incorporation of fermented foods and probiotics</li> <li>Details microbial perturbations associated with specific diseases, from chronic illnesses like fibromyalgia to mental health conditions like anxiety and depression</li> <li>Explores lifestyle factors, detoxification, emotional well-being, and their roles in maintaining a balanced microbiome</li> <li>Outlines a participatory model of healthcare, emphasizing personal responsibility within the context of a nature-centricapproach</li> </ul>

Microbiome Modification: The Superorganism for Good Health

Science & Math

Worby PhD, Patricia

Biological Sciences

Mercury Learning and Information

We live in a world where the numbers of people suffering anxiety, digestive issues, auto-immune conditions and various unexplained chronic diseases are increasing year on year to the point where they are threatening the health systems of many developed countries. This groundbreaking book, written by a clinician and researcher, demystifies the many and varied symptoms of stress, trauma and unresolved emotion in the mind and body. Based on 25 years of practice as a therapist and scientific researcher, it describes the latest research on the stress response and how it interacts with a sensitised brain. With a paleolithic brain trapped in a 21st century body, we can see how our evolutionary survival strategies of implicit memory in the emotional brain have become maladapted to a life full of chronic stress. Emotional trauma from early life experience activates this ancient system to be hyper-aroused to the world around it. Anything that then triggers the same emotion in later life then fills us with anxiety and/ or chronic pain which defies a purely physical explanation. My belief, born out of study of the scientific literature and my own experience, is that the problems are not just physical they are emotional too.In particular, by an appreciation of how any experience, if it occurs during a state of helplessness, can be considered emotional trauma, we begin to appreciate how many and varied such experiences are. They include bereavement, difficult birth, accidents, surgery, poor parental attachment, bullying and abuse. The fact that they are common means that very few people escape a childhood without some of these experiences but it is the interaction with particular sensitive personality styles that determines whether traumatic memory formation becomes encoded and whether they become triggered into chronic symptoms in later life.I lift the lid on how the mind creates the symptoms largely through the down-regulation of the energy producing mitochondria in your cells. I show the fascinating truth behind this amazingly ancient process, meant to protect us when our stresses were very different to the ones we have today.Many books have been written on this subject from either a scientific or clinical point of view but this book aims to explain it all to an intelligent reader with examples from my own life and the experience of my clients, in a way that unifies theory and practice towards a new understanding of chronic illness. By giving you information as to how you got this way I also show you, with practical examples, how to overcome these issues using a variety of new techniques of energy psychology and somatic therapies to help you change these subconscious programmes and move on with your life. I firmly believe everyone can heal, and I have demonstrated this in my own life and those of my clients.Now updated for 2018 with new research and a fully cross-referenced index. Much has moved on since the original publication in 2015, with awareness of 'Lifestyle Medicine' finally becoming accepted by the mainstream as the way forward out of the dead end of pharmaceutical medicine for chronic disease. Not only is this bankrupting the health service, but it is not working! Even doctors, steeped in the biomedical model, are now realising this and turning to new ideas for helping their patients. I include some of these new ideas from a UK perspective, although the themes are, of course, universal.

The Scar that won't Heal: Trauma and Unresolved Emotion in Chronic Disease (Mindbody Connection)

Health, Fitness & Dieting

Diseases & Physical Ailments

CreateSpace Independent Publishing Platform

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