Everyone wants good health, but most people are confused about the best ways to achieve it

“If you've got a body, you've got a condition,” says one of the many experts whose advice fills Own Your Health.

No matter what the condition of your body, you are sure to find some new, surprising, or helpful information in this book about integrative medicine. You will learn the benefits of combining alternative health methods such as acupuncture, yoga, massage, and herbal medicine with your conventional medical care.

Alongside the miracles of conventional medicine are problems: side effects of drugs and chemotherapy; harried doctors juggling too many patients; too much emphasis on surgery and pills and not enough attention to the emotional and spiritual sides of people.

This award-winning book is the first of its kind. Not only does it give you valuable health information, advice and research evidence, it also introduces you to real people — patients, doctors and alternative practitioners — and their stories. This book will help you create your own personal prescription for health:

— Overcome chronic pain
— Recover from heart disease
— Tolerate chemotherapy for cancer
— Manage the symptoms of menopause and reduce the risk of osteoporosis
— Live more easily with such chronic illnesses as fibromyalgia, Marfan syndrome, multiple sclerosis and Crohn's disease,
— Find effective, gentle treatments for childhood ear infections, allergies, stomach upsets and asthma
— Grow older with optimism, vigor and good health
— Get more energy, lose weight, stop smoking and enjoy life more