Your Health Destiny: How to Unlock Your Natural Ability to Overcome Illness, Feel Better, and Live Longer

by Eva Selhub M.D.

Overview

An internist and clinical instructor at Harvard Medical School fuses Eastern practices with cutting edge Western medicine to help you connect body and mind to transform your health today and tomorrow.

Over the course of her decades-long career, Dr. Eva Selhub has discovered a fundamental truth: health, happiness, and strength are often a direct result of the affirmative choices we make, regardless of whatever genetic or environmental setbacks we face. When our bodies get sick, we often feel out of control—a cycle of fear that leaves us feeling vulnerable and helpless, desperate for medication or tests that will make us well. But illness shouldn’t make us afraid. We do have control over our wellbeing, contends Dr. Selhub, and we can make choices that can positively influence any health issue, big or small, acute or chronic. It’s all about perception—how you view yourself, your resources, and your circumstances. Drawing on findings in the emerging field of epigenetics, she reveals how we can bolster the mind-body connection and actually change the way our DNA operates.

In Your Health Destiny, Dr. Selhub teaches you how to pay attention to your body’s signals, to understand what these signals mean, and to make the right choices that will bring amazing results to your health, now and for the future. You will discover ways to prevent disease from happening or getting worse; and even find that you can reverse the disease process all together.

We have more power than we think. Your Health Destiny shows you how to harness it to improve your life.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780062327796
Publisher:	HarperCollins
Publication date:	04/12/2016
Edition description:	Reprint
Pages:	304
Product dimensions:	5.31(w) x 8.00(h) x 0.68(d)

About the Author

Eva Selhub, M.D., is a lecturer in medicine at Harvard Medical School and a clinical associate of the Massachusetts General Hospital. She was medical director and senior physician at the Benson-Henry Institute for Mind/Body Medicine at the Massachusetts General Hospital for thirteen years. A trained internist and board certified in internal medicine, Dr. Selhub runs a private practice as a comprehensive medical specialist and transformation consultant.

Table of Contents

Introduction: Your Health Destiny 1

1 The Power to Transform Health 9

2 Choosing Healthy, Choosing Happy 21

3 POWER Your Way to Health 37

4 The Immune System: Your 24-Hour Security System 53

5 Opening Your Heart and Reclaiming Your Health 83

6 The Lungs: Letting In and Letting Go 115

7 The Gastrointestinal System: You Eat and You Are 143

8 The Musculoskeletal System: Move It or Lose It 173

9 Stand Up for Your Spine! 205

10 The Brain: Mind, Mood, and Memory 233

Epilogue: The New Strong You, in Your Power, Changing Your Health Destiny 265

Acknowledgments 271

Notes 273

Index 287

About the Author 295

Editorial Reviews

Your Health Destiny presents clear and practical guidance on not only how to face one’s stressors but how to overcome them as well. Dr Eva Selhub skillfully illustrates how to nourish and find balance between one’s physical, mental and spiritual well-being.

Bardor Tulku Rinpoche

Your health is indeed your destiny! You control it with your attitudes, habits and activities. At least 85% of all diseases are results of your choices. Choose wisely from the many great prescriptions in this important book.

C. Norman Shealy

Your Health Destiny combines timeless spiritual guidance with the latest medical research on what’s best for our bodies and minds, giving you the power to transform your life.

Deepak Chopra

I highly recommend this book to help change behavior and develop the techniques to get the most of your life while defeating stress. All this comes through knowledge and you practicing her simple method of changing your present to brighten your future.

John J. Ratey

Dr. Eva has provided an essential guidebook for maintaining optimum health. Dr. Selhub provides education, encouragement, and inspiration that reveals an entirely new way of practicing medicine, yet maintains many elements of ancient wisdom traditions.

Dr. Steven Farmer

Your Health Destiny awakens us from our misguided passive reliance upon pharmaceutical remedies that so often fall short. Selhub’s empowering text will transform your perspective, providing the tools to actively and fundamentally change your destiny as it relates to health, disease resistance, and longevity.

David Perlmutter

We have a tendency these days of giving our health over to our genes and other factors beyond our control. The key insight of Your Health Destiny is that our health is not fixed, but can be constructed by the decisions and choices we confront every day.

Larry Dossey

Your Health Destiny combines timeless spiritual guidance with the latest medical research on what’s best for our bodies and minds, giving you the power to transform your life.” — Deepak Chopra

“We have a tendency these days of giving our health over to our genes and other factors beyond our control. The key insight of Your Health Destiny is that our health is not fixed, but can be constructed by the decisions and choices we confront every day.” — Larry Dossey, MD, Author of Reinventing Medicine and One Mind

“Your health is indeed your destiny! You control it with your attitudes, habits and activities. At least 85% of all diseases are results of your choices. Choose wisely from the many great prescriptions in this important book.” — C. Norman Shealy, M.D., Ph.D., Founder and CEO, National Institute of Holistic Medicine, Founding President, American Holistic Medical Association

“Your Health Destiny awakens us from our misguided passive reliance upon pharmaceutical remedies that so often fall short. Selhub’s empowering text will transform your perspective, providing the tools to actively and fundamentally change your destiny as it relates to health, disease resistance, and longevity.” — David Perlmutter, MD, FACN, New York Times #1 Bestselling Author of Grain Brain: The Surprising Truth About Wheat, Carbs, and Sugar - Your Brain's Silent Killers

“Your Health Destiny presents clear and practical guidance on not only how to face one’s stressors but how to overcome them as well. Dr Eva Selhub skillfully illustrates how to nourish and find balance between one’s physical, mental and spiritual well-being.” — Bardor Tulku Rinpoche, author of Living in Compassion

“Dr. Eva has provided an essential guidebook for maintaining optimum health. Dr. Selhub provides education, encouragement, and inspiration that reveals an entirely new way of practicing medicine, yet maintains many elements of ancient wisdom traditions.” — Dr. Steven Farmer, author of Healing Ancestral Karma, Earth Magic, and Sacred Ceremony

“I highly recommend this book to help change behavior and develop the techniques to get the most of your life while defeating stress. All this comes through knowledge and you practicing her simple method of changing your present to brighten your future.” — John J. Ratey, MD, Clinical Associate Professor of Psychiatry, Harvard Medical School

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