User's Guide to Carnitine and Acetyl-L-Carnitine
Part of the Basic Health Publications User's Guide series
People who need more energy and want to avoid stimulants that will make them edgy should consider taking supplements of carnitine or acetyl-l-carnitine, two forms of the same nutrient found naturally in protein. Carnitine works by transporting fats in cells to where they are burned for energy. By boosting the activity of the body's cellular furnaces, carnitine can energize the heart, brain, and muscles to do more. Doctors have also found carnitine and acetyl-l-carnitine helpful in treating many conditions, including heart failure, muscle weakness and failing memory. Carnitine can also enhance physical training.
User's Guide to Vitamin E
Part of the Basic Health Publications User's Guide series
Building on the tremendous interest in health, alternative medicine, and nutritional supplementation, the User's Guide to Nutritional Supplements Series is designed to answer the consumer's basic questions about diseases, conventional and alternative therapies, and individual dietary supplements. Written by leading experts and science writers, The User's Guide to Nutritional Supplements Series covers a range of popular alternative medicine and health issues, including specific major diseases, alternative therapies, and vitamins, minerals, herbs, and other nutritional supplements. The User's Guide to Vitamin E explains this remarkable vitamin's benefits and how you can easily put it to work for you.
User's Guide to Brain-Boosting Supplements
Learn about the Vitamins and Other Nutrients That Can Boost Your Memory and End Mental Fuzziness
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In the Users Guide to Brain-Boosting Nutrients, leading nutritionist and author of the Real Vitamin and Mineral Book Shari Lieberman teams up with top nutrition writer and former editor of Better Nutrition magazine James Gormley to describe the best brain-boosting dietary supplements including vitamin E, ginkgo, amino acids, huperzine A, and acetyl-L-carnitine and how to use them safely and effectively to achieve optimum brain power.
User's Guide to Carnosine
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Carnosine, one of the most powerful antioxidant nutrients ever discovered, can rev up the immune system, fight inflammatory diseases, speed healing of wounds, and enhance recovery from surgery. Supported by hundreds of scientific studies, carnosine is now emerging as one of the key anti-aging nutrients, capable of slowing down the aging process. Marie Moneysmith explains everything readers need to know about carnosine supplements, including how and when to take them.
User's Guide to Glucosamine and Chondroitin
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Explains how these supplements can help you overcome the pain of arthritis.
User's Guide to Protein and Amino Acids
Learn How Protein Foods and Their Building Blocks Can Improve Your Mood and Health
Part of the Basic Health Publications User's Guide series
Protein has become one of the most misunderstood nutrients. Protein is broken down during digestion and later restructured to make the proteins and enzymes the body needs for life. Protein consists of amino acids, which are used in the construction of neurotransmitters, hormones, muscle and other tissues. This User's Guide demystifies Protein and Amino Acids and explains how readers can use them to enhance their health.
User's Guide to Natural Remedies for Depression
Learn about Safe and Natural Treatments to Uplift Your Mood and Conquer Depression
Part of the Basic Health Publications User's Guide series
Millions of people suffer from chronic depression, and millions more cope with down days. But diet, natural light, and many supplements can improve mood and well-being. This User's Guide to Natural Remedies for Depression describes the easy steps you can take to improve your mood.
User's Guide to Ginkgo Biloba
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Ginkgo biloba, an herb used for centuries in Asia, can improve memory and benefit the heart. Today, its amazing health benefits have been confirmed by scientific research. The Basic Health Publications User's Guide to Ginkgo Biloba describes all of its benefits - and exactly how and when you should use it.
User's Guide to Treating Hepatitis Naturally
Learn How Supplements Can Reverse Symptoms of Hepatitis and Improve Your Health
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Hepatitis is a common causes of illness and death. Many types of hepatitis are caused by viruses, whereas other types result from the liver being overwhelmed by toxins, including alcohol and drugs. In this User's Guide, Dr. MacKay describes the most common forms of hepatitis, their causes, and ways to reduce your risk of contracting or developing them. He also describes vitamins, herbs, and other supplements that can help you reduce symptoms of hepatitis, including elevated liver enzymes, so you can lead a healthier life.
User's Guide to Saw Palmetto & Men's Health
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By middle age, men often start experiencing the early signs of prostate disease. Backed up by extensive research, the herb saw palmetto can prevent and reverse many cases of prostate disease. This is a User's Guide to this self-help supplement.
User's Guide to Chromium
Don't Be a Dummy, Become an Expert on What Chromium Can Do for Your Health
Part of the Basic Health Publications User's Guide series
Explains everything you need to know to make this nutrient work for you.
User's Guide to Detoxification
Discover How Vitamins, Herbs, and Other Nutrients Help You Survive in a Toxic World
Part of the Basic Health Publications User's Guide series
We live in a toxic world - and there's no escaping it. But each of us can take steps to enhance our body's ability to detoxify pollutants, synthetic hormones, and cancer causing chemicals. The Benefits? A healthier life with a lower risk of developing debilitating diseases. This User's Guide focuses on specific supplements, including herbs and vitamin-like substances, that help protect your body protect itself.
User's Guide to Eye Health Supplements
Learn All about the Nutritional Supplements That Can Save Your Vision
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Cataracts and age-related muscular degeneration are the most common vision-threatening eye diseases. Both interfere with vision and many lead to blindness. Yet many natural supplements such as lutein and zeaxanthin, play normal roles in protecting the eyes. This User's Guide to Eye Health Supplements explains how these and other nutrients can reduce your risk of eye disease.
User's Guide to Coenzyme Q10
Don't Be a Dummy, Become an Expert on What Coenzyme Q10 Can Do for Your Health
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Explains what you need to know when using coenzyme Q10 to boost your health.
User's Guide to Natural Hormone Replacement
Learn How Safe Dietary & Herbal Supplements Can Ease Your Midlife Changes.
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With the health risks associated with conventional hormone-replacement therapy, women are searching for safe and effective ways to reduce hot flashes, prevent osteoporosis, and reduce the risk of heart disease during menopause. In this User's Guide, health writer Kathleen Barnes describes a variety of natural and safe options for navigating the biological changes that come with mid-life. She suggests vitamins, herbs, and other supplements that scientific studies have found helpful in easing a natural transition and for lowering the long-term risk of age related diseases.
User's Guide to Vitamins & Minerals
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Building on the tremendous interest in health, alternative medicine, and nutritional supplementation, the User's Guide to Nutritional Supplements Series is designed to answer the consumer's basic questions about diseases, conventional and alternative therapies, and individual dietary supplements.
Written by leading experts and science writers, The User's Guide to Nutritional Supplements Series covers a range of popular alternative medicine and health issues, including specific major diseases, alternative therapies, and vitamins, minerals, herbs, and other nutritional supplements.
The User's Guide to Vitamins & Minerals explains how these remarkable nutrients can make a big difference in your health.
User's Guide to Thyroid Disorders
Natural Ways to Keep Your Body from Dragging You Down
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This User's Guide describes the nature of thyroid disorders, natural thyroid-replacement hormones, and the important role of supplemental vitamins and minerals for thyroid function.
User's Guide to Heart-Healthy Supplements
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In this concise Users Guide, Michael Janson describes the best nutritional and herbal supplements for preventing and reversing heart disease. Some of these supplements, such as coenzyme Q10 and hawthorn, many be less well known than others, but they are still powerful, natural health-promoting substances. Dr. Janson also provides clear guidelines for how to use these supplements safely.
User's Guide to Calcium & Magnesium
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Calcium is essential for health, but it actually works best with magnesium to build strong bones, maintain a healthy heart, improve mood, and reduce PMT. This guide explains the health benefits of this nutritional team and how you can use calcium and magnesium together to enhance your health.
User's Guide to Natural Treatments for Lyme Disease
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Lyme disease is caused by a bacterial infection transmitted by a tick bite and is best treated early with antibiotics. However, many people suffer from chronic relapsing Lyme disease, which can cause a variety of physical and psychiatric symptoms: recurrent fever, fatigue, muscle and joint stiffness, poor coordination, lightheadedness, mood swings, and depression. In the User's Guide, health authors James Gormley and Caren Feingold Tishfield, R.D., explain how to best avoid Lyme disease and how to benefit from safe treatments.
User's Guide to Good Fats and Bad Fats
Learn the Difference Between Fats That Make You Well and Fats That Make You Sick
Part of the Basic Health Publications User's Guide series
Nearly everyone seems confused about dietary fats. Not all fats are bad for your health. In fact, some fats are essential for optimum health. This User's Guide to Good Fats and Bad Fats helps you understand the difference. You'll learn how to avoid unhealthy fats hidden in many foods, while learning about the benefits of good fats.
User's Guide to Healthy Digestion
Learn How You Can Put an End to Heartburn, Indigestion, Constipation, and Other Digestive Problems
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User's Guide To Healthy Digestion is an easy-to-read information-packed book that will teach you how to put an end to your digestive problems. Heartburn, indigestion, bloating, gas, constipation, diarrhea, and other digestive problems affect nearly everyone at one time or another. Health writer Victoria Dolby Toews describes the most common digestive problems and diseases and recommends safe dietary, herbal, and nutrition remedies to improve digestive health.
User's Guide to Easing Menopause Symptoms Naturally
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Menopause has traditionally signaled a time of change and uncertainty in women's bodies. In this remarkable User's Guide, Dr. Cynthia M. Watson explains that most women can use foods and natural supplements--not drugs--to ease and often stop many of the undesirable signs of peri-menopause and menopause, including hot flashes, bone loss, and an increased risk of heart disease.
User's Guide to St. John's Wort
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Building on the tremendous interest in health, alternative medicine, and nutritional supplementation, the User's Guide to Nutritional Supplements Series is designed to answer the consumer's basic questions about diseases, conventional and alternative therapies, and individual dietary supplements.
Written by leading experts and science writers, The User's Guide to Nutritional Supplements Series covers a range of popular alternative medicine and health issues, including specific major diseases, alternative therapies, and vitamins, minerals, herbs, and other nutritional supplements.
The User's Guide to St. John's Wort describes the herb's traditional uses and the remarkable science demonstrating its benefits in treating depression.
User's Guide to Stress-Busting Nutrients
by Rosemarie Gionta Alfieri
Part of the Basic Health Publications User's Guide series
In this Users Guide, fitness professional and nutrition author RoseMarie Gionta Alfieri describes the most important supplements for improving mood, reducing irritability, and preventing depression. Among these supplements are the B-complex vitamins, GABA, and St. Johns wort. These and other nutrients have been shown scientifically to help people deal effectively with stress.
User's Guide to Probiotics
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To the surprise of many people, several pounds of good bacteria populate our digestive tract, help us maintain normal digestion, and protect us against stomach flus, candida overgrowth, and many other types of infection. In this concise book, internationally recognised nutrition expert Dr. Earl Mindell explains the many health benefits of probiotics and how to use them to enhance health.
User's Guide to the B-Complex Vitamins
Learn about the Vitamins That Combat Stress, Boost Energy, and Slow the Aging Process.
Part of the Basic Health Publications User's Guide series
The B-complex vitamins are a family of nutrients that play multifaceted and essential roles in health and preventing disease. They are needed to make and repair DNA and increase energy levels-both key steps for slowing the aging process. Some B vitamins are needed to make mood-enhancing neurotransmitters, such as serotonin, and can have powerful antidepressant benefits. The B vitamin folic acid reduces blood levels of homocysteine, a known risk factor for heart disease, stroke, cancer, and Alzheimer's disease. Vitamin B12 is needed for normal mental function, and low levels can mimic senility. This book explores the remarkable benefits of these and the rest of the B-complex family of vitamins.
User's Guide to Pycnogenol
Learn How to Use This Remarkable Antioxidant to Fight Inflammation and Reduce Your Risk of Disease
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One of the most remarkable natural antioxidants ever discovered, Pycnogenol is a complex of more than forty individual antioxidants extracted from the bark of French maritime pine trees. It has been shown in scientific studies to reduce the risk of cardiovascular diseases, painful inflammation, and even erectile dysfunction.
User's Guide to Chronic Fatigue & Fibromyalgia
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Covering a wide range of popular alternative medicine and health issues, User' are written by leading experts and science writers and are designed to answer the consumer's basic questions about disease, conventional and alternative therapies, and individual dietary supplements.
User's Guide to Preventing & Treating Headaches Naturally
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Covering a wide range of popular alternative medicine and health issues, User's Guides are written by leading experts and science writers and are designed to answer the consumer's basic questions about disease, conventional and alternative therapies, and individual dietary supplements.
User's Guide to Carotenoids & Flavonoids
Learn How to Harness the Health Benefits of Natural Plant Antioxidants
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Covering a wide range of popular alternative medicine and health issues, User' are written by leading experts and science writers and are designed to answer the consumer's basic questions about disease, conventional and alternative therapies, and individual dietary supplements.
User's Guide to Weight-Loss Supplements
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Overweight and obesity have now reached epidemic proportions. However, this guide will teach you how to sort through all the fads and supplements and successfully lose weight. Dr. Dallas Clouatre cuts through the conflicting and confusing information about weight-loss diets and supplements, providing clear advice about what works - the foods and supplements for losing weight and keeping it off.
User's Guide to Inflammation, Arthritis, and Aging
Learn How Diet and Supplements Can Reduce Inflammation and Slow the Aging Process
Part of the Basic Health Publications User's Guide series
Inflammation causes the aches and pains of arthritis, the discomfort of allergies, and the breathing obstruction of asthma. But over the past several years, medicine has recognized that chronic inflammation is a key underlying factor in heart disease Alzheimer's, some cancers, and the aging process itself. In this User's Guide, Dr. Hunninghake explains exactly how inflammation is involved in these diseases, how it can be easily measured, and the foods and nutritional supplements that can help you prevent and reverse inflammation.
User's Guide to Preventing & Reversing Diabetes Naturally
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This is an easy-to-follow diet for losing weight, stabilizing blood sugar and insulin and reducing the risk of diabetes.
User's Guide to Propolis, Royal Jelly, Honey, and Bee Pollen
Learn How to Use "Bee Foods" to Enhance Your Health and Immunity.
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The food products of bees have long been attributed with many health benefits. They can lead to greater stamina, increased resistance to disease, and, counter-intuitively, often help reduce pollen allergies. Scientific studies have revealed that bee propolis, royal jelly, honey and bee pollen are rich sources of antioxidant phytochemicals, vitamin-like substances similar to those found in common vegetables. In this User's Guide, Dr. Broadhurst explains the scientific rationale behind bee foods and describes how they can improve health.
User's Guide to Complete Sexual Satisfaction
Discover Natural Ways to Encourage Intimacy and Enhance Your Sex Life
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Millions of people suffer in quiet agony, but the right foods and supplements, along with setting the right mood, can help foster sexual intimacy and satisfaction. This User's Guide to Complete Sexual Satisfaction explains the many ways you and your partner can enhance your sexuality and lead more fulfilling lives.
User's Guide to Garlic
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Covering a wide range of popular alternative medicine and health issues, User's Guides are written by leading experts and science writers and are designed to answer the consumer's basic questions about disease, conventional and alternative therapies, and individual dietary supplements.
User's Guide to Women's Health Supplements
Part of the Basic Health Publications User's Guide series
Women have their own distinctive biological and health issues, which include menstruation, pregnancy, menopause, and breast cancer. This book explains how vitamins, minerals, and herbs can help women feel better and stay healthier.
User's Guide to Natural & Safe Pain Relief
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This User's Guide advises readers on the many beneficial supplements for reducing pain. These pain-relieving supplements include fish oils, B vitamins, glucosamine, MSM and more traditional homeopathic remedies. The authors also describe how life's stresses can exacerbate pain, and offer simple pain-reducing exercises and stretches.
User's Guide to Echinacea and Other Cold & Flu Fighters
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Many vitamins, dietary supplements, and herbs can greatly reduce cold and flu symptoms and shorten the duration of colds, if you begin taking them at the first sign of an infection. In this User's Guide, Laurel Vukovic describes the most important natural ways of fighting off colds and flus, including the use of such venerable herbs as Echinacea, goldenseal, and elderberry.
User's Guide to Natural Allergy Relief
Learn about the Many Natural Ways to Reduce Your Allergies
Part of the Basic Health Publications User's Guide series
Countless people around the world suffer from allergies and allergy-like symptoms. Many of these symptoms can be reduced through dietary change and nutritional supplements. This User's Guide to Natural Allergy Relief explains allergies in simple terms, as well as the steps you can take to ease your symptoms.
User's Guide to Vitamin C
Part of the Basic Health Publications User's Guide series
Vitamin C can reduce your risk of developing cancer and heart disease, improve your mood and energy levels, and even lessen cold and flu symptoms. The problem is that many people simply do not get enough vitamin C from their diets. This work explains the health benefits of this essential nutrient and how it can enhance your health.
User's Guide to Herbal Remedies
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In this overview of the most popular herbs, Hyla Cass describes the top ten herbal supplements. Among them are Echinacea to boost the immune system during cold and flu season, ginseng to increase energy levels, St. Johns wort to elevate mood, and saw palmetto to prevent prostate disease. Dr. Cass also provides clear guidelines for how to safely use herbal remedies.
User's Guide to Antioxidant Supplements
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Covering a wide range of popular alternative medicine and health issues, User's Guides are written by leading experts and science writers and are designed to answer the consumer's basic questions about disease, conventional and alternative therapies, and individual dietary supplements.
User's Guide to Energy-Boosting Supplements
Discover the Best Supplements for Safely Enhancing Your Energy Levels
Part of the Basic Health Publications User's Guide series
Anyone who feels more tired than they should and winds up feeling fuzzy headed from eating so-called energy foods, will likely benefit from the several supplements that boost energy levels, which are discussed in this User's Guide. Coenzyme Q10, alpha-lipoic acid, and carnitine are vitamin-like nutrients, not stimulants. They work by helping the body burn the foods consumed for sustained energy. This User's Guide also offers eating tips to help readers maintain high energy levels and to avoid feeling tired after meals.
User's Guide to Sports Nutrients
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Bodybuilders and other serious athletes commonly take natural performance-enhancing nutrients. Used correctly, these nutrients help build muscle and strength. This guide describes the best of these nutritional supplements and tells you how to use them safely and effectively.
User's Guide to the Top 10 Natural Therapies
Your Introductory Guide to the Best That Natural and Alternative Therapies Offer
Part of the Basic Health Publications User's Guide series
In this primer, the authors introduce readers to the top ten natural therapies so they can determine which therapy is best for them.
User's Guide to Anti-Aging Nutrients
Discover How You Can Slow Down the Aging Process and Increase Energy
Part of the Basic Health Publications User's Guide series
The latest research shows that it is possible to slow down the aging process and reduce the risk of age-related degenerative diseases. In this User's Guide, two leading health writers describe the scientific research and the steps you can take to improve energy levels, sharpen the mind, and turn back the biological clock.
