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On the Path to Health, Wellbeing, and Fulfilment: To Your Health
On the Path to Health, Wellbeing, and Fulfilment: To Your Health investigates the basis of what we think we know about healthy living. How much do we actually know about the information that is presented as fact by health crusaders and in the media? How do perceptions of truth and validity influence our behavior and our health?
This new book provides a key to understanding how we can all improve and support health to thrive in any phase of life. It demystifies medical research and presents a journey of discovery that includes the foundations of knowledge, social factors, health research findings, implications of lifestyle choices, and positive psychology. It offers a realistic look at the evidence of biological, psychological, and cultural determinants of health.
There is an unprecedented change in medicine that is moving the focal point of medical care from the management of disease toward the improvement and maintenance of health and wellness. With that comes a greater emphasis on prevention and (partial or complete) reversal of lifestyle-driven chronic diseases, which now account for the majority of premature deaths globally. The measures we can take to improve and maintain health throughout life include personal choices, but reach all the way into the delivery of healthcare and the social fabric of our world, including global politics and economies of scale.
Guided by her practice in academic and non-profit medicine, Dr. Iris Schrijver highlights the practical impact of scientific studies in a broad range of disciplines and brings to life their relevance and limitations. As such, this book is essential reading for anyone who wonders why there is so much left to learn about what truly enhances wellbeing and survival.
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On the Path to Health, Wellbeing, and Fulfilment: To Your Health
Check out the book excerpt of “On the Path of Health, Wellbeing, and Fulfilment" on the KevinMD website, by Kevin Pho, MD. This article features a short book excerpt with the title "A Scientific Lens on Life and Intuition".
Endorsements of To Your Health
"This valuable book not only sets out a path to dramatically better health. It anticipates the obstacles that may occur along the way and shows you how to overcome them. It is evidence-based, realistic, and wonderfully optimistic, from a doctor whose expertise can revolutionize your outlook on life."
Neal D. Barnard, MD, FACC
Adjunct Professor, George Washington University School of Medicine
President, Physicians Committee
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"To Your Health focuses on the prevention of disease with a unique perspective - empowering the readers to navigate through the complex issues in health and healthcare that have a lasting impact on our health and wellbeing both now and over a lifetime. The book is extremely well-written and a really fun read. Dr. Schrijver presents the most reliable, relevant and applicable scientific evidence and helps us refute misinformation along the way. This book is brilliant and practically helpful. I absolutely recommend it to EVERYONE."
Min Fang, MD, PhD, Professor, Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center and University of Washington
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"This book explores health from a variety of perspectives. Interpreting scientific studies and communicating the findings in an easy to understand way is a gift that keeps on giving. To Your Health will help readers appreciate the importance of research, genetics, environment and lifestyle factors in everyday life and when working through complex medical conditions."
Beth Frates, MD FACLM DipABLM
President-Elect American College of Lifestyle Medicine
Clinical Assistant Professor, Harvard Medical School
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"An insightful, timely work on what determines our very well-being."
David Robert Grimes, PhD
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"In To Your Health, Dr. Iris Schrijver provides insight and commentary on how the medical community often fails to effectively communicate what is known about the prevention and management of disease, and how this failure impacts health disparities by race, ethnicity, education and socioeconomic status. Dr. Schrijver takes an in-depth and science-based look at what makes us thrive in body and mind and helps us apply a critical lens to market-driven fads. A must-read for medical providers and anyone interested in sorting fact from fiction in the search for better health and well-being."
Martha L. Spiers LCSW, Executive Director Clackamas Volunteers in Medicine
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"In To Your Health Dr. Schrijver gives thoughtful and well-documented consideration to the things in our lives that influence our health and happiness. We can’t control all these things, but Dr. Schrijver shows how we can control our responses, to our inner cravings, to the things that cause us stress, and to information (and the abundant misinformation) surrounding us in both traditional and social media – misinformation that is intended, in many cases, to make others rich at our expense. To Your Health is an exceptional book that is well worth your time."
Timothy J. O'Leary, MD, PhD, Adjunct Professor, University of Maryland School of Medicine.
Former Editor In Chief of the Journal of Molecular Diagnostics; Former Chief Research and Development Officer, Veterans Health Administration
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“Iris Schrijver has developed an evolving tapestry of health acquisition that is defined by a multitude of physical, psychological and scientific information. Her depth of knowledge weaves a fabric of awareness of these factors that will optimize well-being.”
Caldwell B. Esselstyn, Jr., MD
Author of Prevent and Reverse Heart Disease
Living with the stars
by Karel Schrijver and Iris Schrijver
Living with the Stars tells the fascinating story of what truly makes the human body. The body that is with us all our lives is always changing. We are quite literally not who we were years, weeks, or even days ago: our cells die and are replaced by new ones at an astonishing pace. The entire body continually rebuilds itself, time and again, using the food and water that flow through us as fuel and as construction material. What persists over time is not fixed but merely a pattern in flux.
We rebuild using elements captured from our surroundings, and are thereby connected to animals and plants around us, and to the bacteria within us that help digest them, and to geological processes such as continental drift and volcanism here on Earth. We are also intimately linked to the Sun's nuclear furnace and to the solar wind, to collisions with asteroids and to the cycles of the birth of stars and their deaths in cataclysmic supernovae, and ultimately to the beginning of the universe. Our bodies are made of the burned out embers of stars that were released into the galaxy in massive explosions billions of years ago, mixed with atoms that formed only recently as ultrafast rays slammed into Earth's atmosphere. All of that is not just remote history but part of us now: our human body is inseparable from nature all around us and intertwined with the history of the universe.
Find out more at Oxford University Press and on Amazon and on Karel Schrijver.
