Synopses & Reviews
Feeling stressed? Overwhelmed? About to jump out of your skin from pressures of everyday life? We all feel that way at times: ready to explode from everything going on - unrelenting demands, all the time. So we take medicines, see doctors, overeat, even use alcohol or drugs. Still the pressures mount. Its unbearable! There must be a better way!
There is. Your body knows what to do. Your body makes healing hormones that fight stress, promoting calm and balance. Nitric oxide, dopamine, endorphins, serotonin and oxytocin will help you cope with the demands of living in our hectic modern world - if you let your body do its job!
Healing Hormonesshows what you can do to help yourself without pills or supplements. It shows that stress is not what most people think - not something out there.” Stress is a response to external events - positive or negative. Since stress is your reaction, you can learn to control runaway stress by encouraging your body to produce anti-stress chemicals that will keep you calmer and better balanced.
Healing Hormones shows how we create stress by reacting to what we think is happening around us - not what is really happening. We make our own reality - one much more stress-filled than it has to be. Since we make it, we can change it. Healing Hormones tells how.
A wonderful counterbalance to the pressures urging us to take more medicines and look outside ourselves for health, Healing Hormones explains how you can be healthier and happier - today and every day.
Synopsis
Healing Hormones tackles a huge, attention-getting subject. TV and radio shows, websites telling people to take it easy, slow down, de-stress to feel better, live longer, be a better parent and more loving mate. But how? The prescriptions are disappointing: Yoga? Time-consuming and difficult for many. Prescription drugs? Costly, subject to abuse and may not be helpful. Naturopathic remedies? Unproven, untested and often ineffective.
Healing Hormones has a better answer: show readers how to harness their own bodies' heal producing chemicals to improve their lives. Healing Hormones takes the take-care-of-yourself trend a step beyond where it has been before. Author Mark J. Estren, Ph.D., investigates five body-produced hormones that counter the stress response to make life better, calmer and more relaxed. The five healing hormones are dopamine, nitric oxide, endorphins, oxytocin, and serotonin.
Healing Hormones will be readers' top choice to learn the pluses and minuses of the remarkable hormones that drive their health and happiness or undercut it. Estrenwho has more than 20 years of experience writing about medical issues and research for patients and their familiesexplains how to harness the power of these healing hormones in clear, easily understandable language.
Synopsis
Worried about the nexus between stress and disease? Your know youve
got to relax - but how? Stopping at the gym for an hour workout after work is not realistic. Prescription drugs and risk getting hooked”? You
should mediation - but
how when you cant calm down!
Authors Mark Estren, a Pulitzer-winning journalist who writes about medical and health, and self-help author, Docpotter show how emotional self-talk - like shoulding” - sets off the stress response” and how chronic stress can harm your health. More importantly, Estren and Potter offer a fresh, fun-filled approach to toning down stress, while having more fun.*
Healing Hormones explains how to turn on natural chemicals - such as by dancing, running, snuggling, laughing, eating chocolate - to reduce stress and improve quality of your life. Anxious about a coming encounter? Snuggle your dog, while focusing on the experience,” right before meeting tells your brain to produce oxytocin, which soothes anxiety and facilitates socializing. No pet to snuggle? Watch a funny movie instead. Make sure to laugh hard to stimulates your body to produce natural morphine-like calming chemicals, called endorphins, and you may ace” the encounter!
*Anticipating laughing and fun stimulates endorphin production! Go ahead: Laugh!
About the Author
Mark J. Estren, Ph.D., is a nationally known journalist and Pulitzer winner and was named one of the People to Watch” by
Fortune magazine. Dr. Estren is a regular contributor to
The Washington Post, and
Bottom Line. He lives in Ft. Myers, FL.
Beverly A. Potter, Ph.D,, received her doctorate from Stanford University. Preferring Docpotter”, her work blends philosophies of humanistic psychology, social learning theory and Eastern philosophies to create inspiring and original ways of handling difficulties encountered in todays stressful world. She is the author of several self-help books, including Overcoming Job Burnout: How to Renew Enthusiasm for Work and The Worrywarts Companion: 21 Ways to Soothe Yourself and Worry Smart. Her offices are in Oakland, CA.
Table of Contents
Chapter 1: Stressors and the stress response.
Chapter 2: The enemies of calmcortisol, epinephrine, norepinephrine.
Chapter 3: First line of defensethe relaxation response.
Chapter 4: Delights of dopamine.
Chapter 5: Nitric oxideno, its not laughing gas.
Chapter 6: Endorphins and what they begin.
Chapter 7: Oxytocin, the love hormone.
Chapter 8: Serotonintaking relaxation seriously.
Chapter 9: Living a more-hormonal, better-balanced life.
Chapter 10: The supplement questiontake hormones or generate them?
Chapter 11: Recipes for healthy living.