Synopses & Reviews
On the heels of the successful What Your Doctor May Not Tell You About Fibromyalgia comes a revolutionary guide to help fibromyalgia sufferers beat their chronic fatigue and reclaim their lives. Fibromyalgia is a chronic disease involving muscular pain and fatigue. It affects 20 million Americans, with high rates of occurrence in women. In What Your Doctor May Not Tell You About Fibromyalgia, Dr. St. Amand introduced fibromyalgics to his successful protocol that can reverse the disease--although this can take many months or even years to occur. In the meantime, one of the most common symptoms of fibromyalgia is chronic fatigue. In his new book, Amand expands on important energy issues and offers a detailed diet, exercise, and lifestyle plan tailored to those suffering from fibromyalgia. It includes advice on avoiding energy drains (illnesses and injuries common to fibromylagics) and increasing energy builders (the right diet and exercise plan), and an accessible discussion of how energy is created by the body. Dr. St. Amand also includes 50 delicious, proven recipes to help sufferers put theory into practice and reclaim their lives and their health.
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The authors of the successful What Your Doctor May Not Tell You About Fibromyalgia present a revolutionary new guide to help sufferers relieve their chronic fatigue.
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- "What Your Doctor May Not Tell You About Fibromyalgia (Warner, 1999), also by Dr. St. Amand and Claudia Craig Marek, has netted over 120,000 copies and has a monthly reorder rate of 3,000 copies. This book will serve as a companion to the hundreds of thousands of readers currently following the protocol outlined in that book.- Other titles on this subject frequently appear on Ingram's "A-list" for health books, including "Fibromyalgia (Walker & Co., 1996), which has over 350,000 copies in print, and "Fibromyalgia and Chronic Myofascial Pain Syndrome (New Harbinger Publications, 1996), which has over one million copies in print.- Dr. St. Amand discovered guaifenesin's use as a treatment for fibromyalgia, and his work is often cited. he is an Assistant Clinical Professor of Medicine and is on the teaching staff at UCLA Harbor General Hospital. He has been in practice for over 40 years.
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Includes bibliographical references (p. 301-308) and index.