Detailed illustrations and beautiful photography ensure that you won't make a plant-identification misstep as you learn how to tend and properly harvest the plant medicine growing right in your own neighborhood.

This book reveals the amazing ways these beneficial bugs exert their influence over important mechanisms in the body and provide lifestyle strategies for keeping the system in balance. It explains which foods to eat to keep the good bugs happy and how to supplement the right way and figure out what your body's unique needs are. This resource guide is the place to start for anyone who struggles with nagging health problems that don't seem to have any definitive cause.

Over the past decade, Hadler has established himself as a leading voice among those who approach the menu of health-care choices with informed skepticism. Only the rigorous demonstration of efficacy is adequate reassurance of a treatment's value, he argues; if it cannot be shown that a particular treatment will benefit the patient, one should proceed with caution. In Rethinking Aging, Hadler offers a doctor's perspective on the medical literature as well as his long clinical experience to help readers assess their health-care options and make informed medical choices in the last decades of lif.