Description
Can an individual literally die of loneliness? Is there the sort of thing as a “”cancer personality””? Drawing on scientific research and the creator’s decades of experience as a practicing physician, this book provides answers to these and other necessary questions concerning the effect of the mind-body link on illness and health and the role that stress and one’s individual emotional makeup play in an array of common diseases.
- Explores the role of the mind-body link in conditions and diseases such as arthritis, cancer, diabetes, heart disease, IBS, and a couple of sclerosis
- Draws on medical research and the creator’s clinical experience as a circle of relatives physician
- Includes The Seven A’s of Healing-principles of healing and the prevention of illness from hidden stress
Shares dozens of enlightening case studies and stories, including those of people such as Lou Gehrig (ALS), Betty Ford (breast cancer), Ronald Reagan (Alzheimer’s), Gilda Radner (ovarian cancer), and Lance Armstrong (testicular cancer)
An international bestseller translated into fifteen languages, When the Body Says No promotes learning and healing, providing transformative insights into how disease can also be the body’s way of saying no to what the mind can not or is not going to acknowledge.