Thriving: The Complete Mind/Body Guide for Optimal Health and Fitness for Men - Hardcover

Robert S. Ivker; Edward Zorensky

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9780788169847: Thriving: The Complete Mind/Body Guide for Optimal Health and Fitness for Men

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ISBN 10: 078816984X ISBN 13: 9780788169847

Publisher: Crown Pub., 1997

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Offers a proactive approach to health that goes beyond exercising & eating right to living with a new vitality. Thriving is a user-friendly guide to holistic treatments & therapies, showing men how to attain balance in all aspects of life -- from physical fitness & creative & professional satisfaction to spiritual well-being. Once this is accomplished, any man can start a positive chain reaction within his body & mind, leading to a state of thriving. Discusses 20 of the most common ailments of men of all ages, from prostate cancer & back pain to depression, & provides proven therapies that combine self-healing with effective alternative & conventional treatments.

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Dr. Robert Ivker was a very successful family-practice physician who, at 40, decided to go a different direction in his life. He developed his philosophy of Thriving--which says that there's a difference between being functionally capable and really being physically and emotionally sound--while finding a holistic solution to his chronic sinusitis. The first half of this book combines a lot of ideas, from accepted precepts about physical fitness and mind-body interactions to somewhat less proven nutritional suggestions to Eastern medicine, tossed into a vast self-improvement stew for men. The second half of the book describes holistic treatments for males' most prevalent medical problems. The book is mostly addressed to men on the cusp of middle age who've ignored their bodies and emotions, but somewhat healthier individuals may still get some inspiration from it.

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listic health care manual designed specifically for men, Thriving is filled with detailed information and instructions for achieving and maintaining maximum physical, mental, and spiritual health. This comprehensive, user-friendly guide to holistic treatments and therapies shows men how they can go beyond feeling simply "unbroken" to feel gloriously "whole."

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