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Donna Jackson Nakazawa

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in Annapolis, Maryland, The United States

August 31

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Science, Memoir

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Donna Jackson Nakazawa is an award-winning science journalist and public speaker. In her newest book, The Last Best Cure (Hudson Street, February 2013), she chronicles her year-long journey investigating the groundbreaking neuroscience on the healing potential of our brains.

Critics call Nakazawa’s “story-telling art” “masterful” and The Last Best Cure “a genuine page-turning science/non-fiction thriller;” a book that will not only “change lives; it may even save some.”

She is also the author of The Autoimmune Epidemic (Touchstone/Simon and Schuster, 2008, 2009), an investigation into the reasons behind today’s rising rates of autoimmune and related diseases. In The Autoimmune Epidemic, Nakazawa lays out the mounting evidence showing how our...more Donna Jackson Nakazawa is an award-winning science journalist and public speaker. In her newest book, The Last Best Cure (Hudson Street, February 2013), she chronicles her year-long journey investigating the groundbreaking neuroscience on the healing potential of our brains.

Critics call Nakazawa’s “story-telling art” “masterful” and The Last Best Cure “a genuine page-turning science/non-fiction thriller;” a book that will not only “change lives; it may even save some.”

She is also the author of The Autoimmune Epidemic (Touchstone/Simon and Schuster, 2008, 2009), an investigation into the reasons behind today’s rising rates of autoimmune and related diseases. In The Autoimmune Epidemic, Nakazawa lays out the mounting evidence showing how our modern lifestyles, stress levels, chemical-laden environment and twenty-first century diet have created the ripest possible conditions for today’s autoimmune epidemic to take hold.

Nakazawa has keynoted events including the 2012 International Congress on Autoimmunity; Johns Hopkins Annual Women’s Health Conference, “A Woman’s Journey;” New York’s 92nd Street Y’s To Your Health Lecture Series; and has moderated panels for national symposiums including the American Association of Autoimmune and Related Diseases (AARDA) 2010 Summit.

She is also the author of Does Anybody Else Look Like Me? A Parent’s Guide to Raising Multiracial Children (Perseus 2003), as well as a contributor to the Andrew Weil Integrative Medicine Library book, Integrative Gastroenterology, (Oxford University Press, April 2010).

Ms. Nakazawa has appeared on The Today Show, National Public Radio, and ABC News. Her work has been featured on the cover of Parade, in Time, USA Today Weekend, Parenting, and Psychology Today. She has been a regular contributor to More, and her work has appeared in The Washington Post, Glamour, Ladies Home Journal, and AARP the Magazine.

She is the recipient of numerous awards, including the 2012 AESKU award, presented to those who have made a lifetime contribution to the field of autoimmune disease, and the 2010 National Health Information Award.

Ms. Nakazawa has received writing in residence fellowships from the Corporation of Yaddo and the MacDowell Colony. She received her Bachelor of Arts degree in English and Public Policy from Duke University and is a graduate of the Radcliffe Publishing Procedures Program.(less)

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Distressing Thoughts and Stressing Our Cells

It was when my own physician, Dr. Anastasia Rowland-Seymour, at Johns Hopkins, said this to me that I began to understand how important my own inner dialogue was to my state of well-being

What is the direct relationship between letting our mind drift — ruminating about the past, worrying about the future, focusing on distressing thoughts, what’s going wrong, what isn’t fair, or what we’re afrai...

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	The Autoimmune Epidemic: Bodies Gone Haywire in a World Out of Balance--and the Cutting-Edge Science that Promises Hope 3.81 of 5 stars 3.81 avg rating — 175 ratings — published 2008 — 5 editions	Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Does Anybody Else Look Like Me?: A Parent's Guide To Raising Multiracial Children 3.79 of 5 stars 3.79 avg rating — 77 ratings — published 2003 — 5 editions	Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	The Last Best Cure: My Quest to Awaken the Healing Parts of My Brain and Get Back My Body, My Joy, and My Life 4.62 of 5 stars 4.62 avg rating — 26 ratings — published 2013 — 3 editions	Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars

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Donna Nakazawa made a comment on Countdown Reason # 6: What Stress Does to the Gut, and What the Stressed Gut Does to the Brain: "Thank you Eliza, means a lot! "
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Donna Nakazawa made a comment on Babies Get It, Grade Schoolers Get It, So Why is it So Hard For Us?: "Great comment Eliza! I certainly found this positive feedback loop to be true in my year-long journey in The Last Best Cure. Slowly, over time, in rec...more "
Mar 07, 2013 10:31am
Donna Nakazawa liked Anna's review of The Last Best Cure: " I too received an early copy of this book. I just fell in love with the authors story. What unfolded surprised me. She is an award winning science journalist but she writes about her efforts to find joy through the science in a memoir form and wea... " Read more of this review »
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Donna Nakazawa marked as to-read: The Lake by Banana Yoshimoto	Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
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Donna Nakazawa marked as to-read: The Gift by Hafiz	Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
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Donna Nakazawa marked as to-read: What the Living Do: Poems by Marie Howe	Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
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Donna Nakazawa marked as to-read: The Quiet Room: A Journey Out of the Torment of Madness by Lori Schiller	Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
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