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Your Health Destiny: How to Unlock Your Natural Ability to Overcome Illness, Feel Better, and Live Longer – A Harvard Guide to Epigenetics and Empowerment
An internist and clinical instructor at Harvard Medical School fuses Eastern practices with cutting edge Western medicine to help you connect body and mind to transform your health today and tomorrow.
Over the course of her decades-long career, Dr. Eva Selhub has discovered a fundamental truth: health, happiness, and strength are often a direct result of the affirmative choices we make, regardless of whatever genetic or environmental setbacks we face. When our bodies get sick, we often feel out of control—a cycle of fear that leaves us feeling vulnerable and helpless, desperate for medication or tests that will make us well. But illness shouldn’t make us afraid. We do have control over our wellbeing, contends Dr. Selhub, and we can make choices that can positively influence any health issue, big or small, acute or chronic. It’s all about perception—how you view yourself, your resources, and your circumstances. Drawing on findings in the emerging field of epigenetics, she reveals how we can bolster the mind-body connection and actually change the way our DNA operates.
In Your Health Destiny, Dr. Selhub teaches you how to pay attention to your body’s signals, to understand what these signals mean, and to make the right choices that will bring amazing results to your health, now and for the future. You will discover ways to prevent disease from happening or getting worse; and even find that you can reverse the disease process all together.
We have more power than we think. Your Health Destiny shows you how to harness it to improve your life.
Over the course of her decades-long career, Dr. Eva Selhub has discovered a fundamental truth: health, happiness, and strength are often a direct result of the affirmative choices we make, regardless of whatever genetic or environmental setbacks we face. When our bodies get sick, we often feel out of control—a cycle of fear that leaves us feeling vulnerable and helpless, desperate for medication or tests that will make us well. But illness shouldn’t make us afraid. We do have control over our wellbeing, contends Dr. Selhub, and we can make choices that can positively influence any health issue, big or small, acute or chronic. It’s all about perception—how you view yourself, your resources, and your circumstances. Drawing on findings in the emerging field of epigenetics, she reveals how we can bolster the mind-body connection and actually change the way our DNA operates.
In Your Health Destiny, Dr. Selhub teaches you how to pay attention to your body’s signals, to understand what these signals mean, and to make the right choices that will bring amazing results to your health, now and for the future. You will discover ways to prevent disease from happening or getting worse; and even find that you can reverse the disease process all together.
We have more power than we think. Your Health Destiny shows you how to harness it to improve your life.
- GenresSelf Help
304 pages, Paperback
First published April 7, 2015
About the author
Eva M. Selhub
11 books9 followersAn internationally recognized expert on resiliency and stress reduction, Dr. Eva Selhub specializes in helping individuals and organizations improve wellbeing, flourishing, productivity and outcomes by creating a culture of resilience. Her inspiring and energizing presentations merge science with spirit and mind with body, providing actionable takeaways tailored to any group’s leadership, wellness and performance goals.
Dr. Selhub taught for 20 years as an Instructor of Medicine at Harvard Medical School. She also served as the Medical Director for the prestigious Benson Henry Institute for Mind Body Medicine at the Massachusetts General Hospital. She is the author of multiple books including The Love Response, Your Brain on Nature, Your Health Destiny, The Stress Management Handbook, Resilience for Dummies, and her latest, Burnout for Dummies. She also serves on the Board of Directors of Marimed, Inc., is a Scientific Advisor for Sensie, and advises with a variety of fitness and nutrition companies. Dr. Selhub has been published in medical journals and featured in national publications, and has appeared on radio and television in connection with her work.
Believing that resilience doesn’t arise from change in a single factor, Dr. Selhub takes a holistic approach, providing the tools we need for transformative change in both our personal and professional lives. As a speaker, she combines humor and compassion with her gift of translating complex information into practical and usable knowledge that any individual can access. Drawing upon many years as a corporate coach and consultant and as a healthcare professional and teacher, she helps any organization create a resilient culture where flourishing, innovation, productivity, engagement and teamwork truly thrive.
For more information visit her websites where she has a gallery of informative articles and information: www.drselhub.com and www.drselhubcorporate.com
Dr. Selhub taught for 20 years as an Instructor of Medicine at Harvard Medical School. She also served as the Medical Director for the prestigious Benson Henry Institute for Mind Body Medicine at the Massachusetts General Hospital. She is the author of multiple books including The Love Response, Your Brain on Nature, Your Health Destiny, The Stress Management Handbook, Resilience for Dummies, and her latest, Burnout for Dummies. She also serves on the Board of Directors of Marimed, Inc., is a Scientific Advisor for Sensie, and advises with a variety of fitness and nutrition companies. Dr. Selhub has been published in medical journals and featured in national publications, and has appeared on radio and television in connection with her work.
Believing that resilience doesn’t arise from change in a single factor, Dr. Selhub takes a holistic approach, providing the tools we need for transformative change in both our personal and professional lives. As a speaker, she combines humor and compassion with her gift of translating complex information into practical and usable knowledge that any individual can access. Drawing upon many years as a corporate coach and consultant and as a healthcare professional and teacher, she helps any organization create a resilient culture where flourishing, innovation, productivity, engagement and teamwork truly thrive.
For more information visit her websites where she has a gallery of informative articles and information: www.drselhub.com and www.drselhubcorporate.com
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September 11, 2015
good for people at the beginning of health challenges or who are dependent on medical for relief. for those well versed in self care,, a reminder tho maybe nothing new.
February 4, 2020
This book can be as an interesting starter for learning about how to take care of one's health. The author Eva Selhub has introduced an interesting and important concept on how our attitude and mentality can affect our ability to heal.
After a general introduction (the first three chapters), Dr Eva Selhub then followed up on talking about our various body systems as separate chapters, and in turn introduce them in great physiological details. She then added in tips from nutritional, pyschological/emotional and related angles. By the end of each chapter, she also added in information on traditional Chinese medicine (TCM) and Indian Chakra relating to that specific body system.
I greatly enjoyed the introduction chapters, and they have inspired me to think deeper on the subject of how our mind affects our health. It was great.
With high expectation, for later chapters, I was thrown off balance by the mix of heavy scientific jargon on medical physiology matching with psychotherapy type awareness and beliefs tips. The TCM and Chakra info was interesting, but unfortunately that they also seem to be a bit out of place.
After a general introduction (the first three chapters), Dr Eva Selhub then followed up on talking about our various body systems as separate chapters, and in turn introduce them in great physiological details. She then added in tips from nutritional, pyschological/emotional and related angles. By the end of each chapter, she also added in information on traditional Chinese medicine (TCM) and Indian Chakra relating to that specific body system.
I greatly enjoyed the introduction chapters, and they have inspired me to think deeper on the subject of how our mind affects our health. It was great.
With high expectation, for later chapters, I was thrown off balance by the mix of heavy scientific jargon on medical physiology matching with psychotherapy type awareness and beliefs tips. The TCM and Chakra info was interesting, but unfortunately that they also seem to be a bit out of place.
November 1, 2017
The author dissects each body parts into different chapters. The content of each chapter is mundane with scientific facts, short stories, and the solutions or suggestions are similar. The whole book lack of surprise.
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