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Resilient Health: How to Thrive in Our Toxic World
Our health is the result of our genetic makeup interacting with our environment. So, how can we thrive in an increasingly toxic world? With progress, new challenges have arisen - more chemicals in the environment, changing climate and ecosystems, altered food resources, more sedentary and high-stress lifestyles, and the constant onslaught of online media – creating health issues including chronic diseases like diabetes, cancer, allergies, and autoimmune illnesses that need novel approaches.
The good news is that we can reclaim our health – reducing our toxic load, getting to the root causes of illness, and restoring the body’s natural ability to heal. In this clear, easy-to-understand guide, Dr. Valencia Porter shows you how to take charge of your health and become resilient in the face of our challenged environment. With a truly holistic and science-based approach, Resilient Health will help readers identify and manage toxins lurking in all areas of our lives including:
•Assessments, recipes and a menu plan
•Advice on nutritional supplements
•Fixes for your home and personal care products
•Tools to deal with mental and emotional toxicity
•Resources to inspire change in your community
Filled with inspiring stories of people who have transformed their health using these methods, Resilient Health gives you an action plan to become aware of toxic exposures and make changes in your daily life to adapt and even thrive, helping to save the planet in the process.
About the Author:
Valencia Porter, MD, MPH is a leader in Integrative and Environmental Medicine, combining ancient wisdom traditions such as Ayurvedic Medicine with modern science. For the last decade, she has worked with Dr. Deepak Chopra at the Chopra Center for Wellbeing, providing integrative medical consultations and teaching health professionals and the community how to achieve total mind, body, spirit health. She passionately advocates for real solutions to the global problems of climate change and pollution, knowing that personal and planetary health are intricately linked.
The good news is that we can reclaim our health – reducing our toxic load, getting to the root causes of illness, and restoring the body’s natural ability to heal. In this clear, easy-to-understand guide, Dr. Valencia Porter shows you how to take charge of your health and become resilient in the face of our challenged environment. With a truly holistic and science-based approach, Resilient Health will help readers identify and manage toxins lurking in all areas of our lives including:
•Assessments, recipes and a menu plan
•Advice on nutritional supplements
•Fixes for your home and personal care products
•Tools to deal with mental and emotional toxicity
•Resources to inspire change in your community
Filled with inspiring stories of people who have transformed their health using these methods, Resilient Health gives you an action plan to become aware of toxic exposures and make changes in your daily life to adapt and even thrive, helping to save the planet in the process.
About the Author:
Valencia Porter, MD, MPH is a leader in Integrative and Environmental Medicine, combining ancient wisdom traditions such as Ayurvedic Medicine with modern science. For the last decade, she has worked with Dr. Deepak Chopra at the Chopra Center for Wellbeing, providing integrative medical consultations and teaching health professionals and the community how to achieve total mind, body, spirit health. She passionately advocates for real solutions to the global problems of climate change and pollution, knowing that personal and planetary health are intricately linked.
- GenresNonfiction
304 pages, Paperback
Published March 22, 2018
About the author
Valencia Porter
1 book4 followersWorking with Deepak Chopra for the last decade at the Chopra Center for Wellbeing, Dr. Porter helps people achieve optimal health, utilizing her expertise in both Western medicine and many other modalities including Ayurveda, Functional Medicine and Mind-Body Medicine. She is double-Board Certified in both General Preventive Medicine and Integrative Medicine, and is passionate about Environmental Health -having extensively studied environmental toxicity and methods of detoxification to support health.
In addition to speaking and consulting, Dr. Porter maintains a private practice where she partners with her patients to provide personalized plans to achieve total mind-body-spirit health and wellbeing.
In addition to speaking and consulting, Dr. Porter maintains a private practice where she partners with her patients to provide personalized plans to achieve total mind-body-spirit health and wellbeing.
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March 14, 2018
I received this book in a GoodReads giveaway. This is now an important book in my personal collection.
In the introduction Valencia Porter writes "...a compilation of my years of research into this area--combining the wisdom of ancient methods such as Ayurvedic medicine with modern science to bring about optimal health and well-being. This book is much more than a one-time detox prescription; it's an opportunity to transform your life with a comprehensive plan for cleaning things up on biological, personal, and social levels. Taking any one of the "Action Steps" in this plan will lead you down the path to a healthier life, and the more steps you take, the more benefit you'll receive." This quote embodies the purpose for writing this book and embodies the wealth of information contained in the text.
The first section is titled "Awareness" and focuses on environmental toxins and the impact they have on health. The next section, "Awareness", assists the reader in determining their personal level of exposure to toxins from physical, chemical, and mental and emotional sources. The third section, "Action", focuses on specific areas where we may be exposed to toxins- what we eat, what we put on our bodies, and our physical environment. Porter offers practical solutions to reduce or eliminate those exposures.
The text includes specific information/details on specific toxins, where to find information on products containing these toxins, and suggestions for resources on the internet or real world organizations for more information.
Following all of the steps in this action plan may lead many readers into a radical change of lifestyle. However, when Porter writes in the introduction that taking any one of the action steps will lead you on the path to a healthier life this is an opportune place to begin. Take the first step, experience positive change, then decide on the next step to implement.
In the introduction Valencia Porter writes "...a compilation of my years of research into this area--combining the wisdom of ancient methods such as Ayurvedic medicine with modern science to bring about optimal health and well-being. This book is much more than a one-time detox prescription; it's an opportunity to transform your life with a comprehensive plan for cleaning things up on biological, personal, and social levels. Taking any one of the "Action Steps" in this plan will lead you down the path to a healthier life, and the more steps you take, the more benefit you'll receive." This quote embodies the purpose for writing this book and embodies the wealth of information contained in the text.
The first section is titled "Awareness" and focuses on environmental toxins and the impact they have on health. The next section, "Awareness", assists the reader in determining their personal level of exposure to toxins from physical, chemical, and mental and emotional sources. The third section, "Action", focuses on specific areas where we may be exposed to toxins- what we eat, what we put on our bodies, and our physical environment. Porter offers practical solutions to reduce or eliminate those exposures.
The text includes specific information/details on specific toxins, where to find information on products containing these toxins, and suggestions for resources on the internet or real world organizations for more information.
Following all of the steps in this action plan may lead many readers into a radical change of lifestyle. However, when Porter writes in the introduction that taking any one of the action steps will lead you on the path to a healthier life this is an opportune place to begin. Take the first step, experience positive change, then decide on the next step to implement.
March 23, 2018
Informational and inspirational
There is a TON of information. It’s obvious Dr Porter did her research. But its not just information it’s written in a way that inspired me to take action. Genuinely enjoyed this book. I’ve already started to make changes. Many thanks!
There is a TON of information. It’s obvious Dr Porter did her research. But its not just information it’s written in a way that inspired me to take action. Genuinely enjoyed this book. I’ve already started to make changes. Many thanks!
July 16, 2018
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June 15, 2020
This is a great book for people just starting out in their journey to health and wellness.
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