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Ultraprevention

The 6-Week Plan That Will Make You Healthy for Life

by Mark Hyman
Mark Liponis
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Two physicians unveil a revolutionary, accessible, science-based, patient-centered program for living an active, age-defying, disease-free life.
Healthcare is pulled and shaped by many forces, by drug and insurance companies looking for profits, by politicians in search of votes, and by stressed, overworked physicians who barely have time to talk to you before writing a prescription or packing you off to a specialist.

So is anyone interested in keeping you well?

Yes. Created by two physicians who both survived catastrophic illness, the Ultraprevention program will work for absolutely everyone—old, young, healthy, sick, or somewhere in between. The promise of its practice is huge—a health span that matches life span—and you'll experience increased energy, weight loss, enhanced mood and memory, better digestion, deeper sleep, diminished stress, and more.

Ultraprevention is the new science of staying healthy, an innovative program that shatters the myths of today's "fix-the-broken-parts" medicine. These myths—drugs cure disease, genes determine your fate, getting older means aging, fat is a four-letter word—are actually believed by many doctors and are keeping you sick.

Ardent general practitioners, Drs. Hyman and Liponis reject the current healthcare system of specialists paid to find something wrong, specialists who don't consider how their "cure" for one ailment affects the entire body. Working outside the managed care model at Canyon Ranch in the Berkshires, Hyman and Liponis break free of the vicious quick-fix prescription cycle and formulate a program that identifies and eliminates the cause of disease instead of just masking symptoms.

Isolating the source of more than 90 percent of today's most common diseases, from cancer and heart disease to diabetes, stroke, and Alzheimer's, they enumerate the Five Forces of Illness—Sludge (malnutrition), Burnout (impaired metabolism), Heat (inflammation), Waste (impaired detoxification), and Rust (oxidative stress). Through the practice of the six-week Ultraprevention program, you'll learn three simple steps—each only two weeks long—that stop these forces and create a lifetime of good health by removing allergens, infections, and toxins from the body and environment; repairing the body through personalizing nutrition, boosting the immune system, and balancing hormones; and recharging with stress management, sleep restoration, and gentle movement.

So stop falling for the myths that make you sick and start Ultraprevention, the powerful plan to get older without aging, to maintain health for all of life.

  • Creators

  • Series

    A Guide to Better Health

  • Publisher

  • Release date

    September 1, 2003

  • Formats

    • OverDrive Listen audiobook

      • ISBN: 9780743549349
      • File size: 130399 KB
      • Duration: 04:31:39

  • Languages

    • English

  • Reviews

    • AudioFile Magazine
      Two likable physicians weave every new and worthwhile idea about nutrition into a useful guide to healthy living. Even the trickiest language of today's metabolic lexicon is a breeze to understand in the hands of these two articulate authors, who also have fabulous speaking voices. The five forces of illness--malnutrition, impaired metabolism, inflammation, impaired detoxification, and oxidative stress--call attention to processes that are operating in our bodies, whether we know it or not, and which require regular attention if we want to live a long time. A well-done audio that should be a top listening priority for health pros and anyone interested in physical health. T.W. (c) AudioFile 2004, Portland, Maine
    • AudioFile Magazine
      The five forces of illness--malnutrition, impaired metabolism, inflammation, impaired detoxification, and oxidative stress--are easily influenced by lifestyle and dietary changes that the authors package into a nicely structured six-week plan. Their point of view is expansive, eclectic, and highly motivating. With natural and inviting language, they explain a massive array of medical and alternative therapies. Nelson Runger's pacing is too slow, but he is otherwise tuned in to the content and obscures only some of the authors' boyish enthusiasm. The 4.5 hour abridged production (Simon & Schuster) narrated by the authors unfolds more quickly and is no less useful. T.W. (c) AudioFile 2001, Portland, Maine
    • Publisher's Weekly

      August 25, 2003
      Bets are on that pharmaceutical companies are not fans of doctors Mark Hyman and Mark Liponis, co-medical directors of Canyon Ranch, a practice affiliated with Harvard University. Their fact-packed book presents a convincing argument that most prescription and over-the-counter medications do nothing more than treat the symptoms of sickness, ignoring the root cause of illnesses like asthma, diabetes, arthritis and heart disease. They also blame pharmaceutically indoctrinated doctors for neglecting their duty to examine the real causes of illness in their patients."If you have high blood pressure," they remark,"Doctors give you a high blood pressure pill, instead of trying to figure out why you might have high blood pressure in the first place." In lieu of such quick fixes, Hyman and Liponis suggest a plan of far-reaching life-style changes that combat"the five forces of illness" (i.e., malnutrition, impaired metabolism, inflammation, impaired detoxification and oxidative stress). For example, instead of treating arthritis with commonly prescribed anti-inflammatory drugs that can"burn a hole in your stomach, your kidneys, or your liver" they suggest taking nutritional supplements like glucosamine and chondrotin. But Hyman and Liponis's six-week Ultra-Prevention Plan can be a bit overwhelming--one of its first steps requires that readers install a reverse osmosis water filter in their kitchens. It may be that only true believers, or otherwise very dedicated folks, will be determined enough to practice Hyman and Liponis's prescription for good health.

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