An introduction to prenatal programming explains how expectant mothers can evaluate and improve their own health, diet, exercise, and stress levels to help maximize the optimal health of their unborn child.

Offers more than one hundred fifty nutritious, easy-to-prepare recipes to heal symptoms of inflammation and autoimmune disorders, including Graves disease, psoriasis, fibromyalgia, lupus, celiac disease, Hashimotos thyroiditis, and multiple sclerosis.

"From the masters of storytelling-meets-science and co-authors of Quackery, Patient Zero tells the long and fascinating history of disease outbreaks-how they start, how they spread, the science that lets us understand them, and how we race to destroy them before they destroy us. Written in the authors' lively and accessible style, chapters include page-turning medical stories about a particular disease or virus-smallpox, Bubonic plague, polio, HIV-that...

Outlines a three-step protocol that shows readers how to reprogram their dietary habits; establish support strategies including exercise, mindfulness, and sleep; and create a plan for each day.

"With a mix of sidebars, illustrations, photos, and graphic panels, this book uncovers the hidden truths about history's pandemics, from the Black Death to COVID-19"--

The author, a young reporter at a major New York newspaper, describes her month-long descent into madness from a rare autoimmune disorder that nearly killed her. The account draws from hospital records, surveillance video, interviews with family and friends, and excerpts from a journal her father kept during her illness.