The Age Free Zone or Your Heart

The Age-Free Zone

Author: Barry Sears

Enter The Age–Free Zone...

You have the power to reverse aging –– beginning with your next meal!

Ask yourself these life–changing questions:

• Is it too late to reverse aging?

• What type of diet will increase my sexual energy and desire?

• Can I make my hormones work more effectively?

• Do high–carbohydrate diets accelerate aging?

• How can I reduce free–radical–induced aging?

• How does stress reduce brain longevity?

  No one wants to get old or show the signs of age. In this breakthrough book Dr. Barry Sears goes beyond looking at food simply as a source of calories and explains the incredibly powerful biological effects it has on your hormones. In addition to unravelling the mysteries of your hormones and their role in aging, Dr. Sears reveals the essential dietary information you need to start your own age–reversal journey.

  Begin your age–free lifestyle today!

  The Age–Free Zone includes:

• A week of Age–Free Zone meals for men and women

• Age–Free Zone meals for the business traveller

• Age–Free Zone meals in fast–food restaurants

• A simple, at–home Age–Free Zone exercise program

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Your Heart: An Owner's Guide

Author: John Elelfteriades

Despite great progress in prevention and treatment, heart disease remains the leading cause of death in the United States. An estimated one in six Americans will develop some kind of cardiac problem in their lifetime, and each year nearly three-quarters of a million people die from heart disease. Faced with these statistics, Americans naturally have many questions about risk factors, warning signs, treatment options, and numerous other concerns.

This comprehensive guide makes crucial, potentially life-saving information about the heart easily accessible. Based on decades of hands-on experience in treating patients, the authors-a cardiothoracic surgeon and a cardiologist, both affiliated with Yale University School of Medicine-address specific questions that they hear virtually every day from the people in their care. Simulating an office visit with heart specialists, the book uses an easy-to-follow format that allows readers to find answers quickly. Numerous professional medical drawings and actual operating-room photographs illustrate important facts and concepts.

From well-known problems such as hypertension, high cholesterol, and angina, to lesser-known conditions such as valvular heart disease, rheumatic fever, and arrhythmia, the authors provide clear, up-to-date, fact-based medical information, while avoiding confusing jargon as well as fad therapies. They also discuss tests and diagnoses; lifestyle changes to avoid or to live with heart disease; medications and therapies; and surgical procedures such as bypass grafting, valve replacement, and heart transplants, among other treatments. A special section is devoted to women and their hearts.

This superb all-in-one popular reference book on the heart will be a welcome resource for heart patients, their families, healthcare providers, and anyone concerned about a healthy lifestyle.

Table of Contents:

Acknowledgments     9
Foreword     11
Preface     13
Introduction to the Heart     17
Coronary Artery Disease     25
Heart Failure     41
Arrhythmias     55
Valvular Heart Disease     75
Hypertension, High Cholesterol, and Arteriosclerosis     89
Heart Attacks     121
Tests and Diagnoses     131
Living with Heart Disease: Lifestyle Changes That Protect Your Heart     151
Treatment: Medications, Therapies, and Procedures     161
Rheumatic Fever, Aneurysms, and Cardiac Tumors     201
So You Need Heart Surgery     221
Surgical Procedures     267
After Surgery     333
Heart Disease in Women     355
Afterword     373
Glossary     375
List of Case Vignettes     383
Lists of Illustrations and Tables     385
Notes     391
Index     395