Know what’s driving your doctor’s decisions—and how to protect yourself. Through compelling real-life stories, Health Your Self reveals the forces that compromise your medical care, and arms you with the tools to navigate around them. • When a doctor refers you to a colleague in a hospital, there’s a hidden influence: he gets a bonus. • When a psychiatrist prescribes medication to school children, it might have more to do with the colossal overreach of drug companies than something your kids actually need. • When you are handed unnecessary painkillers at urgent care, the doctor could be bucking for a five-star rating on a patient satisfaction survey. Enough of those, he gets a raise. Health Your Self turns you into a smart, practical—and brave—healthy skeptic. “Backed with her twenty years of health reporting for Time, Janice M. Horowitz produced this eminently readable guide that empowers you to get the healthcare you really need. More knowledge, less waste, better care.” —Frank Lalli, the Health Care Detective™ at NPR’s Robin Hood Radio “This is a controversial book and I’m ready for the tough questions my patients are bound to ask after reading it.” —Jane Farhi, Cardiologist, Lenox Hill Hospital, New York City “Finally, your own personal and portable patient advocate! Chock full of personal stories, this book is a public service. You’ll wind up the smartest person in the waiting room.” —Lillie Rosenthal, D.O., New York City “Health Your Self takes you behind the privacy curtain. When you turn the last page, you realize you were just handed everything it takes to get the best medical care possible.” —Leslie Laurence, Co-author of Outrageous Practices

“This book gives you the knowledge you need to build your own personal health and fitness plan – one that works with the life you lead. So run, jump or dive right in, and find out how to become your own health guru.” – Dr Nic Gill Health Your Self is a practical, fresh-thinking health guide from the All Blacks’ strength and conditioning coach, Dr Nic Gill. In this timely response to troubling health trends and the overwhelming demands of our ever-busy lives, Nic tackles many of the missteps and misconceptions we encounter in an average day, offering digestible, empowering advice, health hacks, case studies, real-life stories from real-life people, exercises and recipes. Incorporating a ton of health, nutrition and scientific know-how, Health Your Self ditches fads and instead provides common-sense and practical solutions. It’s a book that myth-busts, motivates and will get you moving. Nic is passionate about the wellbeing of New Zealanders. Health Your Self makes achieving a healthier, happier life just that little bit easier.

For decades, best-selling author Louise Hay has transformed people’s lives by teaching them to let go of limiting beliefs. Now in this tour de force, Louise teams up with her go-to natural health and nutrition experts, Ahlea Khadro and Heather Dane, to reveal the other side of her secret to health, happiness, and longevity: living a nutrient-rich life. Unlike any health book you’ve ever read, this work transcends fads, trends, and dogma to bring you a simple yet profound system to heal your body, mind, and spirit that is as gentle as changing the way you think. Louise, Ahlea, and Heather show you how to take your health, your moods, and your energy to the next level. In Loving Yourself to Great Health, you will; tap into the secrets Louise has used for decades to supercharge the effectiveness of affirmations and bring your body back into alignment with your mind; discover what nutrition really means and how to cut through the confusion about which diets really work; learn to hear the stories your body is eager to reveal; and uncover techniques for longevity, vitality, good moods, deep intuition, and for meeting your body’s unique healing needs at all stages of life. At 88 years of age, Louise has much wisdom to share about what it takes to live a long, happy, healthy life. We invite you to join us on an amazing journey that will turn your life into your greatest love story.

Advice on getting healthy, including information on what is keeping us ill.

Loving myself to health has been an interesting journey. I could only do it because of my belief in the Divine and the help of all of my angel teachers on earth and in heaven. Harnessing the power of the Divine Feminine with Mother Mary has allowed me to nurture myself in a way that I never had before. This journey of life is one that is blessed and beautiful, and when the hard times hit, as they do because we are meant to learn lessons, it sure helps having a tool to guide you. I sincerely hope that this journal will become a beloved part of your daily spiritual practice. I believe all I have been taught. I now love my body. This one, the imperfectly perfect one for me and my life. It has taken work to get here. Use the journal to guide you. Allow the pain energy to move. Connect to Source daily, ground to Mother Earth, maintain your energy and enjoy the ride my friends. I learned to fill my love bucket from my friend Vicky M. Even though she is in spirit, I feel her in my life. I love you all and now I love me too!

This volume will help to reduce health care costs and improve your quality of life by providing answers to your questions about symptoms and their solutions.

The best-selling author shares his insights on how to tackle our most difficult problems, from improving our love lives and our pocketbook to improving our overall health and sense of well-being.