Book Description
The authors of the successful What Your Doctor May Not Tell You About Fibromyalgia present a revolutionary new guide to help sufferers relieve their chronic fatigue.Affecting over 20 million Americans, fibromyalgia is a chronic disease whose symptoms include muscular pain and fatigue. Now, Dr. St. Amand, an expert on fibromyalgia, delivers a detailed diet, exercise, and lifestyle plan to help sufferers fight the often debilitating effects of chronic fatigue. Focusing on boosting energy, Dr. St. Amand offers important advice on avoiding energy drains (illnesses and injuries common to fibromyalgics) and increasing energy builders through the right combination of diet and exercise. In addition, he includes an accessible discussion on how energy is created by the body and delicious recipes proven to relieve symptoms--helping readers reclaim their lives and their health.
About the Author
R. Paul St. Amand, M.D., lives in Culver City, California.Claudia Craig Marek lives in Mar Vista, California.
What Your Doctor May Not Tell You about Fibromyalgia Fatigue: The Revolutionary Program That Helps You Boost Your Energy Level and Reclaim Your Life FROM THE PUBLISHER
Chronic fatigue is the common denominator among America's twenty million sufferers of fibromyalgia. The good news is that you can do something to reverse this debilitating exhaustion and feel better sooner than you ever thought possible. Dr. R. Paul St. Amand, an endocrinologist and an assistant clinical professor at UCLA, and Claudia Craig Marek, authors of two pioneering books on fibromyalgia, now expand on the causes, symptoms, and treatment of chronic fatigue in fibromyalgics. Based on Dr. St. Amand's own personal experiences with the disease and those of his thousands of patients, this book provides a detailed diet, exercise, and lifestyle plan designed to boost energy levels, improve resilience, and revitalize your life.
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Library Journal
St. Amand and Marek, the authors of two books on fibromyalgia (e.g., What Your Doctor May Not Tell You About Fibromyalgia) present their theory (a word the authors emphasize) on the cause of fatigue associated with fibromyalgia along with a solution for it. Drawing on their experience with thousands of patients at their fibromyalgia clinic at UCLA, they propose that fibromyalgia is caused by a single malfunction at the cellular level that robs individuals of a source of their energy: ATP production. Since low blood sugar, obesity, and diabetes (among other factors) apparently compound the problem, their solution involves strict, low-carbohydrate diets combined with exercise. They provide recipes, diet plans, and other suggestions and resources for the fatigued fibromyalgic. Evidently, the authors have not reported their findings in the traditional medical literature, so health professionals are unlikely to know of, or believe in, their theory. Therefore, the title could be true-doctors may indeed not tell their patients any of the information here. This book fits your collection if you can accommodate patrons frustrated with current medical care and looking for alternative answers to fibromyalgia fatigue.-Joanne Rich, Health Sciences Lib., Univ. of Washington, Seattle Copyright 2003 Reed Business Information.
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