Optimal Health: How to Get It, How to Keep It

by Randy W. Martin and Ph.D. Martin, Randy W.

Offers an overview of holistic medicine and tells you how to understand your symptoms, choose a doctor and create an optimally healthy mental, physical and spiritual lifestyle. This description may be from another edition of this product.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1891850164
• ISBN13: 9781891850165
• Release Date: January 1999
• Publisher: Medicine Bear Publishing
• Length: 320 Pages
• Weight: 1.43 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.8" x 7.1" x 10.0"

Customer Reviews

optimal Health: How to get it, How to Keep it

This book's approach on how to obtain your best overall health utilizes mind, body and spirit to incorporate a total approach to wellness. Instead of simply treating a disease, Dr. Martin urges us to examine the origins of the problem, the underlying total health and life situation of each individual. The emphasis is on "constitutional homeopathy" and not a one-shot Western medicine approach of treating the symptom at the expense of the entire being. Once a course of treatment is determined, it may not necessarily be an "instant cure-all," but it will be another step and effort toward total well-being.The author combines his back-ground in Oriental and holistic medicine with classical and acute homeopathy, acupuncture, acupressure, Oriental and Western herbal medicine and nutrition. There are user-friendly acupuncture and acupressure charts, as well as an in-depth section on Yin and Yang and the role of awareness, meditation and stress reduction. Outside stresses, such as pollution, poor nutrition and self-sabotaging behavior are also discussed, along with suggestions on how to approach a positive cure.There are specific tools offered so that the individual can ask the right questions and make the right choices when it comes to medical care. Optimal Health is about empowerment and control of one's well-being. The book includes a wide variety of specific ailments along with recommendations for cures and treatments, as well as an explanation of how we can control our illness and wellness. This book is a great reference tool as well as a comprehensive collection of various disciplines, combined in a manner that works for the overall enhancement of health.----Sonia von Matt Stoddard for the Whole Life Times, August 2000.

Optimal Health: How to Get It, How to Keep It

Dr. Randy Martin combines Oriental medicine, homeopathy, and nutrition in this user friendly guide to holistic health. Optimal Health is your birthright, he proclaims. Instead of cutting out or covering up symptoms, we can learn to use symptoms as our guides to better health. The book includes quizzes, so you can learn if you are a Yin or a Yang type, or which of the Five Elements (fire, metal, earth, water, or wood) is predominant in your body/mind dynamic. These quizzes are fun to do and help you understand a lot of Eastern medicine quickly.Even thought the book is easy to read, there is so much information you probably will not read it from cover to cover. It deserves a place on your bookshelf where you can turn to it often.If you have ever wanted to integrate the various natural approaches to health, Dr. Martin has done it for you here. He makes it clear that the right diet for you depends on many factors, mostly unique to you and your genetic predisposition. The book helps you learn these factors or points you to the specialists who can tell you.Finally, Dr. Martin takes us through several dis-eases and tells us what we might do using a variety of methods: homeopathy, acupuncture, Chinese herbal medicine, nutrition, and supplements. Hold this book in your hands, open to any page and you will believe in your ability to control your own health.----- Marylyn Rands, Auroran Magazine, July-August 2000, pg. 59.

Complete Resource For Optimal Health

Dr. Randy Martin, author of Optimal Health - How to Get It, How to Keep It, has provided readers with an incredible tool for finding and keeping optimal health! In todays fast paced society, it is very difficult to maintain equilibrium in all aspects of our life. A combination of poor diet, stress, lack of exercise and sleep deprivation can eventually lead to various infirmities. Dr. Martin has written a user friendly book that gives readers a full understanding of how the human body functions, and is an essential resource for anyone who is ready to embark on the journey of healing and renewal. This book is of great value to those who wants to achieve true spiritual, emotional and physical well-being.

A comprehensive, holistic approach to optimal health.

Optimal Health How To Get It How To Keep It provides summaries of a wide variety of natural health approach information including acupuncture, holistic approaches to weight control, healthy adult sexuality, and the role of awareness and meditation/stress reduction in health and longevity. Drawing on homeopathy, Oriental Medicine, and all aspects of holistic health, Optimal Health provides condensed organized information to enable individuals to take responsibility for their health. There are listed specific conditions with common natural treatments, and also information on Chronic Fatigue Immune Deficiency Syndrome and many other topics of health. Believing in self empowerment, Dr. Martin urges each of us to take responsibility for our own optimal health. To enable the reader to do that better, he provides a comprehensive array of proven methods and holistic approaches to achieve optimal health.

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Dr. Randy W. Martin, author of "Optimal Health - How To Get It, How To Keep It", explores every avenue of health with precision. This very comprehensive yet user friendly manual is a must for anyone serious about preventitive medicine and it's practical usages. This book not only covers traditional western medicine, but details Chinese medicine, homeopathic and nutrition. Dr. Martin also addresses men and women health issues, as well as Pediatrics. Well, it's about time that someone has taken the time to proactively administer the plain facts with such a wealth of answers. This book rarely stays in my bookcase, but at my bedside! Thank you Dr. Martin!