Publisher's Synopsis
Where does chronic pain come from? What do I have to do to get rid of it? What can I do to relieve the chronic conditions that are making my life miserable? Why don't prescription drugs make me feel healthier? In How to END Your Chronic Pain and Start Living Again, Dr. Tony Salamay dedicates his medical expertise to answering these questions and more. Modern Western medicine puts its focus on drugs that treat the symptom but ignore the cause of illness. Dr. Salamay brings medical practice back to its roots, when doctors looked to their patients' overall health and not just what they could sell. This book takes an in-depth look at human neurology, nutrition, and anatomy in a straightforward, down-to-earth way. With Dr. Salamay as your guide, you can learn about the inner workings of your body to find your own answers about where your health has gone and how to get it back by completely drug-free, non-surgical means.How to END Your Chronic Pain and Start Living Again opens with a detailed look at Functional Medicine and how it can promote a healthy lifestyle in a way that "Sick Care" doesn't. From there, Dr. Salamay gives an introduction to the human nervous system and the variety of daily factors that influence it. Essential neurological facts are conveyed in an easy-to-read fashion, and by the end of this section any reader will have a pretty good idea what their brain does and how it works.It is one thing to understand the inner workings of the human body, however, and another thing to know how to properly treat it, and that is the focus of the second section of the book. Dr. Salamay explains in detail what nutrients are needed for good health, the function of those compounds in the body, and the facts and myths of healthy eating. By the end, it is brilliantly clear what a healthy person should eat and avoid and why.The final section of the book takes a look at the medical procedures that Dr. Salamay and other chiropracto
