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    When the Body Says No: Exploring the Stress-Disease Connection
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    When the Body Says No: Exploring the Stress-Disease Connection

    Written by Gabor Maté

    Narrated by Daniel Maté

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    About this audiobook

    In WHEN THE BODY SAYS NO, physician and writer Gabor Maté explores the mind-body link and the connection between stress and disease. Can a person literally die of loneliness? is there a relationship between the ability to express emotions and Alzheimer’s disease? is there such a thing as a “cancer personality?”

    Drawing on scientific research and years of experience as a practicing physician, Maté provides answers to these and other important questions about the role that chronic stress and one’s individual emotional make-up play in an array of common diseases, such as arthritis, cancer, diabetes, heart disease, IBS, and multiple sclerosis.

    Maté carefully explains the biological mechanisms that are activated when stress and trauma exert a powerful influence on the body. He illustrates his ideas with interviews of famous people who've experienced chronic illness (Ronald Reagan, Gilda Radner, Stephen Hawking, and Pamela Wallin), interspersed with intimate life stories collected through his years of practice. Chapters deal with stress, emotional repression, hormones, the "cancer personality," the biology of relationships, and the power of negative thinking. He backs up his claims with compelling evidence from the field, citing many controlled studies that have demonstrated correlations between psychosocial factors and disease.

    Maté emphasizes that to decipher the hidden factors in chronic illness does not blame the victim, and the book is free of assumptions that all illnesses are the result of ego issues. Rather, he provides the opportunity to address the unintentional transmission of stress and anxiety through the body and across generations.

    Dr. Maté has a gift for making complicated medical findings accessible for the lay-person while still relevant to the professional, and both will be grateful for the final chapter, "The Seven A's of Healing," in which Maté presents an open formula for healing and the prevention of illness resulting from hidden stress.

    Published by Post Hypnotic Press Inc. Distributed by Big Happy Family LLC.

    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherBig Happy Family Audio
    Release dateDec 21, 2011
    ISBN9781927401224
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    When the Body Says No: Exploring the Stress-Disease Connection
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    Gabor Maté

    Gabor Maté is a retired physician who, after 20 years of family practice and palliative-care experience, worked for over a decade in Vancouver’s Downtown East Side with patients challenged by drug addiction and mental illness. The bestselling author of four books published in twenty-five languages, Gabor is an internationally renowned speaker highly sought after for his expertise on addiction, trauma, childhood development, and the relationship of stress and illness. For his ground-breaking medical work and writing, he has been awarded the Order of Canada, his country’s highest civilian distinction, and the Civic Merit Award from his hometown, Vancouver. He is an adjunct professor in the Faculty of Criminology, Simon Fraser University. To learn more, join his e-news list at www.drgabormate.com.

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    • 4/5
      An important book for anyone who wants to avoid getting, or heal from, serious health problems as we grow older. Necessary reading to understand how our body and health is connected to our thoughts and experiences.
    • 5/5
      Another home run for Dr. Mate'!

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    • 4/5
      I found this book helpful in working through a situation of medical illness and suicidal depression.
    • 4/5
      I like Maté's books. They are a breath of fresh air about topics i have read about elsewhere but without all the drama and messianic heat. They are also sensible, informative, and in the behaviors taken from human examples, so Canadian specific. What can I say? We're not allowed to talk about money...not if we're polite. Neither is it the least bit nice to lead off a conversation with 'What do you do for a living?' That's a huge inconvenience on a first date when you really need to know if he lives with his mother. Cancer nation.
    • 5/5
      This book is a must read for anyone who wonders why they feel down, why they feel tired, why they feel drained. This is a must read, period. I have had the privilege of meeting and doing personal work with Dr. Mate and this book, as with his others, resonates long past the last page. Finishing reading this book is only the beginning. I cannot recommend this book, or Dr Maté's other books highly enough. If you ever, ever get a chance to work with him (attend a seminar etc) seize the opportunity - you will not forget it.
    • 4/5
      A very good book explaining the effects of stress on the human body. It also describes the many illnesses the are caused, at least in part, by stress.