Perfect Digestion: The Key to Balanced Living [Audiobook] [Audio Cassette]

Deepak Chopra M.D. (Author)

Book Description

Publication Date: October 3, 1995

In Perfect Digestion, prominent physician and bestselling author Deepak Chopra, M.D., provides strategies for balancing mind and body to achieve perfect digestion, an essential aspect of lifelong health and well-being.

In this audio, Dr. Chopra offers a highly focused plan for using the mind/body approach to deal effectively with common intestinal disorders. Among the topics Dr. Chopra covers are understanding your digestive tract, the relationship between emotions and intestinal functions, biological rhythms and neuromuscular integration, and the effects of diet on intestinal health.

With this as a starting point, you'll be able to recognize -- perhaps for the first time -- the real needs and rhythms of your body. By following Dr. Chopra's suggestions, you will learn how to overcome intestinal disorders in a natural way and begin to enjoy the health and vitality that spring effortlessly from balanced living.

Editorial Reviews

From Publishers Weekly

Continuing with his quest for physical and emotional health, Deepak Chopra (Ageless Body, Timeless Mind) zeroes in on common intestinal disorders in Perfect Digestion: The Key to Balanced Living, due in October from Harmony. Digestion plays a central role in our lives, says Chopra, turning to Ayurveda, the traditional Indian science of health, for greater understanding of the mind-body connection. Explaining how the gastrointestinal tract works when it's healthy, he offers suggestions for restoring it to health when ideal functioning is lost through imbalance or disease. Literary Guild and Doubleday Book Club alternate selections. ($15 128p ISBN 0-517-79975-8) An autoimmune disorder that often defies diagnosis and to date has defied a cure is closely considered in Dr. Daniel J. Wallace's The Lupus Book, an October title from Oxford University Press. Describing the mechanism of the disease and putting therapies into perspective, Wallace, an L.A.-based specialist in lupus, blends clinical information with practical advice. ($25 256p ISBN 0-19-508443-8) In The Race Is Run One Step at a Time: Every Woman's Guide to Taking Charge of Breast Cancer, a September title from the Summit Group, Nancy Brinker addresses the reader in personal terms. Having lost her sister to breast cancer and waged her own successful battle with the disease, she describes the devastating course of her sister's disease and discusses the importance of early detection, care and preventative measures. This revision is updated from a 1990 edition to incorporate information about the latest technologies and statistics. ($13.95 paper, 224p ISBN 1-56530-182-X)
Copyright 1995 Reed Business Information, Inc. --This text refers to an out of print or unavailable edition of this title.

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In Perfect Digestion, prominent physician and bestselling author Deepak Chopra, M.D., provides strategies for balancing mind and body to achieve perfect digestion, an essential aspect of lifelong health and well-being.

In this audio, Dr. Chopra offers a highly focused plan for using the mind/body approach to deal effectively with common intestinal disorders. Among the topics Dr. Chopra covers are understanding your digestive tract, the relationship between emotions and intestinal functions, biological rhythms and neuromuscular integration, and the effects of diet on intestinal health.

With this as a starting point, you'll be able to recognize -- perhaps for the first time -- the real needs and rhythms of your body. By following Dr. Chopra's suggestions, you will learn how to overcome intestinal disorders in a natural way and begin to enjoy the health and vitality that spring effortlessly from balanced living.

Product Details

• Audio Cassette
• Publisher: Random House Audio (October 3, 1995)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 0679445579
• ISBN-13: 978-0679445579
• Product Dimensions: 7.1 x 4.5 x 0.9 inches
• Shipping Weight: 3.2 ounces
• Average Customer Review: 4.3 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (9 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #2,778,102 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

More About the Author

Deepak Chopra, M.D.
Founder of The Chopra Foundation
Senior Scientist, The Gallup Organization
www.deepakchopra.com
www.facebook.com/DeepakChopraCommunity
www.twitter.com/deepakchopra

As a global leader and pioneer in the field of mind-body medicine, Chopra transforms the way the world views physical, mental, emotional, spiritual, and social wellness. Known as a prolific author of over sixty books with eighteen New York Times best sellers in both the fiction and non fiction categories.

Customer Reviews

Most Helpful Customer Reviews

18 of 18 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars This writer can't miss, June 30, 2000

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Courtney L. Lewis "Sassy Librarian" (Kingston, PA USA) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Perfect Digestion: The Key to Balanced Living (Perfect Health Library) (Paperback)

I always enjoy reading Chopra and this book is no exception - the fact my digestion is far from perfect contributed to a particular interest in this topic! In Ayurvedic medicine, most diseases originate as an imbalance in the digestive system based on the principle that the constant renewal of every part of the human physiology is dependent on proper digestive functioning. Ayurveda views digestion as the body's means of extracting intelligence from food and then processing it to support the intelligence inherent in the entire human physiology. Gives new meaning the words "junk food", doesn't it?

Once again, advice is given according to dosha type (see above review for a more in depth discussion of doshas) and numerous suggestions are made for improving digestive health. It is important to note that this book is not written for someone suffering from a specific digestive illness - it is rather meant to improve overall digestion, and as a result health, for the average person who just needs a gastrointestinal tune-up. The holistic nature of the suggestions would have far-reaching mind/body impacts for anyone's well being so this small book belongs in everyone's personal library.

12 of 12 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Perfect Digestion : The Key to Balanced Living, January 13, 2000

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Marilyn Cox - See all my reviews

This review is from: Perfect Digestion: The Key to Balanced Living (Audio Cassette)

A must read for anyone with any digestive complaint. It puts the responsibility of perfect digestion where it should be: on you. Not on pills or doctors. Easy to read and follow, I was very excited to find an easy way of eating and living that makes me healthy, starting at the gut level, something my doctor couldn't seem to help me with. It really is up to you.

8 of 8 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Read book in one day!, April 16, 2000

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TRESA ROSE STITLEY - See all my reviews

This review is from: Perfect Digestion: The Key to Balanced Living (Perfect Health Library) (Paperback)

I have gastroparesis (partial paralysis of the stomach) and this book had many lessons I have already learned from living with this condition and offerred many more insights into alternative ways of looking at digestive process and the way we should eat that will help us be healthier. I've already tried the "hot water" tip and found it to be helpful! Looking forward to working on the rest of what I learned in the book and hoping to see more improvements. Have hope now that I didn't have before reading this book.