The Ultra-Collection [Abridged, Audiobook] [Audio CD]

Mark Liponis (Author), Mark M.D. Hyman (Author, Reader)

Book Description

Publication Date: December 30, 2008

For the first time ever, Ultraprevention and Ultrametabolism are available together in one low-priced collection.

Ultraprevention is a revolutionary, accessible, science-based, patient-centered program for living an active, age-defying, disease-free life. You'll experience increased energy, weight loss, enhanced mood and memory, better digestion, deeper sleep, diminished stress, and more. Through the practice of the six-week Ultraprevention program, you'll learn three simple steps that stop these forces and create a lifetime of good health.

Ultrametabolism finally reveals why it's so hard to lose weight. As renowned physician Mark Hyman explains, our bodies are designed to keep weight on at all costs as a matter of survival. It's embedded in our DNA. An easy-to-follow eight-week plan to help you lose weight based on your own unique genetic needs, Ultrametabolism is your personal program for permanent weight loss and lifelong health.

The Ultra-Collection provides listeners with a two-tiered approach to living a happier and healthier life.

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Editorial Reviews

About the Author

Mark Hyman, M.D., is the editor in chief of Alternative Therapies in Health and Medicine, the most prestigious journal in the field of integrative medicine. After ten years as co-medical director at Canyon Ranch in the Berkshires, he is now in private practice in Lenox, Massachusetts. He is the coauthor of the New York Times bestseller Ultraprevention. His websites are www.drhyman.com and www.ultrametabolism.com.

From AudioFile

Staying healthy, losing weight, and preventing the problems of old age are the subjects of this fast-moving two-for-one lesson. With practical language and memorable lists, the authors explain how processes like metabolism, oxidative stress, and inflammation can impact almost every aspect of health and fitness. The excellent writing is both authoritative and nonjudgmental. It makes the case that everyone can become healthier when they have good information and focus on steady progress rather than on deprivation, struggle, and blame. Anchored in science that doesn't sound pedantic, these empowering lessons are delivered primarily by Dr. Hyman, whose reading style is spontaneous and comfortable with his expertise. His kind, earnest tone makes this advice as inviting as it is essential for anyone wanting a vigorous, healthy life. T.W. © AudioFile 2009, Portland, Maine

Product Details

• Audio CD
• Publisher: Simon & Schuster Audio; Abridged edition (December 30, 2008)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 0743577027
• ISBN-13: 978-0743577021
• Product Dimensions: 6.1 x 5.2 x 1.2 inches
• Shipping Weight: 8.8 ounces (View shipping rates and policies)
• Average Customer Review: 3.0 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (1 customer review)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #781,986 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

More About the Author

An internationally respected physician, researcher, educator, activist, and author of numerous New York Times best-selling books, including The UltraMind Solution (also a PBS special), The UltraSimple Diet, UltraMetabolism, and UltraPrevention (winner of the Books for a Better Life Award), Dr. Hyman has dedicated his life and career to ensuring optimal health - UltraWellness - for all individuals. His new book and PBS special, The Blood Sugar Solution, will be released March 2012 to address the global epidemic of obesity, diabetes, and cardiovascular and other related diseases.
His revolutionary "secret" to achieving UltraWellness? Dr. Hyman is the world's leading pioneer and practitioner of a ground-breaking and emerging approach to medicine that treats our system, not our symptoms. This new health paradigm is a systems-based, patient-centered method (called Functional Medicine) to preventing and treating disease and promoting health that works on two intertwined platforms: identifying and addressing the underlying causes of disease instead of just managing and masking symptoms and employing emerging trends in science and medicine, and integrative medicine.
Dr. Hyman teaches that there are seven keys to achieving UltraWellness, centering on Optimizing Nutrition, Cooling Off Inflammation, Balancing Hormones, Optimizing Digestive Health, Enhancing Detoxification, Boosting Energy and Metabolism and Calming the Mind. By connecting these dots, he provides a way of get our bodies to work the way they were designed. We come to understand all the influences on our biology which are at the root of illness, and how our lifestyle and environment interact with our genes to create the imbalances or balances that are the real determinants of disease or poor health.
Practicing what he preaches, Dr. Hyman is the founder and medical director of The UltraWellness Center in Lenox, Massachusetts, where he directs a team of physicians, nutritionists and nurses who utilize this comprehensive, life-changing approach to health, involving diet and lifestyle modifications, in combination with nutritional and specialized testing, nutritional supplementation, and medications to address individual needs, from creating wellness to treating chronic, complex medical problems. The overarching goal is to bring about harmony of body, mind and soul while empowering us to take back our own health.

At its core, Dr. Hyman's transformative approach is centered on diet and lifestyle modifications. He maintains that our grocery store should be our drug store: "What is at the end of our fork," he declares, "is more essential and important than what it at the bottom of our pill bottles." And, "each meal is a chance to heal." In short, healthy food equals healthy relationships equals healthy world.

Innovative, empowering, a catalyst, advocate, the experts' expert, healer...Dr. Mark Hyman is re-defining health, re-defining disease, re-defining medicine so that we can feel as good as we've ever felt.

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3.0 out of 5 stars Gift, September 12, 2011

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This review is from: The Ultra-Collection (Audio CD)

Refereed to this book as a good source of information and precipices for heart health and balancing the metabolism. Was well enjoyed by friend.