Prescription Alternatives, Third Edition : Hundreds of Safe, Natural Prescription-Free Remedies to Restore and Maintain Your Health (Paperback)

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Product Description

Completely revised and updated, this important book covers the side effects and potential dangers of all the major prescription drugs. Dr. Earl Mindell, a trusted voice for decades, shows reader show they can replace commonly used prescription drugs with safer, natural alternatives or use nutrition to minimize side effects when prescription drugs are truly necessary.

From the Back Cover

"For those who need to know what doctors and pharmaceutical companies are doing to people's health . . . belongs in the library of every home."
--Lendon H. Smith, M.D., author of Feed Your Body Right

In Prescription Alternatives, Earl Mindell, R.Ph., Ph.D., a trusted voice for decades, reveals how prescription drugs cause imbalances in the body and how to assess the ways in which your medications may be affecting your health. Dr. Mindell draws on his encyclopedic knowledge of pharmacology, nutrition, and natural healing to reveal the natural medicines that can counteract the side-effects of many drugs, along with a comprehensive survey of more than 1,000 simple, safe, nature-based remedies that can often be used to replace prescription drugs for many common conditions, including:

• Cardiovascular Disease
• Cancer
• Arthritis
• Gastrointestinal Disorders
• Allergies
• Obesity
• Sleep Disorders
• Prostate Enlargement
• Diabetes
• Asthma
• Depression
• Anxiety
• Colds

In this completely updated and expanded third edition of his authoritative guide, Dr. Mindell shows that you can often solve your health problems without using prescription drugs and teaches you how to monitor your body as you switch from drugs to natural health.

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Product Details

• Paperback: 576 pages
• Publisher: McGraw-Hill; 3 edition (June 27, 2003)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 0071413189
• ISBN-13: 978-0071413183
• Product Dimensions: 9.1 x 7.2 x 1.5 inches
• Shipping Weight: 2 pounds (View shipping rates and policies)
• Average Customer Review: 4.3 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (7 customer reviews)
• Amazon.com Sales Rank: #547,753 in Books (See Bestsellers in Books)

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20 of 24 people found the following review helpful:

4.0 out of 5 stars Helpful, July 28, 2005

By	basket lover (Tennessee) - See all my reviews

I was looking for an alternative to the prescriptions I had been taking because of the side effects. This book gave me guidance as to what direction to take. Dr. Mindell is a wonderful writer and I have taken his vitamins and am now relying on his knowledge to replace prescriptions with natural remedies.

13 of 15 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Great Alternative to Dangerous Drugs with Side Effects, March 13, 2007

By	Sandra L. Batchelar (Wheaton, IL) - See all my reviews (REAL NAME)

This is a terrific book with excellent alternatives to overly prescribed drugs. Let's face it. If you go to your doctor with high cholesterol, high blood pressure, high blood sugar, fatigue, insomnia, anxiety, etc., you are going to leave the office with a drug that has multiple side effects. Not only that, taking several different drugs each day can lead to numerous dangerous interactions that your doctor can't possibly calculate. This book offers safe alternatives with impressive results similar to taking a drug, but without the liver and kidney damage, headaches, nausea, etc.

2 of 2 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Good advice, July 26, 2007

By	W. B. Budzinski - See all my reviews (REAL NAME)

If you buy into the idea that naturally occurring compounds have been around long enough for us to be tolerant of them, or created with DNA similar to our own and also well tolerated, this will be of great interest.