Total Heart Health: How to Prevent and Reverse Heart Disease with the Maharishi Vedic Approach to Health

Total Heart Health covers what you need to know about your heart and dealing with heart problems. It introduces you to Vedic approaches to your health and gives you a wider approach to your health than just Western medical approaches. I found it an easy read. There were recipes in the book that I love and have been using successfully that I haven't found elsewhere. If you are interested in learning more about Vedic medicine this is a great book.

this book has so much information,,,,,i like Ayurveda and this does not disappoint me at all,,this is flled with info that directly affects Heart Health,,,my husband was dignosed with congestive heart failure several months ago ,,im so glad for this book,,thankyou

I received the book quickly, and it was in like new condition. The table of contents looks very, very interesting.

Heart disease kills more people in the West than all other diseases put together. Yet modern medicine has failed to identify a treatment or even the cause of heart disease. It has succeeded only in naming the risk factors.Complementary and alternative medicine offers a variety of approaches -- but how does one know which one is most effective?This book presents an approach to both understanding and treating heart disease that is natural, holistic, prevention-oriented, free of side-effects -- and supported by more scientific research validation than any other approach. The authors and their colleagues have received nearly $25 million in research funding from the National Institutes of Health over the past 15 years, and their highly encouraging research findings, conducted in collaboration with universities around the U.S., have been the subject of wave after wave of national and international news stories -- thousands of articles altogether.The approach they have been researching has been brought to light from the world's oldest continuous tradition of knowledge, the ancient Vedic tradition of India. And their research findings have been unprecedented. The studies show that this approach:* reduces high blood pressure -- with the same effectiveness as hypertensive drugs, but without the negative side-effects and at a fraction of the cost* reverses atherosclerosis* reduces cholesterol and lipid peroxides* reduces free radicals* reverses left ventricular hypertrophy (the dangerous over-build-up of heart muscle)* reverses the damage of heart disease* reduces other risk factors for heart disease, including smoking, alcohol abuse, psychological stress, and socio-environmental stress.This approach is based on an understanding of human physiology and health that is simple and sensible yet profound and comprehensive. All disease, including heart disease, arises from physiological imbalance. Imbalance in turn arises when the body becomes disconnected from its own inner intelligence. So the key to treating heart disease -- and any disease -- is to enliven the body's inner intelligence. Automatically, physiological balance and health are restored.The books offers a wealth of practical guidance to accomplish just this -- including diet, exercise, daily and seasonal routines, purification procedures -- all on the foundation of the most widely researched of meditation techniques, the Transcendental Meditation program, which awakens the body's inner intelligence from within.Here is an approach that's simple and natural -- and, as extensive scientific research documents, it works.

It just didn't click for me. Maybe i'm just not smart enough but it was too complex in parts of it or maybe i'm not enough into eastern philosphy to appreciate the transandental segments. I was out of the area so i did not even get past a few pages before i knew it wasn't for me but now its too late so i can't return an unused book. Bummers.

Contains generally the same advice as the low protein no fat diet crowd but with meditation as an added twist. Not much new here.

The scope of this book is remarkable. Thanks to Dean Ornish and others, many people now understand that lifestyle choices are very important in maintaining a healthy heart and can play a role in treating heart disease. Dr. Schneider goes further. His approach includes meditation, Vedic sounds, architecture, Vedic Astrology, and more.And in his chapters about lifestyle choices, Dr. Schneider gets unusually specific. He talks about the ayurvedic concept of body types. Instead of a one-size-fits-all approach to diet, for example, he explains that the best diet for a person depends on his or her body type. He explains that obesity -- a major risk factor for heart disease -- can be caused by different kinds of imbalances in the physiology depending on body type. And therefore the treatment of obesity must match the type of imbalance in the individual. He helps readers identify their body type and gives considerable detail in regard to the types of foods they should favor or avoid according to body type.Overall, he sees the body as a sort of fine-tuned instrument. He explains how it can get out of tune and a range of ways to fix it, to fix the imbalances that crop up and cause disease. Further, he understands that this finely tuned instrument isn't isolated but has an intimate connection with the universe. And he even discusses techniques such as Vedic Astrology to help understand and treat imbalances in the physiology.He undergirds each of the approaches he describes with a scientist's analysis of how it works.

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