Your Best Investment: Secrets to a Healthy Body and Mind
Author(s): Edwin Lee (Author)
Publisher: IHB Publishing LLC
Publication Date: August 10, 2012
Language: English
Print length: 556 pages
ISBN-10: 0982919328
ISBN-13: 9780982919323
Book Description
In his new book, Your Best Investment: Secrets to a Healthy Body and Mind, Dr. Edwin Lee reveals several truths behind obesity, high blood pressure, infertility, autoimmune disease, memory loss, heart disease, stroke, cancer and diabetes. Dr. Lee then explores the common link shared by all these health concerns: high insulin levels. His book also features a nutrition plan with recipes. Based on numerous medical studies, Dr. Lee’s comprehensive nutrition plan includes recipes – created specifically for his innovative, two-phase meal guide – by nutritionists Alison Gordon and Laura Gavin. “There is a growing rift between those who let society tell them what to eat and how to live, and those who decide for themselves what they should be eating for their optimal nutrition and better health. My book educates readers on how best to make those all-important decisions,” says Dr. Lee. Dr. Mark Houston, Associate Clinical Professor of Medicine at Vanderbilt University Medical School, had this to say: “Dr. Lee will forever change your perception of how simple applications of optimal nutrition can transform your life. This is the diet book that you definitely need to embrace and fully understand.” The foreword for Your Best Investment was written by Dr. Mark Gordon, Medical Director for CBS Studios and Millennium Health Centers. Gordon says, “He (Dr. Lee) steers you toward synergistically achieving a healthy body internally, and an attractive body externally. It is a definite win/win. Plus, the recipes are delicious!” As a respected proponent and authority on hormonal balance and wellness, and as a leader in defining the future of regenerative and functional medicine, Dr. Lee has spoken at major medical conferences around the world. Being board certified in Internal Medicine, Endocrinology, Diabetes, Metabolism (with special courses in Regenerative and Functional Medicine), Dr. Lee knows all sides of the arguments about: adrenal fatigue, the use of T3 treatment in thyroid patients, the use of DHEA, the use of testosterone, the use of progesterone (aside from pregnancy), and the use of growth hormone – to name a few. Being one of the country’s most progressive endocrinologists, Dr. Lee treats patients traveling to his office (The Institute for Hormonal Balance, DrEdwinLee.com) from around the world, while also serving as the assistant professor of Internal Medicine at the University of Central Florida College of Medicine. In September 2010, Dr. Lee wrote Feel Good Look Younger: Reversing Tiredness Through Hormonal Balance. It is also available from Amazon.
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(Review by Life Extension Magazine)
“Your genes are like a loaded gun, and your lifestyle is the trigger.”
The above quote leads off the introduction to Your Best Investment, setting the stage for a book that may turn some Americans’ long-held beliefs about nutrition upside down.
For Life Extension readers, this takes us to a common culprit when it comes to diabetes, obesity, and the metabolic syndrome: insulin resistance. Dr. Lee clearly states that, “Insulin resistance can cause belly fat, dementia, loss of memory, depression, autoimmune disease, strokes, infertility, neurodegenerative brain disease, and – it is directly related to the one thing that will most likely kill you – heart disease.”
There are some fascinating tips and thoughts about “fighting an epidemic battle of the bulge” when it comes to weight loss, including a chapter about food intolerance testing. Dr. Lee talks about how identifying certain food intolerances can be extremely beneficial to people battling obesity. He finds these tests valuable because they measure people’s tolerance to foods that they commonly eat and can control eating. Dr. Lee even cites a study that demonstrated that dieters who failed other low-calorie eating plans found success when they followed meal plans based on their food sensitivity test results.
There are strong examples listed for nearly every supplement in the book, but some of the most compelling stories are those told on an individual level. From a man who overcame a variety of healthy problems by modifying his diet and taking vitamin D, vitamin B12, and magnesium, to a 50-year-old Ironman triathlete who overcame lethargy and a lack of energy by discovering that she was vitamin D deficient, the personal case histories of many of Dr. Lee’s patients at his Institute for Hormonal Balance provide for an interesting, helpful read that shows how some simple, easy steps can have a huge impact on your health and longevity.
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