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In When your body Says No, physician and copy writer Gabor Maté explores the mind-body hyperlink and the bond between stress and disease. Can a person practically pass away of loneliness? Will there be a relationship between your ability to express thoughts and Alzheimer's disease? Will there be any such thing as a "cancer personality"? Drawing on medical research and years of experience as a practicing physician, Maté provides answers to these and other important questions about the role that serious stress and one's specific emotional make-up play in an selection of common diseases, such as joint disease, cancer, diabetes, cardiovascular disease, IBS, and multiple sclerosis. Maté carefully points out the natural mechanisms that are triggered when stress and stress exert a powerful influence on the body. He illustrates his ideas with interviews of famous people who've experienced serious illness (Ronald Reagan, Gilda Radner, Stephen Hawking, and Pamela Wallin), interspersed with close life stories accumulated through his years of practice. Chapters deal with stress, emotional repression, hormones, the "cancers personality", the biology of interactions, and the power of negative thinking. He backs up his boasts with compelling evidence from the field, citing many manipulated studies which may have confirmed correlations between psychosocial factors and disease. Maté stresses that to decipher the hidden factors in serious illness is not to blame the sufferer, and the reserve is free of assumptions that illnesses will be the consequence of ego issues. Rather, he provides the opportunity to dwelling address the unintentional transmitting of stress and anxiety through the body and across decades. Dr. Maté has a gift for making complicated medical studies accessible for the lay-person, while still relevant to the professional. Both will be grateful for the final section, "The Seven A's of Healing", where Maté reveals an open formula for curing and preventing illness caused by hidden stress.
