Your Proven Guide to Peak Wellness and Ideal Weight
Dr. Joseph Mercola
2007
www.mercola.com
http://products.mercola.com/take-control/

1) The book is sloppily edited in places and gives the impression of having been written quickly, which is annoying.

2) Is Dr. Mercola a “fanatical health-nut,” as people used to say? Yes. He is focused on achieving optimal health to a degree that most of us would find oppressive. He is curious about what is possible and dedicated to spreading the word about what he learns with what could be off-putting zeal.  He is also intelligent, open-minded, and good at gathering and synthesizing a lot of disparate and hard-to-find nformation.

The 4-Step Program to Take Charge of Your Emotions--Today
Julia Ross, M.A.
2002
www.moodcure.com
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Julia Ross, a pioneer in the field of nutritional psychology and a specialist in the treatment of eating disorders and addictions since 1980, nails the physical aspect of the “mood” problem. She describes clearly, concisely, and completely how our physical sense of well-being is intimately affected by the availability of necessary building blocks to supply the brain with the nutrients it needs to function optimally. She distinguishes between “true” and “false” emotions: real feelings of grief or anger related to life events, and moods of sadness, irritability or depression that hold us in their grip for no reason. Of course we often do have unexplained feelings that are a signal of something we need to attend to—but these signals can be clear only if our minds are not fogged by deficiencies of the necessary neurotransmitters.

Andrew Saul, Ph.D.
2003
http://www.doctoryourself.com/
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A biologist and teacher by training, consulting specialist in natural healing for 25 years, adherent of Linus Pauling’s Orthomolecular approach to health, Dr. Saul has no-nonsense ideas about how to get healthy - which he seasons with a good dose of humor.

He is completely serious, however, about one thing – we need to take responsibility for our own health and train our doctors to help us care for ourselves. This sums up his attitude, which I think is exactly correct: http://doctoryourself.com/advice.html

Improving Health and Longevity with Native Nutrition
Ronald F. Schmid, N.D.
1997

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The benefits of the traditional foods diet are based on the nutritional research of Dr. Weston Price. A dentist, he noticed that the teeth tended to reflect overall health, and that the children he was treating seemed to have teeth that were more crowded and more subject to decay than his adult patients. In the 1930’s, there were still many indigenous societies in the world that had not been influenced by modern dietary modifications and were still eating their ancestral diets.

Dr. Steve Hickey & Dr. Hilary Roberts
2004
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A simpler and less expensive version of this book:

Vitamin C: The Real Story
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2008

Steve Hickey, PhD
Andrew W. Saul, PhD

This is the first book-length explanation of how the "dynamic flow" principle of how Vitamin C works in the body, with particular emphasis on its use for treating and preventing disease. Most of the physicians and researchers who are responsible for the growing understanding of the importance of ascorbate to human health have reviewed or contributed to the manuscript. The explanation is grounded in the chemistry of the body, but has been simplified to a degree that a layperson can understand it with good attention. 

Prevent and Treat Alzheimer’s and Senility, Enhance Brain Function and Longevity
Abram Hoffer, M.D., Ph. D.
Morton Walker, D.P.M.
1994, 2002
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The prospect of losing the consciousness of who we are, or watching a loved one decline in this way, is frightening and depressing. The results of dementia are grim-- losing our mental sharpness, descending into a twilight life without memory of what has just happened moments ago, losing the ability to care for ourselves or suffering unpleasant personality changes that may make us a burden on those who love us. Although senility and Alzheimer’s are regarded as incurable features of old age, Hoffer disagrees. Dr. Abram Hoffer is a founding father of orthomolecular, or nutrient-based, medicine. He has a Ph.D. in biochemistry, and has been a practicing psychiatrist beginning in 1954. For the last 45 years his discoveries have been instrumental in establishing nutritional therapy treatments for schizophrenia and heart disease. 

Susun Weed, Herbalist
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“The wise Woman Tradition is the oldest tradition of healing known on our planet, yet one that is rarely identified, rarely written or talked about.  It is an invisible tradition. . .

Linus Pauling, Ph.D
1987
Linus Pauling bio
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Highly recommended. Extremely clear and well-written book by Nobel prize-winning chemist, crystallographer, molecular biologist, and medical researcher Linus Pauling.  The breadth of Pauling's interests and research was enormous, and his published work prodigious—more than 1,065 publications, from scientific and popular books and articles to book forewords and reviews to letters to editors and printed speeches.   

No stranger to controversy after having bucked the establishment to champion the cause of an atmospheric nuclear testing ban, for which he ultimately won his second Nobel, the Peace prize, Pauling put his reputation in harm's way again by challenging the medical industry over their dismissal of the value of nutrition and supplements.

From: How to Live Longer and Feel Better
Linus Pauling
Chapter 14: Influenza and Other Infectious Diseases

Though people often diagnose themselves as having "the flu," influenza is not the same disease as the common cold. Some of the signs and symptoms, such as increased nasal secretion, are similar, but influenza is a highly contagious, potentially life-threatening disease. Like the common cold, it is caused by a virus. The influenza viruses belong, however, to a different family from the cold viruses, and the two diseases manifest themselves in some significantly different ways.

Extremely accessible reference work on natural healing from the point of view of the “four cornerstones of health”: 1) Positive mental attitude, 2) Healthy lifestyle, 3) Health-promoting diet, and 4) Supplementary measures, which include nutritional supplementation, breathing, posture, bodywork, and exercise...

With over fifty of the most forward-thinking and well-known alternative physicians on its editorial board, and contributions from over 400 aalternative doctors explaining their treatment methods, this 1000-page tome compiles a massive amount of useful and cutting-edge medical information. It provides:

• An overview of Alternative Medicine
• A complete overview of how the human body works,
• A brief holistic self-care guide,
• An report on the current state of medical freedom in the United States and the dangerous ongoing bias of established conventional medicine against safe and inexpensive natural treatments
• Detailed explanations of a long list of Alternative Therapies
• Explanations of the causes of numerous health conditions with recommendations for prevention and treatment. 
   

The Hidden Dangers in Dental Care Hal A. Huggins, D.D.S., M.S. & Thomas E. Levy, M.Dbr. 1999
http://www.hugnet.com
Choose Library link for information on dental toxins and how they affect health
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Dr. Hal Huggins is one of the gladiators riding full charge ahead against the medical establishment, in this case the American Dental Association, which is still insisting that although mercury in a thermometer or in fish or in even the dentist’s office is a hazardous waste, in your mouth it is perfectly safe because it is mixed with other elements.