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The Cortisol Connection: Why Stress Makes You Fat and Ruins Your Health - And What You Can Do About It |  | Authors: Shawn M. Talbott, William Kraemer
Publisher: Hunter House
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Rating:  37 reviews
Sales Rank: 425009
Media: Paperback
Edition: 1
Pages: 320
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Dimensions (in): 8.4 x 5.4 x 0.9
ISBN: 0897933915
Dewey Decimal Number: 155.9042
EAN: 9780897933919
ASIN: 0897933915
Publication Date: August 23, 2002
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Showing reviews 1-5 of 37
 Stuff you already knew... May 1, 2010
C. Fisher
1 out of 1 found this review helpful
Man, what a waste. I was really disappointed by this. Maybe I expected too much -- but it was such a boring read, and all I came away with was to eat healthful snacks throughout the day (duh), sleep well, exercise and take supplements. Everyone already knows these to be the ingredients to good health. There is a section that recommends some obscure supplements, but there are a lot of them and it's difficult to know which would be beneficial and which you could pass on because you wouldn't want to take all of them. Don't recommend this at all.
Makes so much sense October 13, 2009
Mary Kay Garside (Kenosha, WI)
1 out of 1 found this review helpful
This is a well written, informative book. It's easy to read, and describes me to a tee. The AUthor clearly knows the subject matter intimately well. I am taking the herbal supplements recommended, and I feel better. Next I need to tackle my diet.
 Great Book July 30, 2008
J. Jones
Very insightful and informative book! Highly recommend it for anyone that wants to get healthier.
A Good Book to Relax With January 11, 2008
J. Szczublewski (NW Ohio, USA)
4 out of 4 found this review helpful
Anxiety and depression run in my family. I also have the added bonus of coping with allergies and asthma, so I'm always on the lookout for books that might help me with any of these issues, which is why I picked up The Cortisol Connection.
This book far surpassed my expectations. I was able to apply some of the nutritional advice before I'd even finished reading the book and immediately felt an improvement in my outlook and mood. This was over the holiday season too, which is normally a very tough time for me.
If you know you are already stressed, you may want to skip the first six chapters and dive right into the advice that starts in chapter seven. Reading those first six chapters that explain what bad cortisol levels can do to you caused me quite a bit of worry, and it took a while to get through all that information. It was good information to have, I just wish I would've read the "what you can do about it" part first.
This book gives the most concise and easy to remember nutritional advice I've ever read. The supplementation information corroborated with things I've read when researching inflammation. In changing my diet and adding some supplementation according to Talbott's recommendations I've been able to reduce my anxiety levels significantly, cut back on how often I need my rescue inhaler and clear up most of my congestion.
My only complaint is the lack of notation. Talbott sites many scientific studies, but never includes notation with those passages to tie them to the appropriate study listed in the appendix. The few times I had the patience to flip to the appendix and try to pin-point the study he was referring to seemed to indicate he'd included all the necessary references, but more specific notation would've given me a little more initial confidence in the information.
From the perspective of a lay person with no medical schooling, but who's spent years reading and researching in an attempt to improve my own health, I find this book invaluable. Several family members have asked to borrow it, but I'll be buying copies for them so I don't have to part with mine.
The Cortisol Connection November 27, 2007
Kathleen Wagner (SWPA)
3 out of 3 found this review helpful
Cortisol. Who knew! Too little, or none.. and you have Addison's Disease and cannot handle stress without medication. Too much? Weight gain, IBS, joint pain, hair loss, and more.
This book not only outlines the problems caused by stress, which causes too much cortisol to be created by the body, but how to cope with it. Not only will you be informed about what and how much damage can be done to the body by too much stress/cortisol, but there are recommendations on how to change it.
Nutrition, supplements to take or not to take? And of course a healthy diet and exercise are the among the answers.
This is not a gloom and doom book by any means. This is a book that explains a problem, and gives simple and often enjoyable approaches to controlling stress and the overproduction of this hormone. Read a trashy novel, soak in a hot tub, give yourself days off each week..hey, I can do that!
Often books that you think you should read to learn something you feel that you should know about are dry and dull and agonizing to get through. This one has bits of humor ( humans are not zebras!) and it presents information in such a clear and simple way that I was able to zip right through the pages, and make my way through it in 2 sittings.
Even though I have read it cover to cover, you can be sure that this is one that will spend a long time on my nightstand. I want it to be available for quick reference and reminders of what I should be doing and looking for. Not just a good and informative read, but by all means, a keeper!
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