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The Natural Path: An introduction to natural health for families
If you want to rely less on chemicals for food, medicine, and cleaning and beauty supplies, don't learn the hard way that some 'natural' products may be dangerous for you or your family. Author Porche Berry dove into a deeper exploration of natural health after discovering her child's sensitivity to pharmaceuticals and following a close call with an essential oil. However, she had begun watching nutrition shows when she was only ten. Over the years, she has seen pharmaceuticals repeatedly fail family members and friends. You inherit genes from both parents. That's genetics. Epigenetics is everything else that can impact how those genes carry out their jobs. Epigenetics can impact your genes for your entire life. Diet, stress level, exposure to toxins--these and other factors all can impact gene expression. The Natural Path helps you take control of many epigenetic factors. The book goes from a broad exploration of the factors affecting your health to simple techniques and recipes for making herbal medicine at home. Topics If you're ready to offer your family more natural alternatives while keeping them safe, buy The Natural Path today.
187 pages, Paperback
Published December 3, 2019
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August 6, 2020
An Odd Combination of Parts
I'm not sure what I was expecting when I chose this book at one of my favorite book review sites, but I certainly was not expecting what I actually got! I was surprised when I opened this book in my Kindle for PC app, and it showed that it had approximately 65K words, yet it only showed a few chapters on epigenetics, natural cleaners and body care products, diet and nutrition, alternative healing methods, essential oils, non-herbal remedies, and herbs (and a few other supporting chapters with recipes and more). I wondered what sort of depth the author was going to go into. What I was not prepared for is that the book is mostly quotes from a variety of studies and articles and long lists of general information about a variety of foods and supplements. When I say general information, the author lists things like the chemical components (2.5 Kindle pages for Green Tea!), properties, uses, cautions, and first aid, much like a reference website. Frankly, I found the book hard to read because of all this data overload. I would have loved to have seen the author condense some of this information and offer more of her own opinions about all these things. I felt like the author had several books here, as the section about natural cleaners didn't seem to go with the two different sections that had information about food. Starting with talking about epigenetics was probably the wrong way to go. I actually took a college-level course in epigenetics and found it endlessly fascinating, but it feels both too scientific for this book and too generalized to adequately reflect the true science of epigenetics and epigenomes. I feel like the book was poorly organized and somewhat repetitive in parts. The major sections didn't flow smoothly from one to the next, and there were no bridges between them. All in all, I found myself disappointed in this book.
I received a free copy of this book, but that did not affect my review.
I'm not sure what I was expecting when I chose this book at one of my favorite book review sites, but I certainly was not expecting what I actually got! I was surprised when I opened this book in my Kindle for PC app, and it showed that it had approximately 65K words, yet it only showed a few chapters on epigenetics, natural cleaners and body care products, diet and nutrition, alternative healing methods, essential oils, non-herbal remedies, and herbs (and a few other supporting chapters with recipes and more). I wondered what sort of depth the author was going to go into. What I was not prepared for is that the book is mostly quotes from a variety of studies and articles and long lists of general information about a variety of foods and supplements. When I say general information, the author lists things like the chemical components (2.5 Kindle pages for Green Tea!), properties, uses, cautions, and first aid, much like a reference website. Frankly, I found the book hard to read because of all this data overload. I would have loved to have seen the author condense some of this information and offer more of her own opinions about all these things. I felt like the author had several books here, as the section about natural cleaners didn't seem to go with the two different sections that had information about food. Starting with talking about epigenetics was probably the wrong way to go. I actually took a college-level course in epigenetics and found it endlessly fascinating, but it feels both too scientific for this book and too generalized to adequately reflect the true science of epigenetics and epigenomes. I feel like the book was poorly organized and somewhat repetitive in parts. The major sections didn't flow smoothly from one to the next, and there were no bridges between them. All in all, I found myself disappointed in this book.
I received a free copy of this book, but that did not affect my review.
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