Excerpted from Frank Lipman, M.D. & Danielle Claro’s The New Health Rules.
If you learn only one yoga pose, let it be supta baddha konasana. It’s a heart-opening, lung-stretching, deeply restorative posture you can do with or without props—a chance to get a sense of the magic of yoga without straining yourself. Whether you spend your days at a computer, or working with your hands, or on the floor playing with kids, you’re likely to be closed and tight in the front of your body (most of us are). This helps. With a bolster under your shoulder blades, and your choice of folded blankets, firm pillows, or yoga blocks supporting knees, spine, and head, you’ll feel a gentle (and gradually deepening) release in your hips, chest, shoulders, and throat. Stay for five minutes; it’s an amazing way to start or end your day.
About the Book:
The New York Times bestseller, now available in paperback!
Frank Lipman, M.D., is “at the vanguard of a revolutionary way to deliver medical care” (O, The Oprah Magazine). A leading expert in the field of functional medicine, Dr. Lipman focuses on the root causes of illness and guides his patients to the deepest, most lasting sources of wellness. In this book, he and coauthor Danielle Claro make life-changing health advice available to all. Their book offers the cutting-edge secrets to optimal health in a stylish, lushly illustrated format—a spoonful of beauty to help the wellness tips go down.
The New Health Rules wades through the often contradictory information that bombards us daily and delivers more than 100 actionable tips that will improve every aspect of our health—body, mind, and soul. Readers will learn simple rules for getting a good night’s sleep, why a daily dose of sunlight is crucial, and which toxic cosmetics and kitchen products should be tossed. Here Lipman and Claro teach us which foods help prevent Alzheimer’s, why sugar is so destructive, and how to bring “good bacteria” into the digestive system—providing an arsenal of easy-to-process tips and guidelines to make us stronger, healthier, and happier.
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