The Perfect Medicine

How Running Makes Us Healthier and Happier

Brodie Ramin (Autor)

Buch | Softcover

216 Seiten

2021
Dundurn Group Ltd (Verlag)
9781459748200 (ISBN)

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The Perfect Medicine takes the reader on a personal journey of discovery and explores the science of exercise and health. It can help readers change their lives by providing facts about running and sharing inspiring examples of others who have used running to transform their lives.

Ottawa Book Award 2022 — Shortlisted
Imagine a medicine that could make you live longer, healthier, happier, and stronger. What if that medicine was already right at your feet? Running is the miracle drug that can do all this and more — it is the perfect medicine.

Throughout his career, Dr. Brodie Ramin has seen cases of diabetes, hypertension, and anxiety, which he has traced back to inactivity. Now more than ever, people are looking for inspiration and motivation to get fit, change their lives, and improve their overall wellness. In The Perfect Medicine, Dr. Ramin shares with us his discovery that we already have the perfect medicine to treat and prevent these common illnesses and improve our health: running. However, too few people are taking the right dose or using it at all.

The Perfect Medicine explores the science of running and exercise and provides advice on how to maximize its benefits and be your best self. After rediscovering the joy of running in his early thirties, Dr. Ramin became fascinated by the activity. This book takes the reader on a personal journey of discovery, traces the evolution of running, shares strategies to get fit and run faster, and shows how exercise can even help people recover from addiction and mental health conditions.

Brodie Ramin is a primary care and addictions physician who uses exercise as a tool to improve the physical and mental health of his patients. His previous book, The Age of Fentanyl, was shortlisted for the Donner Prize. Dr. Ramin lives in Ottawa, where he is an assistant professor at the University of Ottawa.

Preface
I Beginning to Run
II Running into Medicine and Science
III Running and Physical Health
IV Running and Mental Health
V Running and Addiction
VI Running Faster
VII Running Hurts
VIII Running a Marathon
Afterword
Acknowledgements
Notes
Bibliography
Index

Erscheinungsdatum	06.03.2022
Zusatzinfo	Illustrations
Verlagsort	Toronto
Sprache	englisch
Maße	152 x 228 mm
Gewicht	361 g
Themenwelt	Sachbuch/Ratgeber ► Gesundheit / Leben / Psychologie
Themenwelt	Sachbuch/Ratgeber ► Sport ► Fitness / Aerobic / Bodybuilding
ISBN-13	9781459748200 / 9781459748200
Zustand	Neuware