Aging

• The end of Alzheimers by Dale Bredeson MD
• Still Here: Embracing Aging, Changing, & Dying – Ram Dass
• Natural Health, Natural Medicine – Andrew Weil M.D.
• Healthy Aging – Andrew Weil M.D.
• The Co-housing Handbook – Chris Scotthanson & Kelly Scotthansen
• You Can Fix Your Brain by Dr. Tom O’Bryan

Alternative

• Life Between Lives: Hypnotherapy for Spiritual Regression – Michael Newton PhD
• Self-Hypnosis & Other Mind Expanding Techniques – Charles Tebbets
• The Patients Guide to Homeopathic Medicine – Robert Uuman, ND, Judyth Reichenberg-Uuman ND
• Homeopathic Medicine at Home – Maesimund B Panos MD, Jane Heimlich
• Crystal Enlightenment – Katrina Raphaell
• Discovery of Magnetic Health – George J. Washnis & Richard Z Hricak
• The Chinese Way to Healing: Many Paths to Wholeness – Misha Ruth Cohen OMD,L.Ac with Kalia Doner
• Sauna Therapy for Detoxification & Healing – Lawrence Wilson MD

Energy

• The Therapeutic Touch – Dolores Krieger PhD RN
• Inner Bridges: A Guide to Energy Movement and Body Structure – Fritz Frederick Smith MD
• Zero Balancing – John Hamwee
• Yoga for A New Age: A Modern Approach to Hatha Yoga – Bob Smith
• Yin Yoga: Outline of a Quiet Practice – Paul Grilley
• Awareness Through Movement – Moshe Feldenkris

Menopause, Women’s Health

• Natural Women, Natural Menopause – Marcun Laux ND & Christine Conrad
• Women’s Bodies, Women’s Wisdom – Christiane Northrup MD
• What Your Doctor May Not Tell You About Pre-Menopause – John R Lee MD, Jesse Hanley MD, Virginia Hopkins
• The Wisdom of Menopause; Creating Physical & Emotional Health During the Change – Christiane Northrup MD
• The Hormone of Desire – Susan Rako MD
• The Silent Passage; Menopause – Gail Sheeley
• Alternate Health Care for Women – Patsy Wescott & Leyardia Black ND
• Menopausal Years; The Wise Woman Way – Susan S. Weed
• Dr. Susan Love’s Breast Book – Susan M Love MD with Karen Lindsay
• The Estrogen Alternative; Natural Hormone Therapy with Botanical Progesterone – Raquel Martin with Judi Gerstrung DC
• Womens Encyclopedia of Natural Medicine – Tori Hudson ND
• The Menopause Self-Help Book – Susan M Lark MD

Parenting

• Geselle Institute Series: Your One Year Old, Your Two Year Old, etc. – Louise Bates Ames PhD
• Child of Mine – Feeding With Love and Good Sense – Ellyn Satter R.D.
• Your Baby and Child – Birth to 5 – Penelope Leach
• Children the Challenge – Rudolf Dreikurs
• What Do You Really Want For Your Children – Wayne Dyer M.D
• Your Child’s Self Esteem – Dorothy Corkille Briggs
• Annie Stories – Doris Brett
• The Vaccine Friendly Plan – Paul Thomas, MD and Jennifer Margulis, PHD
• The Vaccine Book – Robert Sears, MD

Prevention and Toxicity

• Detoxify or Die – Sherry Rogers M.D. At prestigepublishing.com
• The Hundred Year Lie – Randall Fitzgerald
• YOU the Patient – Michael Roizen MD and Mehmet OZ MD
• YOU Staying Young – Michael Roizen MD and Mehmet OZ MD.

Specific Conditions

• The Yeast Connection – William G Crook MD
• Driven to Distraction: Recognizing & Coping with Attention Deficit Disorder From Childhood Through Adulthood – Edward M Hallowell MD, John J Ratey MD
• Family Guide to Asthma & Allergies: How You & Your Children Can Breathe Easier – Norman Edelman MD
• Tired of Being Tired – Jesse Lynn Hanley MD & Nancy Deville
• Sinus Survival: A Self-Help Guide to Allergies, Bronchitis, Colds & Sinusitis – Dr Robert S Ivker
• Diabetes A to Z – American Diabetes Association
• Dr. Bernsteins Diabetes Solution – Dr. Bernstein
• The Inside Tract by Gerard Mullin MD
• Irritable Bowel Syndrome: A Natural Approach – Rosemary Nicol
• Making Sense of Fibromyalgia – Daliel J Wallace MD, Janice Brock Wallace
• Brain Recovery.com: Powerful Therapy for Changing Brain Disorders – David Perlmutter MD
• Pain Free: A Revolutionary Method for Stopping Chronic Pain – Pete Egoscue with Roger Gittines
• The Thyroid Solution: Ridha Arem M.D.

Reference

• A-Z Guide to Drug-Herb-Vitamin Interactions (Health Notes)
• Prevention Magazine’s Complete Book of Vitamins and Minerals
• Encyclopedia of Natural Medicine – Michael Murray ND & Joseph Pizzorno ND
• Alternative Medicine; the Definition Guide – The Burton Goldberg group

The Inside Tract

By Gerard Mullin, MD and Kathie Madonna Swift, MS, RD, LDN – Dr Mullin has been a long time faculty member for Institute for Functional Medicine and is a practicing gastroenterologist at Johns Hopkins.  This is an excellent guide for patients and practitioners to the confusing world of chronic digestive problems including the autoimmune versions. Dr. Mullin’s education on this subject began as a child with his mother’s digestive illness and continued with his own journey as a physician through serious chronic inflammatory illness that left him unable to work for a period of time. The Inside Tract helps patients pick the level of treatment they need and focuses on details of a whole foods diet, nutritional supplementation, detoxification and lifestyle changes to help formulate an individual plan.  The advice is practical, founded in science and it works. This is the book I use for the sickest patients with the most severe digestive problems including ulcerative colitis and Chrons disease.

Healing the New Childhood Epidemics: Autism, ADHD, Allergies & Asthma by Kenneth Bock MD.

Kathy and I were fortunate to hear Dr. Bock speak at our last Functional Medicine Conference on digestive health.  He is a remarkable physician and has done an excellent job of weaving patient histories through the clear scientific principles that unite these disorders.  He gives the best explanation I have read anywhere about the immune dysfunction that underlies all these problems.  I would recommend this book for adults with any of these disorders.  He also offers clear treatment recommendations and describes very accurately the need for patients and practitioners  to be  medical detectives.  I love his willingness to use medication when needed and nutrition in a practical way. He  includes families in the choices about how many changes to make at one time and obviously sees his patients as the unique individuals they are.  Bravo Dr. Bock.

 The Hundred Year Lie by Randall Fitzgerald

This is an excellent primer on prevention. It is a well researched look at the many types of toxicity we are exposed to (in our water, air, food and supplements) and how to avoid and recover from them.

A critical exposé of the health consequences of everyday chemicals contends that human beings are now one of the most polluted species on the planet, linking common products to key health issues while challenging safety reports being issued by top chemical, pharmaceutical, and processed food companies.

Available here.