Book Publications
YOU: Being Beautiful: The Owner's Manual to Inner and Outer Beauty.
Mehmet C. Oz, MD, co-author
A scientific, informative, and entertaining look at beauty. From hair to toenails, Dr. Oz and Dr. Roizen go through every part of the body to explain how different foods, vitamins, creams, gels, and injections may boost appearance.
Scrutinizing beauty myths, they offer medically-based insight into which ones cause more harm than good.
They also take a close look at chronic pain, mood swings, low energy, and financial stresses.
And they dive into the science of building relationships, finding happiness, and using spirituality to help define our true beauty.
YOU: Staying Young
Mehmet C. Oz, MD, co-author
According to Mehmet C. Oz, MD, and his co-author Michael, Roizen, MD, aging isn't a decline in the body's systems but a purposeful process.
Instead, they explain, the very systems and biological processes that age the body are designed to help us when we're younger.
You: Staying Young seeks to help us to learn how those systems work in order to reprogram them to operate the way they did when we were younger.
The book introduces biological processes it calls the Major Agers that control a person's rate of aging.
Some speed decline, others inhibit the body's repair mechanisms.
The Major Agers include inefficient mitochondria, stem cells, and hormones.
The book explains the principles of longevity and many of the causes of aging and how to fight the effects, delivering a 14-day plan to help the reader to stay young.
The plan encourages readers to integrate important processes into their daily lives in order to make staying young routine.
Staying young encompasses emotions and mental health as well as exercise habits, eating habits, personal hygiene, and genes, among other things.
YOU: ON A DIET The Owner's Manual for Waist Management
Mehmet C. Oz, MD, co-author
Scientists are uncovering astounding medical evidence about dieting -- and why so many of us struggle with our weight and the size of our waists.
In You: On a Diet, Drs. Mehmet C. Oz and Michael Roizen translate this information, delivering knowledge and understanding about how the body's fat-storing and fat-burning systems work.
They redefine what a healthy figure is, then take the reader through an under-the-skin tour of the organs that influence the body's size and its health.
You: On a Diet is much more than a diet plan, a series of instructions and guidelines, or a faddish berries-only eating plan.
This book is a complete manual, showing the reader how to achieve and maintain an ideal and healthy body size, detailing the biology of the body and the biology and psychology of fat, and detailing the YOU Diet and YOU Workout, easy regimens to learn, follow, and maintain.
Following this two-week rebooting program can help the reader lose up to two inches from your waist right from the start.
You: The Smart Patient
Mehmet C. Oz, MD, co-author
Being a smart patient is critical today. With managed care networks, busy surgery schedules, and complicated insurance plans, a patient can't necessarily assume that X-rays from Dr. A will make it to Specialist B in time for Surgery C.
In fact, the best way to navigate the complexities of the health care system is to be a smart patient.
In YOU: THE SMART PATIENT An Insider's Handbook for Getting the Best Treatment, Dr. Michael Roizen and Dr. Mehmet Oz show how every patient can take charge of their own health care and get the best treatment available.
Written in conjunction with the health care community's leading oversight group, The Joint Commission, the book shows readers in clear, easy steps how to take control of their own health care and deal with all matters that may come up when facing a medical case.
YOU: THE OWNER'S MANUAL, UPDATED and EXPANDED EDITION
An Insider's Guide to the Body That Will Make You Healthier and Younger
Mehmet C. Oz, MD, co-author
We live in an age when we're as obsessed with our bodies as we are with celebrity hair styles, but the reality is that most of us know very little about what chugs, churns, and thumps throughout this miraculous, scientific, and artistic system of anatomy. When it comes to your longevity and quality of life, understanding your internal systems gives you the power, authority, and ability to live a healthier, younger, and better life.
Dr. Michael Roizen and Dr. Mehmet Oz reveal the mesmerizing and truly vital answers in YOU: THE OWNER'S MANUAL, UPDATED and EXPANDED EDITION: An Insider's Guide to the Body That Will Make You Healthier and Younger.
Part fitness motivator, part home medical reference, yet completely unique, YOU: THE OWNER'S MANUAL is a personal do-it-yourself handbook for keeping any body primed to live younger longer.
Complementary and Alternative Cardiovascular Medicine
Mehmet C. Oz, MD, co-editor
Academic clinicians, clinical scientists, well-known practitioners of alternative medicine, and authors of popular works on the subject summarize the facts about complementary cardiovascular medicines so that physicians can confidently and knowledgeably advise their patients.
The authors comprehensively explain the background for each important alternative therapy, its rationale, the evidence supporting its use, its possible interaction with standard medicines, and, where possible, what is known about its safety and efficacy.
The therapies for treating coronary heart disease (CHD) range from the more commonly encountered herbs, vitamins, supplements, and dietary fats and oils, to such less familiar techniques as acupuncture, homeopathy, massage, chelation therapy, meditation, aroma therapies, prayer, and energy therapies.
Also included is a value-added CD-ROM that provides an eBook version of the work that can be viewed either on a personal computer or synchronized to a PDA.
Healing From the Heart
Mehmet C. Oz, MD, co-author
Mehmet C. Oz, MD,
cardiothoracic surgeon and Medical Director of the Complementary Care Center at Columbia University Medical Center,
has authored NEW the critically acclaimed book, Healing From the Heart, (Dutton) which was awarded the Best Wellness Book Award by Books for a Better America.
In his book, Dr. Oz explores the revolution sweeping the world of medicine that combines the best of state-of-the-art Western medicine with complementary methods of self-healing and the all-encompassing holistic approach to healing that comes from the heart.
Included are Dr. Oz's recommendations for self-healing through hypnosis, reflexology, visual imagery, music, yoga, massage, aromatherapy, as well as improved diet and vitamins.
Dr. Oz also authored an article,"Bypass Surgery and Tai Chi," for the Newsweek special issue, Global 2000,
" in which he compared how doctors practicing in different countries base many of their diagnoses and treatments on the local culture.
In the article, he credits technology with allowing doctors to share more information with each other and thus reevaluate their traditional way of looking at medicine.
Cardiac Assist Devices
Mehmet C. Oz, MD, co-editor
Cardiac Assist Devices is a compilation of articles and research reports by a wide range of contributors, including cardiothoracic surgeons and research fellows, internists, nurses, physical therapists, and immunologists.
Authors include such pioneers of CAD and heart transplantation as Michael E. DeBakey, MD and Robert K. Jarvik, MD, and topics range from a historical perspective on CAD (cardiac assist device) technology and descriptions of available devices to discussions of specific medical treatments and outcomes, quality of life issues, and likely future developments.
The book's comprehensive coverage of its topic makes it an indispensable reference tool for practitioners, hospital administrators, health care policy makers and government leaders who propose and enact health care legislation.
In a brief foreword, Bill Frist, MD, a heart surgeon and the only U.S. Senator who was once a practicing physician, understands the importance of CADs in the fight against the "pandemic" of congestive heart failure.
The real beneficiary of this book, he says, "is the patient with heart disease, who will live a more fulfilling life because of the dedicated work of his fellow man."
Minimally Invasive Cardiac Surgery
Mehmet C. Oz, MD, co-editor
Minimally Invasive Cardiac Surgery, the first definitive text on the topic, is a collection of 18 timely articles by leading practitioners about one of the most rapidly evolving surgical fields.
Contributors, who are cardiac surgeons from the United States and Europe currently using MICS (minimally invasive cardiac surgery) in their surgical practices, describe specific surgical procedures, and many articles are accompanied by informative graphics.
The editors also include a consideration of quality of life issues affected by minimal access. surgery.
The book won the Best Health Science Book Award from Doody's rating service in 2000.
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