by
Dr. David Lovell-Smith
About
the Book
The
worrying news: Hypertension affects an estimated fifty million
Americans and countless millions worldwide. It is the most
significant predisposing factor for heart attack, stroke,
and peripheral artery disease. Hypertension triples your
risk of dying from a heart attack, increases your risk of
a stroke sevenfold, and can even lead to kidney disease,
diabetes, and blindness.
To
make matters worse, most of the anti-hypertension drugs
in the market today are expensive, and can have dangerous
side effects. The Comforting News: Enter Dr. David Lovell-Smith,
a leading exponent of the Maharishi Ayurveda approach to
healing, introducing a whole new concept in the war against
hypertension: a simple yet dramatically effective plan to
heal high blood pressure through a balanced life. No drugs,
no side effects, no doubts: just time-tested, proven techniques
that will help you feel settled in mind, healthy in body,
and calm in spirit.
In
this complete guide to reducing hypertension for life, Dr.
Lovell-Smith shows you how to discover the real cause of
your high blood pressure. He does this by putting you in
touch with your body and mind, helping you understand your
unique psycho-physiological make-up. Then, when you have
learnt what your dominant doshas are and why they are not
in balance, says the author, "Become self-referral
in diet, transcend thought, tailor your daily routine to
the circadian rhythms of the doshas." These and other
simple lifestyle tips form the substance of this highly
helpful book.
The
first part of the book talks about the modern "magic-bullet"
approach to high blood-pressure. ACE-inhibitors, Beta-blockers,
diuretics and other common blood-pressure treatments are
all taken up one by one and analyzed for their merits and
de-merits. This in-depth scientific analysis, followed by
well-reasoned ayurvedic recommendations, gives the author's
voice more conviction and credibility than if he had taken
a one-sided approach.
Anyone,
for instance, who has experienced the diuretic effects of
a blood-pressure pill in the morning, would find Dr. Smith's
explanation of how such drugs actually pre-dispose people
to strokes and heart-disease eye-opening. Thus advised on
the dangers of medication, the patient is now naturally
curious to know how to shed his dependence on the pill.
Happily, Dr. Lovell-Smith's book holds all the right answers
for such people.
The
second part of the book focuses on Transcendental Mediation,
which has been scientifically proved in randomized trials
to lower blood-pressure as effectively as drugs; while also
endowing practitioners with dozens of side-benefits. Most
important, the author shows how TM® enables you to come
home to your own being, thus paving the way for perfect
health and wholeness.
About
the Author
Dr.
David Lovell-Smith, a medical practitioner for over twenty
years, successfully treats hundreds of hypertension patients
a year at his clinic in Christchurch, New Zealand. Dr. Lovell-Smith
is the President of the Maharishi Medical Association in
New Zealand. He is currently completing a Master's degree
in General Practice through Otago University.
