Perfect Health by Deepak Chopra

We are being created anew each day. Although we experience our bodies as solid, they are in fact more like fires that are constantly being consumed and renewed. We grow new stomach linings every five days, for instance. Our skin is new every five weeks. Each year fully 98 percent of the total number of atoms in our bodies is replaced. Ayurveda ("the knowledge of life span" in Sanskrit) gives us the tools to intervene at this quantum level and tells us that freedom from sickness depends on contacting our own awareness, bringing it into balance, and then extending that balance to the body. 

Perfect Health describes how to apply the ancient wisdom of Ayurveda to everyday life and provides a complete step-by-step program of mind body medicine tailored to individual needs. A quiz identifies the reader's mind body type: thin, restless Vata; enterprising, efficient Pitta; tranquil, steady Kapha; or any combination of these three. This body type becomes the basis for a specific Ayurvedic program of diet, stress reduction, neuromuscular integration, exercise, and daily routine. The result is a total plan, tailor-made for each individual to reestablish the body's essential balance with nature; to strengthen the mind body connection; and to use the power of quantum healing to transcend the ordinary limitations of disease and aging - in short, to achieve Perfect Health. 

Deepak Chopra, MD, FACP, is a pioneer of integrative medicine and author of over ninety books published in more than forty languages. Many have been New York Times bestsellers in both the fiction and nonfiction categories.