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"What happens when the medical profession views the heart as a
mechanical pump? We get ghoulish surgeries, medications with
horrible side effects, and soulless low- diets. Tom Cowan asks
us to look anew at the heart; first step is the demonstration
that the blood pumps the heart, not vice versa. From this
observation comes a way of treating heart disease that is more
effective, more gentle, more felicitate than conventional
protocol. Part biography, part wisdom, part practical advice,
Human Heart, Cosmic Heart will change the way you look at the
process of healing and the miraculous world of the human
body."--Sally Fallon Morell, President, The Weston A. Price
Foundation
"There's only a few books a year that I think really deserve to
be in everyone's library. This is one of them. . . . It's loaded
with great information, and it can save your life or the life of
someone you love."--Dr. Joseph Mercola, founder and director,
mercola.com
"This book blew my mind. I will admit . . . I thought I was
simply going to be reading an interesting memoir of a good
physician. Instead, I discovered the most groundbreaking,
unorthodox, outside-the-box treatise on the heart I have ever
stumbled upon. If you have a heart and you want to live a long
time, you must, must read this book."--Ben Greenfield, author of
the New York Times bestseller, Beyond Training; founder and
owner, Greenfield Fitness Systems; www.bengreenfieldfitness.com
Foreword Reviews-
"Heart disease is a national crisis, and the most common
s don't lower the risk of death in most cases. Rather
than despair, Thomas Cowan meets these devastating realities with
the firm belief that there must be another solution. Through many
years of research and medical practice, he challenges the common
notion of what the heart is for--to pump blood. Through
observation, geometry, and scientific in, he proposes that
the heart is a hydraulic ram rather than pump because it uses
suction rather than force to build the momentum of the blood. And
he makes it clear that this change of perspective makes all the
difference by exploring heart attacks, what they aren't and what
they are. The Cowan advises in Human Heart, Cosmic
Heart is personal and holistic (whole-body remedies), driven by
the patient's own life story in order to show the whole of the
nervous system. The result is a refreshingly balanced approach
focused on responding to the needs of the body rather than
reacting to the problem experienced in the heart. Throughout the
book, Cowan shares his personal journey of learning, making the
book approachable and warm as well as logical and authoritative.
By sharing his learning process, he conveys a deep understanding
of the cardiovascular system and its needs. Cowan, a
self-procled doubter and nonconformist, brings a voice of
skepticism and hope into a genre packed with dry, black-and-white
thinking. His ins are relentlessly rooted in research, and
he explains medical science in an accessible way, including clear
diagrams and step-by-step explanations that move at just the
right pace for educated adults without moving too slowly for
medical professionals. This book is life-changing for those
trying to understand their own bodies, or those of loved ones,
and it's truly transformative in the hands of medical
professionals, especially young doctors."
About the Author
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Thomas Cowan, MD, has studied and written about many
subjects in medicine including tion, pathy,
anthroposophical medicine, and al medicine. He is the
principal author of The Fourfold Path to Healing and co-author
(with Sally Fallon) of The Nourishing Traditions Book of Baby and
Child Care. Dr. Cowan has served as vice president of the
Physicians Association for Anthroposophic Medicine and is a
founding board member of the Weston A. Price Foundation®. He also
writes the Ask the Doctor column in Wise Traditions in Food,
Farming, and the Healing Arts (the Weston A. Price Foundation s
quarterly magazine) and has lectured throughout the United States
and Canada. He has three grown children and currently practices
medicine in San Francisco where he resides with his wife, Lynda
Smith.