This information is excerpted from the book, Recapture Your Health, by Walt Stoll, M.D. and Jan DeCourtney, C.M.T. Feel free to use up to 10 tips in an article or story as long as you quote the source and ordering information for the book (at bottom).

Health Tip No. 10: Research, Learning, and Study May Give You a Ph.D. in Your Own Health

Many people would benefit from becoming more involved in their own health care and decision making beyond just going to see a practitioner or physician. If you have a chronic health problem that seems to defy resolution, the solution most likely rests in your concentrated personal effort. This means becoming a student and learning as much as you can about your condition and the basic mechanisms causing illness and health. By doing so, it is likely that you will encounter the lifestyle changes and modalities that will benefit you the most, and move to a more direct path of healing.

If this process of learning seems daunting to you, just read and study a little bit every day and you will slowly begin to see the whole picture. There comes a time in the accumulation of knowledge when everything seems to just fall into place and, eventually, everything gets simpler and easier.

Walt Stoll, MD, and Jan DeCourtney, CMT, are co-authors of the book, Recapture Your Health: A Complete Step-by-Step Program to Reverse Your Chronic Symptoms and Create Lasting Wellness, (ISBN 0965317129), available at local and online bookstores, and from Sunrise Health Coach Publications, 1-877-357-9355 or www.sunrisehealthcoach.com.