Reboot Your Health: Simple DIY Tests and Solutions to Assess and Improve Your Health

What can each of us do to take control of our own health? Well, quite a lot. The big stuff is best left to the experts, of course. Much of the rest is up for grabs. It’s a question of educating ourselves and tuning in to our bodies. Most of us know the feeling of having ignored the little niggling pains that then end up causing much bigger problems in the long run. But sometimes we might need a bit of help to translate them. Reboot Your Health is a guidebook to health that you can refer to for the rest of your life, written really simply and clearly, so that its instructions are easy to follow and understand. It shows you how to become your own health detective, giving you the tools to listen to your body, collect information, take practical steps to get yourself feeling better and avoid future illness. Most people never stop to listen to their bodies. In a stressed, busy world dominated by the digital, we are cut off from our physical selves. As a result, we have shockingly little awareness of how badly we are functioning. Some of us have chronic illnesses; others of us just feel a bit under par. We have become the 'walking unwell'. With the waiting times to get a doctor’s appointment getting longer and the feeling of disempowerment over our own health and wellness it’s time we took back some of the control of our own body. In an accessible, ground breaking and practical new book Sara Davenport enables us to take charge of our lives and find out what really could be going on with our health. Reboot Your Health starts with a simple, comprehensive, and bespoke health assessment. From cheap and simple tests you can do yourself (sleep, saliva/urine pH, bowel habits, blood pressure, candida etc.) and tests you can ask your doctor or pharmacist for (thyroid, cholesterol, vitamin deficiency, hormone imbalance, inflammatory markers etc.) readers will start to benchmark their own body against a range of "normal" - including heart rate, BMI, metabolic rate. Solutions can then be pick-and-mixed from a range of conventional medical solutions, scientifically backed Western complementary and alternative approaches, Eastern medical techniques, and psychological therapies and healing modalities. If you're still not well, further chapters offer advice on other options to pursue, including specialist tests.Sara is on a mission – to get people back in touch with their own bodies, sorting any health problems before they turn into something more serious. ‘Many of us have forgotten even the basics of health, forgotten that we all used to be our own best healers and forgotten how to take responsibility for our own health. Fundamental stuff!’ says Sara. ‘We’ve simply handed it over to doctors and presume that when times get tough they will sort it.’