Healthy No Matter What, Alex Jadad
Healthy No Matter What, Alex Jadad
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Healthy No Matter What
How Humans Are Hardwired to Adapt

Author: Alex Jadad, Tamen Jadad-Garcia

Narrator: Tamen Jadad-Garcia

Unabridged: 6 hr 23 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Published: 01/31/2023


Synopsis

A provocative manifesto that teaches you how to take control of your own health, no matter your age or circumstances—from an innovative doctor and his philosopher daughter

“If you care about your health or the well-being of others, read this book.”—Ethan Kross, author of Chatter

Dr. Alex Jadad is the creator of the Jadad scale, which has become the world’s most widely used methodology to assess the quality of clinical trials, and his daughter Tamen Jadad-Garcia is a health entrepreneur and philosopher. Here they combine their expertise to uncover the medical system’s unstable foundations, which condemn you to be ill. The Jadads begin this exploration with a simple question: “What is health?”

Through engaging stories and case studies, the Jadads expand the understanding of health beyond the medical industrial complex. They show how distant connections in your personal networks can influence key aspects of yourself, like your weight, anxiety, and addictions; how reliance on medications can be reduced by intentionally designing the places where you live, work, and play; and how comparisons with peers can shorten your life.

In this practical guide, the meaning of health is redefined, putting you in the driver’s seat and recognizing you as the most effective evaluator. Building on data and experiences from millions of people around the world, the book reveals that a healthy life is possible even with complex chronic conditions or terminal illnesses. The Jadads explain why perceiving yourself as unhealthy might actually be fatal, and how you can monitor your true health and boost it in practically any context, no matter your cultural background or socioeconomic circumstances.

With wisdom and empathy, Healthy No Matter What teaches you how your natural gift of adaptability equips you to overcome any obstacle, provides actionable pointers, and shows how and when to use the medical system, so that you can thrive, regardless of the twists and turns life may take.

Reviews

Goodreads review by Arica on March 03, 2023

Started out really awesome. Lots of fascinating information, well supported with credible sources and peer reviewed studies. The last couple chapters were a "hurry up and wrap this up" hot mess express. And then it just randomly ended. While there was lots of awesome info, that info wasn't synthesiz......more

Goodreads review by Healthypedia on November 07, 2023

An empowering manifesto for reclaiming control over one's health, regardless their age or life circumstances. In a world where health and well-being have been narrowly defined by the absence of disease, ‘Healthy No Matter What’ by Alex Jadad and Tamen Jadad-Garcia emerges as a powerful beacon of chan......more

Goodreads review by Alicia on September 16, 2023

Rounded up from 3 1/2 stars. This is a book that has a lot of really interesting, great information but also is likely to really frustrate a lot of readers, especially those with chronic illness. I can't see how folks with chronic pain and illness would not come away with a little bit (at least) of......more

Goodreads review by The_J on November 11, 2023

Read it and get health!...?...! Excellent, well researched, interesting scope. As a human your default is to be healthy. "Create a healthy persona" by behaving like a "Healthy person." Realistic Optimism is offered as a solution. By feeling strongly that you exist as a separate person the better you......more

Goodreads review by Reader on June 22, 2023

"Healthy No Matter What" is a groundbreaking work that challenges our conventional beliefs about health. The authors' insightful guidance unveil the fragile foundations of the medical system, while inspiring readers to tap into their natural adaptability and overcome any obstacle. With its evocative......more


Quotes

Healthy No Matter What is a remarkably integrative book that is brimming with hope and filled with science-based tools you can use to live a healthier life. If you care about your health or the well-being of others, read this book.”—Ethan Kross, author of Chatter: The Voice in Our Head, Why It Matters, and How to Harness It

“This book is a compass for rethinking health. But its unexpected gift is how it models new ways of thinking that extend far beyond the boundaries of health. The blending of the Jadads’ inspired voices brings together the rigor of science and the joy of storytelling, delivering a breakthrough set of frameworks that can enable all of us to be healthy: no matter what!”—Seth Goldenberg, author of Radical Curiosity: Questioning Commonly Held Beliefs to Imagine Flourishing Futures

“A brilliant and perspective-shifting read that challenges the status quo and opens us up to new and impactful possibilities and approaches to health.”—Daniel Kraft, MD, founder of Exponential Medicine at Singularity University and NextMed Health

“An essential and fundamentally hopeful guide to living healthy lives by skillfully adapting to our uncertain times, this practical book recasts health as our ability to adapt, offers compelling evidence of its incredible power, and describes things we can do every day to thrive in health by adapting to whatever may come.”—Victor Montori, MD, professor at Mayo Clinic, author of Why We Revolt: A Patient Revolution for Careful and Kind Care

“An uplifting and inspiring book on what it means to live a long, healthy, and happy life.”—Yuri Quintana, PhD, chief of Division of Clinical Informatics and assistant professor of medicine, Harvard Medical School