The Exercise Cure: A Doctor#s All-Natural, No-Pill Prescription for Better Health and Longer Life - Softcover

"Doctors have long focused on the treatment of disease. Now we have a manual that highlights a means of prevention. As Dr Metzl touts, EXERCISE is one of the world's most effective medicines." --Sanjay Gupta, MD, Chief Medical Correspondent, CNN "It's that "magic pill" we've all been waiting for, the most basic key to health and longevity--EXERCISE! As Dr. Metzl explains, exercise is medicine that really works and will change your life." --Natalie Morales, NBC Today Show "Finally a tell-all book about the most powerful drug known to mankind--Exercise! Dr Metzl expertly describes all you need to know about why and how you should exercise to improve your health. This is a must read for everyone who wants to live a long and active life." --Robert Sallis, MD, Past President; American College of Sports Medicine "This book provides compelling evidence for the important role of exercise in preventing and treating a number of medical conditions, including vascular disease, diabetes, psychiatric diseases, and even cancer. Dr. Metzl shows the reader, without a doubt, that exercise IS medicine." --Scott Rodeo, MD, head team physician, US Olympic Team "For years, physicians have been instructing patients on what NOT to do in order to stay healthy. Dr. Metzl has a more compelling instruction: What TO do! His program for each of us, no matter at what level we begin, will not only cure or make illness easier but surely offer further options for disease prevention." --Richard P. Cohen, MD, clinical professor of medicine, Weill Cornell Medical College "For years, physicians have been instructing patients on what NOT to do in order to stay healthy. Dr. Metzl has a more compelling instruction: What TO do! His program for each of us, no matter at what level we begin, will not only cure or make illness easier but surely offer further options for disease prevention." --Richard P. Cohen, MD, clinical professor of medicine, Weill Cornell Medical College "A thought-provoking book." --Savannah Guthrie, TODAY Show

Everyone wants to lose weight, feel better, and live longer. But what if that was just the beginning? What if readers could use specific workouts to prevent, improve, or cure what ails them? As Dr. Jordan Metzl says, Exercise is medicine. Now he puts that philosophy-along with cutting-edge research and a motivational bedside manner - into a ground breaking book delivering a head-to-toe list of maladies that affect quality of life for millions. He then offers the specific exercise prescriptions that will help fix them - from type 2 diabetes to depression, from arthritic joints to PMS, from addiction to sleep apnoea.