The Healing Power of Faith: How Belief and Prayer Can Help You Triumph Over Disease

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Using the tools of science - double-blind research studies and analysis of tissue, blood levels and hormones - this text tracks the influence of religious beliefs on physical and mental health. The documented evidence shows how traditional religious practices like prayer and community service can raise white blood cell counts, improve immune system responses and lower blood pressure. It includes case studies of remarkable recoveries from near-fatal illness as well as stories of how people from diverse religious backgrounds triumph over addiction, depression, marital problems and other serious life stresses.

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Herbert Benson, M.D. Harvard Medical School, author of The Relaxation Response and Timeless Healing Dr. Koenig has given us a compelling and accurate, highly readable synthesis of the healing power of faith. Larry Dossey, M.D. author of Prayer Is Good Medicine When the history of the return of spirituality to medicine is written, Dr. Koenig will occupy a high place. Dr. Harold Koenig...is one of a handful of modern scientists who have virtually invented a new field of medicine, and I applaud him.

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Harold Koenig, M.D. is Associate Professor of Psychiatry and Behavioural Science and Assistant Professor of Medicine at Duke University Medical Centre.