Beyond the Prescription: A Doctor's Guide to Taking Charge of Your Health
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Book Overview USA TODAY NATIONAL BESTSELLERIf you've ever left a doctor's appointment with a prescription but no plan, a stack of "normal" lab results ...
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If you've ever left a doctor's appointment with a prescription but no plan, a stack of "normal" lab results but no answers, or the feeling that no one actually listened, you're not alone.
In Beyond the Prescription, Dr. Lucy McBride explains why: Modern health care prioritizes transactions over relationships, screens over stories, and data over context. Into that void has stepped a massive wellness industry offering seductive promises of control--"optimize," "detox," "biohack"--often without evidence and with real risks.
McBride refuses the false choice between conventional medicine and wellness culture. Instead, she offers a practical middle path built on health agency: the capacity to make informed decisions aligned with your values while advocating effectively for support. This book isn't prescriptive or perfectionist. It's a framework to help you navigate uncertainty, misinformation, and the realities of your life.
At the center is a five-step process that moves you from redefining health on your own terms, through mapping your full health ecosystem and understanding how you personally approach care, to asking for help more effectively and making peace with what you cannot control.
McBride then maps health as an interconnected ecosystem with four pillars:
-INFORMATICS (health data + your biography and lived context)
-INPUTS (everything you consume, including supplements and medications)
-INFRASTRUCTURE (movement, injury, disability, and the body that carries you)
-INSIGHT (mental health, brain health, and the unconscious stories that drive behavior)
Reflection and action guides help you translate insight into real-world decisions.
The result is a practical, evidence-based guide for anyone navigating the question too rarely asked in health care: Are you okay?
Book Details Format: Hardcover | Publisher: ATRIA | ISBN: 1668024381
FormatHardcover
ISBN1668024381
EAN9781668024386
PublisherATRIA
Publication Date2026-08-11
AccessoriesNo Accessory
ConditionNew
Product TypeHARD COVER BOOKS
Weight1.1 Pounds
Length9.1 Inches
Width6.0 Inches
Height1.4 Inches
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