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The Perfect Medicine Brodie Ramin, M.D.

The Perfect Medicine By Brodie Ramin, M.D.

The Perfect Medicine by Brodie Ramin, M.D.


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The Perfect Medicine takes the reader on a personal journey of discovery and explores the science of exercise and health. It can help readers change their lives by providing facts about running and sharing inspiring examples of others who have used running to transform their lives.

The Perfect Medicine Summary

The Perfect Medicine: How Running Makes Us Healthier and Happier by Brodie Ramin, M.D.

Ottawa Book Award 2022 Shortlisted
Imagine a medicine that could make you live longer, healthier, happier, and stronger. What if that medicine was already right at your feet? Running is the miracle drug that can do all this and more it is the perfect medicine.

Throughout his career, Dr. Brodie Ramin has seen cases of diabetes, hypertension, and anxiety, which he has traced back to inactivity. Now more than ever, people are looking for inspiration and motivation to get fit, change their lives, and improve their overall wellness. In The Perfect Medicine, Dr. Ramin shares with us his discovery that we already have the perfect medicine to treat and prevent these common illnesses and improve our health: running. However, too few people are taking the right dose or using it at all.

The Perfect Medicine explores the science of running and exercise and provides advice on how to maximize its benefits and be your best self. After rediscovering the joy of running in his early thirties, Dr. Ramin became fascinated by the activity. This book takes the reader on a personal journey of discovery, traces the evolution of running, shares strategies to get fit and run faster, and shows how exercise can even help people recover from addiction and mental health conditions.

The Perfect Medicine Reviews

The Perfect Medicine is a wonderful gem of a book. * Adharanand Finn, best-selling author of Running with the Kenyans and host of The Way of the Runner *
Fresh, lyrical, and deeply personal, The Perfect Medicine is a stirring celebration of running not just the how, but the many levels of why. * Alex Hutchinson, author of Endure *
Part biography, part history, part scientific inquiry, The Perfect Medicine compels you to keep turning the page as Ramin explores wide-ranging aspects of the sport of running from the perspective of a traveler, scholar, physician, and always, avid runner. * Jonathan Beverly, author and Editor-in-Chief of PodiumRunner *

About Brodie Ramin, M.D.

Brodie Ramin is a primary care and addictions physician who uses exercise as a tool to improve the physical and mental health of his patients. His previous book, The Age of Fentanyl, was shortlisted for the Donner Prize. Dr. Ramin lives in Ottawa, where he is an assistant professor at the University of Ottawa.

Table of Contents

  • Preface
  • I Beginning to Run
  • II Running into Medicine and Science
  • III Running and Physical Health
  • IV Running and Mental Health
  • V Running and Addiction
  • VI Running Faster
  • VII Running Hurts
  • VIII Running a Marathon
  • Afterword
  • Acknowledgements
  • Notes
  • Bibliography
  • Index

Additional information

NGR9781459748200
9781459748200
1459748204
The Perfect Medicine: How Running Makes Us Healthier and Happier by Brodie Ramin, M.D.
New
Paperback
Dundurn Group Ltd
2021-10-21
216
Short-listed for Ottawa Book Award 2022 (Canada)
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