Healthy to 100: Aging with Vigor and Grace (Own Your Health)
Alexa Fleckenstein, M.D., of Whole Health New England, is a physician, teacher, writer, inspirational speaker, gardener and mother. She is board-certified in Internal Medicine, with training in Germany and the United States. She also holds a subspecialty degree in Natural Medicine from Germany. She has a special interest in wellness and rejuvenation, particularly the healing effects of water. As an integrative physician in the Boston area, she has taken care of patients in clinics and hospitals for more than twenty years and gives frequent workshops in integrative medicine for community health organizations and in corporate settings.Visit her blog athttp://members.authorsguild.net/fleckenstein/blog.htm.Roanne Weisman writes in the areas of science, medicine and health care. She is the principal author of the award-winning book, Own Your Health: Choosing the best from alternative & conventional medicine (HCI Books 2003). Her articles and feature stories have appeared in newspapers as well as in Alternative Medicine Magazine, Body & Soul Magazine and Country Living Magazine. She also writes extensively for the publications of most of the teaching hospitals of the Harvard Medical Schoo l . She has spoken and conducted workshops around the U.S. and in Canada on integrative medicine, which include her personal story of how "owning" her health helped her recover from a paralyzing stroke.