Thomas Cowan, MD, has studied and written about many subjects in medicine, including nutrition, homeopathy, anthroposophical medicine, and herbal medicine. He is the author of Cancer and the New Biology of Water; Vaccines, Autoimmunity, and the Changing Nature of Childhood Illness; and Human Heart, Cosmic Heart; principal author of The Fourfold Path to Healing; and coauthor (with Sally Fallon) of The Nourishing Traditions Book of Baby and Child Care. Dr. Cowan has served as vice president of the Physicians’ Association for Anthroposophic Medicine and is a founding board member of the Weston A. Price Foundation. He also writes the “Ask the Doctor” column in Wise Traditions in Food, Farming, and the Healing Arts (the Weston A. Price Foundation’s quarterly magazine), has lectured throughout the United States and Canada, and is the cofounder of two family businesses, Dr. Cowan’s Garden (drcowansgarden.com) and Human Heart, Cosmic Heart (humanheartcosmicheart.com). He has three grown children and currently resides in San Francisco with his wife, Lynda Smith.
"There’s only a few books a year that I think really deserve to be
in everyone’s library. This is one of them. . . . It’s loaded
with great information, and it can save your life or the life of
someone you love.”--Dr. Joseph Mercola, founder and director,
mercola.com
Foreword Reviews- "Heart disease is a national crisis, and the most
common treatments don’t lower the risk of death in most cases.
Rather than despair, Thomas Cowan meets these devastating realities
with the firm belief that there must be another
solution. Through many years of research and medical practice,
he challenges the common notion of what the heart is for—to pump
blood. Through observation, geometry, and scientific insight, he
proposes that the heart is a hydraulic ram rather than pump because
it uses suction rather than force to build the momentum of the
blood. And he makes it clear that this change of perspective makes
all the difference by exploring heart attacks, what they aren’t and
what they are. The treatment Cowan advises in Human
Heart, Cosmic Heart is personal and holistic (whole-body
remedies), driven by the patient’s own life story in order to show
the whole of the nervous system. The result is a refreshingly
balanced approach focused on responding to the needs of the body
rather than reacting to the problem experienced in the
heart. Throughout the book, Cowan shares his personal journey
of learning, making the book approachable and warm as well as
logical and authoritative. By sharing his learning process, he
conveys a deep understanding of the cardiovascular system and its
needs. Cowan, a self-proclaimed doubter and nonconformist,
brings a voice of skepticism and hope into a genre packed with dry,
black-and-white thinking. His insights are relentlessly rooted in
research, and he explains medical science in an accessible way,
including clear diagrams and step-by-step explanations that move at
just the right pace for educated adults without moving too slowly
for medical professionals. This book is life-changing for
those trying to understand their own bodies, or those of loved
ones, and it’s truly transformative in the hands of medical
professionals, especially young doctors.”
“This book blew my mind. I will admit . . . I thought I was simply
going to be reading an interesting memoir of a good physician.
Instead, I discovered the most groundbreaking, unorthodox,
outside-the-box treatise on the heart I have ever stumbled upon. If
you have a heart and you want to live a long time, you must,
must read this book.”--Ben Greenfield, author of the New
York Times bestseller, Beyond Training; founder and
owner, Greenfield Fitness Systems; www.bengreenfieldfitness.com
“What happens when the medical profession views the heart as a
mechanical pump? We get ghoulish surgeries, medications with
horrible side effects, and soulless low-fat diets. Tom Cowan asks
us to look anew at the heart; first step is the demonstration that
the blood pumps the heart, not vice versa. From this observation
comes a way of treating heart disease that is more effective, more
gentle, more felicitate than conventional protocol. Part
biography, part wisdom, part practical advice, Human Heart,
Cosmic Heart will change the way you look at the process of
healing and the miraculous world of the human body.”--Sally Fallon
Morell, President, The Weston A. Price Foundation
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