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Open any medicine cabinet and you're nearly guaranteed to find a bottle of aspirin crowded in among the lotions and other pills. Aspirin-like remedies have been used to cure headaches, arthritis, fevers, and inflammation for millennia, ever since ancient healers first began using willow bark to treat their patients.
Now, go beyond pain relief with a simple plan proven to dramatically reduce the risk of developing major medical killers such as heart disease, breast cancer,and stroke--and do it without the high cost and often adverse side effects of prescription drugs.
Aspirin: The Miracle Drug is the first and only book to reveal the wide-ranging health benefits that can be derived from taking just one aspirin a day. Thousands of medical studies have determined that aspirin lessens the incidence of many serious conditions, and that it may even improve fertility for couples using in vitro fertilization.
Individual chapters target specific diseases and their prevention and treat-met,including
breast,prostate,and colon cancer;
Alzheimer's disease and other forms of dementia;
vascular disease,heart disease,and stroke;and
osteoporosis.
Health writer Eric Metcalf also details the danggers of drug-drug in teractions,drug-herb in teractions,and possible complications for people who have certain health problems.Additionally,he explains the steps tht can be taken to reduce common side effects and provides detailed com parisons of different of aspirin and how best to use them .