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Overview
Rest to rage. Meditate to work. Cleanse to get dirty.
Enough preaching about self-deprivation. No more striving for bodily purity. Who has the patience—or the time!—for strict dietary restrictions and hours of meditation? Let’s get real. These tactics just don’t work—at least not for long. But that doesn’t mean health and happiness are unobtainable.
Most often you just need an anxiety buster you can do while running down the street. Or a yoga pose you can do at your desk. Or a way to debloat what feels like an alien baby in your abdomen. Retox isn’t about changing who you are or denying life’s pleasures. It’s about tailoring sensible, scientifically-based health practices to the life you already live. It’s about working hard, playing harder, and renewing your balance and energy so you can do it all again.
In Retox, health expert Lauren Imparato strips yoga down to its anatomical principles, offering practical tips for fast relief. Then, drawing from a variety of disciplines—from psychology to nutrition to Tibetan philosophy—she designs no-nonsense strategies and delicious recipes to combat the most common challenges of modern life:
• Stress and anxiety
• Low energy
• Back pain and headaches
• Hangovers
• PMS
• Sleep Deprivation
• And much more...
Product Details
ISBN-13: | 9780425278505 |
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Publisher: | Penguin Publishing Group |
Publication date: | 02/02/2016 |
Pages: | 384 |
Sales rank: | 1,130,679 |
Product dimensions: | 7.30(w) x 9.10(h) x 1.00(d) |
About the Author
Raised in Northern California, Lauren Imparato travelled east to the classrooms of Princeton, and upon graduating, to the trading floor of Wall Street. After stints starting businesses for the firm in New York, London, Istanbul and Latin America, Lauren quit her job as VP of Morgan Stanley Fixed Income in 2009 to self-start I.AM.YOU., a first of its kind health, wellness & fitness company. Lauren operated and scaled profitable digital, brick & mortar, and cpg verticals, and wrote a multi-country Best Selling book, RETOX (Penguin Random House, 2016).
Lauren has become revered as one of the globe’s top entrepreneurship experts. She has spoken for audiences of ten thousand on the Great Lawn of Central Park and two to three thousand each in Times Square, Madrid, Barcelona, Panama, opening weekend in Ibiza, the Cannes Film Festival, and more. Named one of the 100 Women in Wellness and Elle’s This is 30, Lauren has been profiled in over 500 outlets including Dr. Oz, CNN, WSJ, Vogue, Bloomberg, Fox Business, Entrepreneur, Success, SELF, New York Magazine, The Financial Times, New York Times, Marie Claire Spain, NY1 Television, TVE, BBC, The London Financial News a full page profile in Life & Style, as well as the cover of marie claire. Her first blog was selected by tumblr as one of the world’s 15 best in the space and went viral twice.
After ten years, Lauren exited I.AM.YOU. and since advises a portfolio of companies on the nexus of business and brand strategies. She thrives on creating something out of nothing, and turning back of the napkin ideas into reality. Lauren additionally writes on Between the Waves (40% open rate), has written her first kid’s book, Cookies are Better than Vegetables, and is the Co-Founder of The Association, a first of its kind global leadership community of elite, extraordinary women.
Lauren holds an Intermediate Level Certificate from the International Wine Center and is fluent in three languages. She also holds multiple wellness certifications and a BA Cum Laude in Romance Languages and Literatures from Princeton University.
Table of Contents
Preface: It's All About Now x
Part 1 Detox to Retox
01 Time to Get off the Wagon 3
02 Retox Redux 13
03 Keeping it Together / Daily Practices for General Living 25
04 Did You Retox Today? 49
Part 2 Retox Lab
Getting Domed / Headache Relief and Prevention 53
Back Attack / Back Pain Prevention and Cures 65
Hangover Helper / Recovering from and Preventing 83
The New Mile-High Club / Making Travel a Healthy Time for You 97
Alien Baby Debloat / Getting Rid of That Abdominal Pooch 109
Rage Against the Female Machine / Handling PMS and the Vicious Cycle 123
S&M … and the Giant F / Stability, Mobility, and Flexibility 137
Dreaming of Sleep / Natural Sleeping Aids 153
Lumps on Modern Logs / Mitigating Constant Sitting 169
iADDICT / An Intervention for Tech Addiction 185
Energizer Bunny/The Low Energy Solution 201
Hustlin' and Bustlin' / Hyperdrive 219
Mental STDs / Managing Stress and Anxiety 235
Dangling Wo(man) / Uncertainty and Tough Times 251
The Blues / Depression, Loneliness, and Low Moods 265
I'M Fat / Creating Your Ideal Body and Mind 281
I Have To / Circumventing Societal Pressure 299
Crushin' It / Creating and Maintaining Success 313
Kids at Heart / An Exploration in Freedom and Fun 333
Pure Ecstasy / Finding the Natural High 347
Go Live It 359
Acknowledgments 362
Photo credits 363
Index 364