The alphabetical Cross Reference and Index give you quick access to the remedies for all the conditions addressed, making the book unusually user-friendly. The Remedy At A Glance Charts in each chapter make it easy to reference a remedy without rereading the instructions each time. Each chapter concludes with a case study written as an entertaining and inspirational short story about someone who uses the remedy to heal and prevent a medical condition. You can relate to these people to matter who you are because they share the same problems as you. They are women and men, old and young, black and white, rich and poor, single and married. These stories--which read like mini novels--take place in various locations such as New York, San Diego, Dallas, the Midwest, Seattle, Los Angeles, Aspen Puerto Rick, France, and Mexico. These personal accounts relate to the human condition and do more than just entertain. They make it easier to remember the directions in the first part of the chapter. You may forget Gingko Biloba and L-Glutamine, but you will rmember Moshe, the kosher deli owner in Manhattan who uses the combination to recover his super memory. Or Betsy, the 92-year-old granddaughter of a slave, who uses Vitamin B12 to help her outpace her 40-something nephew during a visit to San Diego's Sea World. All of these people used supplements to reach their "Maximum Best". You can use their experiences to help you reach your own. The intellectual foundation of this book is the Maximum Best Philosophy, which embodies the principle of living responsibly and includes a duty to the self--to try to fully realize your own potential. Maximum Best is completely personal. You can no more compare yours to another persons than you can compare your fingerprints. It involves letting go of the world, the outside competition, and looking inside to compete with yourself. One problem with competing with other people as a way of measuring your own abilities is that you are constantly dependent on--and limited to--the quality of the competition. If you win a race against people whose abilities are far below yours, it can be an empty victory. And there is no disgrace in placing last when you are outclassed by the competition--if you reached your Maximum Best in trying. If you could fast forward to the end of your life and look back, your Maximum Best would be the highest points you reached in your lifetime. Maximum Best is better than your best. It is a level you must reach and stretch and tax to attain. Some people reach it a couple of times a week, others only once in a lifetime. Illness is one variable that will affect your ability to attain Maximum Best; healing and preventing illness with food supplements is the focus of this book. Your body's warning plus your timely response can equal prevention, making it possible to age without severe illness. But if you do not take care of your health, your body and mind will retaliate against you as you age. Consider the serious debilitations--preventable cancers, ruined livers, broken-down kidneys, worn-out hearts, fused and arthritic joints, deformed spines, clogged arteries and confused minds--which could be avoided by making responsible choices about your health now. Naturally, you cannot account for or control every genetic predisposition to a specific condition, but you can do more to heal yourself than you have been led to believe. With the unique information contained here, you have the power, right now, to heal and prevent many potentially debilitating conditions. For most people, the natural treatments can produce astonishing results in a short period and are fairly inexpensive when compared with drug treatments. If you follow the instructions carefully, the supplements can improve, suppress, heal, and even prevent the conditions they address. Good health and good reading!