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From the #1 New York Times bestselling author of The End of Illness comes an ingenious guide to what our fellow animals can teach us about living longer, healthier, happier lives. Mother nature has a lot to teach us, if only we open our eyes. Pigeons and dolphins offer creative strategies for...

Deftly combining medicine, social history, and personal experience, Our Symphony with Animals is the first book by a physician to show how deeply the well-being of humans and animals are entwined. Interwoven throughout is Dr. Akhtar's own story of being a young girl who was bullied in school and sexually abused by her uncle. Feeling abandoned by humanity, it was only when she met Sylvester, a dog who had also been abused, that she found strength for both of them. Our Symphony with Animals is the definitive account for why our relationships with animals matter.

En este libro podemos aprender que las palomas y los delfines ofrecen estrategias creativas para conservar la memoria y evitar la demencia; que las ardillas y los cerdos esconden secretos para controlar el dolor crónico; los chimpancés ofrecen sorprendentes consejos para la crianza de los hijos, por no hablar de sus estupendos consejos dietéticos; que el estudio de los elefantes ha revelado secretos para prevenir el cáncer; y que las jirafas nos ofrecen soluciones a los problemas cardiovasculares.