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©2026
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x, 340 pages ; 24 cm
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Includes index
In Beyond the Prescription, Dr. Lucy McBride explains why: Modern health care prioritizes transactions over relationships, screens over stories, and data over context. Into that void has stepped a massive wellness industry offering seductive promises of control - "optimize," "detox," "biohack" - often without evidence and with real risks. McBride refuses the false choice between conventional medicine and wellness culture. Instead, she offers a practical middle path built on health agency: the capacity to make informed decisions aligned with your values while advocating effectively for support. This book isn't prescriptive or perfectionist. It's a framework to help you navigate uncertainty, misinformation, and the realities of your life. At the center is a five-step process that moves you from redefining health on your own terms, through mapping your full health ecosystem and understanding how you personally approach care, to asking for help more effectively and making peace with what you cannot control