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262 Pages
Publication date: September 2018
Imprint: ecoWing
Andrea Freund Lucia Schmidt

Spleen, This Is Liver Speaking

Learning to Listen to Our Organ’s Secret Signals

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Who even knows where the spleen is located and what it does? Why we couldn’t breathe without our brainstem, and that the tailbone is essential for standing upright?

We know our larger organs, such as the heart, intestines, and lungs, but the smaller ones are all too often underestimated. But we should learn how to interpret the signals of all our organs correctly if we want to understand our body in its entirety – and if we want it to be healthy.
In an entertaining and illustrative way, Lucia Schmidt and Andrea Freund show which cogs are meshing in our brain and make our body function.

A science book that entertains and takes care of our well-being as a side effect.

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Autoren

Andrea Freund

Andrea Freund, born in 1966, studied Romance Philology and works as a freelance journalist, yoga teacher, and alternative practitioner of psychotherapy. Since 1987, she has been writing for the Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung.

Lucia Schmidt

Dr. med. Lucia Schmidt, born in 1982, is a physician and editor responsible for the »Leib & Seele« (»Body & Soul«) pages in the Frankfurter Allgemeine Sonntagszeitung as well as the FAZ health podcast. She has been awarded several media prizes, including the Journalism Prize of the Professional Association of German Surgeons, and her 2018 debut work SPLEEN, THIS IS LIVER SPEAKING (2018) was an international success. Lucia Schmidt lives in Frankfurt am Main.