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The Immune System Recovery Plan: A Doctor's 4-Step Program to Treat Autoimmune Disease
Written by Susan Blum, MD, MPH
Narrated by Laural Merlington
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The most prevalent form of chronic illness in this country, autoimmune diseases affect nearly 23.5 million Americans. This epidemic-a result of the toxins in our diet, our exposure to chemicals, heavy metals, antibiotics, and unprecedented stress levels-has caused millions of people to suffer from diseases like Graves' disease, rheumatoid arthritis, Crohn's disease, celiac disease, lupus, and more. Now, Dr. Susan Blum describes the four-step plan that she used to treat her own serious autoimmune condition and helps countless patients reverse their symptoms, strengthen their immune systems, and prevent future illness.
Dr. Blum's innovative method shows how to use food as medicine, understand the connection between stress and health, heal the gut and digestive system, and optimize liver function. The Immune System Recovery Plan is a groundbreaking, revolutionary way for people to transform their health.
Dr. Blum's innovative method shows how to use food as medicine, understand the connection between stress and health, heal the gut and digestive system, and optimize liver function. The Immune System Recovery Plan is a groundbreaking, revolutionary way for people to transform their health.
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- Rating: 5 out of 5 stars5/5This is an immensely valuable book for those with an auto-immune disease (I have several). The author, who is a doctor, herself developed Hashimoto’s thyroiditis, and this meant that she had to cure this auto-immune disease herself, since traditional medicine had no satisfactory answers.She found out that the four steps to healing and preventing auto-immune disease are:1)Using food as medicine2)Understanding the stress connection3)Healing your gut4)Supporting your liver.The ingestion of gluten is believed to cause auto-immune disease, and genetic modification of crops like corn, soy and wheat exacerbates the problem. Modern-day diets in general trigger the development of auto-immune disease.Also, a diet high in animal-based foods such as dairy, eggs and beef can promote inflammation and throw off the balance of good bacteria that live in your gut.Potential triggers are chronic stress, hormone imbalance and infections.The author discusses gluten, celiac disease and gluten sensitivity and foods bad for your immune system, such as sugar and saturated animal fat and trans fats from processed foods. She informs us about the benefits of an anti-inflammatory diet, and other “good stuff”, including essential fatty acids, vitamin D, selenium, zinc and green tea. Each part of the book includes a workbook for each theme and beneficial recipes.We are informed of which foods to avoid and which to include.There are three valuable chapters on stress, and tests to enable us to assess our degree of stress.We are told about leaky gut syndrome and how to heal our gut. Important additions to our diet are coconut oil and probiotics.The author includes three chapters on supporting your liver, and edifies us about toxins such as mercury, lead, plastics, pesticides, prescription medicines, heavy metals, vaccinations and xenoestrogens – the latter being chemicals that mimic the effects of estrogen in the body.We need to detoxify our body, and remove metals by means of glutathione. Heavy-metal chelating agents include chlorella, cilantro and fibre.This is an absolutely valuable, excellently-written book on healing auto-immune diseases, perhaps the only one of its kind. I highly recommend that you purchase this book. It provides detailed information on what to eat, what not to eat, what to do and what not to do.
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- Rating: 5 out of 5 stars5/5nonfiction; health/functional medicine for autoimmune disease.
Easy to read explanations of what foods and supplements are good for you and which are not, from a doctor who has had her own troubles with autoimmune disease.
Recommended for anyone who suspects they may have food sensitivities (or autoimmune issues). - Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5Great book on dealing with autoimmune disease and inflammation. Perhaps a little too technical at times but still understandable for the layman.