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The Immune System Recovery Plan: A Doctor's 4-Step Program to Treat Autoimmune Disease
Susan Blum
3.76 AVERAGE
16 reviews for:
The Immune System Recovery Plan: A Doctor's 4-Step Program to Treat Autoimmune Disease
Susan Blum
3.76 AVERAGE
Having a more rare auto immune condition which can't be cured, I found this book helpful.
While it repeats what I have already learned from other sources regarding wheat and gluten and why we are seeing more sensitive to it now, it also connects the average American diet's over consumption of wheat at every meal, as well as sugar and unhealthy fats to autoimmune disease.
Autoimmune disease is on the rise- and in these cases of immune systems attacking the body's own tissues you can reduce the effects of an autoimmune condition by following the steps in this book.
Nutritional healing is key, but so is healthy thinking, exercise and rest.
You know all those things you are supposed to do anyway but might not do enough of?
Eat well- fresh/whole foods well. Take care of yourself. Sleep. Don't take things too seriously and find and reduce stressors in your life.
Do it like your life depends on it. If your condition could kill you, then your life does depend on it. It it can't - if it will just be a part of every day of your life until you die- the quality of each day you are on this earth depends on it because it can at times, become hard to see how you can live this way for 40, 50, ? more years.
Make the changes you can make to improve each day. This book will help you.
While it repeats what I have already learned from other sources regarding wheat and gluten and why we are seeing more sensitive to it now, it also connects the average American diet's over consumption of wheat at every meal, as well as sugar and unhealthy fats to autoimmune disease.
Autoimmune disease is on the rise- and in these cases of immune systems attacking the body's own tissues you can reduce the effects of an autoimmune condition by following the steps in this book.
Nutritional healing is key, but so is healthy thinking, exercise and rest.
You know all those things you are supposed to do anyway but might not do enough of?
Eat well- fresh/whole foods well. Take care of yourself. Sleep. Don't take things too seriously and find and reduce stressors in your life.
Do it like your life depends on it. If your condition could kill you, then your life does depend on it. It it can't - if it will just be a part of every day of your life until you die- the quality of each day you are on this earth depends on it because it can at times, become hard to see how you can live this way for 40, 50, ? more years.
Make the changes you can make to improve each day. This book will help you.
Highly recommend this book to anyone who is struggling with an autoimmune disease. You have the tools you need to heal your self through lifestyle changes and diet.
Practical, clear and lots of footnotes: what I like in a book. Just one in a series of approaches to autoimmune-related conditions, but Blum offers some ways forward and practical steps to try out with few downsides to them. Worth a read.
This book was recommended to my by a friend when she heard about some health problems I was dealing with. I ordered it immediately and read it in a few days. I am just starting an elimination diet, but I was mostly impressed with the information it contained and the case it made.
One thing that was a huge sticking point for me was her (repeated!) claim that our ancestors “settled down to farming (only ten generations ago)”. This is clearly not factual. If it was in there only one time, you think maybe the editors missed it and she meant ten thousand years ago but thought generations sounded good and didn't have a literal, numerical meaning. But seriously, in a book that claims to be well-researched, to claim that farming started around the time that the US became a country? It made me wonder what other number could be wrong.
And if it wasn't an honest mistake, then did she really think her case was weak enough that she had to make some bizarrely erroneous claim to convince readers? The obvious manipulation of that claim to support her theory just made me question the other facts she presented, which I find harder to verify.
Docking a full two stars for that mistake/lie. If the elimination diet works, I may restore a star ;)
One thing that was a huge sticking point for me was her (repeated!) claim that our ancestors “settled down to farming (only ten generations ago)”. This is clearly not factual. If it was in there only one time, you think maybe the editors missed it and she meant ten thousand years ago but thought generations sounded good and didn't have a literal, numerical meaning. But seriously, in a book that claims to be well-researched, to claim that farming started around the time that the US became a country? It made me wonder what other number could be wrong.
And if it wasn't an honest mistake, then did she really think her case was weak enough that she had to make some bizarrely erroneous claim to convince readers? The obvious manipulation of that claim to support her theory just made me question the other facts she presented, which I find harder to verify.
Docking a full two stars for that mistake/lie. If the elimination diet works, I may restore a star ;)
I will visit this book again and again to help keep my immune system healthy. As someone with two autoimmune disorders, I need reliable ideas to keep myself going. This book has lots of nutrition and vitamin supplement ideas for finding your rhythm.
Amazing ... a text I will refer to again and again. Very thorough and the recipes included are delicious.