A review by aduski
Medical Medium: Secrets Behind Chronic and Mystery Illness and How to Finally Heal by Anthony William

1.0

Do not drink the (celery flavored) kool aid! I was reading this with an open mind until I got to the chapter about menopause and bone loss. The author claims that instead of the loss of estrogen associated with menopause causing bone mass losses, it is actually estrogen itself that causes the reduced bone density. His explanation is that over time this steroidal estrogen eats away at our bones but we only notice it during menopause and then assume it’s the menopause causing it. THIS ( and embarrassingly not in the first few pages when he tells us the voice in his head tells him everything we are about to read 🤦🏻‍♀️) is where I had no choice than to accept that he is a quack. I personally know this section of the book to be false because as a breast cancer patient when I was a pre-menopausal 29year old, I was put on a drug that puts me into a false menopause, temporarily stopping my ovaries from creating estrogen. After two years they check your bone density and my bone mass in those two years was significantly reduced without estrogen. This is directly opposite to his theory in the book, in fact according to him my body should have paused bone loss from this treatment. The same significant bone density losses happened to “cancer friends” of mine who were also young (in their 20s) undergoing the same treatment. Because I know this information is wrong, it’s hard for me to trust anything else in the book. I do believe healthy diet and mental health can aide in disease prevention but it is dangerous to give false advice to people based on a voice in your head. Science is real even if it may not have every answer yet.