All Endos should read this book.
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This is an excellent book. Now I just have to find a doctor where I live that can apply the principles to me.  That is the hard part.  Finding that doctor.  Most of them just want to give you a pill, usually Synthroid, and dismiss any symptoms you might have as being in your head. Shame on you medical profession.
2525842
The best book I have ever read about the end times. The author knows his Bible and obviously has spent a lot of time studying.  I would recommend this book to anyone who is interested in escatology.
4241733
The best book I have read, by far, on the subject of Hashimoto's. For the first time I am given real hope that my condition can be reversed. I'm pretty determined and I will give it my best shot ever. I'm already feeling incredibly better just getting off gluten and dairy. I had no idea how bad it was making me feel until I stopped eating those things. Healing the gut. This is going to be my journey as I move forward.

The medical profession has a lot to answer for. Keeping people sick by not teaching their doctors. So it's up to the patient to be informed. Every doctor needs to read this. And I would like to say every Endocrinologist because they are the ones we are sent to for "the answers". Yet they are the least informed of them all. Sadly.
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This writer provides a very readable book after researching the PEER REVIEW JOURNALS that contain the research she refers to in the book.  She does not serve up her opinions very often and simply presents the research in an accessible style that most adults could read and understand.  Other books about gut microbes are not as firmly based on peer review articles as this book is.

Collen is an evolutionary PhD biologist which is essential in understanding this particular topic.  Very briefly, bacteria were the only organisms on the planet for about 3 BILLION years.  All other organisms that have arisen on Earth were born into a sea, an ocean of bacteria.  And all of those organisms have had to deal with that bacterial ocean... or die.  It's really no wonder the bacteria are the ones that are really controlling things.

I am in my 30th year of teaching community college biology courses for nursing students and my degrees are both in microbiology.  There's a lot of junk pseudoscience out there... but this book is not one of those.  Here in my last year of teaching, we are reading this book as a supplement to our regular text, and going through each chapter as a class.

If you don't read this book, you are missing out on a lot of answers to yours and our chronic health problems... from autism, obesity/overweight, allergies, diabetes, autoimmunity, antibiotic overuse, and diet.  How we cultivate our microbiome is the key to understanding health in the 21st century.

Without any reservations, I recommend this read.
2510569
This should be required reading for all humans.
2665980
Everyone who has had breast cancer or who has a loved one with breast cancer should read this book. In fact, every woman should read this book because it tells the truth about breast cancer, the politics behind the treatment of breast cancer, and tells you how to prevent it. Prevention isn't profitable, so we aren't going to learn about it in the doctors office. This is an in-depth look at a subject that until now hasn't been addressed at the level of hormones and diet. As they point out, the folks who put on "Breast Cancer Awareness" month claim that breast cancer can't be prevented. It can, and you'll understand why and how after you read this book. It's time that women took control of their health by being aware and educated, and this book is a great step in that direction. It's well-written, easy to understand and very thorough on the subject of breast cancer.
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Absolutely a great book.  Describes how our medical system handles the end of life.  I love the way he combines research and case studies and personal experience into a coherent essay.  Everything hit home because my mom is fighting cancer.  But this is not a what to do if a relative is dying book; it is an analysis of how our system works.  Can't praise it enough.  Hope our doctors, insurance people etc read this.

PS all of the authors books are worth reading.
2850223
How we should eat and why; the best book I have read to understand us.. human species..
More people die from colon cancer than from breast cancer and aids together...
You are what you eat for sure.

What about a campaign as big as the pink breast cancer campaign? Would not look that pretty but it is needed.
The essence of life, enzymes and our correct understanding of it, thank you Dr. Shinya
2034962
The information in this book is so vital. Everyone, and I mean everyone, should and need to read this book. As a society, we are on a financial, environment and physical precipice about to fall off both. We have to take better care of your environment and rid both our bodies and the environment of as much of the toxicity as possible. If we do not, we will see more people, more friends, more family members contracting diseases faster and faster. This is going to tax our already ridiculously high health(sick) care.  Peter Greenlaw's has taken the time to research the facts and lay them out in an easy to understand terms. I highly recommend this book to everyone, especially families with children as they are the generations to come.
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Everyone should read this book, especially your physician. As a computer programmer with very little knowledge of biochemistry or medicine, I found this extremely well written/edited/organized book packed with useful information logically presented and easy to understand. Dr. Natelson explains the difference between disease (which doctors can treat easily and quickly) and illness (which is much more challenging and time consuming). He describes his approach to treating illness in detail beginning with the tests he performs or orders and the reasons for each. He gives advice on how to find a physician, get them to hear you and take your illness seriously. He explains the relationships between pain, fatigue, depression, stress and sleep.

I have given copies of this book to friends with chronic pain and fatigue, but I would recommend it to everyone for it's insights into the minds and realities of physicians and treatments for illness.
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I wish I'd read this book while I was undergoing my madness. At 46yo I was struck with voices, anxiety, depression, etc. For some reason I never associated my symptoms with perimenopause. I was diagnosed as bipolar and went through all hell with psychiatrists, therapists and meds with horrible side effects. I now know it was perimenopause and all I really needed was HRT of some sort. Once I hit 51 they symptoms subsided and no more meds or doctors. This is a great book. This information needs to be read by all who may be suffering this. My doctors never thought about this problem. It was all my head.
2720318
Wow, everyone should read this book! The information contained in "Gut and Psychology Syndrome" can help people understand the importance of good gut health.
2602974
I think that everyone should read this book.  As a retired medical professional, I am so aware and so tired of Doctor Worship.  No, your doctor is not God; he is a very educated man in a very narrow field.  He knows what he was taught in medical school and now learns from non-medical sales reps hired by pharmaceutical companies to push their products.  Doctors today do not have the time to read anything but the bare minimum of medical journals.  They know nothing about methods that worked very well before antibiotics were discovered.  They know nothing about methods that were actually in their PDR's to help them diagnosis.  That is why they treat the symptoms not the disease.  This book covers many great discoveries that have been kept undercover to protect the greed and power of the AMA (not the average doctor who knows nothing about any of this).
1354573
I highly recommend reading this book, and I'm not even finished reading it yet.  I've been having thyroid problems for years and had a total thyroidectomy 5 months ago.  This book explains so much and it makes so much sense.  All of the people that wrote bad reviews about this book may have read it but didn't follow through and do what was explained to do, so of course they don't feel any better. A lot of them are just bashing the writer because they don't think it's possible for someone to communicate with the spirit world and are calling him crazy.  Well, believe it or not, it is possible.  People are told by their doctors that if they have thyroid problems or something of the sort that it's their body attacking itself. Now answer this...why would your body attacking itself?  Your body is trying to protect you and fight back against EBV and that's what's causing the illness.  I bought this book because I wanted answers, answers no doctor could give me.  I'm tired of feeling horrible all the time, even when my blood work comes back normal.  Now, I haven't finished the book yet but when I do, I will try the remedies and write a new review.
3721510
If you have been diagnosed with, or have any reason to believe that you may suffer from HMS EDS III, then this book can literally turn you into a nodding dog. My favourite part of the book is the clear lists of symptoms. I just nodded my head throughout reading these. OK so I had pieced together my plantar fasciitis, tennis elbow, sprains and other joint pain, but reading about clicking bones, fatigue, sitting in funny positions, IBS and a whole host of other things was truly enlightening. Having been called a hypochondriac all my life. I figured everyone must get these niggles and pains, twitches and spasms but that I just vocalise them too much. This book taught me I was wrong and that in fact I had grown up with a medical condition I had no idea about.

Reading about the fatigue in particular was the highlight for me, having being called lazy for years. When my friends want to go out round the town, I just want to stay home and have an early night. The very thought of being out in a crowded pub late at night horrifies me when I'd much rather be tucked up in my warm cosy bed. At the very start of the book, Isobel talks about the fatigue around Christmas festivities. I dread Christmas for this very reason. I don't even host Christmas myself but by 9pm when everyone still wants to celebrate, all I want is my bed. It is so good to see that I am not alone in this and that many people with this condition feel the same way.

Lastly I found the pictures totally humerous. Only because I could relate to every one of them - again I had no idea they related to any medical condition. Even as I type, I am sitting here with one leg entwined around the other. When I stand to wash the pots, I always bend one knee and drop my weight onto one leg. I never stand with both legs straight. Both myself and my daughter sit in the W position.

The balance between research and personal experience are spot on. Had it been focused too much on personal experience, other people may not have related entirely to the author's personal experiences. I for one, have never been able to dance in my life, whereas dance has been a big part of the author's life and so there are sections where she talks about hypermobility and dance that are irrelevant to me. We may all suffer from the same disease but we can still have very different symptoms. This book tries to cover this wide and diverse range of associated ailments and is a must for anyone who has (or knows someone who has), or think they might have Hypermobility Syndrome/ Elhers Danlos Syndrome Type III.
103619
I thought I knew a lot about health but didn't realised our gut microbes affects our brain.  So, I am now looking after my gut more than ever. Everybody should read this book which is easy to read. Dr David Perlmutter explain all in a simple way. It is so interesting and so fascinating. I read this book in two days, I couldn't put it down. Thank you Dr. Perlmutter for helping me to improve my health.
3336654
This book is a must-read. While it focuses on mortality and dealing with the end of life, it also illuminates what makes a life worth living. Regardless of age or health status, all humans need autonomy over their own lives and should be able to maintain that autonomy until the end. As someone with a terminally ill parent, this book made me realize that "hard conversations" need to happen in order to choose the ideal course of action and make the most of the time left together. I encourage everyone to read this book. It references many interesting studies, articles, cases and personal stories. Each of us will inevitably have to face the reality of our own mortality and the mortality of loved ones. This book gives so much insight into what is most important in the end. It will have you thinking for days and weeks to come and will hopefully change how doctors and families serve the elderly and sick.