Review of Milk Diet As A Remedy For Chronic Disease (Paperback)

After reading this book, I tried the Milk Diet.It is a step by step description of how to do it, written by a doctor in the early 1900's.He was successful in curing many kinds of illnesses in the body: lowering blood pressure, cleaning out the digestive system ( I was able to get rid of "geographic tongue" after three weeks on the diet.)You have to be dedicated to doing the diet just as described.You drink 5 to 7 ounces of raw milk every half hour from 6:30 am to 9:00 pm.You're never hungry but the hope of getting well is a great incentive.

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Milk Diet is a treatment book, based on the observations of Dr. Porter who spent over 41 years permanently curing or modifying disease in over 18,000 of his patients with the use of raw milk. This treatment dates back to the time of Hippocrates. This book also details the composition of raw milk, giving explanation to how it is able to offer a safe alternative to conventional treatments for chronic disease. The healing is dramatic and should not be feared but welcomed, for it is a true healing, not the suppression of symptoms.

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Review of Live in the Balance: The Ground-Breaking East-West Nutrition Program (Paperback)

This book is a fascinating and practical guide to choosing the right foods and lifestyle for your own body.It starts with simple questionnaires to help you understand your body from an "energetic" or Eastern perspective.Prout describes symptoms of excess "heat," "cold," "dampness," "dryness," and "wind" -- all Chinese diagnostic terms.The book then goes on to give the foods and lifestyle strategies to best remedy these imbalances.Someone who is overweight should avoid "damp" foods, for instance, as opposed to counting calories, the Western approach that has obviously been failing us so far.Imbalances are easy to spot and I enjoyed figuring out my pattern. I really like the fact that moods (a temper, irritability, depression) fit in with body patterns.This isa customized approach to eating right and is based on thosands of years of observation rather than hundreds of years of "science" which only seem to correspond with increasing disease and obesity rates.

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For over three thousand years practitioners of Chinese medicine have known that food is health-giving. Now path-breaking nutritionist Linda Prout synthesizes the basic principles of Traditional Chinese Medicine (TCM) with the science of western nutrition. With a clear focus to help readers achieve balance, Prout introduces the concept of balance and describes the signs and symptoms of various patterns of imbalance from a TCM perspective. She provides simple self-assessments readers can use to determine their own tendencies toward imbalance, and recommends foods, cooking methods, and lifestyle changes to balance each pattern. Fats, proteins, carbohydrates and sugars are each discussed from a western nutrition and eastern perspective, with beneficial and potentially unhealthful choices given for each body pattern.

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Review of The Stress Effect (Avery Health Guides) (Paperback)

BACKGROUND

I am a Ph.D. chemist.In my free time, I have been on a quest to find an overview on the cause of chronic diseases and how to practically treat them -- especially immune disorders (for example, allergies, arthritis, fibromyalgia) and blood sugar imbalances (for example, hypoglycemia, diabetes).

Here are some of the key books I have found over the past 4 years and where this book fits into that collection.


KEY BOOKS FOR HEALTH

The first book that actually helped was "Enter the Zone" by Ph.D. biochemist Dr. Barry Sears, which first taught me about how diet influences general health from a very scientific perspective and how to design your meals for ideal health.(The easiest way to implement it that I found was the book by nutritionists Gene & Joyce Daoust "The Formula".)This was the first book that provided an overview of how to try to practically control your biochemistry for health (for example, with this I was able to reduce hypoglycemia and chronic fatigue).

Another key book was by physicians Dr. Murray and Dr. Pizzorno "Encyclopedia of Natural Medicine" which indicated that organic thymus glandular can help normalize the immune system (for example, decrease the severity of your allergies).

The next book with practical advice that works (although I question the scientific validity of some of his explanations) is the book by physician Dr. Jordan Rubin "Heal Thyself" -- someone who brought himself back from the brink of death by following the information that he shares in this book.The major item mentioned that helped was the protocol with the RM-10 product (a mixture of Shiitake mushrooms, etc.) to try to restore blood sugar and immune balance (and helped decrease arthritis, along with taurine, glucosamine, and MSM).

The next great overview book was by physician Dr. Jacob Teitelbaum "From Fatigued to Fantastic", which provided comprehensive and specific information on how to treat fibromyalgia and chronic fatigue but from a big picture overview.


THIS BOOK: BEST COMPLETE RATIONAL EXPLANATION FOR CHRONIC ILLNESS

Perhaps the greatest of all of the books I found so far was this book.

Not only does it give a detailed link between stress and chronic disease but also provides concrete details on how to approach treating the disease.

In this book (that was well-researched in both the clinic and library in collaboration with conventional physicians and scientists), he managed to tie together several different key subjects -- stress, metabolism, natural medicine and chronic illness, creating a rational underlying explanation for chronic illnesses.(For example, he shows how stress can produce a hypothryoid condition.)

I should also say that I have been trying on and off in my free time for the past 4 years or so to do the same thing and had not yet been able to do so.This book successfully answers my key questions about the connection between stress and chronic illness.

I am grateful to Dr. Weinstein for sharing his years of experience in the clinic with the world at large.I now have a framework for understanding and trying to approach treating my own health issues.

In my opinion, if you have ANY kind of chronic illness (even those for which mainstream medicine claims there are no treatments), you should read this book.Properly implementing his suggestions should improve your health -- no matter how deteriorated it currently is.

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A guide to eliminating stress and regaining your health.

Long-term stress can lead to numerous health problems, including intestinal inflammation, which only exacerbates the situation. The Stress Effect helps readers understand the connection between their chronic stress and illness, and provides effective programs for correcting imbalances and repairing the intestinal tract lining. It also offers suggestions for managing psychological stress; a commonsense diet that promotes balance; and a resource guide that directs the reader to doctors who are familiar with the range of therapies recommended.

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Review of Eat Right for Your Type Complete Blood Type Encyclopedia (Paperback)

I admit it: I was suspicious of this diet.Before examining this book, I thought the diet sounded very "fad-like"(and I remain wholly unconvinced by the personality-trait correspondences which are NOT essential to the scientific basis of the diet, just a curiosity). I read negative reviews and their justifications.What I noticed was that most of these reviews sounded a lot like the criticisms leveled at the Atkins diet, a diet that does work for a lot of people (though not all--this book makes clear why) that have since been disproven by double-blind studies.A number noted that d'Adamo's theories weren't backed up by scientific research.Fair enough; this book cites double-blind studies and peer-reviewed research extensively, far more so than the Eat Right and Cook Right books.It also fine-tunes some of the earlier findings.This is ongoing research, something you just don't see in proponents of "fad" diets.D'Adamo has clearly been listing to his critics, and makes every attempt to clarify, fine-tune, and explain how all of this works.
I picked this book--and the diet--up when I browsed it in the store and noted that the medical problems in my family charted almost exactly with the risk factors for blood type.(Blood type correlations with disease have actually been established in peer-reviewed medical journals for a long time, although they aren't much talked about.)I tried the diet.I'm about three weeks in.I've lost 10 pounds, my digestive problems are much improved, I feel more energetic, I don't crave sweets, and -- the most convincing thing for me, because I wasn't looking for it and therefore can't attribute it to the placebo effect -- the morning stiffness I've had for 30 years is gone.It takes at least a week for things to kick in--especially if one has increased intestinal permeability due to intestinal damage--but it does, and for many,myself included, the results are quite profound.
I am not a scientist, nor am I claiming that d'Adamo has everything right.There are some typos in the book, although most misprints are corrected on the website (www.dadamo.com)--hard to find, but worth looking.This is ongoing research, however. D'Adamo also uses that site to update new findings on food compatibility.I think this diet could easily be used in conjunction with others appropriate to type. For instance, type O people will do well with Atkins as long as they cut out the wheat gluten and dairy; people with food allergies may have to limit intake of more foods than he lists.He suggests 70-80% compliance works for most people.
Even the critics suggest that this diet isn't likely to harm anyone.I fully expect some version of this to be exonerated as fully as, if not more than, Atkins.In the meantime, this is a great resource, it's interesting reading even for the healthy, and it is more likely to engage a reader like myself who likes to see detailed scientific justification before jumping into a health plan.

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Dr. Peter J. D'Adamo has established himself as the world's most popular and respected authority on the connection between blood type and eating, cooking and living. Eat Right 4 Your Type, Cook Right 4 Your Type, and Live Right 4 Your Type have created an international phenomenon.

Now comes the essential reference book to answer all your questions about conditions, herbs, supplements, medication and food. From asthma to sore throat, from cancer to thrombosis, this guide recommends treatment for hundreds of conditions, citing rigorous studies that detail the frequency and severity of the conditions for each blood type.

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Review of Cracking the Metabolic Code (Paperback)

I originally bought this book because of the title thinking that it would help with my metabolism and give me answers to how to speed it up. In that regard the title was misleading but as I later learned while reading this book that metabolism refers to much more than how fast your body burns calories.Anyone serious about making their body the #1 priority and giving it what it needs to function properly and increase health longevity should read this book.Excellent, excellent, excellent.I could never be in the medical field but I understood enough to learn about the interactions of the body system as it refers to your health.The supplement list is great (I would love to know if there is an updated version in case new products are available).Also the test guide to learn where your problem areas are is very useful.

All in all 5 star, I only wish there were more doctors like Dr. LaValle to assist people in there quest for optimal health.

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Doctors traditionally prescribe a pill for every ill. But for mostpeople, these single solutions don't work. The truth is, most chronichealth problems, including stubborn weight gain, unbeatable fatigue,intestinal distress, high blood pressure, creeping cholesterol, andhigh blood sugar, are not found in simply one organ, but in severalparts of the body (often times in twos and threes). This is the resultof years of slow, subtle challenges to your metabolism, which is asunique as you are. Your lifestyle habits, stess level, prescriptiondrug use, and relationships, as well as the genes you inherit and theenvironment in which you live-in effect, the sum total of your lifeexpierence up to this day-determine your personal metabolism and, inturn, your current state of health.
Using a step-by-step, easy-to-implement system of diet, lifestylestrategies, and state-of-the-art nutrients and supplements, Dr. JamesLaValle will help you create an indiviudalized program for reclaimingyour metabolism and health.

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