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Living
Well With Autoimmune Disease, by Mary Shomon
Autoimmune diseases
are quite widespread. The table below lists some of the more
common ones:
| Graves'
Disease |
Diabetes
Type 1 |
Multiple
Sclerosis |
| Rheumatoid
Arthritis |
Scleroderma |
Sjogren's
Syndrome |
| Lupus |
Hashimoto's
Thyroiditis |
Vitiligo |
| Crohn's
Diseasse |
Ulcerative
Colitis |
Alopecia
areata |
| Vasculitis |
Uveitis |
Meniere's
Disease |
If you want to
learn more about one of these diseases, Living Well with Autoimmune
Disease is an excellent encyclopedic resource for your library.
Mary Shomon is
an exceptionally skilled journalist who writes from the perspective
of someone having lived through an autoimmune disease. Her
journey with hypothyroidism prompted her to find answers through
authentic alternatives to the drug-oriented medical paradigm.
Mary interviewed
me for her Web site several years ago, and she impressed me
as one of the most insightful journalists I have ever encountered.
Her questions were highly targeted and oriented toward practical
recommendations for her readers.
The book is broken
down into four sections:
Understanding
Autoimmune Disease:
Reviews basic elements of your immune system and some of the
causes and risk factors for autoimmune diseases. It will help
you understand what it means to have an autoimmune disease
and what impact it will have on your current and future health.
Key
Autoimmune Conditions:
Over 150 pages of reference material that will help you find
out the details of your specific autoimmune condition. You
will learn the key symptoms, diagnostic procedures and conventional
treatments for the most common conditions. This information
will help you to get the proper diagnosis.
Holistic
Approaches:
Provides a comprehensive overview of the many natural treatment
options that exist to manage these diseases. Many practical
dietary, supplemental and lifestyle approaches are reviewed.
Some of the more innovative and promising new treatments for
key autoimmune diseases are also discussed.
Creating
Your Plan:
Provides simple and practical recommendations based on the
wisdom of someone who has personally fought and helped many
tens of thousands of others recover from their struggle with
autoimmune disease. It is loaded with dozens of strategies,
worth much more than the price of the book. This section will
help you find out where to go for treatment and how to find
the best doctors, as well as give you ideas for helpful books,
patient organizations, experts and Web sites for further information.
Essentially, this helps you learn how to become an expert
on your disease.
The book is a major
shortcut to a wealth of information. If you have an autoimmune
disease, it can save you months of time.
Most of you know
that diet is one of the keystones of my health approach. My
only reservation on the book is that it does not incorporate
any Metabolic
Typing information, but for that matter neither do over
99 percent of all health books.
Mary interviewed
me for this book as one of her featured experts, and at the
time I had not yet implemented nutritional typing into my practice.
Understanding nutritional typing helps to clear up the major
confusion regarding diet; this is even present in this book
as both low-fat and high-protein diet recommendations are
given without clear indications of how to find out whether
either one is right for you.
That is a relatively
mild shortcoming though and is easily compensated for by reviewing
nutritional typing and integrating the diet information into
the marvelous resource that Mary has created for those with
autoimmune disease.
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