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Detoxification and Healing: The Key to Optimal Health
Detoxification promotes wellness by ridding the body of poisons that can lead to a host of health problems ranging from fatigue and depression to cancer and diabetes. This revised edition of the popular nutrition-based health guide presents new advice and up-to-date information on detoxification and healing. In clear language, the author explains body chemistry, how detoxification works, and why it is so important. He discusses new medications, vitamin and mineral supplements, delayed food allergies, the dangers of mercury and aluminum poisoning, and much more.
224 pages, Paperback
First published January 1, 1997
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November 9, 2012
This book said all the right things at the start of it. But in the end the practical advice given just wasn’t of the same quality as the health and healing theory the book started with.
The author was inspired by the brilliant Linus Pauling and also Jeffrey Bland.
The author explains that if we were sitting on two tacks then of course just removing one tack would not make our pain and other symptoms lessen by 50%. He says that it is the same with our health. If we’re still sitting on a tack then we will need to do lots of health-promoting things to feel better. More and more as our illness worsens. But what is really needed most of all is not just good management but tack removal. This is where good nutrition and detoxification programs come in.
This book talks about the commonly supported fantasy that if a doctor can name it ‘they can tame it.’ There is a lot of good information about why diagnosing something is not the same as finding the causes of the symptoms and how the person should best be treated. The book also discusses the need to avoid toxic substances in our environment as well as foods we react to.
The body’s systems all work together and are connected in many ways and we are each biochemically unique and can have all sorts of nutritional and other quirks, the book explains. Successful treatment means treating the body as a system and not just masking individual symptoms blindly with drugs.
There was too much focus on stress as a cause of illness in my opinion and it is even suggested that MCSS patients have an abuse link in the cause of their disease.
The practical advice given in this book is quite poor, outdated and incomplete. A vegetarian diet is recommended as is avoiding salt and saturated fat and eating tons of fibre. Many diet myths are repeated in the book sadly. FIR sauna use is not even mentioned and the dosages given for most supplements are far too low to do very much. 200 mg of vitamin C twice daily is recommended to help patients cope with having mercury fillings removed, for example. But so may good orthomolecular books explain that massive vitamin C doses or even IVs are needed in such cases as a matter of urgency. This dose is so small as to be completely worthless. Linus Pauling would not at all agree with this recommendation!
This book was quite disappointing overall but many of the parts of it on health and healing theory were rock solid. The author clearly knows his stuff on this topic and is to be congratulated for speaking so well on this topic. There are far better books out there for useful practical advice on this topic however (e.g. Detoxify or Die by Dr Rogers).
Jodi Bassett, The Hummingbirds' Foundation for M.E. (HFME) and Health, Healing & Hummingbirds (HHH)
The author was inspired by the brilliant Linus Pauling and also Jeffrey Bland.
The author explains that if we were sitting on two tacks then of course just removing one tack would not make our pain and other symptoms lessen by 50%. He says that it is the same with our health. If we’re still sitting on a tack then we will need to do lots of health-promoting things to feel better. More and more as our illness worsens. But what is really needed most of all is not just good management but tack removal. This is where good nutrition and detoxification programs come in.
This book talks about the commonly supported fantasy that if a doctor can name it ‘they can tame it.’ There is a lot of good information about why diagnosing something is not the same as finding the causes of the symptoms and how the person should best be treated. The book also discusses the need to avoid toxic substances in our environment as well as foods we react to.
The body’s systems all work together and are connected in many ways and we are each biochemically unique and can have all sorts of nutritional and other quirks, the book explains. Successful treatment means treating the body as a system and not just masking individual symptoms blindly with drugs.
There was too much focus on stress as a cause of illness in my opinion and it is even suggested that MCSS patients have an abuse link in the cause of their disease.
The practical advice given in this book is quite poor, outdated and incomplete. A vegetarian diet is recommended as is avoiding salt and saturated fat and eating tons of fibre. Many diet myths are repeated in the book sadly. FIR sauna use is not even mentioned and the dosages given for most supplements are far too low to do very much. 200 mg of vitamin C twice daily is recommended to help patients cope with having mercury fillings removed, for example. But so may good orthomolecular books explain that massive vitamin C doses or even IVs are needed in such cases as a matter of urgency. This dose is so small as to be completely worthless. Linus Pauling would not at all agree with this recommendation!
This book was quite disappointing overall but many of the parts of it on health and healing theory were rock solid. The author clearly knows his stuff on this topic and is to be congratulated for speaking so well on this topic. There are far better books out there for useful practical advice on this topic however (e.g. Detoxify or Die by Dr Rogers).
Jodi Bassett, The Hummingbirds' Foundation for M.E. (HFME) and Health, Healing & Hummingbirds (HHH)
August 8, 2017
Excellent! Highly recommended.
July 26, 2018
Would not recommend to anyone looking to get healthy due to bad science in this book
June 26, 2016
This book was required as a college course and I am grateful it was. People today are looking for a quick fix for health and weight problems and often times detoxification is overlooked. But, it's important to know how to properly detoxify so you don't cause more harm than good.
November 12, 2007
a good book that looks at the biochemistry of detoxification.
May 18, 2014
There are some good ideas, but find the author rambling on without clear objective on or conclusions. Perhaps a little outdated as well as some heavy metals can be detoxed as opposed to 10 years ago.
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