The Autoimmune Solution Quotes

“When it comes to the treatment of autoimmune conditions, conventional medicine has failed miserably.”
― Amy Myers, The Autoimmune Solution: A Comprehensive Guide to Preventing and Reversing Inflammatory Diseases Through Functional Medicine

“little coconut butter can be used to sweeten your caffeine-free herbal tea. Your taste buds will adapt as you cut out added and artificial sweeteners, and you’ll be amazed at how much sweeter an apple or a strawberry will taste.”
― Amy Myers, The Autoimmune Solution: A Comprehensive Guide to Preventing and Reversing Inflammatory Diseases Through Functional Medicine

“Another factor that makes gluten more dangerous to us today is the ever-increasing toxic burden each of us carries, thanks to the hundreds of new chemical compounds corporations are pumping into our air, water, and soil. Our immune systems are staggering under their load of industrial toxins, which makes gluten even more problematic. And our guts are leakier than ever. (See this list for the factors that cause leaky gut.)”
― Amy Myers, The Autoimmune Solution: A Comprehensive Guide to Preventing and Reversing Inflammatory Diseases Through Functional Medicine

“For example, a common conventional treatment for many autoimmune conditions is steroids, perhaps in the form of prednisone. Steroids suppress the immune system, so the reasoning is that they will work to calm an overactive immune system and get it down to a normal level so that it will stop attacking your own tissue. There are two problems with this approach, however. First, prednisone has a number of problematic side effects, as you saw. Second, when the prednisone suppresses your immune system, it doesn’t necessarily get it down to a normal level—it might suppress it down to below a normal level, so that you are dangerously vulnerable to threats a healthy immune function would be able to shake off, even such seemingly minor threats as a cold virus or some bacteria clinging to poorly washed food. That’s why people on immunosuppressants often have to be unusually careful about contact with children, being in a crowd, flying, and other situations where they might be exposed to illness or infection.”
― Amy Myers, The Autoimmune Solution: A Comprehensive Guide to Preventing and Reversing Inflammatory Diseases Through Functional Medicine

“Ultimately, if you clean up your diet; eliminate gluten, grains, and legumes; fix your leaky gut; lighten your toxic burden; heal your infections; and ease your stress load, you can look forward to an excellent quality of life.”
― Amy Myers, The Autoimmune Solution: A Comprehensive Guide to Preventing and Reversing Inflammatory Diseases Through Functional Medicine

“In chronic stress, by contrast, the immune system is activated—and because the stress never really turns off, your immune system keeps being activated.”
― Amy Myers, The Autoimmune Solution: A Comprehensive Guide to Preventing and Reversing Inflammatory Diseases Through Functional Medicine

“My strategy is to stop the assaults--to reduce the number of factors your immune system has to deal with by cleaning up your diet, healing your gut, lightening your toxic burden, treating your infections, and reducing your overall stress.”
― Amy Myers, The Autoimmune Solution: Prevent and Reverse the Full Spectrum of Inflammatory Symptoms and Diseases

“When fluoridated water was first introduced as a potential prevention against tooth decay, it was a natural product: calcium fluoride, to be exact. Now if there’s fluoride in our water, it is sodium fluoride, which is literally a toxic waste product of the aluminum industry.”
― Amy Myers, The Autoimmune Solution: A Comprehensive Guide to Preventing and Reversing Inflammatory Diseases Through Functional Medicine

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― Amy Myers, The Autoimmune Solution: A Comprehensive Guide to Preventing and Reversing Inflammatory Diseases Through Functional Medicine