The Immune System Recovery Plan: A Doctor's 4-Step Program to Treat Autoimmune Disease

This book is to aid anyone with an autoimmune or stomach problem. Good advice to help us get relief and help on living a healthy lifestyle nothing too outlandish I found it useful.

A brilliant book about Auto-immune disease. Lots of information about Coeliac Disease. My son was diagnosed with Coeliac disease a few years ago and I found this book recently when I began researching ways of healing through food. I consider this an invaluable resource if you are serious about getting healthy and staying healthy.Coeliac is an autoimmune disease that can initiate other autoimmune illness within the body such as Rheumatoid Arthritis, Diabetes Type 1 and more; therefore it is important that the gut is healed.It is my personal belief that all healing begins and ends in the gut. There can be malabsorption of nutrients through damage to the very delicate, hair-like villi in the small intestine often caused by a reaction to the gluten content in wheat which the body cannot digest. This can result in something called Leaky Gut, which allows larger particles of food to enter the bloodstream. The body then reacts by attacking these particles seeing them as foreign agents and sparking off an autoimmune response which ripples through the entire body setting off other autoimmune reactions and further disease patterns.I think this is where many illnesses can begin, i.e., in the gut / small intestine, it is our interface with the outside world if you like, this is how thinsubstances, good and bad get into our bodies. Hence, it makes perfect sense that this is where we heal from. A good addition to my bookshelf a very informative book.

Great book which really helps you to get your head around autoimmunity and what you can do to support your body and find a road back to health. None of the suggestions for diet and lifestyle change in this book are massively extreme to my way of thinking now but I can see how if you are a cola, coffee, alcohol, carbs and sugar fuelled person (and we've all been there at one time, lets be honest), you will probably find what she is suggesting quite a full-on u-turn in the way you view food.There are aspects of this book which are frustrating as a UK reader of a book written for an American audience, mainly because many of the tests and supplements mentioned are simply not available (or not easily available) in the UK. That said, this downside is easily compensated for by the good information contained in the rest of the book and if you can find a good nutritional therapist to work with, they can order many of the tests which your GP might scoff at anyway.The recipes contained in the book were useful for me to get my head around how to include certain foods into my family meals too.I recommend this book alongside Izabella Wentz Root Cause book if your specific autoimmune issue is Autoimmune Thyroid Disease.

I have many many diet and nutrition books, all informative and inspiring in their own own ways for different reasons. This book really goes to the core of helping you to understand what things in your diet might be causing niggling symptoms undiagnosable by your GP. It helps you understand what processes are occurring in your body when you digest certain foods containing for example, gluten, corn, soy etc and why they may be causing your symptoms. It then offers detailed help of how to eliminate these from your diet and how to repair any damage. The thing I like most about this book, apart from the fact it is unique inits content, is that you get the feeling, for the very first page that the author, Susan Blum is so sincere in her efforts to help you, the reader. I truly believe if she could get out around the world to help everyone in need of advice of how to overcome their immune deficiency, she would! Infact that is what she has done in sharing her book. I have already recommended it to three people, one who suffers with Hives, another with Rheumatoid Arthritis and another who has sensitivities to gluten. Thankyou Susan for creating such a readable account of why so many people are suffering today with symptoms all related to diet and nutrition and providing the help to enable us to make a real change to our quality of life. I'd LOVE to see a book written on children's health because most of the problems we encounter in adult life are those from a build up of bad diet and nutrition in the early years. We need a greater understanding of how to nourish our children to avoid problems later in life.

I loved this book. I'm just sorry I didn't discover it a few years ago when it was originally published. I have an (as yet) undiagnosed autoimmune disease that I have been suffering from for 8 and a half years. I've googled, asked friends, family and of course doctors what might be wrong and always come to a dead end. I'm a proactive, intensely independent person who struggles with the reality of 'just putting up' with my symptoms. This book has allowed me to educate myself and put me back in control in the best way possible, with pragmatic advice backed up by logic. The book is pitched just right for me - thoroughly researched, enough information to be fully informed without being overwhelmed, and with a clear cut plan (or plans) of action. What's more, the author is on your side, which is an incredibly empowering thing. This book is going to change my life. Watch this space!

Libro veramente incredibile che affronta la malattia autoimmune da tutti i punti di vista (alimentazione, stress, stile di vita ecc) e da' una serie di consigli da poter mettere subito in pratica per ascoltare il proprio corpo e ridurre l'infiammazione. Non ho mai trovato nel panorama italiano un libro cosi' completo, pratico e di uso immediato.La dottoressa ha infatti l'obiettivo di dare al paziente tutti gli strumenti per accompagnare la cura e pian piano sostituirla. Chiunque con una malattia autoimmune dovrebbe leggerlo.

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This book is so amazing.It changes your mindset towards food and helps you take care of body .Great one

As an individual with several auto- immune diseases, I am really enjoying learning about the reason behind the diseases from this book and are looking forward to implementing the diet plan into my lifestyle.The Author has a great deal of experience in this areaand offers a lot of good advice.

This is a great book, so imformative and easy to understand. I didn't know anything about auto immune disease till I got hemolytic anemia andthis book has given me insight to my problem and provided invaluable information to me. I actually borrowed if and renewed it from the library 3 timesbefore making my purchase. I just had to buy it to keep referring to it.