The Immune System Recovery Plan
A Doctor's 4-Step Program to Treat Autoimmune Disease
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Descripción editorial
"The Immune System Recovery Plan is the right book, at the right time, by the right person. We are witnessing a significant increase in autoimmune inflammatory diseases, which include more than 80 different diagnoses. Dr. Blum has done a magnificent job helping the reader to understand how this family of inflammatory disorders, including arthritis and fibromyalgia, can be managed with the diet and lifestyle program she developed in her practice. Her step-by-step approach is based on her considerable years of experience as a physician, and the emerging medical science that, for the first time, has developed an understanding of how genetics, lifestyle and nutrition play a role in origin of these disorders. The approach described in Dr. Blum's book represents the leading edge in the lifestyle management of chronic inflammatory disorders. It is a 'news to use' book that provides real assistance to those with inflammatory disorders who are looking for a clinically sensible approach to their problems."
(Jeffrey Bland, Ph.D., FACN, President, Personalized Lifestyle Medicine Institute)
The innovative four-step method in this book focuses on:
Using food as medicine
Understanding the stress connection
Healing your gut and digestive system
Optimizing liver function
Each of these sections includes an interactive workbook to help you determine and create your own personal treatment program. Also included are recipes for simple, easy-to-prepare dishes to jump-start the healing process.
The Immune System Recovery Plan is a revolutionary way for people to balance their immune systems, transform their health, and live fuller, happier lives.
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For people with autoimmune diseases who have been told that managing symptoms with powerful immunosuppressive drugs is their only option, functional medicine pioneer Blum asserts that reversing these chronic illnesses when the body becomes its own enemy, affecting about 24 million people is not only possible but that improvement can happen as soon as they begin her program; her claim might raise equal parts relief and doubt. In this insightful book, Blum, who suffered with thyroid disease, notes that the priority of functional medicine, which uses food as medicine, is to create conditions for self-healing: calming inflammation and the immune response. Medical evidence, she contends, supports her belief that all people with autoimmune diseases have damaged digestive systems ("leaky gut"), and she places primary emphasis on diet as the first step. The other parts of her program aim to reduce stress through self-care (exercise, mindfulness practices, adrenal supplementation, etc.); repair ailing guts by eliminating gluten, sugar, and carbonated beverages, and adding good bacteria; and detoxifying metals and other toxic substances from the liver with herbs, supplements, and professional therapies like chelation. For each step, Blum provides detailed explanations for how the immune system works, tests needed for diagnosis, questionnaires, and personalized treatment plans, as well as recipes. By cycling back to the nonnegotiable role of food (for example, Blum expresses frustration with people who think low-calorie packaged snacks are healthy and states that most people are guilty of "food amnesia") and examining the effects of infections on specific conditions, Blum encourages readers to play detective, find the root causes of their problem, and take control of recovery.
