What Your Doctor May Not Tell You About(TM): Autoimmune Disorders: The Revolutionary Drug-free Treatments for Thyroid Disease, Lupus, MS, IBD, Chronic ... Doctor May Not Tell You About...(Paperback))

I want to reiterate what another reviewer already said: "Don't let the previous review scare you. The quackwatch guys are the quacks themselves. Barrett, who heads up the quackwatch "research", is not a board certified doctor of anything and has been sued a bunch of times." So true! Not only is that true, but any doctor who sets out to provide treatment protocols for patients that do not feed the bloody maw of Big Pharma (which brainwashes the masses into believing that any illness is the lack of one of their drugs!) is guaranteed to at least come under fire if not be set up to take a fall by covert measures.Okay, having said that so that you know I've read the court files and assessed them as a complete set-up, let me now talk about the book.This book is engaging and full of cutting edge science as well as practical advice. Dr. Edelson explains some very complex physiological systems in clear language that even impressed my doctor who said she never did understand it as well even in medical school! Not only that, but Edelson was a pioneer in a field that is now being taken up by other high profile doctors such as Mark Hyman, author of "The Ultra-Mind Solution". They are saying pretty much the same things, only Edelson said it first.Like any other diet or health book, there is a particular focus and some of his ideas and protocols won't work for everyone. But, by and large, Dr. Edelson manages to connect things together in a very comprehensive way, and those people who will not benefit from his approach are, I would think, a vanishing minority.One thing that struck me and convinced me that Dr. Edelson really knew his stuff was his mention of the inflamed blood vessel lumps that appear in the forearms of individuals who suffer rheumatoid arthritis. I've had these lumps for years, I have rheumatoid arthritis, and no other doctor has ever been able to tell me what those lumps are. What's more, they have begun to disappear simply from following the protocol in Dr. Edelson's book. My doctor is even willing to experiment with the anti-biotic treatment for my condition and I'm looking forward to even greater improvement than I have achieved already, and that will be something! I'm already almost 90% free of pain and my good days now far outnumber my bad days!Thank you Dr. Edelson!

I started reading this about 2 years after I had already worked with a doctor who helped me become symptom-free of my RA. I have done probably half of the recommendations in the book through my doctor & I am comfortable with where I am at. I will hold it for reference if I start to regress.This book is very comprehensive. It can be overwhelming for someone who has been eating fast foods or boxed processed foods & who has only been to a conventional doctor who writes Rx's all day. Not to discount any of the info in the book -- it is all great. But I believe people have to want to truly heal & get out of the mentality that "there is a pill for every ill." You have to take control of your own health.The author explains the common issues behind autoimmune disorders & how to work through the symptoms. I know I couldn't have recovered by myself, I did it with the help of an out of state doctor, Dr. Richard Brouse.The author promotes his wellness center, which I think is fine. It's a starting place. But there may be adequate local doctors that can help. The author provides a list of questions to ask them when interviewing them for treating you.Overall, very good reference book. Just try not to get overwhelmed with all of the protocol recommendations. [...] & [...] are good starting points as well.

{Note: The various prior reviews and the synopsis provided gives a fair and accurate description of what the book is about so I'll not repeat those details here.}My opinion: I found that a good portion of the ideas presented for drug-free treatment of AI disease *did* make sense to me; in fact, at one point I have been through some seemingly medically unsound means of getting off all prescriptions for treatment of my diagnosis with Systemic Lupus.The rapid taper and detoxification process I went through was similar in ways to certain methods described in the book. This outside the box thinking I imagine could get a medical professional in trouble with either his colleagues, big drug companies, or even patients that are very ingrained in a specific type of doctor/patient process that they cannot move past.The reasons why there are lawsuits, closed medical centers, and disciplinary actions taken against the author definitely concerns me though. I have seen other outside the box thinkers not have this amount of legal trouble; frankly I think where there is smoke there's usually fire so I have trouble trusting the author and ideas in this book as a result.Bottomline: I would say that I can recommend examining the ideas in the book and then weighing and investigating what you feel comfortable with, along with consultation and advice from your doctor.

The book itself is somewhat informative. It describes a wide range of tests and treatment protocols. I am reading every boo I can find about intestinal permeability and brain-gut axis. I am doing it because I couldn't find a support from conventional medicine and doctors. So I am pretty open to anything. But I had a problem with the book within first 50 pages thought. That prompted me to seek some additional information on author. From his prospective every autoimmune disease starts with chemical overload and it doesn't matter what autoimmune disorder it is his treatment protocol is the same. I am not kidding. As soon as he went into describing every possible test we need to do I stopped and looked up some information on him. Sure enough all those law suits brought up by parents of children had several things in common: battery of unnecessary tests and several treatments a day (in one case a boy had to take around 50 pills a day in addition to his numerous daily treatments). The main idea of medicine is "not to harm" while trying to heal. I think author has forgotten about this part. At the same time you will find some useful information there.

I was very impressed with this book. It really is very comprehensive and provides all the information needed to get familiarized with autoimmune disorders and, most important, what you can actually DO to get better. Dr. Edelson gives easy to digest information about the immune system, about each dis-ease, the tests needed for diagnosis, mainstream therapies and the alternative therapies, and case stories as well.He surely was in the right track, so I was very distressed to learn about the suits and that the Edelson Center had to close. I read the court files and the problems regarding Dr Edelson's practicing license and I don't think it should influence readers of this book. The whole thing reads as a very venomous way to bring him down. It will be more fair if each one of us with autoimmune problems will suit the medical system (always influenced by pharmaceutical companies which don't cure autoimmune diseases) for perpetuating our health problems (and quite often making them worse) when there are alternative therapies that work because they target the root problems.After reading this book, I got more serious with my detox and decided to follow a heavy metal chelation protocol and finally, I'm seeing very positive results in my health. It is truly amazing! I'm forever thankful to Dr. Edelson.I highly recommend this book!

very happy with condition of book and very informative thank-you

I was hoping for more specific info regarding mixed connective tissue disease. My daughter has insisted that I stop all gluten, sugar, dairy and most meat. So, I was hoping to find something a little less rigid and maybe more I could do for myself rather than having to go to yet another type of Dr. Plus I also have a serious intolerance to many tastes with a very strong gag reflex so many of the suggested homeopathic remedies that would be needed won't work for me cause I simply can't take them.... Although the information was still good and interesting, I only gave 3 stars not because it wasn't a good read, it just wasn't the read I was in need of.

J'ai bien aimé ce livre, il donne des informations intéressantes. Mais je ne peux pas donner plus d'étoiles pour deux raisons:_il n'y a rien de révolutionnaire dans leur approche et rien de miraculeux, alors autant ne pas faire rêver les gens concernés_ce qui est proposé est très difficilement applicable chez soi et par soi-même à moins d'avoir les moyens de passer plusieurs semaines dans leur centre en déboursant une fortune ou alors de pouvoir installer un sauna de luxe dans sa maison... et sans surveillance en plus... carrément limite...Après il y a de bonnes choses, au moins ce livre envisage ces maladies par leurs causes et non par le simple soulagement des symptômes comme on le fait trop souvent et cherche à attaquer ces causes. Pour info, rien de bien nouveau dans les causes: intoxication aux métaux lourds, intestins poreux et ainsi de suite... rien de nouveau donc mais tout ça pour expliquer que ceux qui ont plein de pognon pourront se payer les tests et les autres ben, bon courage...Ceci dit quand je vois la pauvreté de la prise en charge de ma belle-mère avec ses troubles digestifs et sa polyarthrite... je me dis que ce livre a au moins l'avantage d'exister pour montrer aux gens qu'on peut agir... si, si , on peut, il faut garder un esprit critique vis à vis de la médecine et conserver un certain contrôle sur sa propre santé...

Informative!