Best holistic medicine books according to redditors

you want everything we know? I have a giant notepad full of info...

• Find a LLMD:
  https://www.ilads.org/patient-care/provider-search
  
  https://www.lymedisease.org/members/lyme-disease-doctors/
  
  
• You had a Western Blot done with various positive bands? Congrats, it's probably Lyme even though they told you it was "negative for Lyme."
  
• Get Igenex testing done. Yes it's expensive. You know what else is expensive? Wasting $$$ on useless brain MRIs that the neurologist orders for you every year.
  
• No, you probably never even saw the tick bite, most of us didn't
  
• Oh you had a tick bite? Congrats, you have Lyme
  
• No, 10 days of doxy is NOT enough. Go get more. You need at least a month.
  
• Barely anyone gets a bullseye rash. I read a statistic that said only 17% of people get it. If you got one — congrats, you have Lyme.
  
• There are ticks in cities -- you can get Lyme walking through Central Park.
  
• Not everyone gets joint pain (I had neuro symptoms for 7 years before I had joint pain)
  
• Yes, it can cause psych symptoms, deja vu, anger, anxiety, depression, and depersonalization. No, you're not crazy.
  
• No, it's not just stress. Stress doesn't make your arm go numb during a heat wave.
  
• Alcohol intolerance is a very important early symptom. Very few other things cause this (Hodgkins lymphoma?)
  
• Don't go to a neurologist, rheumatologist, the Mayo Clinic, or an infectious disease doctor, they will not help you, they will likely just lie to you
  
• No, it's not "chronic fatigue" or "fibromyalgia" or any other bullshit diagnosis they try to give you
  
• Yes, Lyme can cause every bizarre weirdo fucking symptom you can think of (vibrating sensation, feeling of water running down your leg, spasticity, can’t remember words)
  
• Lyme can go dormant for years
  
• If you have Multiple Sclerosis you probably really have Lyme
  
• Ignore the salt/vitamin c guy who posts here
  
• Yes, there is Lyme and ticks in every state. That one too. Yes, mosquitos carry it too
  
• Info on co-infections (Babesia, Bartonella, Ehrlichia, Mycoplasma, Anaplasmosis, Rocky Mountain Spotted Fever), aka it's probably not just Lyme. Ticks have over 100 different types of bacteria, with new ones being discovered every year. There are even different types of Borrelia burgdorferi depending on what part of the country you're in. There are 29 strains of Bartonella alone.
  
• Clean up your diet: Keto or Paleo may help. Give up gluten, dairy, sugar, and processed foods. Borrelia feeds off of sugar.
  
• Some people heal with just herbs (Buhner or Cowden protocol)
  
• Why do I feel like I'm dying when I take antibiotics or herbs? Herxheimer reaction
  
• It's Lyme singular, NOT "Lymes"
  
  TREATMENT:
  
  
  BUHNER PROTOCOL:
  
  https://www.healingwell.com/community/default.aspx?f=30&m=4127022
  
  http://buhnerhealinglyme.com
  
  https://techpost.io/hacking-chronic-lyme-disease-and-co-infections/
  
  
  
  Disulfiram
  (new treatment that not many LLMD’s are using):
  
  https://www.lymedisease.org/disulfiram-kinderlehrer/
  
  https://clinicaltrials.gov/ct2/show/NCT03891667
  
  https://recruit.cumc.columbia.edu/clinical_trial/1661
  
  There’s a private Facebook group too
  
  
  COWDEN:
  (need links)
  
  
  BLOODWORK INFO:
  
  
• Western Blot - aka “what the hell are bands?” https://www.healingwell.com/community/default.aspx?f=30&m=4147204
  
• Igenex
  
• Armin Labs - Germany
  
• DNA Connections
  
• Galaxy Diagnostics - specifically for Bartonella testing https://www.galaxydx.com
  
• CD-57 for immune response (need a link/info for this)
  
  Lyme-specific bands: 23, 31, 34, 39 and 83/93
  
  BARTONELLA:
  
  https://youtu.be/uYEHsRRxrQw
  
  http://www.townsendletter.com/July2015/bartonellosis0715.html
  
  BOOKS:
  
  Stephen Buhner, Healing Lyme
  
  https://www.amazon.com/Healing-Lyme-Borreliosis-Coinfections-Rickettsiosis/dp/0970869649/ref=sr_1_2?keywords=Buhner+healing+lyme&qid=1567635287&s=gateway&sr=8-2
  
  Stephen Buhner, Healing Lyme Co-Infections
  https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/1620550083/ref=ox_sc_saved_title_5?smid=ATVPDKIKX0DER&psc=1
  
  Unlocking Lyme
  https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/0982322526/ref=ox_sc_saved_title_4?smid=ATVPDKIKX0DER&psc=1
  
  Why Can’t I Get Better?
  https://www.amazon.com/s?k=Buhner+healing+lyme&ref=nb_sb_noss_2
  
  Cure Unknown
  https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/1250044561/ref=ox_sc_saved_title_6?smid=ATVPDKIKX0DER&psc=1
  
  Believe Me - Yolanda Hadid (celebrity)
  https://www.amazon.com/Believe-Me-Invisible-Disability-Disease/dp/1250132770/ref=sr_1_1?keywords=lyme+yolanda&qid=1567635346&s=gateway&sr=8-1
  
  Bitten
  
  https://www.amazon.com/Bitten-History-Disease-Biological-Weapons/dp/006289627X/ref=pd_sbs_14_9?_encoding=UTF8&pd_rd_i=006289627X&pd_rd_r=2275bf65-9f9d-4e9d-bd21-f907c727b622&pd_rd_w=FyN0V&pd_rd_wg=yhka3&pf_rd_p=1c11b7ff-9ffb-4ba6-8036-be1b0afa79bb&pf_rd_r=2GVJQT1XQ2PXA4R98XYH&psc=1&refRID=2GVJQT1XQ2PXA4R98XYH
  
  ARTICLES:
  
  https://www.elephantjournal.com/2016/04/i-survived-lyme-disease-and-you-will-too/
  
  https://globallymealliance.org/marisol-thomas-existing-with-late-state-neurological-lyme-disease/
  
  https://affairsofliving.com/blog/2010/12/9/my-lyme-disease-is-not-the-idsa-lyme-disease.html
  
  https://www.theatlantic.com/magazine/archive/2019/09/life-with-lyme/594736/
  
  https://www.lymedisease.org/mylymedata-catherine-fox/
  
  https://blogs.scientificamerican.com/observations/its-time-to-get-serious-about-tick-borne-diseases/
  
  https://folks.pillpack.com/the-worst-thing-about-lyme-disease-is-what-it-does-to-your-mind/
  
  https://www.huffpost.com/entry/what-lyme-disease-feels-like_b_7539130
  
  https://www.huffpost.com/entry/its-a-scandal--daryl-hall_b_11118332
  
  SYMPTOM LISTS:
  
  https://canlyme.com/lyme-basics/symptoms/
  
  https://www.prohealth.com/library/a-deep-look-at-the-symptoms-of-six-major-lyme-related-infections-41139
  
  https://www.lymedisease.org/lyme-disease-symptom-checklist/
  
  DOCUMENTARIES:
  
  
• Under Our Skin
  https://underourskin.com
  
  
• Heal (Netflix) - not specifically about Lyme, but informative and gives you hope
  
  
• The Paleo Way (Netflix only has season 2) - this is just a really good cooking show about the Paleo diet and health
  
  
  DETOX METHODS:
  
  https://www.tiredoflyme.com/detox-methods.html
  
  http://www.ladyoflyme.com/blog/burbur-drops-lyme-detox
  
  https://affairsofliving.com/blog/2010/7/5/helpful-hints-for-battling-a-herxheimer-reaction-or-my-adven.html
  
  Binders:
  
  https://alisonvickery.com.au/binders/
  
  
• activated charcoal (take on an empty stomach and 1-2 hours from meds)
  
• citrus pectin
  
• Zeolite
  
• bentonite clay (food grade)
  
  Make the body alkaline:
  
  
• lemon water
  
• Alka Selter Gold tabs (I have to get these on amazon, can’t find them in stores)
  
  Detox baths and sweating (20-30min):
  
  
• dry brush the skin before baths (brush twds the heart)
  
• epsom salt (3 cups) and peroxide (16 ounces)
  
• epsom salt (1-3 cups) and bentonite clay (1/2 cup)
  
• infrared sauna 5-30min
  
  For headaches and histamine reaction:
  
  
• Benadryl
  
  Brain/nerve detox:
  
  
• Burbur and Pinella detox
  
• Jernigan Neuro-Antitox https://www.jnutra.com/products/neuro-antitox-ii-cns-pns?variant=18838316810336
  
• L-Ornithine (gets rid of excess ammonia)
  
  HEALING:
  
  
• Meditation
  
  • https://youtu.be/jK2hS40pr-g
    
  • https://youtu.be/RCCeEXs-6Nc
    
• Vagus nerve stimulation
  
  • https://darouwellness.com/the-vagus-nerve-how-inflammation-can-be-controlled-by-the-brain/?fbclid=IwAR2lePixdHcMDg0lgQXlhsEr16C-vQbd4nCqcFSOmzHrBodsI5KdX545s7c
    
  • https://drarielleschwartz.com/natural-vagus-nerve-stimulation-dr-arielle-schwartz/#.XY4vsS3MzOQ
    
  • https://drarielleschwartz.com/vagus-nerve-yoga-dr-arielle-schwartz/#.XY5f6i3MzOQ
    
  • https://drprincetta.com/tag/humming/
    
  • https://www.optimallivingdynamics.com/blog/how-to-stimulate-your-vagus-nerve-for-better-mental-health-brain-vns-ways-treatment-activate-natural-foods-depression-anxiety-stress-heart-rate-variability-yoga-massage-vagal-tone-dysfunction
    
  • https://me-pedia.org/wiki/File:Cranial_Nerves.png
    
  • https://me-pedia.org/wiki/Vagus_nerve_infection_hypothesis
    
  • http://simmaronresearch.com/2013/12/one-theory-explain-vagus-nerve-infection-chronic-fatigue-syndrome/
    
• ASMR (this helps my nerve pain, I know it’s weird) https://youtu.be/xyW5HZIj7ZE
  
• Yoga https://youtu.be/Ba0fweKUwIc
  
• Nature (hmm… maybe go to the ocean, not the woods)
  
• Exercise
  
• Laughter
  
• Neuroplasticity (need books, links)
  
• Positivity
  
• Music or Art
  
  SUCCESS STORIES:
  
  
  https://www.healingwell.com/community/default.aspx?f=30&m=3683338
  
  HOPE:
  
  https://www.outsideonline.com/2402641/kirby-morrill-appalachian-trail-stabbing
  
  https://www.runnersworld.com/news/a28677255/jeannie-rice-half-marathon-age-group-world-record/
  
  
  THE GODFATHER OF LYME:
  
  
  Dr. Joseph Burrascano
  
  https://vimeo.com/306846706
  
  https://www.lymedisease.org/history-lyme-disease-burrascano/
  
  https://holisticprimarycare.net/topics/topics-a-g/chronic-disease/1184-shape-shifters-hidden-accomplices-a-natures-dirty-needles-confronting-the-challenges-of-lyme-disease-sp-858975690.html
  
  https://lymediseaseassociation.org/about-lyme/medical/treatment-guidelines/
  
  Dr Horowitz
  
  https://vimeo.com/channels/ldnresearchtrust/359020273
  
  says Lyme can be transmitted from mother to fetus
  
  “Lyme causes psych symptoms”
  
  Dr Armin Schwarzbach - German Lyme specialist at Armin Labs
  
  https://vimeo.com/channels/ldnresearchtrust/113603875
  
  He says “Multiple Sclerosis is just a collection of symptoms, and Lyme bacteria can be the cause of it.”

Myofascial pain and CPTSD are enormously comorbid.

I would suggest the following books for your friend. They don't talk about pain in terms of CPTSD but they do talk about pent-up rage, the people pleasing personality, anxiety and things of that nature and their influence on pain.

Unlearn your Pain

The Mind-Body Prescription: Healing the Body, Healing Pain

The MindBody Workbook

The Divided Mind: The Epidemic of Mind-Body Disorders

What your friend should understand is that pain is a side effect of chronic hypervigilance from her trauma. And that treating the trauma will, in turn, treat the pain.

I read this book but while it does get into the technique the rest is mostly about the mechanisms, the attitudes that promote healing and testimonies. I was going to refer you to the website but either their domain lapsed or they got hacked but it's now a page for viagra! Weird, I was there just last week.

The head shaking is what really matters so you can do this sitting down or even in bed (and as soft or vehement as you like/can).

This is what I do:

1. I put some music with a focus on rhythm (I really like Byron Metcalf's music, especially They Were Here with Jennifer Grais or anything by Heilung)
   
2. I usually start sitting and take the time to get into the music
   
3. I focus my awareness in my body, trying to pay attention to the sensations and whenever I notice I start thinking about something I get back to the body
   
4. I start moving my head to the music, usually either left to right, up and down or in an infinity symbol. Sometimes that's all I'll do
   
5. I let my body take me where it wants to go, either moving my shoulders, tapping my hands on my thighs and/or my feet on the floor
   
6. If/when I feel it, I get up and do whatever comes up. It's also a good exercise to let go of feeling silly or ashamed. I was surprised to notice that even if I'm alone, I still judge myself so I let go of that
   
   I'll do that for about 15 minutes, but sometimes as little as 3 minutes and up to 30 minutes.
   
   Sometimes I got some really weird reactions, like starting to cry, or laugh or cry AND laugh like a mad person. It's never unpleasant though. Do note that you may want to take it slow at first, I had some flu-like symptoms when I started and apparently that's a common thing.
   
   I have been amazed at how my body seems to know exactly what it needs to heal. Since I started doing that my pain has reduced (although it was already lower by that point), my mood has improved and I have more energy. I also crave healthier food weirdly enough. I was sincerely surprised by the results, I did it more as an exercise so I did not expect this. I also meditate and do QiGong and while I find them essential to my wellbeing at this point, I haven't had quick results like that from either. I felt good right after the first time but it took maybe 3-4 times before I saw concrete changes. I even shake my head left or right before falling asleep while thinking about waking up at a certain hour and wake up more easily (although that could entirely be an "intent placebo" but whatever works). When I'm more tired upon waking, I do it too and it seems to clear the cobwebs. I have no idea why it works that well, but it's also done that with 2 of my friends.

I always liked Andrew Weil's approach to drugs in his 1972 bestseller, The Natural Mind. It always struck me as a sane approach to what society considers the drug problem. http://www.amazon.com/gp/aw/d/0395911567?pc_redir=1414091418&robot_redir=1

I cringe a little for you comparing/contrasting psychedelics with pharmaceutical drugs. I am no fan of pharmaceuticals, but you are picking a fight with two tough guys at once. Namely that pharma is bad and psychedelics are good. Both are fights against the norm. Pick one instead, I think.

You can cherry pick some ideas from McKenna's Food of the Gods for some historical context. You can touch on the early treatments using LSD in the 50's and 60's. Then I read a couple papers on using DMT in the treatment of heroin addiction. With these build an argument for positive uses for psychedelics.

That's likely your problem. You need to find another doctor that will prescribe an NDT like Armour. Endos can't/won't prescribe NDTs, only synthetics that don't work for the majority of thyroid patients (and studies have already proven this).

I wasted about a year on levo (and also include Cytomel) until I found a doctor who would prescribe an NDT. I had to leave my endo and then I found a new doctor at an integrative/functional medicine clinic that would prescribe Armour. A little while later, I discovered my primary care doctor was willing to prescribe Armour so now that's how I get it. I haven't seen an endo in years. My mom had to do the same thing, as have countless people that I know because endos won't prescribe NDTs.

Check out Stop the Thyroid Madness and Hypothyroid Mom if you haven't already. They both also have Facebook (StTM Facebook and HM Facebook) and YouTube pages (StTM YouTube) that you should check out. They're both wonderful sources of information and I believe they will really help you.

If you like to read, definitely read the two STTM books:

• Stop the Thyroid Madness: A Patient Revolution Against Decades of Inferior Treatment by Janie A. Bowthorpe
  
  
• Stop the Thyroid Madness II: How Thyroid Experts Are Challenging Ineffective Treatments and Improving the Lives of Patients by Andrew Heyman (Author), James Yang (Author), Janie A. Bowthorpe (Editor)
  
  Here is a clip from a study proving NDTs work better than synthetics...
  
  "Participants were “blinded” during both phases – they did not know the type of pill they received. After each treatment period patients were weighed, had blood tests, underwent psychometric testing and were asked which therapy they preferred. The researchers report that 49% of the patients preferred desiccated thyroid extract, 19% preferred levothyroxine and 23% had no preference. Desiccated thyroid extract use was also associated with more weight loss." - Summaries for Patients from Clinical Thyroidology (from recent articles in Clinical Thyroidology): Desiccated thyroid extract vs Levothyroxine in the treatment of hypothyroidism
  
  Here are a few quick links I found that I believe will help...
  
  Links About NDTs vs Synthetics
  
  
• Thyroid.org: Summaries for Patients from Clinical Thyroidology (from recent articles in Clinical Thyroidology): Desiccated thyroid extract vs Levothyroxine in the treatment of hypothyroidism
  
  
• STTM: T4-only meds like Synthroid do NOT work, exclaim patients!
  
  
• STTM: Natural Thyroid 101
  
  
• Jeffrey Dach MD: Why Natural Thyroid is Better than Synthetic
  
  
• Amy Myers MD: Which Thyroid Medication is Best?
  
  
• Hypothyroid Mom: Which is Better, Synthroid or Armour Thyroid Medication
  
  
• OP-ED News: New Study Shows Natural Thyroid Better than Synthetic
  
  
• STTM: Transitioning from T3-only to natural desiccated thyroid…or vice versa
  
  
• STTM: History of desiccated thyroid as a grandfathered in, yet “unapproved” drug
  
  Links About Doctors
  
  
• STTM: How to Find a Good Doctor
  
  
• STTM: Doctors Need to Rethink
  
  
• Hypothyroid Mom: 5 reasons conventional doctors can’t fix your thyroid
  
  Links About Thyroid-Related Tests
  
  
• STTM: Recommended Labwork
  
  
• STTM: TSH – Why It’s Useless
  
  
• STTM: Optimal Lab Values–how to interpret your results
  

I’ve had pretty much the same reaction from people and people make fun of me at work. At first it bugged me but then I realized what’s best for my child should take precedence over people’s opinions.

We used this book in class Hypnobirthing: The Mongan Method although I don’t think some of the explanations for different breathing techniques are the best so I thought going to class was really important. You can find YouTube videos with demonstrations and I did a quick google search and did find online Hypnobirthing classes.

I’m glad you have a doula to advocate on your behalf!

She copy-pasted a previous blog post on banting she wrote last year, barely changing a word. It could be a good idea to signal that to the publication ?

Well, see her book:

> If you want to beat diabetes, you have to eat more plant food and stay away from meat-centered diets as much as possible.

Her marketing sale speech can't be clearer.

Two I highly recommend below. Dr. Horowitz is the most respected LLMD so his book is very comprehensive. Dr. Rawls' book is excellent as well.

Dr. Richard Horowitz - "How Can I Get Better?"
https://www.amazon.com/How-Can-Get-Better-Resistant/dp/1250070546/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&qid=1520730468&sr=8-1&keywords=how+can+i+get+better

Dr. Bill Rawls - "Unlocking Lyme"
https://www.amazon.com/Unlocking-Lyme-Practical-Solutions-Chronic/dp/0982322526/ref=sr_1_1?s=books&ie=UTF8&qid=1520730578&sr=1-1&keywords=unlocking+lyme

I'm in the same boat. My wife also made the mediation appointment today. There's nothing you and I can really do other than state the desire to see a counselor and work things out. It was like a gut punch having her say that she feels all options have been exhausted. At the same time, it's a bit liberating to not be in limbo in my mind.

I highly recommend this book. It has helped me reframe my mindset on the separation and divorce. I'm hurting a lot, but trying to accept the hurt rather than fight and bargain with someone that isn't interested at all.

So I have problems with chronic muscular pain - mostly my neck and back. I recently started Hanna Somatics and you may want to look into it though I'm not convinced. I am trying to be optimistic though. It is expensive... about $150 for a session but there are a couple of books on amazon you can check out before dropping that much money. I would also check out Airrosti if it's near you. It's expensive as well but they just started getting insurance partnerships so it might be a lot more affordable now. I found it to be very helpful for my lower back pain but it's only part of the puzzle and treatment that I think I need. I hope this helps.

Funnily enough there is a book on this - https://www.amazon.co.uk/Stoic-Body-Ancient-Modern-Health-ebook/dp/B077CJN6N3 - but the essential thing is that you are not at fault - you don't choose to become ill or can harness or suppress any of your bodies natural functions. Not only would that be against the natural, but it is also outside of your reasoned choice.

I loved Birthing From Within because it has many great relaxation techniques and exercises for you to practice. There's a lot of new-agey type stuff, but I'm not really into that so I skipped those parts. I did however practice many of the exercises before birth and they helped me tremendously. I especially think the ice exercise is very helpful for putting handling pain into perspective (basically you hold a piece of ice in your bare hand tightly and use one of the relaxation techniques to control the pain). I was able to have a completely drug free birth with no problems - in fact I labored mostly at home and showed up at the hospital 8.5-9cm dilated (not really in the plan but we left late, live an hour away and didn't realize I'd go that fast with my first).

Ina May's Guide was pretty good, but mainly a collection of positive birth stories. Didn't really offer much in the way of "how" to go about having a natural birth. I'm more of a practical person that needs something "to do" to prep myself. Though I do think it's just as important to read as many positive drug free natural birth stories as possible to get yourself in the right mindset. Mind over matter/it's as painful as you expect/manage your expectations is just as important in my opinion.

I was REALLY set on hypnobirthing. I knew it was definitely going to take an open mind from me and my husband, but we're both open-minded people and I was sure we'd be super into it. I decided to read the book before signing up for a class to get a sense of what we were going into and am I glad I did because I cannot get into it.
I was super down with everything - the theory, the support, the breathing techniques. But then I got to the visualization techniques and they lost me completely: they're all so contrived and complicated that I really think I'll forget how to employ them during labour. By the time I read about "The Glove of Relaxation" I was out. There's no way I'm remembering all that.
So, my husband and I are switching plans and taking a Birthing From Within class, which includes pain management techniques and has a real focus on helping the labour partner know he or she they can help during the birth. I'm starting that book this weekend.
I was pretty disappointed, because I'd heard many great things about hypnobirthing (my midwife said they're the only women she's ever seen to appear to not be in labour), but I just can't get into it. I guess this wasn't very helpful (sorry!) - but maybe just highlights another course you could look into just in case you get turned off by the complicated visualization techniques like I did.

Oh sorry! The Mongan method:
Link on Amazon

The Mongan Method Hypnobirthing Book (http://www.amazon.com/HypnoBirthing-Fourth-approach-comfortable-birthing/dp/0757318371/ref=sr_1_1/182-6966116-7885857?ie=UTF8&qid=1451932471&sr=8-1&keywords=hypnobirthing)

has transcripts of the relaxation scripts in them. During the class I took, we also wrote our own so our partners could help us with our visualizations.

I'll admit that it was difficult to learn to just slip away; I haven't given birth yet (any day now) and I hope this will work for me.

I am broke and couldn't afford the classes, but have been reading the book and it's great!
https://www.amazon.ca/dp/0757318371/ref=pd_lpo_sbs_dp_ss_1?pf_rd_p=1977604502&pf_rd_s=lpo-top-stripe&pf_rd_t=201&pf_rd_i=0757302661&pf_rd_m=A3DWYIK6Y9EEQB&pf_rd_r=YAMPN156JWFCRVF2CEA5

https://smile.amazon.com/HypnoBirthing-Fourth-approach-comfortable-birthing/dp/0757318371/ref=sr_1_1?s=books&ie=UTF8&qid=1473623021&sr=1-1&keywords=hypnobirthing

I had responded this somewhere else, lol. Copying it to the proper place, here:

Crappy naming aside, all you listed is pretty awesome. I do most of that stuff myself.

You might enjoy a book that touches pretty much all those topics: https://www.amazon.com/Stoic-Body-Ancient-Modern-Health-ebook/dp/B077CJN6N3

The author has a youtube channel that is too disperse and broad for my taste, but still, has some great content: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCs6wIwjJpc6vm7ue6qYjkeg

Do you have any books, blogs or youtube channels that you'd recommend regarding this kind of topics?

Re. the hedonism term... meh, I kind of disagree. There is a fundamental negative aspect of hedonism that gets carried wherever you use it, no matter how much context you add.

I would rather call this SYSTEMATIC POOP.

edit: Who would've thought? This is a thing, lmao. /r/SystematicPoop

https://www.amazon.com/Health-Made-Simple-Revised-2nd-ebook/dp/B01G2FRTC8 USA

Free in the US as well, just replace .co.uk with .com

https://www.amazon.com/Health-Made-Simple-Revised-2nd-ebook/dp/B01G2FRTC8

Misspelled heart. I was wondering what the difference between [this book] (https://www.amazon.com/Your-Whole-Heart-Solution-Prevent/dp/1621452689) and this book was, but it turns out they are the same thing . The hardback and paperback versions have different titles and covers.

I've ordered from Morse and I like his products - he also publishes his recipes so you can just use whatever herbs or extracts you want after you do your own research. If you do come to the conclusion it's definitely some kind of internal parasite then I would highly recommend listening to Dr Jennifer Daniels - her methods are extremely cheap, time-tested and effective.

Free pdf https://www.amazon.com/Lethal-Dose-Murder-Medicine-Accident-ebook/dp/B00DR6JPNW

check out her videos on youtubes too if you're so inclined

Sounds like you have a good opportunity to think things over.

I encourage you to find an audiobook while your drive.

Maybe this one:

I Wish I Knew This Before My Divorce: Ending the Battle Between Holding On and Letting Go https://www.amazon.com/dp/B07BR8DWGN/ref=cm_sw_r_cp_apa_i_gbJKDb6VBDBQK

Hey there! I've been looking into Richard Gerber's works and can't wait to add to my library. I found three on Amazon... which is the one you were recommending?
Vibrational Medicine for the 21st Century: A Complete Guide To Energy Healing And Spiritual Transformation

A Practical Guide to Vibrational Medicine: Energy Healing and Spiritual Transformation

Vibrational Medicine: The #1 Handbook of Subtle-Energy Therapies 3rd Edition

You might want to look into this book and other eastern approaches to medicine.

To be honest, I'm not super knowledgeable in regards to Paracelsus, but this edition by Nicholas Goodrick-Clarke looks good.

It's in this book, it's not on me: https://www.amazon.com/gp/aw/d/0985615435/ref=mp_s_a_1_1?ie=UTF8&qid=1525710568&sr=8-1&pi=AC_SX236_SY340_FMwebp_QL65&keywords=stop+the+thyroid+madness+2&dpPl=1&dpID=51-dpskURlL&ref=plSrch

Well, pot isn't good for the lungs - no "smoke" inhalation is.

Another fact that isn't mentioned here is that pot has become "stronger" in the last 30-40 years. This partly has to do with enhanced farming technique, but also with the fact that other things are added in - you never know if its dusted or chemically enhanced since there is not a safe way to produce it since it is illegal. This is why medicinal pot really needs to be available en masse.

I do think however, that a verifiable downside is the loss of short term memory. It also tends to make people sluggish, but that is more opinion that anything.


I rally thing you would LOVE this book however - It's called "the Natural Mind" written by Andrew Weil - the Doc who is on PBS alot proselytizing whole health, natural health and the like.

His Website: http://www.drweil.com/
His Book: http://www.amazon.com/Natural-Mind-Investigation-Higher-Consciousness/dp/0395911567

He did a lot of experimenting Timothy Leary style

My favourite's so far have been:

Ina May's Guide to Childbirth

The Birth Book

Birthing from Within

and my husband is reading The Birth Partner

HypnoBirthing, Fourth Edition: The natural approach to safer, easier, more comfortable birthing - The Mongan Method, 4th Edition https://www.amazon.com/dp/0757318371/ref=cm_sw_r_cp_api_25q7xbA17YN2V

The drug is "heroin," not "heroine," which is a female hero.

You need to do some research. I don't intend to debate you point by point, but you're widely misinformed. You might try The Drug War by Dan Russell. Another book which changed my opinions early on was The Natural Mind by Andrew Weil.

Well, since Ayurveda was developed before the scientific method, certainly it is all based on "anecdote" or "case study."

However, I was referring mostly to the surgical procedures that had developed and were deliberately adopted by the West based on observation of indian practices at least thousand (or two) years after they were first used in India: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sushruta_Samhita#Surgical_procedures_described

As well, though I haven't read the actual texts, I've been told that Charaka (I think it was) actually had a "germ theory" of disease to guide his development of antiseptic and hygienic practices more than 2,500 years ago: "diseases are caused by things 'too small to be seen' [and therefore need to be washed off of both patients and equipment]".

As far as specific Ayurvedic concoctions go, there's a very complicated system of "doshas" and "sub-doshas" etc that are supposed to be taken into account when prescribing plants and combinations of plants. While no doubt many preparations are flat out bad for you (which isn't too different than the ever-changing research results found in studies on modern medicine), there's still preparations that have remarkably consistent, and broad-band effects when tested using modern science. E.G., these two universal rasayanas are pretty darned amazing in their effects, at least on lab animals, even though they are meant for people to consume:

http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/?term=maharishi+amrit+kalash


However, unlike the two preparations researched in the above studies, most Ayurvedic products are meant to be taken only by specific individuals, and very little modern research on Ayurveda takes that into account. The prakriti and vikriti divisions map almost perfectly in to "nature/nurture" or "genetic/epigenetic" divisions in modern biology, so, at least in principle, Ayurveda is far more sophisticated in how it prescribes things than Western medicine is because it is only in the past few years that Western medical practice even considered basing prescriptions on genetic and epigenetic factors.

Of course, you can argue that the doshic strategy for prescribing treatments and diets doesn't really work because it is too primitive and uncertain, but only recently have researchers attempted to see if there really ARE innate [genetic] properties in humans associated with the diagnosis of someone having a specific combination of doshas and sub-doshas:

http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/?term=ayurvedic+(vatta+OR+pita+OR+kapha)+genetic

so the jury is out there, as well.

...

One problem about trying to understand the history of the development of Ayurveda is that, while there are a few important documents central to the system, modern tradition combines many different sources in ways that didn't exist when those documents were written.

For example, my own "guru" Maharishi Mahesh Yogi, spearheaded an effort to "revive" Ayurveda starting around 1980, and for him one of the most sophisticated and important technologies (after his "Transcendental Meditation") was the art of pulse diagnosis. It turns out that pulse diagnosis was almost unknown by the authors of the major Ayurvedic texts and is actually a transplant from another system

http://www.amazon.com/Nadivijnana-Crest-Jewel-Translation-Examination-Pulse-Diagnosis/dp/3639306732

There is virtually no research on the utility of such a practice, and what little there is, suggests that it aint very useful.

However, since it is a practice that is supposed to take thousands of hours to master and is completely internal with no feedback possible, as is the case with meditation, the initial instruction is conceivably all-important as far as the results that are gained, so studies done on how reliable pulse diagnosis is, yield random results possibly because random practitioners trained in random schools were used as subjects.

Quality control of teachers arguably is all-important when training what is essentially a mental practice.


Any way, just some ramblings. The biggest problems with studying Ayurveda scientifically are:

1. practitioners are very biased [often VERY biased] so they make poor researchers;
   
   
2. independent researchers often don't understand what they are studying well enough to devise studies that take into account the personalized nature of most Ayurvedic treatments -not only does one-size NOT fit all in ayurveda, but by Ayurvedic tradition, something that is good for one subject due to their doshic nature might be bad for another, so taking a random group of people and testing their reaction to some arbitrary ayurvedic preparation is pretty much guaranteed to generate a null-finding from an ayurvedic perspective as Ayurveda would predict that the positive and detrimental effects would average out or even be skewed to the detrimental in some cases.
   
   
   
   
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   Just rambling, but I hope I've convinced you that Ayurveda may not be as uniformly worthless as most people in this forum assume it must be, because it isn't "scientific."

>“There is 50 years of data that says tobacco use is bad.”

There is an even longer history of iatrogenic disease (long before the current pharma-disease-mongering trends).

And plenty of studies indicate it is (still) a FAR more deadly phenom than even tobacco... its either THE leading cause of premature death, or it is a close second or third (depending on which study you look at -- here's an interesting one).

Cf "Death by Medicine" essay and the larger book version as well as other books, often by doctors & surgeons themselves, like "Doctors Are More Harmful Than Germs: How Surgery Can Be Hazardous to Your Health - And What to Do About It" by Harvey Bigelsen M.D.

I see people 6-60, but will just focus on the kids. About four months ago I found Nassir Ghaemi and have been running his playbook since then. I do a new assessment of every patient I see using this page as the basis of my initial diagnosis. I literally copy and paste that block of text into a work processor and bold sections that I think will be useful for the patient I am seeing, and we read selections of it together. I typically bold the sections on diagnostic validators, descriptions of mood temperaments, the definitions of mixed depression and melancholia, and then I bold selections from the section that says You Don't Have ADHD.

Dr. Ghaemi says that the first move is to rule out mood disorder. If I can't rule it out, I treat it, with lithium. If the patient is battling depression more than mania and anxiety, I sometimes use lithium orotate, the version of lithium you can order from Amazon and doesn't need lab draws every six months. LiOr isn't as useful for people who have anxiety, seizures, or mania. They need LiCo3, which is more useful for that kind of bipolar disorder.

I would estimate that I can't rule out mood disorder in my patient population 70% of the time, so the first intervention is lithium. Once their lithium is dialled in, the next move is to rule out psychosis. If I can't rule out psychosis, I treat it with an antipsychotic and niacin.

Once psychosis is either treated or ruled out, the next step is Anxiety. Rule out or treat. Most people with anxiety are treated successfully at the Mood Disorder step. I have very few people who need anxiety treatment when their mood is stable. Then again, depression and anxiety share a lot of symptoms.

Then, Personality Disorders. For PD, I use a cranial electric stimulator and lithium. I have remarkable results. I've discussed my results with very experienced practitioners. Some dismiss my results out of hand, and others are intrigued. One of the major benefits of this treatment protocol is that patients don't have to drag their trauma out into the daylight and get retraumatized and sensitized to all that stuff.

After that comes everything else. Trichotillomania, ADHD, anorexia, etc.

Watch Dr. Ghaemi explain his reasoning for this diagnosis and treatment protocol himself. His reasoning resonated with me so I put it into practice, and the results have been amazing. So many people with anxiety and "adhd" really have a mood disorder, I had no idea. Even people who have looked up ADHD on the internet and are totally convinced that this is what they have are turned by his method and start to recognize that it is a mood problem and not a thinking problem.

I love that he cites Kraepelin.

People who see me to have their xanax, adderall, ambien, and klonopin continued sometimes blow up and walk out of my office (that's fine).

I do a lot of patient education.