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Chronic : the hidden cause of the autoimmune pandemic and how to get healthy again / Steven Phillips, MD, and Dana Parish, with Kristin Loberg

Author
Phillips, Steven, 1965-
Published
Boston : Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, 2020.
Copyright Date
©2020
Physical Description
xxiii, 263 pages ; 24 cm
Additional Creators
Parish, Dana and Loberg, Kristin

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Contents
Introduction -- The root. A wild family of infections ; The myths that get in the way ; Bitten and broken ; How the medical world got it so wrong ; Modern plagues caused by underlying infection -- The remedy. The difficulty in diagnosis ; The road to recovery ; Mending your mind -- Conclusion: Hope around the globe.
Summary
"In this riveting and informative book, renowned zoonotic disease expert Steven Phillips, MD, and his patient-turned Lyme warrior Dana Parish explode conventional wisdom as they reveal the alarming connection between Lyme disease and other autoimmune disorders and detail what readers need to know in order to heal from their pain"--
Phillips was already a renowned physician specializing in complex, chronic diseases when he became a patient himself. He experienced firsthand the medical community's ignorance about the pathogens that underlie a deep spectrum of serious conditions-- from fibromyalgia, multiple sclerosis, chronic fatigue syndrome, rheumatoid arthritis, and lupus, to depression, anxiety, OCD and neurodegenerative disorders. Parish, too, watched her health spiral after top doctors missed an underlying infection that caused heart failure and other sudden debilitating physical and psychiatric symptoms. Here they work to change the current model of simply treating symptoms-- often with dangerous, lifelong drugs-- and shift the focus to finding and curing root causes of chronic diseases that affect millions around the world. -- adapted from jacket
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ISBN
9780358064718 hardcover
0358064716 hardcover
Bibliography Note
Includes bibliographical references and index.
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