Tuesday, January 6, 2009

Each Day a New Beginning or What Your Doctor May Not Tell You About Autoimmune Disorders

Each Day a New Beginning: A Meditation Book and Journal for Daily Reflection

Author: Karen Casey

Let me be grateful for my lessons today and know that all is well.

Inspired by millions of women who have made Each Day a new Beginning their daily companion, this journal version of the beloved meditation book allows you to personalize favorite passages. Record your hopes and fears, your triumphs and setbacks, as you reflect on the lessons found in living each new day. With insight and clarity, daily meditations explore common issues that women struggle with, from loneliness and shame to spirituality and hope. Women in recovery, as well as all women interested in personal development and self-discovery, will find guidance and affirmation in this invaluable journal.



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What Your Doctor May Not Tell You About Autoimmune Disorders

Author: Stephen B Edelson

An astonishing forty million Americans suffer from autoimmune diseases such as lupus, multiple sclerosis, Crohn's disease, chronic fatigue and immune dysfunction syndrome, and rheumatoid arthritis. Since these disorders are difficult to understand and remedy, most doctors simply treat each symptom separately, often leaving sufferers misdiagnosed and mistreated. Now a pioneering specialist has made a stunning connection between environmental toxins and all autoimmune disorders and developed an integrated treatment approach that will help you achieve lasting, healing results.

Publishers Weekly

The immune system is a scapegoat for a variety of ills in this wide-ranging but tendentious guide to approaching diseases like lupus, Crohn's disease, MS, and rheumatoid arthritis. The author argues that autoimmune disorders, in which a malfunctioning immune system attacks healthy tissues, are caused or triggered by environmental toxins, especially heavy metals and free radicals. Drawing on his experience treating patients for the above disorders as well as chronic fatigue syndrome and autism, he recommends a variety of unconventional regimens to purge toxins from our bodies and surroundings, including chelation therapy, herb, vitamin and anti-oxidant supplements, an organic diet free of additives and allergens, sauna and massage, and the systematic use of air and water filters. Edelson provides detailed information in chapters covering specific autoimmune disorders, but his claims of a "fantastic" treatment record for some of them rely on anecdotal case studies of diseases that sometimes go into spontaneous remission. By the tenets of "clinical molecular medicine," he claims, "I don't need to know the specific autoimmune disorder a patient has, because the label doesn't matter." Since no specific disease label need be applied, such widespread and indeterminate "symptoms" as "fatigue," "depression," "muscle and joint pain," "frustration," "sparse hair," "brain fog" and "general malaise" can be construed as signs of the immune dysfunction. While this book offers information on conventional treatments and physicians, its orientation is decidedly elsewhere. (Mar.) Copyright 2003 Reed Business Information.



Table of Contents:
Introductionxi
Part IUnderstanding Autoimmunity
Chapter 1What Is Autoimmunity?3
Chapter 2The Evaluation: How Do I Know If I Have an Autoimmune Disease?27
Part IICommon Autoimmune Diseases
Chapter 3Autism59
Chapter 4Lupus75
Chapter 5Autoimmune Thyroid Disorders98
Chapter 6Rheumatoid Arthritis117
Chapter 7Crohn's Disease and Ulcerative Colitis141
Chapter 8Multiple Sclerosis163
Chapter 9Miscellaneous Autoimmune Disorders185
Chapter 10Chronic Fatigue and Immune Dysfunction Syndrome: A "Partial" Autoimmune Disease207
Part IIITreating Autoimmune Diseases
Chapter 11Biodetoxification: How to "Clean Your House"235
Chapter 12Nutritional Therapies266
Chapter 13Immunotherapy297
Closing Comments317
Glossary320
Appendix326
Worth Reading337
Index339

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