Detoxification and Healing: The Key to Optimal Health [Paperback]

Sidney MacDonald Baker (Author)

Book Description

Publication Date: August 27, 2003

Detoxification promotes wellness by ridding the body of poisons that can lead to a host of health problems ranging from fatigue and depression to cancer and diabetes. This revised edition of the popular nutrition-based health guide presents new advice and up-to-date information on detoxification and healing.

In clear language, the author explains body chemistry, how detoxification works, and why it is so important. He discusses new medications, vitamin and mineral supplements, delayed food allergies, the dangers of mercury and aluminum poisoning, and much more.

Editorial Reviews

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Replenish, refresh, and revive your body with Dr. Baker's breakthrough program found in Detoxification and Healing

Reviews from the first edition:

"Detoxification and Healing is at the leading edge of its field . . . destined, I believe, to move into the mainstream of medical practice treating toxins and their link to immunology and neurobiology . . . a pioneering opus of great importance."
--Charles Lee Remington, Lecturer and Professor Emeritus in Biology and Environmental Studies, Yale University

"Dr. Sidney Baker begins the journey of understanding preventive medicine by introducing us to detoxification and healing . . . foreshadows an era of looking at health as a balance of internal and external chemistries, signals, and systems."
--Lloyd R. Saberski, M.D., Director, Yale University Center for Pain Management, and Associate Clinical Professor of Anesthesiology, Yale University School of Medicine

Let food be thy medicine and medicine be thy food with the natural detox program found in Dr. Sidney MacDonald Baker's bestselling Detoxification and Healing. Updated to prescribe simple, step-by-step treatments to alleviate your ailments, Dr. Baker arms you with immediate actions to take to start cleansing your body of harmful toxins . . . today!

The new and revised edition of Detoxification and Healing features:

• Detailed information on medications, vitamins, and mineral supplements, including exact dosages and frequency
• Frequently misdiagnosed food allergies and drug reactions
• New information on gluten allergies, mercury poisoning, and the harmful effects of aluminum
• And much more

Sidney MacDonald Baker, M.D., is a practicing physician, board-certified in obstetrics and pediatrics, with a special interest in the environmental and biochemical aspects of the chronic health problems of children and adults.

About the Author

Dr. Sidney MacDonald Baker is a practicing physician, board-certified in obstetrics and pediatrics. He has taught at Yale Medical School and Southern Connecticut State University.

Product Details

• Paperback: 208 pages
• Publisher: McGraw-Hill; 2 edition (August 27, 2003)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 0658012193
• ISBN-13: 978-0658012198
• Product Dimensions: 9 x 5.9 x 0.6 inches
• Shipping Weight: 11.2 ounces (View shipping rates and policies)
• Average Customer Review: 4.6 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (8 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #285,697 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

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26 of 27 people found the following review helpful:

3.0 out of 5 stars Not what I expected, February 18, 2005

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Charles Andrew Wingard (Brunswick, ME) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Detoxification and Healing: The Key to Optimal Health (Paperback)

I thought this book was going to be more about detoxification through nutrition. Instead, it's about supplements you can take to alleviate nutritional deficencies. Baker does do a super job of showing the food/body/ health connection. He also clearly illustrates how all the body's systems and functions are connected and dependent on one another. This book is much more open minded and thoughtful in the art of healing than modern medicine, which refuses to admit that diet affects your health. It's a pretty good book but I wish he spent more time on actual foods than supplements.

17 of 17 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars The first book on this topic that I've gotten excited about!, January 31, 2006

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Terri L. Manning (Ludington, MI) - See all my reviews
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I wish every mainstream doctor would read this book. I've read a half dozen books on detoxification, and this is the best! His presentation is clear, concise, and backed by science. The case history examples he is able to present to testify to his claims, come from his 30 plus years in medical practice. I'd much rather read the instruction from a person so well versed in biochemestry than some of the other books that offer only the testimonials of lay-persons as proof that their ideas are sound.

20 of 22 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars More than the usual "detox" book., January 15, 2004

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This is a book written by an Orthomolecular doctor at his best. What you get here is much more than "how toos". Detoxification is about working from the fundamentals of a system and out from there. Dr. Baker, in speaking about this subject, gives a great example of how balance and imbalance, in healing, has always made perfect sense. This is a very enlightening and informative set of ideas that can help open new ways of thinking. Not, "way out - new age" concepts, but common sense connections about how our choices effect us and how we can be empowered to make changes to heal. I recommend this highly and also for anyone that wants to get a very good glimpse at how a good Orthomolecular doctor thinks about things.