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Invisible Illnesses

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Dr. Gilbere does it again here and in more detail. This book is a wonderful book that related hidden illnesses to a problem most doctor's are not addressing. Your intestinal and colon health. This is a major place to look for the cause of these so-called "Invisible Illnesses" She goes allot more into detail than in her first book "I Was Poisoned by my Body" which is a great book as well. This one talks allot about specific diets, colonics, colon cleansing etc. There are very vital tools to getting well and she talks all about them here.
This would be a very good investment in anyone's health to read this book.

"Be Well"

I found this book to be a life saver for me. If offered many suggestions for me to follow in order to restore my immune system. I have sufferd from MARS and her book led me to the many tools to repair my immune system. Today I have recoverd and have very little trouble living in this world again. Invisible Illness offered me light at the end of a very dark tunnel.
A must read for anyone who is struggling with sensitivities of any kind.

Susan Mavity, Author The Light Within, The Gift of A Rose

Gilbere wrote a kind of "one size fits all" book for people with MCS, fibromyalgia, and other psychosomatic/chemical and difficult-to-define diseases. I would agree that a fresh approach is necessary, particularly with the way Western medicene treats people with psychosomatic illnesses. I would encourage anyone to read the book and utilize the suggestions in the book as appropriate, with several caveats.

First, the book reads like an advertisement for the different products that Gilbere has used or recommends for people with MCS. By all means, if they help you, buy them, but I would carefully consider what may or may not help you before you spend a lot of money.

Second, the book is somewhat poorly written and dances around the issue of what really will cure specific diseases. Your specific problem may be solved by just one of her recommendations, or none of them, but her shotgun approach involves a great deal of time, effort, and possibly discomfort for the patient and much of the products and procedures can be debated as to whether they are helpful - or proven.

Last, the book does cover the emotional elements of psychosomatic/chemical illnesses but is perhaps underemphasized. WAY underemphasized.

I would recommend the book, as I mentioned in the title, but I wouldn't use it as your only resource. Also, good judgement must be used - the book can do more harm than good if you are averse to chemical smells or food additives and so on - reading about the different negative effects of chemicals and what is making our air, food, and enviornment toxic can lead to greater fear of adverse effects and a more restricted lifestyle. econ

I am a FORMER sufferer of Multiple Chemical Sensitivity. Having that problem, and then completely overcoming it is my only claim to authority. That particular issue is a psychosomatic problem, as one other reviewer pointed out. The parts of the book that I read (I freely admit to not having read it all) did not address this aspect, and instead offer some kooky remidies, which seem designed to make the person feel that they are taking control of the issue by doing something noticable. This to me seems like combatting a psychological issue by teaching oneself to develop obsessive-compulsive disorder. Believing what is in this book can potentially help entrench the disorder.

If you have MCS (now more properly called Idiopathic Environmental Intolerance), do yourself a favor and see a psychologist, or a board-certified psychiatrist. You will likely be told that you have an anxiety disorder. Your psychologist (not necessarily a psychiatrist- there's a good chance you don't need to be medicated) can help you work through this so you can completely rejoin society and not have to set up complicated and painful avoidance patterns.

Accepting that one has been imposing suffering on oneself is not pleasant. But it is much more pleasant (and it is less expensive) than the potential depths to which this anxiety disorder can lead. The medical community answered the question of MCS fairly completely in the 1980's and 1990's. Look for articles by or the book by Dr. Herman Staudenmayer if you want something comprehensive.

I wish you perseverance.

Also, I have nothing to say regarding the other disorders mentioned in the book, as I have no personal experience with them and have done no reading on them.

A friend informed me of this book, but I was very disappointed. It was the same old info that I have previously read in other health books.