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The Naturopathic Way: How to Detox, Find Quality Nutrition, and Restore Your Acid-Alkaline Balance

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In this slim volume of just over 100 pages, Vasey lays out six rules for recovering and maintaining health. In contrast to the allopathic model of treating symptoms, the Naturopathic Way deals with the fundamental cause of illness and focuses on restoring balance to the biological terrain - the body's internal cellular environment. It explains clearly and succinctly how disease can progress from just "not feeling well" to serious illness, and makes clear what influences this progression and how to reverse and eliminate it.
Vasey's aim may have been to introduce the naturopathic approach to illness, but I believe he has achieved something far more important. As someone very familiar with the principles of good health: nutrition, hydration, detoxification, exercise and mental attitude, I still found this book a wake-up call, because knowing and doing are two different things.
The Naturopathic Way offers such clear and simple guidelines that adopting these principles doesn't seem such a chore. It also makes you realize that with all the assaults on our immune systems from the modern lifestyle, you ignore them at your peril. You can choose to get your act together and achieve positive health, or choose to accept progressive decline. At least the book gives you enough information and tools to choose for yourself. I think this book is so valuable that it should be in every household.

A hard read. You need a degree and a dictionary at your side. Do not think I would purchase from this author again.