Customer Reviews

Overcoming Arthritis

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Having Lupus and Fibromyalgia I have followed a number of recommendations by Dr. Brownstein and highly recommend this book. I have heard of using antibiotics for Lupus before but no doctors ever recommended it. Very informative and easy to read. The fact that one's thyroid might be one of a number culprits in many of these diseases helped me out because until I got the right doseage my Fibromyalgia was off the charts. Also the idea of eliminating wheat and gluten was a great move. I subscribe to this doctors monthly newsletter and friends and family have benefitted from many of his recommendations. I say buy the book and read it and don't just go by the one comment you won't be disappointed as long as you follow his recommendations.

This is an excellent book of information for arthritis and auto immune diseases. The company was quick to mail it to me as well.

Like many books of this nature, there is a constant barrage of "case studies" presented to make a 100 page book 220 pages.
While I found the arthritis information of value - such as most Rheumatoid arthritis sufferers ( and other chronic illness patients )
have a mycoplasma infection and that they will often experience very significant relief from antibiotics treatment ( mentions Minocin and Clindamyacin )
- along with proper vitamin and mineral support. He does go into some details on this and states best results are experienced when administered by IV.

I am greatly disappointed however on the information regarding Omega 3 and Omega 6 fatty acids. The ideal ratio of omega-6 to
omega-3 fats is 1:1. Our ancestors evolved over millions of years on this ratio. Today, though, our diets in the US are closer
to a ratio of omega-6 to omega-3 may average anywhere from 5:1 to 50:1 !! This ratio is NOT mentioned and I really find this bothersome
as the implications are serious, and most health newsletters / publications are always mentioning this. This out of whack balance alone
is said to be the cause of much illness in our population today.

In summary - I am happy I got the book but feel it is incomplete on some important things such as this.

Have great hopes that this book, like the first Brownstein book I bought, will be as helpful to now deal with the pain of arthritis.

I wonder how this guy got through medical school.

I sampled a random page from this book on Amazon (Surprise me) and he says that Americans on restricted calorie diets are often "protein deficient" and therefore can't effectively fight inflammatory conditions like arthritis. This is total nonsense.

There is a medical condition, well understood and with definite florid symptoms, called kwakashor. It is caused by protein deficiency. News Flash: This condition is almost totally unknown in America!

On the contrary, Americans get PLENTY of protein, even when they are dieting! First of all, your body makes most of the protein it needs even if you are a vegan & avoid eating any animal derived food at all. Secondly, the American diet is full of dairy and soy protein because such things are often added to food in ways that are may not be obvious.

If anything, American diets are most likely to contain too much protein. The symptoms of this are gout and kidney abnormalities as our bodies struggle to get rid of the toxic products of protein metabolism.

I confess I haven't read Dr. Brownstein's whole book yet (I'm going to, though) but such egregous misinformation on just one page is off-putting, to put it mildly.