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Patient Heal Thyself: A Remarkable Health Program Combining Ancient Wisdom with Groundbreaking Clinical Research

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Let me start by saying that I have never written a review for Amazon before but I believe that this book is so important that I felt that I needed to come out in defense of it and give it my highest recommendation.

It's hard for me to believe how cynical some people can be when they read a book such as this, and pass judgment on it without even trying the recommendations put forth.

It's obvious that the people who have slammed this book and given it one star haven't really tried anything that the author recommends. Too bad for them.

But it's also too bad for people who might be looking for something to either cure themselves or cure others--and this book might have just the information they need--are turned off by people who are irresponsibly critical.

Yes, he does have a supplement company and some of the products are a little pricey and yes you can find similar products a little cheaper. But that doesn't negate the fact that the book is full of useful, backed-up-by-research information that will make a radical difference in a person's diet and health.

One doesn't have to buy his supplements to get full use of this remarkable book, anyway.

He does have one supplement though, Primal Defense, which are the Healthy Soil Organisms that cannot be found anywhere else as far as I know, which created the major turning point in his being cured of Crohn's disease. We all need these healthy probiotics and if you read the book you will understand why. (If you get this in the powdered form it ain't that expensive anyway.)

I have a cousin who had been sick with Crohn's Disease (a supposedly incurable disease) for years. She had been wasting away, could barely eat any food and the doctor's had given up on her. She had tried everything from doctors and drugs to alternative therapies.

A few months ago I found this book in the health food store and sent her a copy. She now no longer has Crohn's disease. Yes, a disease she had had for years that medical science calls incurable she has cured herself of in just a few months by eating the diet and adding some supplementation that this book recommends.

She is now gaining weight, is free of pain and is feeling better than she has in many many years. She credits my sending her this book with saving her life.

I follow the diet myself and take some of the supplements and have much more energy and my aches and pains in joints and back are gradually subsiding. Nothing I have tried before has made the difference that this way of eating and supplementation has made.

(And if you are looking to lose weight you will find nothing better than the information in this book to help you do that. Atkins is great, this book does it one better.)

I have been studying nutrition for many years. This information is by far the most common sense and logical and in many ways revolutionary.

Please pay no attention to the cynical nay sayers. Get this book, used if you have to, read it, apply it then judge for yourself.

A few bucks is all you have to lose, optimal health for life is everything you have to gain.

I first came across this book about a year ago when our local Whole Foods gave it out for free. I was impressed with Mr. Rubin's story, but was put off by the thought that he was simply trying to market his products.

I wish I hadn't wasted that year. After having tried everything else and getting no results, I decided to give this a try as a last resort. After less than one month of taking the products, I am in excellent health. The chronic conditions I had suffered with for several years are now gone!

Yes, I agree, this book is a marketing strategy. But don't let that put you off from purchasing an incredibly effective product. Read the book, give it a try, you have nothing to lose, and everything to gain.

This is a great book... you just have to get past the sales techniques for the author's products and focus on the points he's making. I started following his program "generally" without buying any of his brand name supplements and I later found that two diagnosed diseases I had been told I had were gone... Chron's disease and herniated discs. The doctors don't have an explanation. During follow-up testing, both problems were gone. I now buy a few of the author's supplements (primarily because I've learned to trust what he has to say), but I've also learned enough from his book and what God has provided for us in the Bible to augment this author's ideas. In my opinion, this is a must-read. It certainly can't hurt.

Let me start bottom side up...

I have suffered from crohn's for the past ten years, I'm 6'1', I weighed 185 pounds when i was 17 (10 years ago), within a half year from when this disease struck me I weighed 142 pounds - life was miserable - I could not be between people, for I didn't know when my gut will strike me next. Where ever I would go, I first would locate the nearest bathroom...

To make the story short - since then I have been on and off prednisone and asacol and pepcid for 10 years, with my docs constantly threatening with surgery. I was hospitalized 2-3 years ago with severe problems.

3 months ago I had another attack, I didn't want to go through all the medical procedures in order the doctor should let me get back on to steroids - so I went on to news groups - seeking for alternative treatments - someone recommend me that I read this book.

I read the book in it's entirety - I got really hooked on some of the products - specifically "primal defense" & "omega-zyme" and all I can say is "it's a miracle - it basically took 4 weeks, and most of my aches and pain began to subside - I am finally starting to feel my normal life again.

I am a true believer in his products.

You might ask why I only rate it 3 stars - simply because I look at it as a product brochure - with very little usefull information beyond his personal story and his product (per se - "patient heal thyself" hmmm with my products)

Patient Heal Thyself is about 60% the same information as the Maker's Diet, but in some areas it covers information more thoroughly which is very helpful when you're trying to absorb this major lifestyle change. PHT went into more detail on what the different supplements can do for you and why they work, it went into more detail on clinical studies conducted to prove the Diet's truths, and half the book discussed specific ailments and what dietary changes should be made to achieve optimal health. All I can say regarding the Maker's Diet and PHT is that this is the time of year my three children suffer with horrible allergies, including once a week shots and are on 5-6 different asthma medicines and now after a month on the diet and the supplement Primal Defense, they're symptom free.

I am updating once again on January 15, 2011. My mother remains cancer free and healthy. She will be 77 this summer. In March it will be 6 years that she was diagnosed. There is no question in our minds that the combination of chemo and a vigorous dose of the Garden of Life supplements that Dr. Rubin recommends cured her. They can be found at a good discount at the Vitamin Shoppe on line. If you are ill, you have nothing to lose by trying these supplements. Spend a couple of dollars and read this book. Decide for yourself.

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Updating again on November 28, 2011. My mother is still cancer free. Six and a half years after the doctor told us she would be dead in 8 weeks without chemo and at best would last 8 months with chemo. Her cancer was resolved 8 weeks after diagnosis and has not returned for six and a half years. We attribute this to the combination of chemo, the Garden of Life supplements, and the dietary recommendations in Patient Heal Thyself.

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I am updating again on May 5, 2009. My mother is still cancer free. Four years later exactly.
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I am updating yet again another year later on July 29, 2008. My mother has had a PET scan recently and remains cancer free. This is now 3 full years that her cancer has been resolved. We were originally told in March 2005 that she would be dead in 8 weeks with no chemo and dead even with the chemo in 8 months. When she first found out she had small cell lung cancer she did chemo and immediately began following the recommendations in this book for supplements to be taken with lung cancer. Her cancer was resolved in 8 weeks in May 2005 and she remains cancer free. Small cel lung cancer has a low survival rate. Her doctors consider it a miracle. We believe it was these supplements in conjunction with her chemo that made her cancer disappear. She is healthy and strong and 74!

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I am updating the below recommendation on 8/4/07. A full two years and a few months after my mother was diagnosed with small cel lung cancer she remains cancer free. This is one of the deadliest cancers with low survival rates. The only thing she did was chemotherapy and follow instructions in this book by loading up with the supplements. Her doctors call her the miracle patient. I think the only miracle was finding this book and following the instructions. It's small dollars for the book and not big dollars for the supplements. I don't understand the short sighted closed minded opinions of a few. Buy the book, try the supplements. My mother has gained 15 pounds, looks great, is cancer free and is alive with no cancer nearly two full years after the doctors had told me she would be dead even with the chemo. The visiting nurse who had looked at her chart told her not to even bother with the chemo and put herself through it because her condition was so bad. Yet she was cancer free in 8 weeks of diagnosis and remains cancer free two years later. You have nothing to lose by trying this.
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HERE IS MY ORIGINAL REVIEW FROM 2005:

My 70 year old mother was diagnosed with small cel lung cancer, with adjacent lymph nodes involved, on March 29, 2005 and was told by her primary care physician and oncologist that without chemotherapy she would be dead in 8 weeks, with chemotherapy she could expect to live the summer, or perhaps until Christmas. Small cel cancer is the deadliest and it spreads rapidly.

For her treatment she had 3 rounds of chemotherapy, and I also convinced her to read Patient Heal Thyself and take the recommended nutritional supplements under the Cancer treatment section. The supplements were not inexpensive, but our local health food stores sell them for 25% off. Upon beginning to take the supplements, my Mother felt better almost instantly. Within 24 hours of taking the supplements, particularly RM-10, her appetite went from eating two teaspoons of baby food to cooking herself healthy portions of pasta, pizza and eggs in complete meals. Her oncologist expressed surprise at how quickly her blood cel count had bounced back. By the time she had her next lung scan at the hospital, on June 1, 2005, just two months after being diagnosed, the scan showed that her small cel cancer was "resolved", or gone. There is no trace of her cancer.

This book not only recommends certain supplements, and thoroughly explains WHY they are recommended, but discusses dietary issues for patients to consider. The author of this book does not profit from dietary changes with food purchased at the grocery store. The combination of chemotherapy, dietary changes based on this book, and the supplements cured my Mother in two months of a cancer that was expected to claim her life no later than the end of the year.

I hope that cancer patients will spend the money to purchase this book for less than $[...] on Amazon.com. What is your life worth? If you are sick with cancer, it's worth a try for a month or two in order to see if it helps. If you are sick, at least read the book. Decide for yourself whether or not to try the recommended supplements. Make an informed decision.

I have been around the block with vitamins, juicing,natural foods, etc. I improved on all of them to a certain extent, but it was expensive, time consuming, and promised to stay expensive, since there was no self-sustaining mechanism there. I always thought there was one piece missing to the puzzle. I think this is the piece, the Homeostatic Soil Organisms. And it is eventually self-sustaining. I didn't just read the book and intellectually evaluate it. I put it into practice. I had a history of candidiasis (20 years in various degrees), hyperthyroid (Graves disease) that was testing in normal ranges now, but the autoimmune marker was still there, and fibromyalgia (1.5 years). My hearing had been diminishing for 2 years, to the point I couldn't hear my fingers rubbing if held right next to the ear. I tried various medical treatments with moderate results. I saw an ENT and had an MRI to look for blockages. All negative. So I finally read this book (someone had loaned it to me) and it made a lot of sense with what I had already learned. So I started with Fungal Defense and Perfect Food and in 3 days I could hear next to my ear, and by the end of the week I could hear a soft rubbing of my fingers at arm's length! I've been able to cut my medication for fibromyalgia in half in less than 4 weeks. Yes, I'm doing the diet (not perfectly), but I've done the diet before and not with such dramatic results. The Fungal Defense seemed to take the cravings away too. The difference here is that I'm not just ingesting high levels of nutrients compensating for my compromised digestion that can only marginally utilize them. I'm healing the damage and innoculating my own system with healthy bacteria that was meant to be there anyway, and is meant to extract the nutrients from our food more efficiently. What I think is remarkable is that the goal is to recover using higher doses, but then to taper off after 90 days to a small maintenance dose. The company markets through health professionals and retail establishments, not multi-level marketing, a fact I appreciate. As for using coconut oil , the tests that indicated saturated fats are bad for your health were done on HYDROGENATED coconut oil. ALL hydrogenated oils are bad for your heart. I've researched good fats and bad fats and found Rubin's claim that coconut oil is healing to the gut to be supported and repeated in many other circles. It is particularly good for leaky gut. There is a big difference in brands. (I found the one by Laureece, Inc. being the best, with Garden of Life coming in a close second.) As for the biblical aspect of the diet, who would better know the best fuel for the body to run on but the Creator? I'd already been doing that diet, to my benefit, but the Fungal Defense and Primal Defense have added a new dimension to that benefit. I was so excited about what I'd read and with my own results, I gave back the borrowed book and now have two copies of my own, one for lending. There are very many studies documented in Patient Heal Thyself. So I encourage readers to not just give it an intellectual evaluation alone. Try it. That's where the proof is.

Information on Patient Heal Thyself: A Remarkable Health Program Combining Ancient Wisdom With Groundbreaking Clinical Research is extremely valuable. Explanations are given in detail and it is easy to understand. I tried many diets and the best result I got is from this book.

Since I have been on this diet, all the cravings for junk food have gone. I was someone who lived for sugar and now I do not want any of it. I use to crave coffee in the morning as well but realized I didn't want that wired up feeling & acid stomach. I switched over to a caffeine-free coffee substitute made from soyabeans I found on the net at www.S o y c o f f e e.c om. It so easy for someone to tell you to eat less, but if you are craving bad foods, eventually you will fail. In the first five days I was on this diet all the craving ceased and I was already 8 lbs down. If you were like me and cannot wait for your next slice of cake and at the same time really want to change your lifestyle, Try this.

WOW! I can't believe how many people are knocking this book. Especially the person with Crohns that hasn't even tried the products. Nobody claims it's a miracle cure, and yes we still need doctors and other medicines. The simple fact is, that we hear all about drugs on tv or from our doctors, and not enough about products like this, so we think it's a joke. Or we only hear about the harmful natural products, then we are scared off of anything else. Plus, I admit, alot of natural things are filled with low grade material, so we see no results, leading us right back to the doctor. Look at all the side affects from man made drugs. Vioxx is for inflamation,which can be great, but it can also damage you liver and kidneys. Theres good and bad in any situation.

Also the people saying they don't like the marketing aspect of this book, look they are just trying to sell their products like anyone else. Do you complain when you see all these Viagra, birth control, and cholesteral commercials on tv? No, you go and buy them. Thats all anybody tries to do, promote their product, synthetic or natural. As for giving a free book with a large order, thats not wrong. Everything out there is buy two get one free and so on. Thats smart marketing. It gets them sales and us a great product with a free book. SO WHAT!!!

Also from personal experience, I have been taking the perfect food and probiotics, and can honestly say that I feel great. I no longer have IBS, which I have had since I was 15. Also my allergies are better and it has helped balance my hormones. My doctor couldn't seem to help me very much in these areas. Her synthetic drugs either didn't work or the side affects made me feel worse. Not that her way is wrong, it just wasn't right for me.

Yes, we need to watch our diets no matter what. Nobody claims we don't have to, including Doctor Rubin. In fact, if you really read the book, he tries to encourage us to eat better in addition to using his supplements. If we use prescription drugs, they tell us to still try to live a healthy lifestyle. Their drugs are not a cure either. They just enhance what we are already doing right. The better we do, the better the drugs will do. This goes for natural supplements as well. Even the cholesteral commercials say in conjunction with diet and exercise, this drug can aid in lowering cholesteral. Most doctors even promote supplements along with their conventional drugs. For some people, that might be the answer. Who's to say?

As for the biblical standpoint, we don't have to completely agree with his views. Can you honestly tell me you don't question things in the bible or things you hear from your pastor? It's all about interpretation. The bottom line is, we are all trying to figure it out, and do whats best for us in all areas of our lives.

I definatley think people should try these products, and if they don't work, then thats ok too. Not everything can work for everbody. So yes, we will still need our doctors.

As for the person claiming to know Dr. Rubin, I would say to be careful about the things you are saying. Maybe when you knew him, if you even did, he was healthy. Good for him for trying to help people and use his education and life experience.

Sure it might seem like a leap of faith, but our doctors are not taught natural healing. They promote synthetic drugs, which is somewhat ok, because this is what they learned. Although, I think it would be helpful if they told us more about natural remedies, since we look to them for answers. However, they are doing their job too, just like Dr. Rubin, who was taught a different method. You can't tell me that there is only one way of doing everything. It's our job to make smart choices for ourselves. But to just say, I don't think it will work, is possibly keeping you from getting well.

Ok, I'll calm down. Just read the book and see what you think. I know it has been great for me, and I am the skeptical type just like alot of you.

I'd heard of the maker's diet several years ago but am not particularly religious at all and it just didn't resonate with me. As my symptoms became more debilitating I eventually tried the Specific Carbohydrate Diet. I do competitive bodybuilding and so am VERY accustomed to strict year round dieting...but I still struggled with the Specific Carb Diet as it just seemed to exclude everything and anything that could possibly ever be triggering of symptoms. It took me several months after trying that diet, and being put on steroids and sleeping pills on top of high doses of anti-inflamatories, before I decided to give another go at healing myself outside of traditional medicine.

My current trainer at the time actually recommended the book in addition to his own plan for finding out what my trigger foods were. I didn't get the book for months, and we made small improvements such that I was off my medicine but having symptoms that were teetering on the verge of a major flare up. I got the book because I was desperate not to go back on medication for the rest of my life. I began reading it page for page but then started to flare up pretty seriously. So I skipped immediately to the specific dietary recommendations and those tailored to my diagnosis (severe ulcerative colitis) and just dove in with his recommendations. Now I don't know about anyone else, but this what happened for me:

Within days of incorporating a few foods and excluding a few others that he thought were most important...my symptoms abated. Within a week or so however, they worsened BIG TIME. Far worse than what I had been experiencing with my trainer. I knew how long I could experience my symptoms before they would become a medical emergency, so I waited it out. After 2-3 weeks of what felt like a major backslide, my symptoms nearly stopped. Nearly. But I know this takes time and it could be several years before they really go away...but for the first time I feel confident that I can actually manage this MYSELF...and that they will, eventually, stop altogether.

I don't use many supplements unless I really believe in them. I did NOT buy any of his garden of life products (such as the HSO's). What literally did the trick it seemed, along with following the guidelines in general...was that unprocessed/unrefined organic coconut oil. It was actually the item I put off buying at first because I just thought I could take it or leave it. But for me....it's the clincher. On 2 Tbsp's a day, my symptoms dramatically decreased after that flare up. It was when I doubled it to 4 Tbsp's a day that they damn near stopped. I don't know what all it's components are...or how it does whatever it does...and really, I don't care right now. I can function again without colitis dictating my work and social life. So don't feel like you have to necessarily buy any "crazy" stuff. Maybe I'd heal sooner if I invested in some of his products, but maybe not. Right now, his basic plan and recommendations are giving me exactly what I wanted: independence from medicine. Comfortable! independence.