Reversing Multiple Sclerosis: 9 Effective Steps to Recover Your Health [Paperback]

Celeste Pepe (Author), Lisa Hammond (Author)

Book Description

Publication Date: April 1, 2001

Reversing Multiple Sclerosis
9 Effective Steps to Recover Your Health
Celeste Pepe, D.C., N.D.
and Lisa Hammond

Celeste Pepe was strong, fit, and energetic until multiple sclerosis attacked. The verdict: incurable. The option: masking symptoms with synthetic drugs that did nothing to reverse the disease and often produced debilitating side effects. Instead, Pepe sought alternative therapies that have resulted with hard work and commitment, in an ongoing reversal of her MS symptoms.

·A revealing look into the physical and emotional world of a multiple sclerosis patient

·A doctor defies her own fears in a courageous personal journey from incurable illness to healing

·An easy-to-read instruction manual for reclaiming health, complete with an extensive resource section

·Find out how combining alternative treatments such as biocybernetic testing, mercury removal, chelation, and apitherapy with proper diet, nutrition, and exercise may reverse the debilitating symptoms of a little-understood disease

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From the Inside Flap

Multiple sclerosis is a debilitating disease that has long been regarded as being almost beyond the possibility of successful treatment. For many patients a diagnosis of MS has meant the end of a normally functioning life. Not any longer.

Celeste Pepe was a vigorous 42, a busy chiropractor and naturopath, when she an MS diagnosis.

What does an expert in alternative medicine do when she gets seriously ill? Dr. Pepe realized it was time to put her deep belief in alternative medicine to the test. She resolved to find and employ effective natural ways to reverse this condition and restore her health. She did, and her multiple sclerosis is now a thing of the past.

Dr. Pepe’s remarkable healing odyssey took her through many disciplines, theories, and practices in the world of natural medicine and into the depths of her own body and mind. In the end, she distilled her successful treatment into a program that nay MS patient can follow to restore health. She explains this with clarity, medical precision, and a strong measure of encouragement.

Using her own healing experience, Dr. Pepe explains the nine step that can help the MS patient turn the corner on this disease: detailed nutrient testing and fortification, bee venom treatment, allergy testing, dietary changes, personally tailored nutritional plans, the use of specialized supplements, chelation therapy, regular exercise, and the replacement of mercury amalgam dental fillings. “I truly believe that if you diligently apply these healing protocols, which I have learned, you will no longer be known as an MS victim’,” says Dr. Pepe.

Product Details

• Paperback: 408 pages
• Publisher: Hampton Roads Pub Co; 1 edition (April 1, 2001)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 1571742263
• ISBN-13: 978-1571742261
• Product Dimensions: 9 x 6.1 x 1.1 inches
• Shipping Weight: 1.2 pounds (View shipping rates and policies)
• Average Customer Review: 2.8 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (31 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #318,453 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)
  • #61 in Books > Health, Fitness & Dieting > Disorders & Diseases > Multiple Sclerosis

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113 of 119 people found the following review helpful:

2.0 out of 5 stars "Dr" Who????, April 30, 2003

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L. Molina "L. Molina" (Ma, United States) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Reversing Multiple Sclerosis: 9 Effective Steps to Recover Your Health (Paperback)

This book was not written for people who are sceptical about using alternative healing methods. Nor was it written for people who have little energy to spend on reading the work of an egotist. Don't misunderstand me! I am very much a believer in natural healing methods. When I have been vigilant about using CAM (complementray and alternative medicine) I have kicked this MS into remission. I admitedly slacked off the holistic health proptocol and am suffering through a horrible relapse which has caused me to rely once again on my cane and a wheelchair for extended distances. I bought this book to help get me motivated and back on track (ALTERNATIVE METHODS ARE TIME CONSUMING, ARDUOUS, EXPENSIVE AND EXHAUSTING... She forgets to mention that).

I was sent into sheer dissapointed with "DR" Pepe. She seems to have a huge ego. The greater part of the book served as a major opportunity to massage that ego ... and/or provide some major self-psychotherapy, rather than focusing on providing a service to the reader. Only a fraction of the pages gave actual information that is helpful. I didn't purchase the book to read about her humiliating MSers in wheelchairs by doing spins on her high heels during her presentations to the NMSS. In spite of the nauseating ego stuff, what was MOST disturbing is the fact that she is credentialed as both a Naturapath (ND) AND Chiropractor (DC), yet her clinical/nutritional knowledge base and patient-doctor communication skills were DEPLORABLE. When I purchased her book, I was shocked to realize how little she knew ... making it a waste of money, time and hope (the title is really catchy and instills false hope). If you are a complete novice to alternative health care and management for MS, and don't mind weeding through 450 pages of whining and arrogant narrative, then go for it! You don't have anything to lose. If you want a book with more sophisticated content - don't bother! For beginners I would recommend a wonderful litttle book entitiled Multiple Sclerosis - The Natural Way by Richard Thomas. It offers a lot of great info and is to the point! Judy Graham is also worth reading. The Swank diet is essential .... and surf the internet! The web is packed with lots of wonderful info (but don't sit in front of the computer for too long without stretchig your legs! God bless you all (a little faith doesn't hurt iether) ;-)

95 of 100 people found the following review helpful:

3.0 out of 5 stars A Disappointment, June 24, 2001

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This review is from: Reversing Multiple Sclerosis: 9 Effective Steps to Recover Your Health (Paperback)

Honestly, I didn't get very far into this book before I began to realize that this woman was an imposter. She claims that she used many different methods (diet, yoga/exercise, and Bee Sting Therapy) to completely recover from MS......until you learn that she has only had MS for 5 years, and only the initial attack. Most of us who have MS can say that we recovered completely from our first attack, followed by a period of time (sometimes years) where we were free of the disease. Let's see if she can remain symptom-free for 10 or 15 or 20 years.

47 of 50 people found the following review helpful:

2.0 out of 5 stars I wish it were good!, January 28, 2005

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This review is from: Reversing Multiple Sclerosis: 9 Effective Steps to Recover Your Health (Paperback)

This book is more like a "travelogue" through Ms. Pepe's brief (5 year) journey with MS than a useful tool in comparing alternative therapies. She flits around between different therapies and theories and doesn't inspire much confidence in her choices. For example, she rejects Dr. Swank's low saturated fat diet and I can surmise that it's only because she misses eating butter and red meat too much. After all, this is a nutitionist who is used to eating steak and eggs for breakfast! When she abandon's Swank's diet, she buys 2 lobsters to celebrate. In her bibliography, she lists the 1987 edition of Swank's book which is the same one I read. It allows lobster in any quantity. Must be the butter she wanted to celebrate with!

Most people interested in alternative medicine show at least a smattering of compassion towards animals. Not Ms. Pepe. She ingests a disturbing amount of pig myelin which seems dangerous considering things like mad cow disease, and she uses bee venom therapy which kills perfectly innocent (and nearly wiped out) honey bees. I was an inadvertant recipient of bee venom therapy at age 12 when a bumblebee flew up the leg of my pants and stung me 6 or 7 times on the knee. I'm not saying bee venom therapy doesn't work, but since my knee only got terribly stiff and a bit itchy I'm not convinced it does anything positive for your joints.

I would love to see a book that did a thorough and dispassionate examination of alternative therapies. I've read of a study that showed regular yoga helping alleviate the fatigue associated with MS. Yoga has helped me and so has acupuncture although it got expensive and rather time consuming. Nutrition and supplements have helped as well. I would love to hear more about MS and meditation. It seems to me that meditation could help greatly with stress and it's exacerbation of MS symptoms.

I often refer to MS as the Mystery Sickness because it is so hard to pin down. Ms. Pepe is one of those irritating people who claim to know it all and be 'cured'. It's a shame really because the does the cause of alternative medicine more harm than good with this self indulgent book of hers.