Solved: The Riddle of Illness [Paperback]

Stephen E. Langer (Author), James F. Scheer (Author), Stephen Langer (Editor), M.D. (Editor)

Book Description

Publication Date: January 1, 1984

This book reveals secrets of abundant health- physically, emotionally and mentally.It offers new hope because it deals with underlying causes for a multitude of ailments.Understanding and managing your thyroid gland is key.

Editorial Reviews

From the Back Cover

"One of the most important books of our time . . . a perennial bestseller [that] shows you simple ways to understand and manage your thyroid gland so that you can make the most of your life physically, emotionally, and mentally."
--­­From the foreword by Dr. Dwayne Dyer

"Not only is Solved: The Riddle of Illness the best thyroid book, it is, by far, the best health book I have ever read. It saved my life!"
--Lee Swanson, president, Swanson Health Products

"The new edition of Solved: The Riddle of Illness reveals how to cope with stress that lowers thyroid function, depletes energy, and contributes to weight gain. Don't let undiagnosed hypothyroidism rob you of your zest for living!"
--Richard Passwater, Ph.D., author of Supernutrition: Megavitamin Revolution.

Solved: The Riddle of Illness reveals how low thyroid function, often overlooked or misdiagnosed, can be the underlying cause to a multitude of ailments. Author and thyroid expert Dr. Stephen Langer shows you simple ways to improve your overall health through diet, lifestyle changes, and natural alternatives, as well as a full range of medical options. You'll learn how to:

• Get to the root of your health problems and find the healthiest way to treat them
• Diagnose your condition and get the medical care you need
• Deal with obesity, infertility, depression, and more, safely and effectively

--This text refers to an alternate Paperback edition.

About the Author

Stephen Langer, M.D. received his medical training at New York College of Medicine in Buffalo, NY He has been president of the American Nutritional Medical Association since 1982 and has a private practice, specializing in orthomolecular medicine and clinical nutrition in Berkely, CA.

Product Details

• Paperback: 256 pages
• Publisher: Keats Pub; 2nd Rev edition (January 1, 1984)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 0879836679
• ISBN-13: 978-0879836672
• Product Dimensions: 9 x 6.1 x 0.7 inches
• Shipping Weight: 12.8 ounces
• Average Customer Review: 4.5 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (30 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #1,915,093 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

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109 of 112 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars This book gave me my life back!, June 8, 2000

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This review is from: Solved: The Riddle of Illness (Paperback)

After months of crippling fatigue, severe depression, rapid weight gain, swelling of the legs, and hair loss, I had hoped at least one of my many specialists would have considered the obvious: hypothyroidism (I even had thyroid anitbodies which they insisted was "normal"). By some grace of God, I happened to move to the same town where Dr. Langer practices, and found a great advocate in him. He has put me on the right track with dessicated thyroid and already I feel better than I have ever felt in my life. It makes me almost cry to think what my life would have been like had I not discovered this great book and exceptional doctor. Trust your instincts...if you don't feel well, you probably aren't well. Insist that your MD pursues your symptoms until they are gone. By the way, I still refer back to this book on a regular basis.

89 of 92 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Required reading for thyroid patients and their practitioner, April 5, 2001

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This review is from: Solved: The Riddle of Illness (Paperback)

Solved: The Riddle of Illness (Third Edition), by Stephen
Langer,M.D. and James Scheer highligh the authors' tremendous
knowledge of nutritional medicine, and the relationship between
thyroid disease and many conditions, such as arthritis, obesity,
depression, diabetes, heart disease, cancer, sexual problems, and much
more.

Dr. Langer, who is consistently ranked very highly by the
many patients who frequently recommend him in my Thyroid Top Doctors
Directory, and his colleague Jim Scheer -- a renowned author of
fifteen books on nutrition and health, and more than a thousand
magazine articles -- have updated this new edition to provide a
comprehensive holistic/nutritional approach to understanding thyroid
disease.

Dr. Langer is one of the innovative practitioners who
truly recognizes the issues surrounding hypothyroidism -- from
diagnosis, to treatment, to the underlying autoimmune challenges. He
is one of only a handful of practitioners around the country who I
feel truly understand thyroid disease, and are in a position to be
able to help thyroid patients.

The book addresses difficulties in
diagnosis, and various factors an astute practitioner should take into
account -- besides just TSH results -- to make a thyroid
diagnosis.

Once diagnosed with hypothyroidism, far too many doctors
still tell you there's nothing you can do except take your thyroid
hormone to be well. But this book discusses ways to help enhance
wellness by providing the proper nutrition the thyroid
needs. Approaches recommended in the book may help with the
deficiencies underlying a condition, not to mention the symptoms that
frequently don't resolve despite conventional treatments.

A very
useful part of this book is the final chapter, "For Doctors
Only." If you have an open- minded physician willing to be a
partner with you in your wellness, giving her or him a copy of this
chapter could be particularly useful.

Says the book, "...a
broad and serious blind spot exists today in physical diagnosis, one
that needs immediate recognition. ...Awareness of widespread
hypothyroidism and the three-way approach to its accurate diagnosis
will enable you to do one two things: rule it out entirely or get
proper treatment for it. This condition is too important to go ignored
and untreated."

This book broke new ground back when the first
edition was published, and this third edition is still challenging
doctors and patients to take a closer look at the relationship between
hypothyroidism and disease, and the foundation of nutrition as it
affects the thyroid and overall wellness. It's a required book on any
thyroid patient's bookshelf, not to mention required reading for the
doctors who treat us.

Mary Shomon, Editor, The Thyroid Disease
Website and Newsletter...and author of "Living Well With
Hypothyroidism: What Your Doctor Doesn't Tell You...That You Need to
Know."

44 of 47 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars This book is my life saver !, August 9, 1998

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This review is from: Solved: The Riddle of Illness (Paperback)

I consider myself very lucky for finding "Solved: The Riddle of Illness" in the amazon.com. Recently, I was diagnosed with hypothyroidism, and only because I had enough guts to ask my doctor to check my thyroid for possible problems. Before the diagnosis, I had so many symptoms "without the cause" that, in late thirties, I thought my life is slipping away. The suggested cure was "lose weight and take it easy." In other words, it was indirectly suggested that "everything is in my mind." If I only had this book then! I could've escaped from much misery and anxiety that is hard to describe even in thousands of words! "Solved: The Riddle of Illness" is my best friend now. Stephen E. Langer, M.D & James F. Scheer discus hypothyroid problems and their symptoms clearly, thoroughly, candidly. (One author has the condition.) I admire the authors for showing respect to the ordinary people's medical intelligence and give the! m an incredible tool - the knowledge of illness - to better their lives. It is one of the best health books I've ever read. Five star scale is not sufficient to rate it. My visits to an HMO doctor's office last five minutes, and this book will stay with me forever. All the information shared gave me understanding of the debilitating illness. Now, I have hope that there is much I can do to control it and eventually to come back to normal life. Thank you, Stephen E. Langer and James F. Scheer, from the bottom of my heart! I recommend this book to everyone who has unexplainable depression, fatigue, who lost love of life, or who is simply genuinely interested in staying healthy. Not just 75,000 copies but millions should be printed and discovered by such lucky readers like me.