What Your Doctor May Not Tell You About(TM): Autoimmune Disorders: The Revolutionary Drug-free Treatments for Thyroid Disease, Lupus, MS, IBD, Chronic Fatigue, Rheumatoid Arthritis, and Other Diseases [Paperback]

Stephen B. Edelson (Author), Deborah Mitchell (Author)

Book Description

Publication Date: March 1, 2003 | Series: What Your Doctor May Not Tell You About...

Dr. Edelson discusses the most common types of autoimmune diseases, outlining their symptoms, causes, and risk factors. He describes his own revolutionary program for treating the root of all autoimmune disorders--without drugs--providing readers with new hope for getting back on the road to better health.

Editorial Reviews

From Publishers Weekly

The immune system is a scapegoat for a variety of ills in this wide-ranging but tendentious guide to approaching diseases like lupus, Crohn's disease, MS, and rheumatoid arthritis. The author argues that autoimmune disorders, in which a malfunctioning immune system attacks healthy tissues, are caused or triggered by environmental toxins, especially heavy metals and free radicals. Drawing on his experience treating patients for the above disorders as well as chronic fatigue syndrome and autism, he recommends a variety of unconventional regimens to purge toxins from our bodies and surroundings, including chelation therapy, herb, vitamin and anti-oxidant supplements, an organic diet free of additives and allergens, sauna and massage, and the systematic use of air and water filters. Edelson provides detailed information in chapters covering specific autoimmune disorders, but his claims of a "fantastic" treatment record for some of them rely on anecdotal case studies of diseases that sometimes go into spontaneous remission. By the tenets of "clinical molecular medicine," he claims, "I don't need to know the specific autoimmune disorder a patient has, because the label doesn't matter." Since no specific disease label need be applied, such widespread and indeterminate "symptoms" as "fatigue," "depression," "muscle and joint pain," "frustration," "sparse hair," "brain fog" and "general malaise" can be construed as signs of the immune dysfunction. While this book offers information on conventional treatments and physicians, its orientation is decidedly elsewhere.
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About the Author

Lindy Woodhead has worked in fashion PR for more than thirty years. She worked in the music business before establishing her own PR agency in 1974. She has been on the board of Harvey Nichols and worked in television and advertising. She is married and lives in London.

Product Details

• Paperback: 368 pages
• Publisher: Grand Central Publishing (March 1, 2003)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 0446679240
• ISBN-13: 978-0446679244
• Product Dimensions: 5.3 x 0.8 x 8.1 inches
• Shipping Weight: 10.4 ounces (View shipping rates and policies)
• Average Customer Review: 3.5 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (25 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #356,434 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)
  • #37 in Books > Health, Fitness & Dieting > Diseases & Physical Ailments > Rheumatic Diseases
  • #69 in Books > Health, Fitness & Dieting > Diseases & Physical Ailments > Thyroid Conditions

Most Helpful Customer Reviews

92 of 99 people found the following review helpful

5.0 out of 5 stars Excellent book May 5, 2006

By Desert dweller

Format:Paperback

Don't let the previous review scare you. The quackwatch guys are the quacks themselves. Barrett, who heads up the quackwatch "research", is not a board certified doctor of anything and has been sued a bunch of times. The book itself is excellent and describes a treatment protocol that works. This protocol brought me back from near death when no local doctor could even figure out what was wrong with me. The protocol has also significantly helped our son who has autism. The "best" specialists told us there was no treatment for our son's autism and he would be permanently institutionalized by the age of 7. However, like many autism kids doing biomedical treatments, including those listed in this book, he has almost recovered. He's now 8 and attends a regular school where he performs on grade level. The treatments in this book work. It's definately worth a look.

38 of 39 people found the following review helpful

5.0 out of 5 stars Five Stars for One of the Best Books on the topics! December 5, 2009

By Laura Knight-Jadczyk VINE™ VOICE

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I want to reiterate what another reviewer already said: "Don't let the previous review scare you. The quackwatch guys are the quacks themselves. Barrett, who heads up the quackwatch "research", is not a board certified doctor of anything and has been sued a bunch of times." So true! Not only is that true, but any doctor who sets out to provide treatment protocols for patients that do not feed the bloody maw of Big Pharma (which brainwashes the masses into believing that any illness is the lack of one of their drugs!) is guaranteed to at least come under fire if not be set up to take a fall by covert measures.

Okay, having said that so that you know I've read the court files and assessed them as a complete set-up, let me now talk about the book.

This book is engaging and full of cutting edge science as well as practical advice. Dr. Edelson explains some very complex physiological systems in clear language that even impressed my doctor who said she never did understand it as well even in medical school! Not only that, but Edelson was a pioneer in a field that is now being taken up by other high profile doctors such as Mark Hyman, author of "The Ultra-Mind Solution". They are saying pretty much the same things, only Edelson said it first.

Like any other diet or health book, there is a particular focus and some of his ideas and protocols won't work for everyone. But, by and large, Dr. Edelson manages to connect things together in a very comprehensive way, and those people who will not benefit from his approach are, I would think, a vanishing minority.

One thing that struck me and convinced me that Dr. Edelson really knew his stuff was his mention of the inflamed blood vessel lumps that appear in the forearms of individuals who suffer rheumatoid arthritis.... I've had these lumps for years, I have rheumatoid arthritis, and no other doctor has ever been able to tell me what those lumps are. What's more, they have begun to disappear simply from following the protocol in Dr. Edelson's book. My doctor is even willing to experiment with the anti-biotic treatment for my condition and I'm looking forward to even greater improvement than I have achieved already, and that will be something! I'm already almost 90% free of pain and my good days now far outnumber my bad days!

Thank you Dr. Edelson! Read more ›

22 of 23 people found the following review helpful

5.0 out of 5 stars Answer to what causes AI disorders February 10, 2011

By Wise mom

Format:Paperback

This book has all the answers that a newly diagnosed person with any Auto Immune Disorder has in his mind.
It answers the "WHY ME" kind of dejection and offers hope .
Especially since the Rheumatologist did not spend any time in educating me about the illness and only spent 2 minutes with me and gave me a prescription leaving me completely in the dark about what is going on in my body or why this is happening to me .

After reading this book , in my life I understand the connection between my AID and the 9 amalgum fillings(heavy metal toxicity by mercury) in my mouth and my exposure to pesticides and drinking tap water with heavy metal contamination ( I live in a 45 yr old apt).

And now I have started by eliminating the environmental toxins by switching to an Organic whole foods diet and using only natural house cleaners like vinegar ,baking soda , boric acid etc.That way I am making sure my kids are not exposed to the environmental toxins that I had.

And I am feeling much relief with my condition.

UPDATE :Jan 2013
I switched to a healthy diet (2 years back )with lots of fresh and organic foods and continue eating/living healthy .Six months back the physician ran all the blood tests and results were all normal. I do take Coenzymated BComplex and Optizinc supplements .
For Calcium and Magnesium ,I eat lots of sauteed broccoli :)
I din't go back to my Rheumi after she prescribed me drugs in just a 2 minute consultation ,even though Me and Insurance together paid $350 for her 2 minute consultation .
Just took charge of my life without letting some Rheumi experiment drugs on me.
This book showed me the alternative path and it worked for me.

Thanks.

9 of 9 people found the following review helpful

3.0 out of 5 stars *VERY* mixed feelings about this book February 24, 2012

By Desert Gypsy TOP 100 REVIEWER

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{Note: The various prior reviews and the synopsis provided gives a fair and accurate description of what the book is about so I'll not repeat those details here.}

My opinion: I found that a good portion of the ideas presented for drug-free treatment of AI disease *did* make sense to me; in fact, at one point I have been through some seemingly medically unsound means of getting off all prescriptions for treatment of my diagnosis with Systemic Lupus.

The rapid taper and detoxification process I went through was similar in ways to certain methods described in the book. This outside the box thinking I imagine could get a medical professional in trouble with either his colleagues, big drug companies, or even patients that are very ingrained in a specific type of doctor/patient process that they cannot move past.

The reasons why there are lawsuits, closed medical centers, and disciplinary actions taken against the author definitely concerns me though. I have seen other outside the box thinkers not have this amount of legal trouble; frankly I think where there is smoke there's usually fire so I have trouble trusting the author and ideas in this book as a result.

Bottomline: I would say that I can recommend examining the ideas in the book and then weighing and investigating what you feel comfortable with, along with consultation and advice from your doctor.