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Back from the Edge: How One Man's Discovery Brought Him From Desperately Sick with Chronic Fatigue Syndrome To the Top of Mt. Whitney in Six Months Kindle Edition
"Back from the Edge: How One Man's Discovery Brought Him From Desperately Sick with Chronic Fatigue Syndrome to the Top of Mt. Whitney in Six Months" is a straightforward summary of Erik's extraordinary life.
For more information about neuroimmune illness such as CFS, about the health effects of toxic mold and other toxins, or about Erik Johnson, visit the Paradigm Change website at www.paradigmchange.me.
- LanguageEnglish
- Publication dateAugust 6, 2013
- File size48079 KB
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- ASIN : B00EDGEHT2
- Publisher : Paradigm Change (August 6, 2013)
- Publication date : August 6, 2013
- Language : English
- File size : 48079 KB
- Text-to-Speech : Enabled
- Screen Reader : Supported
- Enhanced typesetting : Enabled
- X-Ray : Not Enabled
- Word Wise : Enabled
- Print length : 92 pages
- Best Sellers Rank: #854,724 in Kindle Store (See Top 100 in Kindle Store)
- #137 in Chronic Fatigue Syndrome
- #321 in Chronic Fatigue Syndrome & Fibromyalgia
- #347 in Immune Systems (Kindle Store)
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About the author

Lisa Petrison is the executive director of Paradigm Change, an organization that she founded in 2013.
Lisa completed her doctorate in marketing and social psychology at the Kellogg School of Management at Northwestern University in 1998, a few years after first acquiring myalgic encephalomyelitis.
She was a tenure-track professor in the business school at Loyola University Chicago until becoming disabled with the disease in 2001 and mostly bedridden with it in 2007.
Lisa also has served as a marketing consultant and executive speaker for a number of different companies, including California Pizza Kitchen, Wells Fargo, Discover Card, Shell Oil, Hallmark Cards, Visa, Abbott Laboratories, Rodale Press and Cox Cable.
Prior to getting her Ph.D., she worked in marketing/PR for the Chicago Association for Retarded Citizens and in the banking and video games industries, and was a reporter for Adweek magazine. She has a B.S. in journalism and an M.S. in marketing communications from the Medill School of Journalism at Northwestern University.
Since 2008, Lisa has been focusing her attention on the role of mold toxins and other environmental toxicity in chronic neuroimmune illness.
Her book about the life of Erik Johnson, "Back from the Edge," was published in 2013.
She also co-wrote with Erik a guidebook for those pursuing mold avoidance, called "A Beginner’s Guide to Mold Avoidance."
She also is the editor of the book "Erik on Avoidance."
Lisa spent about five years traveling around the western half of the U.S. in a non-moldy RV, visiting 25 states and spending time in hundreds of different locations. She now is mostly recovered (with pre-illness levels of cognitive capacity, resolution of chemical sensitivities and greatly reduced levels of mold reactivities), and credits mold avoidance and detoxification for her improvements.
The Paradigm Change website:
www.paradigmchange.me
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Erick's focus, aside from his personal survival, has consistently been that his particular case and what it demonstrates is worthy of further investigation by the medical and scientific community. Sadly, very few have listened to him or others with similar experiences.
While this book does give a few details on Erick's lifestyle of mold and biotoxin avoidance, it is not a manual that provides detailed instruction to others who seek to try his methods. I live outside myself with varying results, but overall I do far better outside than indoors. I would like to see a companion document with more practical details and a better description of how Erick differentiates between safe and unsafe areas.
In this book, chemical reactivities are somewhat downplayed and seen as secondary to the effects of mold or mold combined with chemicals. This last is especially emphasized. While this does agree with my experience, for those who have developed chemical reactivity (and I include reactivity to natural substances here) to the extent where they become severely limiting or life threatening, it is not such a simple matter. Simply avoiding the mold is not enough in the short run if a chemical exposure is going to cause an individual to experience a seizeure or airway reaction.
This book seems to be intended to prompt discussion and investigation into the meaning of Erick's experiences and possibly bring some awareness of his case to the wider world instead of simply being discussed within the communities where it has been surrounded by controversy for many years. Sadly, I still see this as an uphill battle, though surely a worthy one.
I find the mold avoidance phenomena to be quite fascinating and an insurance policy of sorts in the event my ME gets to the point where its unmanageable. But for now i can only simply practice mild avoidance or none at all.
This book was short and easy to read. While i enjoyed it, it was basically just a longer version of their online rantings and ravings. I would have liked a little more in depth information on symptoms before and after avoidance, how they resolved and in what order, instructions on how to practice mild and even extreme avoidance, and certainly more detailed case studies, not simply "CFS person housebound for 10 years goes to desert and comes back healthy". Thanks but Im gonna need a little more than that. I am less interested in Erik's past life of some bionic trained soldier and much more interested in the protocol of avoidance and how it works, and why it doesnt for others. And most importantly why once taken out of exposure, re-entry into any sort of regular life again becomes near impossible...so I've heard. All in all though give it a read!
They should write another book about the nuts and bolts of mold avoidance.
I think it is a shame that this man is ignored by doctors and reasearchers as just his case study alone should be in a paper. It is a shame there is no research to prove or disprove his theory.
The book is short but good read.
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Erik has documented effects on other people with unexplained health issues.
Worth a read if you suspect mold is impacting on your health, but this book will not provide real answers as to a cure.






