I don't know if you all have seen Suzanne Somers Latest book, From Toxic to Not Sick. I wrote an Amazon review I thought I'd share with you for both feedback and maybe critique. I WANTED TO WARN PEOPLE WHO HAVE JUST BEEN DIAGNOSED WITH LYME AND/OR ARE IN THE THROWS OF LYME, WHO ARE DESPERATE. FEEL FREE TO FOLLOW YOUR OWN INTUTION about
YOUR ILLNESS. EVERYONE SHOULD! I was sort of annoyed by the small portion of the book devoted to Lyme Disease Here's an excerpt about
Lyme from the book from which I based mugh of the review on. https://books.google.com/books?id=tkqTBQAAQBAJ&pg=PT95&dq=suzanne+somers+lyme&hl=en&sa=X&ei=sElBVdOOAsjIsAX8soGIAw&ved=0CCwQ6AEwAQ#v=onepage&q=suzanne%20
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From the Lyme Perspective. She gave one page, hardly studied, and gave the same solution no proccessed foods or toxins...Really?
By Amazon Customer - April 29, 2015
Okay, so I come from an interesting place. I do realize that Allopathic (Western) medicine has failed us to some degree. I very great find value in Naturopathic and alternative forms of medicine, to the point where I don't really feel that we need to call it alternative medicine anymore. I was diagnosed with Chronic Lyme Disease, two and a half years ago, and had been suffering for five years. I couldn't walk since my illness was so severe. I was fatigued. I had extreme muscle pain, stiffness and weakness, extreme joint pain, stiffness and weakness, muscle and joint tremors, seizures, light and sound sensisitivity, insomnia, brainfog, cognitive, concentration and memory issues. I had little but no energy. My neuropathy was so severe, that it felt like I was being electrocuted constantly, and like my whole body was on fire, due to the the burning and stabbing pains which were so intense. To make a very long story short, Western medicine is needed if someone is in a very bad medical position. Believe me, I have learned this based on experience. I don't know about
other patients, but I certainly had all of my vitamins checked again and again, which Suzanne says most Chronic Lyme patients do not. I didn't think I COULD get better because I thought my body was too far gone. One of the reasons that Lyme Disease is becoming a bigger monster in our culture than ever before, is since various strains of Lyme Disease and many Tick Born Co-Infections are now present, which were not present in our country before for various reasons, many of these reasons still yet unknown. These Co-infections, such as Bartonella, Babesia and Brucella as well as about
10 others, all of which SUZANNE FAILS TO MENTION, ALL OF WHICH ARE A MAJOR PART of the treatment of a patient with Chronic Lyme Disese and possible Co-Infections. Her confusing prescript
ion for all Lyme patients is very one-size-fits-all. She hasn't seemed to study the topic enough. She devoted about
a page on one person going to a very expensive institute which she promotes a lot. She studied with one doctor and mentions one patient. As for me, I never thought I could function again. I am about
eighty percent better. Antibiotics have helped me astronomically! If western medicine isn't the answer (according to her), didn't she claim to have had excess skin removed, where fat once was (which I see nothing wrong with, I'm just saying). Usually I am elated when Lyme is spoken about
since it is not spoken about
enough and underdiagnised and misdiagnosed. But I called the doctor she recommended. They reccomeded that I stayed there for six months and pay five hundred thousand dollars. I have healed elsewhere. I think that Suzanne should have interviewed many Lyme Disease doctors with an array of opinions and perspectives. If she were going to tackle such a broad and complex subject, then she should have gone deeper and studied it much more thoroughly. She should have been very
open minded about
the different possibilities for diagnosis, illness and treatment of Lyme Disease and other Tick Born Illnesses. She said in conclusoon, that it's all about
toxins, candida and unprocessed food, which is the same thing that we've ALL been hearing for the past 10 - 15 years about
every health issue. This is nothing new! I found many parts to her book very interesting. It was a cute book! However, I believe it's a piece of the puzzle, it's nothing new, and she's always been sort of America's sweetheart and physically beautiful, so people buy her products. However, I hope people think about
how many similiar books have been released these past ten to fifteen years. She hardly gave a solution to lyme. Yolanda foster, her close friend tried the doctor she reccomended and failed. I recommend reading the renouned, Dr. Horowitz Solving the Mystery of Lyme & Chronic Disease. He'll give you both Allopathic and Naturopathic approach, outline and map with hard science based on many doctors' and many patients' experiences.
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