Chronic

The Hidden Cause of the Autoimmune Epidemic and How to Get Healthy Again

Steven Phillips, Dana Parish, Kristin Loberg

• Publisher: Harvest
• Year: 2021
• Print ISBN:
  9780358561903
• eBook ISBN:
  9780358066699
• Topic: Medizin
• Subtopic: Krankheiten & Allergien

"A powerfully informative guide for patient and practitioner from a misinformed past toward a future of recovery and health" (David Perlmutter, MD).
           
In this important and timely book, Steven Phillips, MD, and his former patient, Sony singer-songwriter Dana Parish, reveal striking evidence that a range of common infections, from COVID-19 to Lyme, cause a variety of autoimmune, psychiatric, and chronic conditions. Chronic explores the science behind what makes them difficult to diagnose and treat, debunks widely held beliefs, and provides solutions that empower sufferers to reclaim their lives.
After nearly dying from his own mystery illness, Dr. Phillips experienced firsthand the medical community's ignorance about the pathogens that underlie a deep spectrum of serious conditions—from fibromyalgia, multiple sclerosis, chronic fatigue syndrome, rheumatoid arthritis, and lupus, to depression, anxiety, OCD and neurodegenerative disorders. Parish, too, watched her health spiral after twelve top doctors missed the underlying infections that caused heart failure and other sudden debilitating symptoms. Now, they've come together with a mission: to change the current model of simply treating symptoms and shift the focus to finding and curing root causes of chronic diseases that affect millions around the world.
"This book shines an alarming light on emerging infections that cause chronic illnesses. Brimming with bulletproof science, Chronic is an insightful clarion call for more attention to this plague of the twenty-first century." —Sanjay Gupta, MD

Table of contents

• Title Page
• Contents
• Disclaimer
• Copyright
• Dedication
• Epigraph
• Foreword
• Introduction
• Do I Have a Vector-borne Infection?
• PART I: The Root
• 1. A Wild Family of Infections
• 2. The Myths That Get in the Way
• 3. Bitten and Broken
• 4. How the Medical World Got It So Wrong
• 5. Modern Plagues Caused by Underlying Infection
• PART II: The Remedy
• 6. The Difficulty in Diagnosis
• 7. The Road to Recovery
• 8. Mending Your Mind
• 9. COVID
• Conclusion: Hope Around the Globe
• Bibliography
• Notes
• Acknowledgments
• Index
• About the Authors
• Connect on Social Media
• Footnotes