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But after reading this volume...(particularly right in the midst of my annual holiday rampage where I go off my low sugar diet for a few weeks to relish baking traditions)...I feel like I have just stumbled out of a Lost Weekend with Hunter S. Thompson and Mickey Rourke. Because this book basically says that our unabridged environment is toxic. And that habits nosotros have formed in this club since our primeval childhood are going to kill us.
Information technology is a frightening book.
Raymond Francis is not a doctor. He was trained every bit a pharmacist and went to MIT. He had a very successful career and lived a standard flush American lifestyle. Things vicious apart for him at age 47 when his health began to neglect. He suffered across-the-board physical breakup, chronic exhaustion, allergies, muscle aches and multiple chemical sensitivities. Francis' medico blamed most of these issues on 'aging'. Francis was told to have a holiday. It did not help.
Afterwards deciding to see an allergist, Francis's fate appeared to exist sealed. The allergist administered a diagnostic test chosen an intradermal test--injecting an allergen into the skin. This is a much more than risky test than the typical scratch tests. This procedure is known to crusade injury and even death in some patients. In Francis' instance, the result was a disaster. His immune system became completely compromised. In the next year, Francis would endure a multitude of autoimmune syndromes, including thyroiditis and lupus. He visited 36 medical doctors in that time period. Finally Raymond Francis encountered the doctor who would nearly kill him. This dr. prescribed an antiparasitic drug called metronidazaole, which turned out to be toxic to Francis' liver. Francis suffered a severe reaction to this drug and his liver failed. He was deathly ill, emaciated at 120 pounds, bed ridden and his doctors doubted that he would survive.
Although Raymond Francis was physically devastated, a part of him wanted to fight for his health. He was inspired by Norman Cousin's "Anatomy of an Illness" -- the book where Cousins describes his ain fight confronting a mortiferous illness. If Cousins, a layman with no medical or scientific background, could fight for his life and win, why couldn't Raymond Francis, a trained chemist, practise the same?
Thus the author went on to fight for his health. He did so by dent the concept of illness down to elemental building blocks of our bodies, our cells. According to Francis, all disease is acquired either by a deficiency in our cells (they are not getting vital nutrition they need) or toxins (the cells are compromised past a polluted environment).
Using Vi Pathways to Health, Francis explains how we can maintain our health through nutrition, through the avoidance of toxins, through psychology (maintaining emotional balance), through physical health (exercise and sensible caution), through genetics (our genes are non our absolute destiny, according to Francis we can 'choose' whether or not to 'unlock' disease that runs in our family through our habits in the other areas) and medical (our relationship with the mainstream health system.)
I am giving this book five stars because I honestly believe anybody in America should be getting much of this data. We put things in our mouths and feed things to our kids that compare to going into a chem lab or a land make full and ingesting those poisons. Many people are thoroughly misinformed almost what is healthy and and what is non. The mainstream health organization does trivial to articulate upwardly this confusion; and ofttimes adds to information technology. I accept seen the results of right eating upwardly close. My husband and I cleaned up our act most 7 years ago and nosotros live the positive results daily. I feel nosotros are on the right track, diet wise, and I picked up some more information I can apply to further reduce our intake of toxins.
In other areas, I have further to get. I purchase and use standard issue toiletries and cosmetics and I am starting to rethink this. I am concerned near out drinking water. I wonder if I should become certain tests now when they are prescribed to me at the doctor's office. I have been on birth control pills for years and years and I now wonder what I am doing to my torso.
And on and on.
This is the terrifying aspect of this volume. It takes the life you accept been leading for decades and makes you rethink every niggling affair. It is almost impossible to toss everything out of the window and commencement fresh with a lifestyle that completely contradicts what mainstream civilisation is telling you to do. You almost have to be facing death to rise to that challenge. And reading this volume might take someone with a fairly practical relationship with illness (such equally myself) and turn them into an obsessive hypochondriac.)
So, I encourage everyone who wants to stick around planet World a fiddling longer to read this book and explore ways that, step-by-step and a little at a time, you can improve the health of your cells and, therefore your entire physical system (including your mental and emotional outlook.)
Just don't get too crazy and plow into Chimera Boy. Considering that isn't healthy either!
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I didn't finish this book. It had alot of things that truly fabricated sense but if yous live the manner this guy suggest yous would literally have to live in a remote jungle or mountain region away from EVERYTHING. I am not exaggerating. Lots of good data but very very extreme.
I didn't finish this book. It had alot of things that truly made sense but if yous live the way this guy suggest you would literally have to live in a remote jungle or mountain region away from EVERYTHING. I am not exaggerating. Lots of expert information but very very extreme.
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His views on modernistic medicine were intriguing. He states that all disease is caused by cellular malfunction stemming from deficiency or toxicity. He gives six pathways to get better: diet, toxin, psychological, physical, genetic, medical. I wonder what would happen in doctors adopted his ideas and tried to treat causes not symptoms.
I likewise concur with him that doctors should have more than nutritional training. I wish everyone had to see a nutritionist yearly as a part of their concrete. Modernistic medicine does need to move more toward prevention. ...more
Never Be Sick Again by Raymond Francis seeks to demystify the path to wellness through its information overloaded pages. His approach to healing employs the employ of a pyramid equally a graphic explanation. This pyramid i
The elusive Fountain of Youth preoccupies the minds of our population in this Dr. Oz inspired media delusion. Whole Grains or Depression Carbs? High protein or Vegetarian? How can 1 make up one's mind the path to blissful wellness with the plethora of contradicting science-supported nutritional plans?Never Exist Sick Again by Raymond Francis seeks to demystify the path to wellness through its information overloaded pages. His approach to healing employs the use of a pyramid equally a graphic explanation. This pyramid illustrates the post-obit information. One cause of sickness: unruly cells. Two bug: toxicity or deficiency. Six methods to heal: superior diet, minimization of toxins, psychological well-existence, physical exercise/direction, genetic manipulations, and medical remedies.
Some studies are cited. Personal experience is too heavily emphasized. Most of his recommendations are just speculation. A few do take merit, but they are better explained elsewhere. Being well-read in diet and health, I yet learned a few tips to integrate into my life. I could not practically apply all of his suggestions to enhance wellbeing. Even I felt overwhelmed by the seeming toxicity of my own life according to Francis, and I am an educated wellness consultant, local food abet, and holistic adherent.
If you are withal interested in the book, I advise y'all borrow it from your local public library. After reading the edition, make up one's mind for yourself whether or not it's a worthwhile addition to your bookshelf.
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Yet, the fundamental ideas in the book have given me a solid foundation to identify my intuition upon and volition largely impact my life through giving me a new perspective on health. Thursday
At times the simplicity of the applications of the principles in the volume are quite arrogant and ignorant. The promises are of epic proportions. Also the book spent lots of time on what to avoid and in comparison little time on what to seek. A large amount of solutions were directions towards the author's website.Nonetheless, the fundamental ideas in the volume have given me a solid foundation to identify my intuition upon and will largely impact my life through giving me a new perspective on health. The model of all disease stemming from cellular malfunction due to toxicity or malnourishment fits perfectly with my attention to the rules of low level interactions in bottom up systems every bit a solution to higher order manifestations.
Human life is an emerging arrangement of lower level life forms, I.e. Tissues and cells. Attention paid to the cells is reflected in all higher levels.
Much reccomended...and keep some salt nearby for pinching.
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Many would tell you that, and I'm one of them. I'm not striving to seem more unique than others in my review; I simply want to give this book -this not bad man- justice.
Raymond had suffered from a fatal illness some twenty years agone, and he was on his death bed, but he came back to full health (existent one this time).
Information technology wasn't some miraclous recovery or some miracle cure; information technology was only a lifestyle. A few changes here and there took him out of bed and dorsum on his feet with a ne
This volume inverse my life.Many would tell you that, and I'm ane of them. I'm non striving to seem more than unique than others in my review; I just want to give this book -this great human- justice.
Raymond had suffered from a fatal illness some xx years ago, and he was on his death bed, but he came back to full health (real i this time).
Information technology wasn't some miraclous recovery or some miracle cure; it was merely a lifestyle. A few changes hither and in that location took him out of bed and back on his feet with a new purpose: educating people like he educated himself (to put information technology in his own words).
I don't await you to agree with all the content of this book, and he tin't also expect anybody to support him fully.
His aim from this book is to convince the largest number of people that merely A FEW changes in there diets and lives can mean the difference between life and decease.
The 5-star rating of this book isn't for its mode of writing or for its scientific content; it's for the "shift in prespective" that it has given me. I no longer encounter disease, illness, wellness, diet, medicine... as I used too. For the meliorate.
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Also I bought it as a Kindle book and I don't think that'southward the way to go with advisory books; it was too hard to skim and skip as I like to do with such topics. The writing style was a fleck pompous and heavy-handed and I had to read
I was so hoping this book had something new to say, but other than listing "6 pathways to health" and emphasizing that each consumer is responsible to for their ain wellness rather than depending on the medical profession, at that place was litte new information to be had.Also I bought information technology as a Kindle volume and I don't think that's the way to go with advisory books; it was also hard to skim and skip equally I like to do with such topics. The writing style was a scrap pompous and heavy-handed and I had to read way too much of it to get the the "meat" of each chapter in the Kindle format.
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This volume has the potential to change and possibly even salve your life.
While I am aware that he is also trying to sell yous supplements, he makes an incredibly convincing example for why you lot need them.
He suggests we should focus on six path means in order to proceeds healthier & prolonged life (avoid the ii primary causes of diseases toxicity & deficiency)
ane) nutrition
2) toxin
three) psychological
4) physical
5) genetic
6) medical
Eye opener!
Raymond in this master slice sheds light on the horrible life style we're all living in, with some focus on nutrient diet.He suggests we should focus on half-dozen path ways in order to gain healthier & prolonged life (avoid the two main causes of diseases toxicity & deficiency)
1) diet
2) toxin
3) psychological
iv) physical
5) genetic
6) medical
Center opener!
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To try to avoid toxins in our day and age would be plain silly. Toxins are in our water (antidepressant drugs, very toxic chemicals that can't be pulled from our waters, hormones that are in the water due to what we give ourselves, then in that location are the pollutants from Monsanto, ADM, and other chemical polluters, the islands of plastic in our oceans for crying out loud harm united states of america daily, so the fracking), and that's just our water source! At that place are no virgin country sources anymore, then what well-nigh our nutrient? Then, what well-nigh our toxic air? Or our Toxic clothing, or our Toxic homes....where do you draw the line?
Ideally, food is at it'south best when information technology's cooked (or ate, juiced) within twenty minutes of having been pulled. Then is this feasible suggestion in our day and age? And reducing food down to a handle full of a limited portion of fruits and veggies solitary is just a reductionist thought that has been pushed since the days of Kellogg'south Sanitarium (come across "Road to Wellville") and it's not sustainable, it may be for HIM, but for the rest of the states? Really? I don't know what kind of supplements he's trying to button, but supplements isn't exactly heathful either!
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Our society is filled with what is the problem: if you want to hear it. We can talk about our adrenals beingness stressed to the maximum caste, I call up you lot might find a bigger reply. We're talking about a society that requires sixty, 70,80-60 minutes work week (with NO BREAKS) that people are finding impossible to continue, and we MUST practise information technology ALL ourselves. Fifty-fifty if you lot seem to thrive on stress, our bodies really don't and it keeps track of how much we thrust at ourselves, and this includes 'false stressors' which our bodies cannot distinguish itself from (if we see information technology on TV, estimator or fifty-fifty read information technology) our poor bodies accept it equally "real" and what is harming us (fight or flying) and especially for those whose adrenals are out of whack can adjure to this. Again, we might like the 'thrill of it" but our bodies can't tell the difference between a tiger chasing y'all and a tiger in the movies coming after someone else, to our bodies that stress is the same. Our Olympics dorsum in the 1970's found that visualizing going down a wintertime gradient on skis and really using the trunk to go downward the same slope, our brains recollect it is the aforementioned matter. Get it?
Trying to control cellular development is crazy. If nosotros were in the Idiot box bear witness "Bewitched", our cells would behave according to a moving ridge of our hand, or an incantation to brand them whatever we wanted them to be. As we historic period our cells will mutate and modify, they simply practise. Thinking that somehow you'll never dice, is a fool's errand. He claimed in this book that the #1 killer is drugs (all medical intervention).
Desire to live longer? Stop living in fright, eat nutrient that you tin eat that is skillful for YOU (non someone else), and have time to take a stress interruption past meditation or other means. Giving hugs is good, Laughter is practiced, endless demands of what to stop eating unless yous have some other Earth, will probably non gear up the state of affairs. Blaming the patient? The worst.
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well, i'm gonna crook and post my reply earlier i'm all the way through this book. only i'g finished with the last pathway, and and so i merely have the conclusion left. anyhow, this book was definately an eye opener. i'm not really much into self assistance books, and i'k very skeptical of them, including this one. just, i have been sick a lot the last couple of years, so i idea i'd read it with an open mind and try out some of the suggestions. there is so much information it's hard to proc 2009 book review
well, i'thousand gonna cheat and post my reply earlier i'm all the way through this book. but i'm finished with the final pathway, and so i only accept the conclusion left. anyway, this book was definately an eye opener. i'm not really much into self help books, and i'm very skeptical of them, including this one. just, i have been sick a lot the last couple of years, so i thought i'd read information technology with an open heed and try out some of the suggestions. there is then much information information technology'southward difficult to process and think everything. but the book was easy to read, attainable and non too technical or detailed. i found that it was easy reading, but information technology dragged and took me a long time to finish.
the thing is, it is insanely expensive to practice everything listed in the book, and you'd pretty much have to exist a millionaire to do everything. but i figured i'd do the things i could afford. such every bit the food combining and eating more than organic foods. i was quite disappointed to notice out how much i was eating that was bad for me. anyway, it'due south not that hard with the food combinations (plus, it's gratis!) and i am def. going to cutting out as much equally possible the Big Four (white sugar, white flour, hydrogenated oils, and milk). i will non be cutting out all dairy products, but may cut down on them. i dont really think i tin can eat all that raw food, just i like salad and such. too, i find it hard to give up things like stale fruit, etc, when i've already given upwardly the more manifestly bad snacks (you know, the ones that gustation really adept :)
all the same, right now i'thou on vacation and decided information technology would exist also hard to stick to all these restrictions, so i am non doing the things i should. i fifty-fifty ate brownies and ice cream one night, and found that it wasnt all that exciting--i still like information technology, simply it isnt something i deceit live without. plus, i all the same consume chocolate (organic dark chocolate--which is amazing anyway, so i dont feel that bad since i'k not giving upwardly chocolate.) anyhow, i similar reading about all the pathways, but i dont think i'll ever terminate wearing makeup or using balm, tho i may use healthier stuff. i merely cant bring myself to throw away all the stuff i have already since i dont accept a job and all, and it seems incorrect somehow to throw all this expensive stuff abroad. may modify from using it once information technology's gone, but that may have a while. i did buy some "organic" mascara, just to find out that only 14% of the ingredients are organic, so information technology seems to be kind of a sham.
basically i liked the book and found it interesting and discouraging, just i'm willing to try out the suggestions and see if it makes a difference. i rate the book three.5 out of 5 stars, and i'd recommend it to anyone interested in health
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Raymond Francis, DSc, MSc, RNC, is a chemist, and a graduate of MIT, and a registered nutrition consultant. Raymond is an internationally recognized leader in the field of optimal wellness maintenance, chairman and CEO of Beyond Health Corporation, the publisher of Beyond Health News, host and producer of the Beyo
Librarian Note: In that location is more than 1 author in the Goodreads database with this proper name.Raymond Francis, DSc, MSc, RNC, is a pharmacist, and a graduate of MIT, and a registered nutrition consultant. Raymond is an internationally recognized leader in the field of optimal health maintenance, chairman and CEO of Beyond Health Corporation, the publisher of Across Health News, host and producer of the Across Health Show, author of the highly-acclaimed books, Never Be Ill Again and Never Be Fat Again and of the Pathways to Health paper columns.
An in-demand speaker, he has addressed health conferences all over the United States, as well every bit in Germany, Switzerland, Greece and Egypt.
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Raymond Francis, M.Sc., is an internationally recognized leader in the emerging field of optimal wellness maintenance. He is chairman and CEO of Across Health Corp., a supplier of highly advanced health education and globe-class, health-supporting products to the public. He is the publisher of Across Health News, author of the Pathways to Health newspaper columns, and host and producer of the radio talk testify An Ounce of Prevention. He lives in San Rafael, California.
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