The Disease Delusion, Jeffrey S. Bland
The Disease Delusion, Jeffrey S. Bland
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The Disease Delusion
Conquering the Causes of Chronic Illness for a Healthier, Longer, and Happier Life

Author: Jeffrey S. Bland

Narrator: Brett Barry

Unabridged: 11 hr 56 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Publisher: HarperAudio

Published: 05/06/2014

Includes: Bonus Material Bonus Material Included

Synopsis

For decades, Dr. Jeffrey Bland has been on the cutting edge of Functional Medicine, which seeks to pinpoint and prevent the cause of illness, rather than treat its symptoms. Managing chronic diseases accounts for three quarters of our total healthcare costs, because we’re masking these illnesses with pills and temporary treatments, rather than addressing their underlying causes, he argues. Worse, only treating symptoms leads us down the path of further illness.In The Disease Delusion, Dr. Bland explains what Functional Medicine is and what it can do for you. While advances in modern science have nearly doubled our lifespans in only four generations, our quality of life has not reached its full potential. Outlining the reasons why we suffer chronic diseases from asthma and diabetes to obesity, arthritis and cancer to a host of other ailments, Dr. Bland offers achievable, science-based solutions that can alleviate these common conditions and offers a roadmap for a lifetime of wellness.

About Jeffrey S. Bland

Dr. Jeffrey S. Bland is known as the ""father of functional medicine,"" and over the past thirty-five years has taught more than 100,000 health-care practitioners around the globe. He has been a university biochemistry professor, a research director at the Linus Pauling Institute of Science and Medicine, the cofounder of the Institute for Functional Medicine in 1991, and the founder/president of the Personalized Lifestyle Medicine Institute. He lives in Seattle, Washington, with his wife, Susan, and near his three sons and their families.

Reviews

Goodreads review by Jody on July 17, 2014

When I was touring healthcareland, I came across several doctors who couldn’t explain themselves in a way that I understood. Sometimes, I thought they didn’t fully understand themselves. Or that they didn't care enough or think I was smart enough to help me understand. Always, I thought that is defi......more

Goodreads review by Am on September 05, 2017

Essentially a book on functional medicine, which means seeing symptoms as a sign of a deeper problem that something else is wrong with the body. (This is the exact view that Traditional Chinese Medicine holds by the way.) The difference between this title and other books on the same topic, is that t......more

Goodreads review by L.A. on June 30, 2014

Posted First on Blog Critics as Book Review: 'The Disease Delusion' by Dr. Jeffrey S. Bland. With incidents of diseases escalating and chronic illnesses careening out of control, it is time we took back the charge of our own health and lives. Yet with so much at stake and numerous information overloa......more

Goodreads review by Cherie on July 10, 2014

Scary read, we are what we eat and will become what our choices dictate. There are some very interesting NEW ideas (new to me) and all the old things you know to be true, but just can't care about as you're eating your tootsie roll are presented in a new way, supported by well tested research. I wou......more

Goodreads review by ~☆~Autumn on December 04, 2020

Four stars! It was five as it started out but it went downhill partly by being too repetitive. I have read much of this information before in other books.......more

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