Suggested Readings for Our Clients

THE LANCET

VOLUME 389, ISSUE 10082, P1907-1918, MAY 13, 2017

By Aaron J Cohen, Michael Brauer, Richard Burnett, H Ross Anderson, Joseph Frostad, Kara Estep, et al.

Explores spatial and temporal trends in mortality and burden of disease attributable to ambient air pollution from 1990 to 2015 at global, regional and country levels.

THE DISEASE DELUSIONT

By Dr. Jeffrey S. Bland

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.

EAT TO BEAT DISEASET

By William W. Li, MD

Discover the new science of how eating can enable your body to heal itself from cancer, dementia, and dozens of avoidable diseases.

With Dr. Li’s plan, the foods you already love can be optimized to activate your body’s five natural health defense systems — Angiogenesis, Regeneration, Microbiome, DNA Protection, and Immunity — to fight cancer; diabetes; cardiovascular, neurodegenerative, and autoimmune diseases; and other debilitating conditions.

CHRIS BEAT CANCER

By Chris Wark

Colon cancer survivor who opted out of chemotherapy after surgery provides the toxin-free diet, lifestyle, and therapy guidelines he used to help himself heal.

Dually packed with an emotional punch and extensive healing solutions, Chris Beat Cancer will inspire and guide you on your own journey toward wellness.

Prescription for Nutritional Healing, 5th Edition

By Phyllis A. Balch, CNC

With more than 800 pages of comprehensive facts about all aspects of alternative ways to wellness, the new 5th edition incorporates the most recent information on a variety of alternative healing and preventive therapies and unveils new science on vitamins, supplements, and herbs. With an A-to-Z reference to illnesses

Anticancer: A New Way of Life

By David Servan-Schreiber, MD, PhD

Anticancer is at once the moving story of one doctor’s inner and outer search for wellness and a radical exposition of the roles that lifestyle, environment, and trauma play in our health. Drawing on the latest research in integrative medicine that blends conventional and alternative approaches, Servan-Schreiber concisely explains what makes cancer cells thrive, what inhibits them, and how we can empower ourselves to prevent their growth.

Keto Diet

By Dr. Josh Axe

In Keto Diet, bestselling author Dr. Josh Axe sets the record straight, offering thorough, step-by-step guidance to achieving lifelong health. Unlike other books on the subject, Keto Diet identifies and details five different ketogenic protocols and explains why picking the right one for your body and lifestyle is fundamental to your success. Inside, you’ll find all the tools they need to say goodbye to stubborn fat and chronic disease once and for all.

How to Starve Cancer: Without Starving Yourself

By Jane McLelland

After being given a terminal diagnosis with only a few weeks to live, Jane threw herself into research. Already medically knowledgeable as a Chartered Physiotherapist, Jane dug up research, some decades old, in her quest to survive. Rather than aiming to cure cancer, which in many cases is unachievable, Jane’s approach was to stop it growing. Remarkably her approach not only stopped it growing, it disappeared altogether. This book is a game-changing new dawn in the treatment of cancer.

Brain Maker: The Power of Gut Microbes to Heal and Protect Your Brain for Life

By David Perlmutter, M.D. with Kristin Loberg

David Perlmutter is a thought leader in the area of functional medicine (FM) and neurology. In Brain Maker he focuses on optimization of brain function using functional medicine concepts. This is not a disease-centered book but focuses on neurological function optimization. This is a great read for anyone, especially those who wonder what a focused FM approach in particular systems would look like.

The End of Alzheimer’s: The First Program to Prevent and Reverse Cognitive Decline

By Dale E. Bredesen, M.D.

Alzheimer’s incidence is quickly rising to the point of being an epidemic. Dr. Bredesen’s life research has focused on the intricacies of Alzheimer’s Disease. To date, he has discovered over 38 different pathways and five major classifications associated with this degenerative disease. This is the first and only work of its type and is a must read for anyone with memory issues, declining memory or a family member with Alzheimer’s Disease.

The Blood Sugar Solution: The UltraHealthy Program for Losing Weight, Preventing Disease, and Feeling Great Now!

By Mark Hyman, M.D.

Dr. Hyman is a past board member of The Institute for Functional Medicine and currently is the chairman for Functional Medicine at The Cleveland Clinic. Dr. Hyman outlines how processed foods through sugar fluctuations and insulin variations are responsible for many medical illnesses. His book focuses on nutritional medicine and how it can be used to regulate hormones, modulate the immune system and effect detoxification. This is a good introductory book for those who are new to the concepts of functional medicine and is a very easy read.

The Brain’s Way of Healing: Remarkable Discoveries and Recoveries from the Frontiers of Neuroplasticity

By Norman Doidge, M.D.

The traditional way of thinking about brain health is that once you reach adulthood, you start to lose brain cells and once lost, they can never be recovered nor the connections they represent. Dr. Doidge shows that this is actually not the case. He reviews the science behind miraculous stories of recovery from conditions such as stroke and brain trauma to Parkinson’s Disease. His second book, The Brain That Changes Itself is a continuation of his work. Your brain is changing your entire life, you can take charge to positively direct this change.

The Immune System Recovery Plan: A Doctor’s 4-Step Program to Test Autoimmune Disease

By Susan Blum, M.D.

This is an overall general survey of the functional medicine approach to addressing autoimmune issues. Dr. Blum uses a modified 5R approach (actually a four-prong approach) in her book. This book, as well as Dr. Meyer’s, are general works that address autoimmune diseases but are not all-inclusive. Autoimmunity is a very complex topic and difficult to distill into one concise book.

The Lyme Solution: A 5-Part Plan to Fight the Inflammatory Auto-Immune Response and Beat Lyme Disease

By Darin Ingles, ND, NAAEM

Lyme Disease is a great imitator and can be difficult to eradicate in certain individuals. This book reviews the myriad presentations of Lyme Disease and reviews the complex treatment options that can be implemented in those who do not respond to standard of care treatments.

Why Isn’t My Brain Working?: A Revolutionary Understanding of Brain Decline and Effective Strategies to Recover Your Brain’s Health

By Datis Kharrazian, M.D.

This is an amazing resource for understanding brain function and the myriad of reasons optional brain function isn’t achieved. Dr. Kharrazian goes from autoimmunity to the gut-brain axis and reviews how adrenal fatigue, gluten, stress, etc … can impact your brain and lead to neurodegeneration. If you’ve already done a lot of changes, seen many practitioners and you still have ‘foggy brain’ this is a great resource to see what you may have missed. Like his other book, this is a complex work and it is best to be working with a functional medicine practitioner while you go through this book.

The Wahls Protocol: A Radical New Way to Treat All Chronic Autoimmune Conditions Using Paleo Principles

By Terry Wahls, M.D.

Dr. Wahls is a professor of medicine at the University of Iowa where she conducts research on Multiple Sclerosis and Lupus using her medicinal dietary protocol. She developed this protocol after her own Multiple Sclerosis failed all the current conventional treatments. She then embarked on her own research to treat herself and in the ensuing years, she developed her protocol that eventually resulted in the remission of her Multiple Sclerosis. This book is a great primer for those who would like to learn about other treatments for autoimmune diseases including MS, Lupus, Rheumatoid, etc.

Radical Remission: Surviving Cancer Against All Odds Paperback

Kelly A. Turner PhD

Dr. Turner, a researcher, lecturer, and counselor in integrative oncology, was shocked to discover that no one was studying episodes of radical (or unexpected) remission—when people recover against all odds without the help of conventional medicine, or after conventional medicine has failed.

Tripping over the Truth: How the Metabolic Theory of Cancer Is Overturning One of Medicine’s Most Entrenched Paradigms

Travis Christofferson, Dominic D’Agostino

It explores the new and exciting non-toxic therapies born from the emerging metabolic theory of cancer. These therapies may one day prove to be a turning point in the struggle against our ancient enemy. We are shown how the metabolic theory redraws the battle map, directing researchers to approach cancer treatment from a different angle, framing it more like a gentle rehabilitation rather than all-out combat.

The Metabolic Approach to Cancer: Integrating Deep Nutrition, the Ketogenic Diet, and Nontoxic Bio-Individualized Therapies

Dr. Nasha Winters ND FABNO L.Ac Dipl.OM, Jess Higgins Kelley MNT, Kelly Turner

The ketogenic diet―which relies on the body’s production of ketones as fuel―is the centerpiece of The Metabolic Approach to Cancer. Further, Winters and Kelley explain how to harness the anticancer potential of phytonutrients abundant in low-glycemic plant and animal foods to address the 10 hallmarks of cancer―an approach Western medicine does with drug-based therapies.

The Menopause Reset: Get Rid of Your Symptoms and Feel Like Your Younger Self Again

Dr. Mindy Pelz

In The Menopause Reset, you will learn:
What hormone changes cause, symptoms, and proven strategies to fix them, The best way to stop your menopause-related memory loss, How you can put an end to your symptoms without the use of medications, How to unstick your metabolism and finally lose the extra weight, How to slow the aging process and keep yourself forever young