The Disease Delusion: Conquering the Causes of Chronic Illness for a Healthier, Longer, and Happier Life Paperback – March 3, 2015

My husband had some pretty serious health issues come up about 5 years ago. The doctors were all but useless. They prescribed medications that didn't help and had horrible side effects. They don't have any real answers, but insist my husband will just have to learn to live with his life now.For 3 years I researched alternative solutions. Through various small supplements (liquid magnesium, copper, and CBD) we have been able to help him a good bit. However, nothing has come close to restoring his quality of life.I gave this book a chance as just one more piece of research to add to my eternal quest. And I was shocked. This book has pointed us in directions that nothing else had even considered. Because of the various self tests, we discovered that an ankle injury from 2011 might be impacting these health problems. It didn't seem logical, but we were desperate and a little bit of physical therapy wasn't such a big ask. We also adjusted our diet and added a supplement the book recommended based on his answers to the questionnaires.The book says to give 12 full weeks for results to appear. We've been following the program for 6 weeks and are seeing tangible improvements. I have even been able to drastically improve some of my own stomach upsets that I have lived with for most of my life.An inexpensive book, an investment of some of our time, and implementing very reasonable lifestyle changes has actually affected our health more than I could have ever imagined. I encourage anyone interested in feeling good to read this book.

Dr Jeffrey S Bland has been able to explain in detail, why we have a pandemic of chronic illnesses that began only a few decades ago and has now struck us like a tidal wave of tsunami proportions. Our mainstream medical community is nearly helpless, since they are only able to practice their "orthodox" medical skills, which are - as we all know - based on treating infectious and acute illnesses and conditions.The information presented in this book needs to be read, learned, shared and delivered to all people out there. The assimilation of this knowledge would empower all and everybody to avoid and reverse a wide variety of chronic disease, such as most autoimmune diseases, obesity, diabetes, dementia, Alzheimers, most forms of cancers and more!The book is very well written. I enjoyed every page while reading it and I have already started to read it a second time. This book will remain in my bookshelf, because it will serve me and my family as an important health reference source well into the future!Thank You Dr Bland for an excellent book!

A well thought out discussion of how our organs work together and an argument for considering the body as a whole and not as individual diseases of specific organs. I know the truth of this. Drugs given me to treat a reflux problem, which I was told to take forever, leached my body of calcium and magnesium, causing countless other problems. Dr. Bland's explanation, based on research, of why it is important to always consider how our organs work together should be read not only by patients, but by doctors, many of whom tend to be myopic--that is, they can' see beyond their own specialty, and treat a problem as though the only organ affected by the problem is the one they are treating. I recommend this book to everyone who wants to understand how their body, and the medication we are given works. My only issue with the book is that Dr. Bland, in an effort to give the reader everything, became, in places, overly technical and inadvertently buried some of the information in too much detail.

5 stars for the author , zero for Amazon since i can no longer download this and barely read it. I can't use wireless since I have electromagnetic radiation syndrome. A Kindle with all its EMFs is useless to me, so unless I sit in front of my PC which is completely wired and has no wireless capabilities, I cannot read this book. From now on I will only buy paper copies and whenever possible not from Amazon. They are showing they do not care about people with disabilities especially those that are inconveient to their bottom line. Sad. But we can go elsewhere with our money. Supposedly I had until Feb 26th to do this, I only found out through a disability forum. There are more and more people developing this. Someday it will impact Amazon's botton line and they will pay attention.

Dr. Bland has written a comprehensive, yet easy to understand introduction to functional medicine. He describes the various components that contribute to health based on a functional medicine approach. But then he goes a step further and weaves them together so that the reader gets a sense of how all these things are related and impact each other and thus overall health. As a scientist and health care practitioner, I have spent decades trying to explain these principles to my family and friends and keep giving them various books to read. But Dr. Bland's version of the functional medicine story is easier to understand, more complete, and more persuasive than anything I have come up with. He helps the reader to understand that the majority of the principles are based in biomedical science and a deeper understanding of the interrelationships of human physiology. Thus, he removes the stigma (and lack of credibility) that often accompanies alternative medicine writings. Is it the last word on the subject? Absolutely not. Does it have the details which a scientist or physician might want?--mostly not. But that is not the point: it is an essential first step --providing a roadmap for anyone who understands that they need to take responsibility for their own health. If we are ever going to tackle and try to solve the burgeoning U.S. chronic health problems, this book should be mandatory reading for all high schoolers and their parents.