The Immune System Recovery Plan: A Doctor's 4-Step Plan To: Achieve Optimal Health and Feel Your Best, Strengthen Your Immune System, Treat Autoimmune Disease, and See Immediate Results (Paperback)

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Now with all-new bonus material on healing your gut, the proven, authoritative, revolutionary plan to repair your immune system for better health and treat, reverse, and prevent autoimmune conditions—this “groundbreaking book lays out a clear road map to recovery for millions of people needlessly suffering” (Mark Hyman, MD).

Among the most prevalent forms of chronic illness in this country, autoimmune diseases affect nearly 23.5 million Americans. This epidemic—a result of the toxins in our diet, our exposures to chemicals, heavy metals, antibiotics, and unprecedented stress levels—has caused millions of people to suffer from conditions like Graves’ disease, rheumatoid arthritis, Crohn’s disease, celiac disease, lupus, and more. Are you constantly exhausted? Do you have trouble thinking clearly? Are you experiencing hair loss, dry skin, or unexplained weight fluctuation? If you’ve answered yes to any of these questions, your immune system may be compromised or you might have an autoimmune disease and this book is the “medicine” you need.

In The Immune System Recovery Plan, Dr. Susan Blum, one of the most sought-after experts in the field of functional medicine, shares the four-step program she used to treat her own serious autoimmune condition. Dr. Blum’s innovative method shows how to use food as medicine; understand the connection between stress and health; heal the gut and digestive system; and optimize liver function. Including a workbook to help you design your own personal treatment program and forty recipes for dishes that work to repair the immune system, The Immune System Recovery Plan is an “insightful” (Publishers Weekly), revolutionary way for people to transform their health.

About the Author

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Susan Blum, MD, MPH, is the founder of the Blum Center for Health in Rye Brook, New York, an advisor to the Institute for Functional Medicine, and serves on the Medical Advisory Board for The Dr. Oz Show. An assistant clinical professor in the Department of Preventive Medicine at the Mount Sinai School of Medicine, she has been treating and preventing chronic disease for more than a decade. She lives in Armonk, New York, with her husband and three sons.

Michele Bender is an award-winning freelance writer who has coauthored bestselling books such as Believe Me with Yolanda Hadid, The Immune System Recovery Plan with Dr. Susan Blum and Curly Girl: The Handbook. Her work has also appeared in The New York Times, Glamour, Real Simple, and Family Circle, among other national publications.
 

Mark Hyman, MD, is the editor in chief of Alternative Therapies in Health and Medicine, the most prestigious journal in the field of integrative medicine. After ten years as co-medical director at Canyon Ranch in the Berkshires, he is now in private practice in Lenox, Massachusetts. He is the coauthor of the New York Times bestseller Ultraprevention. His websites are DrHyman.com and Ultrametabolism.com.

Praise For…

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“The Immune System Recovery Plan is a must read for everyone with autoimmune disease. Dr. Blum masterfully presents the latest scientific information and gives patients practical, natural, and safe ways to help the immune system heal.”
— Joel M. Evans, MD

“In the tradition of Hippocrates, Dr. Susan Blum re-establishes food as the most fundamental and powerful mediator of health and wellness. The Immune System Recovery Plan provides a wealth of information, based on leading-edge science, that will surely have a profoundly positive impact on the vitality and longevity of its readers.”
— David Perlmutter, MD, FACN, author of GrainBrain: The Surprising Truth About Wheat, Carbs, and Sugar - Your Brain's SilentKillers

“The Immune System Recovery Plan is a godsend for the millions suffering from autoimmune disorders. This book’s information is life-changing!”
— Christiane Northrup, MD, author of Women’s Bodies, Women’s Wisdom and The Wisdom of Menopause

“A clearly written, practical, person-friendly and comprehensive approach to relieving the suffering and reversing the damage of autoimmune disease. Thank you Dr. Susan Blum.”
— James Gordon, MD

"When treating autoimmune disease, Dr. Susan Blum takes the whole person into account, using practical tools such as understanding food as medicine and stress management, healing your gut, and supporting your liver. The Immune System Recovery Plan is an empowering, revolutionary approach to treating the causes of all autoimmune conditions."
— Joshua Rosenthal

“The Immune System Recovery Plan is the right book, at the right time, by the right person. We are witnessing a significant increase in autoimmune inflammatory diseases, which include more than 80 different diagnoses. Dr. Blum has done a magnificent job helping the reader to understand how this family of inflammatory disorders, including arthritis and fibromyalgia, can be managed with the diet and lifestyle program she developed in her practice. Her step-by-step approach is based on her considerable years of experience as a physician, and the emerging medical science that, for the first time, has developed an understanding of how genetics, lifestyle and nutrition play a role in origin of these disorders. The approach described in Dr. Blum’s book represents the leading edge in the lifestyle management of chronic inflammatory disorders. It is a ‘news to use’ book that provides real assistance to those with inflammatory disorders who are looking for a clinically sensible approach to their problems.”
— Jeffrey Bland, Ph.D., FACN, President, Personalized Lifestyle Medicine Institute

“Dr. Blum’s groundbreaking book, The Immune System Recovery Plan, lays out a clear road map to recovery for the millions of people needlessly suffering.”
— Mark Hyman, MD