Cured: The Power of Our Immune System and the Mind-Body Connection

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When it comes to spontaneous healing, skepticism abounds. Doctors are taught that “miraculous” recoveries are flukes, and as a result they don’t study those cases or take them into account when treating patients. Taylor decided to write the book because, even though most diabetes experts in the UK have now accepted that his rapid weight loss programme works, many doctors in Europe and the USA remain unconvinced. “It’s not easy to get new ideas accepted in medicine. So it will be a while before this gets into the textbooks and generations of doctors are taught about it.” The second half of the book miserably spiraled into something I had no interest in reading. Tolhurst removed the focus on recording the albums and his experience with the band and started to give lengthy descriptions on the topic of his, at this point full-blown, alcoholism. Very understandable, might I add, as it was such a big part of Tolhurst's life and impacted his relationships with the band members very much, but it just wasn't something I was particularly interested in.

This is an important book, and one that will challenge those dismissive of efforts to investigate how our thoughts, emotions and beliefs might directly influence our physical wellbeing… intriguing and trailblazing.” Sydney Morning Herald Part 2 goes into more philosophical issues. The supposition is that changing fundamental beliefs has an impact on how the body works and mends itself. A] thought-provoking book … some remarkable findings, which Marchant analyses with elegance and lucidity… turns the mind-body debate on its head.” Times Literary Supplement Marchant explores the possibilities of psychology-based approaches to improving physical well-being in this open-minded, evidence-based account… A powerful and critically-needed conceptual bridge.” Publishers Weekly (starred review)In Cure, the award-winning science writer Jo Marchant travels a wide terrain of ideas – from hypnosis to meditation, from placebos to positive visualisation – rescuing each from the realm of pseudoscience. Drawing on the very latest research Jo discusses the potential – and the limitations – of the mind’s ability to influence our health, and explains how readers can make use of the findings in their own lives. Praise for Cure: Cure is for anyone interested in a readable overview of recent findings in mind-body phenomena, a reliably enthralling topic… A rewarding read that seeks to separate the wishful and emotion-driven from the scientifically tested.” Washington Post Employees start with a simple health questionnaire to understand their lifestyle and medical history to create the foundations of their personalised plan. I believe there is no source of deception in the investigation of nature which can compare with a fixed belief that certain kinds of phenomena are impossible. —William James Mixed thoughts about this book.at first but I learnt a lot about the body and it’s response to diseases.

As someone with an autoimmune disease, who has decided to take control over the effects, this book feels like a supportive friend. Don't get me wrong, Dr Jeff Rediger does not mean to give false hope. He is merely showing us people who have had spontaneous remission and goes through the possibilities of why. This is all interesting and warmly related, and Rediger mainly avoids woo, as you would hope a medically trained person would – though there is one dispiriting section in which he excitedly suggests that quantum physics might explain how the mind can affect the body. How, exactly? Oh, just because quantum physics apparently “is showing us that some of the laws of the universe that we thought of as fixed or immutable are, in fact, not”. Actually, quantum physics, too, is grounded in immutable laws. The author is in a hurry, too, to dismiss the possibility that a couple of his case studies happened to be especially “high responders” to chemotherapy drugs that they did, in fact, take, while also embracing their unique individuality. This is an assumption that would be convenient—quantum mechanics at one level, and Newtonian mechanics and the world as it appears to be at another—but so far, every step up the ladder into larger particles has resulted in continuing, indisputable evidence that this world does not behave quite as our traditional scientific canon would have us believe.Despite being a big fan of The Cure, the only thing I knew about Lol Tolhurst was that he was their drummer. Lol wasn’t even playing with the band when I saw them live in 2014, so I was curious how he slotted into The Cure story. Being a fellow drummer, I jumped at the chance to read this! As there are no explanations behind the miraculous recoveries, it felt like a lot of emphasis was put on things that these patients did that could be a complete coincidence and not actually "the cure". A trip to Brazil, changing your diet, or even just having the mindset of 'wanting to get better' - we are told that the people who were miraculously cured did these things and somehow got better. I worry that it could make a reader who has a terminal diagnosis (or even loved ones who have passed from a terminal condition) have feelings of guilt/negativity because they aren't doing good enough or haven't changed their diet. First I think I need to make it clear that I read this book because I find the subject matter interesting, not because I have been given a diagnosis of incurable breast cancer. I am post DIEP, have a new boob called Brenda constructed from my tummy fat (yes it is a long op and yes the recovery is tedious). I do not have to have radiotherapy am waiting for oncotype test results to find out about chemo and will be on aromatase inhibitors for five years.