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Journey to Health: A Holistic Approach to Ehlers Danlos Syndrome
For years, unanswered questions about Mysti's health left her feeling isolated. Her closest family and friends didn't grasp how agonizingly painful each day had become. In 2013, a door was unlocked when Mysti was diagnosed with Ehlers Danlos Syndrome, a connective tissue disorder. Hopeful for treatments that would reduce her pain, Mysti was crushed as each medication left her further and further away from living the life of her dreams. Bedridden for all but a few hours each day, Mysti contemplated how life would be better without her alive. In a leap of faith, Mysti not only found the will to live, she did it all without being held captive my medications and doctor appointments.
Journey to Health is a real look at what battling disabling diseases does to a person and provides details into Mysti's personal plan that now has her living life in ways once deemed impossible.
Journey to Health: A Holistic Approach to Ehlers Danlos Syndrome is a must-read for anyone battling any chronic disease. Mysti Reutlinger expresses her mental and emotional battle alongside the physical struggles, leading the way to open the conversation about how chronic diseases are mismanaged and where family, friends, and co-workers can step in and help.
To learn more about Ehlers Danlos Syndrome, visit ednf.org, ehlersdanlosnetwork.org, or rarediseases.org.
Journey to Health is a real look at what battling disabling diseases does to a person and provides details into Mysti's personal plan that now has her living life in ways once deemed impossible.
Journey to Health: A Holistic Approach to Ehlers Danlos Syndrome is a must-read for anyone battling any chronic disease. Mysti Reutlinger expresses her mental and emotional battle alongside the physical struggles, leading the way to open the conversation about how chronic diseases are mismanaged and where family, friends, and co-workers can step in and help.
To learn more about Ehlers Danlos Syndrome, visit ednf.org, ehlersdanlosnetwork.org, or rarediseases.org.
70 pages, Kindle Edition
First published May 10, 2014
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July 21, 2017
I have to say that I think this is probably the worst book I have ever had the misfortune to come across.
I was expecting a heavy religious bias based on the single Amazon review but I did not think that it was too bad in that regard. Instead it went off the scale in terms of every kind of food quackery and woo I could care to think of. Cherries are as good as opiates, natural food fixes everything and oh the TOXINS! "Detoxing" is literally meaningless, if anything these processes are more likely to make you sick.
The only good thing this book does is promoting physical therapy, which is the real helper to those of us with EDS.
I was expecting a heavy religious bias based on the single Amazon review but I did not think that it was too bad in that regard. Instead it went off the scale in terms of every kind of food quackery and woo I could care to think of. Cherries are as good as opiates, natural food fixes everything and oh the TOXINS! "Detoxing" is literally meaningless, if anything these processes are more likely to make you sick.
The only good thing this book does is promoting physical therapy, which is the real helper to those of us with EDS.
April 12, 2016
I'll give it a try
I have nothing to lose at this point, so I'm looking for a good blender to see if, in fact, this changes my pain, perception of pain or gives me more energy so I am able to have a more fulfilling life. I am skeptically hopeful. It's "new age" and fringe and I wish god was left out if the equation, but the book was not written for me and, yes, most people believe in god of some sort. I'll update if I notice (or don't) any changes. I'm already a strict vegan - with celiac disease to boot-, but my fatigue has me grabbing uncooked corn tortillas smeared with peanut butter and jam many nights and I know it's not good for me. Hopefully I'll have good things to report back.
I have nothing to lose at this point, so I'm looking for a good blender to see if, in fact, this changes my pain, perception of pain or gives me more energy so I am able to have a more fulfilling life. I am skeptically hopeful. It's "new age" and fringe and I wish god was left out if the equation, but the book was not written for me and, yes, most people believe in god of some sort. I'll update if I notice (or don't) any changes. I'm already a strict vegan - with celiac disease to boot-, but my fatigue has me grabbing uncooked corn tortillas smeared with peanut butter and jam many nights and I know it's not good for me. Hopefully I'll have good things to report back.
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