Goodbye Lupus: How a Medical Doctor Healed Herself Naturally With Supermarket Foods

by Brooke Goldner

Brooke Goldner, M.D. is a board certified physician known world-wide for being a medical doctor who has developed a nutrition-based treatment for for her own autoimmune disease, Lupus. In this personal and intimate story, she takes you through the pain of her illness and her miraculous recovery, and how she discovered the simple yet powerful way to help the human body heal through proper nourishment. Dr. Goldner makes it easy to understand this essential information on how food can cause and heal disease, teaching it simply and plainly. She created easy to follow steps you can take to achieving better health yourself using supermarket foods. Also included are her favorite recipes for getting healthier. This is a second edition with proper formatting. First edition issues have been resolved.

Genres: Health, Food, Nonfiction, Nutrition, Vegan, Medical

108 pages, Paperback

First published January 1, 2015

Reviews

[Sheba Family · Rating 3 out of 5]

I think her story is amazing! Her writing is just ok..she jumps around a little and is repetitive for such a short book. Her advice is also a little one dimensional...I have done what she did and didn't get the same results. Cut all animal products, cut all processed foods, cut stress and eat 4 cups raw greens, 4 cup veggies. Her story is so great, I will do it again, but sadly for autoimmune I don't think there is a one size fits all solution.

[ريم · Rating 2 out of 5]

The book contains the journey of the author with the disease and various anecdotes of her life, if you are here for something other than inspiration, like science and new information , you will not find it. The information provided could be easily accessed in an online article, possibly with superior research and referencing.

[Kat Starwolf · Rating 5 out of 5]

Advice Helps Manage Lupus and eliminates inflammation

...if followed. There's the catch. HOWEVER, this is one of -- if not THE best books -- I've read on not only how to manage lupus, but how to eliminate it altogether. One thing I found out the hard way (since there had never, historically, been either an approved food list or an 'AVOID' food list) is that if you have lupus, you don't want to go on the KETO diet, since those with lupus are supposed to avoid meat, cheese/dairy and eggs. That may have been why my ANA panel was positive the 6th time after being negative the last two tests. But now, thanks to Dr. Goldner I know how to get better. In fact, I've already started!

[Estela Leal · Rating 5 out of 5]

Testimony time!!! I purchased GOODBYE LUPUS and watched some videos and got right on it. I have been doing the healing protocol for 6 weeks and SED rate is 17 and goodbye anemia. That’s huge for me because I my SED rate had not been normal for over 9 years and have been unable to donate blood for 2 years because I was severely anemic. I am able to jog and walk with no pain. Almost forgot to mention I also shed 12 pounds! I thank the Lord for coming across this book and Dr. G’s Facebook posts. I feel so much better! Looking forward to completely healing from Sjogrens, RA, vasculitis and other issues😉Thank you Dr. G!!!

[DeeReads · Rating 4 out of 5]

Lessons to learn and live by...

Dr. Brooke Goldner gave some very valuable and hopeful information in her book, "Goodbye Lupus: How a Medical Doctor Healed Herself Naturally with Supermarket Foods." Looking forward in trying her cure-all nutritional-based approach.


Lupus is no joke! No autoimmune disease is!


4 inspiring stars

[Tolu · Rating 1 out of 5]

Not worth reading. All basic info you can find easily or already know.

[Dru · Rating 5 out of 5]

Very informative

This book gives me hope !! I have suffered from Lupus, RA, sjogrens, Lymes and more. So excited to start this journey

[Anik Sales · Rating 5 out of 5]

This book has changed my life.

[Alicia · Rating 2 out of 5]

Goldner vertelt over haar leven en ervaringen met Lupus, dat ze heel ziek was en dacht jong te zullen overlijden. Ze ontmoet haar partner en die helpt haar met een dieet om goed op de trouwfoto's te staan. Vervolgens merkt ze dat ze zich beter voelt, ze gaat er vanuit dat dit aan haar dieet ligt.

Haar idee is dat als je maar genoeg gezonde dingen eet en geen ongezonde dingen, je lichaam zichzelf heelt. Gezond is in dit geval whole foods plantbased (geen dierlijke producten, niks bewerkt en geen toegevoegde olie) en voor mensen die ernstig ziek zijn adviseert ze een strenge fase waarin je helemaal niet mag zondigen. In haar plan begin je de dag met een hele kan vol groentesmoothie (min. 75% groente, wat fruit en amandelmelk), met wat lijnzaad of chiazaad voor omega 3. En je moet minstens drie liter water drinken. Ziekte zou mede voortkomen uit een verkeerde balans tussen omega 6 en 3 en een tekort aan water, waardoor gezonde voedimgsstoffen niet in je cellen terecht komen.

Nu weet ik dat in moderne voeding de verhoudingen omega 6 & 3 niet gunstig zijn, maar ik mis in het boek toch een wetenschappelijke onderbouwing voor de stelling dat dit autoimmuunziekte kan veroorzaken. En ook dat met haar dieet je de ziekte kan genezen. Nogal een claim.

Ze is daadwerkelijk arts, dus dat onderscheidt haar van een aantal andere mensen met zulke ideeën en matige onderbouwingen, maar dat is voor mij niet genoeg om haar te geloven.

Neemt niet weg dat ik overweeg het te proberen en te kijken of ik verschil merk in het functioneren van mijn slokdarm (die werkt niet meer en ze denken aan SSc maar kunnen dat niet bevestigen of uitsluiten). In het ergste geval heb ik een tijdje voor niets heel veel groente gegeten, maar dan is tenminste mijn nieuwsgierigheid bevredigd.

Verder is het boek qua structuur en stijl nogal matig geschreven. De foto's van haar gezin in het boek hoefden van mij echt niet, het gaat sowieso heel veel over haar en haar man.

[Monica L Garrett · Rating 5 out of 5]

Great info

This is a lot of Valuable information. A must read for anyone with autoimmune disease or Lupus. I’m glad I read it.

[megan | unbookless · Rating 5 out of 5]

This information is gold.

[Mary Miller · Rating 1 out of 5]

When choosing a book on autoimmune protocols, there are things I hope we look for: a willingness to understand that the human body maybe call thus, but we are all bio UNidentcal based on our chemistries, familial history and conditions based on our genes; we are not identical. The big supposition is that we are all the same so therefore our dietary needs should reflect that understanding. If this is true, why do we have no primary studies that show this? And if this is true than our medicine would be a "one size fits all" when it comes to all health conditions and variations, and this isn't the case. She wrote a book claiming to cure: MS, Fibromyalgia, Lupus (of course) all lumped all autoimmune conditions identically. I would love a book that looks solves chronic pain and heals all our ills, this just doesn't add up.

[A Foster · Rating 4 out of 5]

Having heard about the author and her miraculous recovery from a supposedly incurable disease, Lupus and other related conditions, I wanted to check out her book. This was a very quick read with lots of information on healing and giving hope to those who are willing to take the necessary steps to heal themselves through hyper-nutrition. Having already adopted a whole food, plant based diet, and eliminating processed foods and added oils, I quickly confirmed that I can easily adopt the additional steps to heal my own (different) lupus condition. I would say this is a very important book with information that, although not new or unfamiliar to me, will be a startling revelation to many who have no idea how critically important diet is in maintaining and regaining our health.

[Madison · Rating 5 out of 5]

Super informative, though I still want to do some research to verify what I read. But this book talks a lot about plants and how they interact with our bodies. It also talks about animal products and processed foods and what causes inflammation and what can help combat it. For sure worth the read. I’ve never related to someone else with lupus this much.
My lungs hemorrhaged 5 times and I had to do chemo (Cytoxan as well) but I only had to do 8 months.. I was on high dose steroids(80mg for 4 months and then struggled to taper off- it took me 16 months 😳 and two years after my diagnosis I threw a clot to my brain and had a massive stroke. It’s so comforting to read a similar story with the results I crave!

[Rose · Rating 4 out of 5]

I’ve been encouraged to try a totally plant based diet by two plant based loving friends. They claim it has worked miracles. This book was informative (although the poor editing bugged me). It seems so time-consuming & difficult to eat this way. Guess I am old school and believe a properly balanced diet, with lots of fresh fruits & veggies; very little sugar if any & elimination of most refined foods should be healthy. I was actually more open minded until I read the recipes at the end. Too much of a change & preparation etc way too time-consuming!

[Charlotte Witney · Rating 4 out of 5]

This is definitely more of an autobiography with some recipes but it is very inspiring and motivating. Having just being diagnosed with Lupus I feel that this book is a good stepping stone to starting the journey and getting in the right mind frame to implement the right steps. I have used some of the recipes and will continue to reread the book when I need any added motivation as to "Why" I am doing this.

[Angela Fitton · Rating 2 out of 5]

Mostly rating this based on having listened to her give a speech on YouTube that was more or less verbatim what was in this book. Not sure it was worth reading, as it provided no new information and was written in an annoyingly self-centered way. I think the idea/advice is compelling, but I thought to publish a book, you'd actually put new information out there or more detailed information at the least.

[Mayr Berry · Rating 5 out of 5]

Excellent information

Fast read. Love it when doctors lead you back to your own self healing systems and provide strategies that will help cleanse the body and trigger the healing power within us when we choose a lifestyle that works in harmony with cellular reproduction. A copy should be in everyone’s library! What a positive role model the author and her husband are.

[Monique Guilland · Rating 5 out of 5]

She explains how she reversed her lupus. Don't eat animal products, oil, or processed foods. Eat a lot of raw veggies, chia or flax seeds, and water.

I give it 5 stars because I like the content so much. (However, it's short and self published.) She says pretty much exactly the same thing in every interview of her I've ever seen.

[Rasa Virketyte · Rating 5 out of 5]

This is informative and easy to apply in real life.

It’s an informative and easy to comprehend book.
I do believe that food is a source of our health. You are what you eat and since I applied her protocol to my diet, health has changed for the better.

[Annissa Stiles · Rating 5 out of 5]

A lot of great information

She pretty much tells you what you need to do. I am not sure why there are so many reviews saying this is just promoting her program. The book is very informative.

[Sharon · Rating 5 out of 5]

What you must know

I would recommend this book for anyone wanting to learn to eat a healing diet or to maintain a health body.

[Monica Fulton · Rating 5 out of 5]

Surprisingly light and breezy chock full of delicious excellent advice delivered in a kind and empathetic manner.

[Aricia Torres · Rating 5 out of 5]

Goodbye Lupus

Excellent easy to follow advice to recuperate one’s health. It’s amazing how this medical doctor cured herself from lupus by following a vegan diet

[Tony · Rating 5 out of 5]

Amazing!

I recommend this book for everyone, but especially for anyone with an auto-immune disease and chronic fatigue, or anyone who wants to get healthy and energised!

[Julia · Rating 3 out of 5]

I heard Dr. Goldner on a podcast and I was curious to hear more about her story. If you look around a bit on her website, this information is all available in her facebook group and her videos, but to be fair it's a bit scattered and hard to find. I wish she presented this in a more organized way, and the book is a good start for getting the basics. I thought the book would have more detail or go into the science of how this works. I learned that it worked for her and many others but she's incredibly sparse on details about why or even how to do it. You get the very basics and that's it. Despite my complaints, I am 3 days into her plan. I was inspired.

I don't have lupus, but I'd like to lose weight and feel better and clear up my allergies. I completely eliminated my allergies on a whole food plant based diet many years ago, but then I fell away from that lifestyle. I felt great at the time. This is taking that diet to a higher level for rapid healing. I would like to feel great again. Hopefully I'll be back in a few months with an update about my miraculous healing. (I'm picturing some of my friends reading this and rolling their eyes. We shall see.)

[Vee · Rating 2 out of 5]

I purchased this book as I cannot afford the $5K to work with Dr. Goldner one-on-one. While I found her story inspiring, the writing was very basic. If you're looking for details further than what she provides online, you will not find them here. Basic premise: go vegan and oil-free. If you can't do it all at once, ease into it. I've read many other books with this advice that provided more science-based evidence for the suggestion, but this one lacked those details. She includes a few smoothie 'recipes' that are nothing new or cannot be found on blogs all over the internet and quite a few photos of herself as a child, which felt like page fillers. Overall, her story is promising, but I'd have appreciated more science-based evidence and case studies other than her own.

[Emily · Rating 5 out of 5]

Wow!! I LOVE Dr. Goldner! I would look her up online and take her free class which she offers every 2 months or so! For the past month, I have drank about 10-16 oz raw kale a day in a smoothie and I feel so much better! But I can’t do the raw vegan stuff. I need meat, especially right before I menstruate.

So good though!!

I put in my Vitamix:
10-16 oz of raw kale
Water
1/2 cup of whole flax seed OR chia seeds
2 bananas
1 orange
Top with frozen fruit from Costco (strawberries, mangos, peaches, pineapple)

She has a great 40-minute video she gives at a Vegan convention that explains her story. She is hilarious and an absolute gem. I think it nicely summarized the book, so I only skimmed the book.

[Rajiv Kulkarni · Rating 5 out of 5]

Thank you and Small World

I recently became vegan at the recommendation of my opthalmologist.

I also was diagnosed with an autoimmune disease a few years ago. So much of what you described with my early diet and life style (stress etc) resonated with me.

I'm so glad to read your book, I read it in one night. Lots of great advice here and honestly a beautiful human perspective to know what can be done.

Please say hello to Tom for me, back in Pittsburgh in the early 2000s Tom was my personal trainer along with a friend. So glad to see you all doing so well. Thank you for this full circle help. Appreciate you both.

[Erika S. · Rating 1 out of 5]

If this worked, every rheumatologist would prescribe this diet to their patients with lupus. If this worked, this would be headline news because lupus is a frightening disease. I'm sure that if you've been eating food that makes you feel unwell you would feel better eating some of the stuff that Goldner recommends, but this will not reverse kidney damage from lupus nor will it cure you.

It hurts me to see people making money off of folks who are ill. Dr. Goldner is a psychiatrist, not a rheumatologist, and green smoothies won't cure lupus.