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Inflamed
Both absorbing and revelatory, INFLAMED isn’t just a story of healing (of an inflammatory, autoimmune condition). It’s a crystal clear guide that cuts through the confusion and contradiction, offering an anti-inflammatory roadmap to reduce pain, calm chronic symptoms, and light a path to glowing, vibrant health.
Whether your personal health simply feels slightly off, or you’re experiencing a serious chronic illness, conventional care alone may not be getting you the results you want.
Are you experiencing issues like fatigue, poor mood, resistant weight loss, aching joints, digestive upset or skin problems?
INFLAMED is your concise guide to changing your life by reducing inflammation.
A refreshing voice for readers who appreciate Western medicine, but who are searching for treatments that solve the root cause of their conditions – not just address them with a quick, pharmacological fix – Shelly Malone is the discerning expert chronic sufferers have been waiting for. Inside, readers will find:
- Exactly what inflammation means and how it manifests (including pain, allergies, infertility, depression, obesity and autoimmune conditions)
- The complete story on gluten, dairy and other food sensitivities
-The role your genes do and don’t play in disease
-What your digestive tract is trying to tell you
-Why it’s time to trade the calorie and fat gram counting for brand new eating principles
-Where inflammatory toxins hide (in your food, in your home and on your body)
-The synergistic connection between stress, sleep and hormones
-How past medical history can contribute to poor health
INFLAMED closes with a customizable, 25-step action plan the meets you where you are and provides over 20 guides from meal/snack ideas to product label guides to “lesser evils,” a chart of delicious (and realistic) food substitutions.
Lifestyle change can be intimidating. Learn how to get started with small, specific action steps for consistent progress - and better health.
Find a reason - and a way - to live a healthy, vibrant life.
Whether your personal health simply feels slightly off, or you’re experiencing a serious chronic illness, conventional care alone may not be getting you the results you want.
Are you experiencing issues like fatigue, poor mood, resistant weight loss, aching joints, digestive upset or skin problems?
INFLAMED is your concise guide to changing your life by reducing inflammation.
A refreshing voice for readers who appreciate Western medicine, but who are searching for treatments that solve the root cause of their conditions – not just address them with a quick, pharmacological fix – Shelly Malone is the discerning expert chronic sufferers have been waiting for. Inside, readers will find:
- Exactly what inflammation means and how it manifests (including pain, allergies, infertility, depression, obesity and autoimmune conditions)
- The complete story on gluten, dairy and other food sensitivities
-The role your genes do and don’t play in disease
-What your digestive tract is trying to tell you
-Why it’s time to trade the calorie and fat gram counting for brand new eating principles
-Where inflammatory toxins hide (in your food, in your home and on your body)
-The synergistic connection between stress, sleep and hormones
-How past medical history can contribute to poor health
INFLAMED closes with a customizable, 25-step action plan the meets you where you are and provides over 20 guides from meal/snack ideas to product label guides to “lesser evils,” a chart of delicious (and realistic) food substitutions.
Lifestyle change can be intimidating. Learn how to get started with small, specific action steps for consistent progress - and better health.
Find a reason - and a way - to live a healthy, vibrant life.
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Published June 16, 2016
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June 13, 2016
As someone with little to no knowledge of nutrition, I really value the information in this book and have changed my lifestyle and eating habits because of the information shared. Many articles I've read give information, but not in layman's terms - and they don't make suggestions on how to change. This book covers it all - in a way that makes it VERY easy to understand and apply in real life.
I'm thankful to not have autoimmune or chronic diseases but with some dietary changes, as suggested in the book, in just a few weeks, I'm already feeling better! The more you know, the better decisions you'll be able to make... and this is a GREAT starting point!
If you're currently having issues, this is a no brainer - but I highly recommend to EVERYONE. Easy and smart way to learn more about what you put in your body, on your body and in your surroundings.
I'm thankful to not have autoimmune or chronic diseases but with some dietary changes, as suggested in the book, in just a few weeks, I'm already feeling better! The more you know, the better decisions you'll be able to make... and this is a GREAT starting point!
If you're currently having issues, this is a no brainer - but I highly recommend to EVERYONE. Easy and smart way to learn more about what you put in your body, on your body and in your surroundings.
May 18, 2016
Inflamed has a great take action approach to laying out Malone's wealth of knowledge regarding inflammation!
I consider myself somewhat well educated when it comes to health and lifestyle, but was impressed to learn so much more in depth on so many topics!
Conventional medicine has some catching up and Malone addresses a broad spectrum of lifestyle challenges with actual answers/ tips to actually implement and make those changes.
Malone's journey and amazingly comprehensive research really delivers the answers to several interrelated health issues that Americans spend hours researching online, digesting and trying to figure out how to implement! It really is a great resource and is great to have everything on this topic in one place!
I consider myself somewhat well educated when it comes to health and lifestyle, but was impressed to learn so much more in depth on so many topics!
Conventional medicine has some catching up and Malone addresses a broad spectrum of lifestyle challenges with actual answers/ tips to actually implement and make those changes.
Malone's journey and amazingly comprehensive research really delivers the answers to several interrelated health issues that Americans spend hours researching online, digesting and trying to figure out how to implement! It really is a great resource and is great to have everything on this topic in one place!
May 29, 2019
This book changed my life, and I don’t say that lightly. I was diagnosed with RA in the fall of 2018. In an effort to get myself out of pain, I began taking Prednisone and methotrexate, the two medications that were prescribed to me. I really didn’t want to be on either of these, but I didn’t want to be in pain either. My choice was one I knew I didn’t want.
I have a son with asthma and allergies, and for me to be immunosuppressed, I knew we’d be passing colds, flu, and whatever else came through the house to each other. This past winter I found Shelly Malone’s book, Inflamed. I read it with a notebook in hand, carefully taking notes, and developing a road map for attacking this through diet.
I eliminated refined sugars, gluten, trans fat, and processed foods. I reduced alcohol and dairy. And within 24-48 hours the pain slowly lifted out of my hands. Now, I would have considered myself in remission before I started this diet, and I would have been wrong. I had accepted a baseline level of pain as my new normal. The diet removed all of that.
Inflamed walks you through the nutrition facts that you need to know in order to eliminate potentially harmful toxins from your diet and environment. It’s based on 25 goals and an action plan that can break these significant life changes into much more doable chunks.
If you’ve been diagnosed with RA and you’re feeling a little overwhelmed, I highly suggest you read this book. Today.
I have a son with asthma and allergies, and for me to be immunosuppressed, I knew we’d be passing colds, flu, and whatever else came through the house to each other. This past winter I found Shelly Malone’s book, Inflamed. I read it with a notebook in hand, carefully taking notes, and developing a road map for attacking this through diet.
I eliminated refined sugars, gluten, trans fat, and processed foods. I reduced alcohol and dairy. And within 24-48 hours the pain slowly lifted out of my hands. Now, I would have considered myself in remission before I started this diet, and I would have been wrong. I had accepted a baseline level of pain as my new normal. The diet removed all of that.
Inflamed walks you through the nutrition facts that you need to know in order to eliminate potentially harmful toxins from your diet and environment. It’s based on 25 goals and an action plan that can break these significant life changes into much more doable chunks.
If you’ve been diagnosed with RA and you’re feeling a little overwhelmed, I highly suggest you read this book. Today.
June 11, 2019
The book has some pretty good information, though I would definitely do my own research before following the advice. She advocates drinking raw milk, for example, which could cause more health problems than exposure the the inflammatory properties she claims are created in the pasteurization process.
October 30, 2020
𝙼𝚊𝚕𝚘𝚗𝚎 𝚊𝚍𝚍𝚛𝚎𝚜𝚜𝚎𝚜 𝚊𝚝 𝚝𝚑𝚎 𝚋𝚎𝚐𝚒𝚗𝚗𝚒𝚗𝚐 𝚊𝚋𝚘𝚞𝚝 𝚑𝚎𝚛 𝚋𝚎𝚒𝚗𝚐 𝚍𝚒𝚊𝚐𝚗𝚘𝚜𝚎𝚍 𝚠𝚒𝚝𝚑 𝚁𝚑𝚎𝚞𝚖𝚊𝚝𝚘𝚒𝚍 𝙰𝚛𝚝𝚑𝚛𝚒𝚝𝚒𝚜 (𝚁𝙰) 𝚊𝚗𝚍 𝚑𝚘𝚠 𝚜𝚑𝚎 𝚕𝚘𝚘𝚔𝚎𝚍 𝚒𝚗 𝚘𝚝𝚑𝚎𝚛 𝚠𝚊𝚢𝚜 𝚝𝚘 𝚛𝚒𝚍 𝚑𝚎𝚛 𝚒𝚗𝚏𝚕𝚊𝚖𝚖𝚊𝚝𝚒𝚘𝚗 𝚒𝚜𝚜𝚞𝚎𝚜 𝚊𝚗𝚍 𝚝𝚛𝚢 𝚝𝚘 𝚕𝚒𝚟𝚎 𝚊 𝚖𝚘𝚛𝚎 𝚑𝚊𝚙𝚙𝚒𝚎𝚛 𝚕𝚒𝚏𝚎𝚜𝚝𝚢𝚕𝚎.
"𝑰𝒏𝒇𝒍𝒂𝒎𝒆𝒅" 𝚠𝚊𝚜 𝚐𝚛𝚎𝚊𝚝 𝚒𝚗𝚝𝚛𝚘𝚍𝚞𝚌𝚝𝚒𝚘𝚗 𝚘𝚗 𝚝𝚑𝚎 𝚒𝚜𝚜𝚞𝚎𝚜 𝚘𝚏 𝚒𝚗𝚏𝚕𝚊𝚖𝚖𝚊𝚝𝚒𝚘𝚗 𝚒𝚗 𝚝𝚑𝚎 𝚋𝚘𝚍𝚢 𝚊𝚗𝚍 𝚑𝚘𝚠 𝚠𝚎 𝚌𝚊𝚗 𝚏𝚒𝚐𝚑𝚝 𝚋𝚊𝚌𝚔 𝚝𝚘 𝚛𝚎𝚐𝚊𝚒𝚗 𝚘𝚞𝚛 𝚕𝚒𝚟𝚎𝚜. 𝙵𝚒𝚗𝚊𝚕𝚕𝚢 𝚊 𝚋𝚘𝚘𝚔 𝚝𝚑𝚊𝚝 𝚙𝚞𝚝𝚜 𝚝𝚑𝚎 𝚔𝚎𝚢 𝚒𝚗𝚏𝚘𝚛𝚖𝚊𝚝𝚒𝚘𝚗 𝚝𝚑𝚊𝚝 𝚖𝚊𝚔𝚎𝚜 𝚜𝚎𝚗𝚜𝚎 𝚘𝚏 𝚝𝚑𝚎, "𝚕𝚎𝚊𝚔𝚢 𝚐𝚞𝚝, 𝚐𝚕𝚞𝚝𝚎𝚗 𝚏𝚛𝚎𝚎, 𝙶𝙼𝙾, 𝚎𝚝𝚌..." 𝚍𝚒𝚜𝚌𝚞𝚜𝚜𝚒𝚘𝚗𝚜 𝚝𝚑𝚊𝚝 𝚕𝚎𝚊𝚟𝚎 𝚞𝚜 𝚗𝚘𝚗-𝚗𝚞𝚝𝚛𝚒𝚝𝚒𝚘𝚗𝚒𝚜𝚝𝚜 𝚘𝚟𝚎𝚛𝚠𝚑𝚎𝚕𝚖𝚎𝚍. 𝙼𝚊𝚕𝚘𝚗𝚎 𝚐𝚒𝚟𝚎𝚜 𝚞𝚜 𝚊 𝚙𝚕𝚊𝚗 𝚘𝚏 𝚊𝚌𝚝𝚒𝚘𝚗 𝚠𝚒𝚝𝚑 𝚊 𝚝𝚘𝚘𝚕 𝚔𝚒𝚝 𝚊𝚗𝚍 𝚖𝚊𝚗𝚢 𝚛𝚎𝚜𝚎𝚊𝚛𝚌𝚑𝚊𝚋𝚕𝚎 𝚜𝚒𝚝𝚎𝚜 𝚝𝚘 𝚕𝚘𝚘𝚔 𝚖𝚘𝚛𝚎 𝚒𝚗𝚝𝚘 𝚘𝚞𝚛 𝚒𝚜𝚜𝚞𝚎𝚜 𝚊𝚝 𝚑𝚊𝚗𝚍.
𝙰𝚛𝚎 𝚢𝚘𝚞 𝚎𝚡𝚙𝚎𝚛𝚒𝚎𝚗𝚌𝚒𝚗𝚐 𝚒𝚜𝚜𝚞𝚎𝚜 𝚕𝚒𝚔𝚎 𝚏𝚊𝚝𝚒𝚐𝚞𝚎, 𝚙𝚘𝚘𝚛 𝚖𝚘𝚘𝚍, 𝚛𝚎𝚜𝚒𝚜𝚝𝚊𝚗𝚝 𝚠𝚎𝚒𝚐𝚑𝚝 𝚕𝚘𝚜𝚜, 𝚊𝚌𝚑𝚒𝚗𝚐 𝚓𝚘𝚒𝚗𝚝𝚜, 𝚍𝚒𝚐𝚎𝚜𝚝𝚒𝚟𝚎 𝚞𝚙𝚜𝚎𝚝 𝚘𝚛 𝚜𝚔𝚒𝚗 𝚙𝚛𝚘𝚋𝚕𝚎𝚖𝚜? "𝑰𝒏𝒇𝒍𝒂𝒎𝒆𝒅" 𝚖𝚒𝚐𝚑𝚝 𝚓𝚞𝚜𝚝 𝚋𝚎 𝚝𝚑𝚎 𝚋𝚘𝚘𝚔 𝚢𝚘𝚞 𝚗𝚎𝚎𝚍 𝚝𝚘 𝚛𝚎𝚊𝚍 𝚗𝚎𝚡𝚝. 𝙰𝚛𝚎 𝚢𝚘𝚞 𝚛𝚎𝚊𝚍𝚢 𝚝𝚘 𝚝𝚊𝚔𝚎 𝚋𝚊𝚌𝚔 𝚢𝚘𝚞𝚛 𝚕𝚒𝚏𝚎? 𝙸 𝚔𝚗𝚘𝚠 𝙸 𝚊𝚖.
"𝑰𝒏𝒇𝒍𝒂𝒎𝒆𝒅" 𝚠𝚊𝚜 𝚐𝚛𝚎𝚊𝚝 𝚒𝚗𝚝𝚛𝚘𝚍𝚞𝚌𝚝𝚒𝚘𝚗 𝚘𝚗 𝚝𝚑𝚎 𝚒𝚜𝚜𝚞𝚎𝚜 𝚘𝚏 𝚒𝚗𝚏𝚕𝚊𝚖𝚖𝚊𝚝𝚒𝚘𝚗 𝚒𝚗 𝚝𝚑𝚎 𝚋𝚘𝚍𝚢 𝚊𝚗𝚍 𝚑𝚘𝚠 𝚠𝚎 𝚌𝚊𝚗 𝚏𝚒𝚐𝚑𝚝 𝚋𝚊𝚌𝚔 𝚝𝚘 𝚛𝚎𝚐𝚊𝚒𝚗 𝚘𝚞𝚛 𝚕𝚒𝚟𝚎𝚜. 𝙵𝚒𝚗𝚊𝚕𝚕𝚢 𝚊 𝚋𝚘𝚘𝚔 𝚝𝚑𝚊𝚝 𝚙𝚞𝚝𝚜 𝚝𝚑𝚎 𝚔𝚎𝚢 𝚒𝚗𝚏𝚘𝚛𝚖𝚊𝚝𝚒𝚘𝚗 𝚝𝚑𝚊𝚝 𝚖𝚊𝚔𝚎𝚜 𝚜𝚎𝚗𝚜𝚎 𝚘𝚏 𝚝𝚑𝚎, "𝚕𝚎𝚊𝚔𝚢 𝚐𝚞𝚝, 𝚐𝚕𝚞𝚝𝚎𝚗 𝚏𝚛𝚎𝚎, 𝙶𝙼𝙾, 𝚎𝚝𝚌..." 𝚍𝚒𝚜𝚌𝚞𝚜𝚜𝚒𝚘𝚗𝚜 𝚝𝚑𝚊𝚝 𝚕𝚎𝚊𝚟𝚎 𝚞𝚜 𝚗𝚘𝚗-𝚗𝚞𝚝𝚛𝚒𝚝𝚒𝚘𝚗𝚒𝚜𝚝𝚜 𝚘𝚟𝚎𝚛𝚠𝚑𝚎𝚕𝚖𝚎𝚍. 𝙼𝚊𝚕𝚘𝚗𝚎 𝚐𝚒𝚟𝚎𝚜 𝚞𝚜 𝚊 𝚙𝚕𝚊𝚗 𝚘𝚏 𝚊𝚌𝚝𝚒𝚘𝚗 𝚠𝚒𝚝𝚑 𝚊 𝚝𝚘𝚘𝚕 𝚔𝚒𝚝 𝚊𝚗𝚍 𝚖𝚊𝚗𝚢 𝚛𝚎𝚜𝚎𝚊𝚛𝚌𝚑𝚊𝚋𝚕𝚎 𝚜𝚒𝚝𝚎𝚜 𝚝𝚘 𝚕𝚘𝚘𝚔 𝚖𝚘𝚛𝚎 𝚒𝚗𝚝𝚘 𝚘𝚞𝚛 𝚒𝚜𝚜𝚞𝚎𝚜 𝚊𝚝 𝚑𝚊𝚗𝚍.
𝙰𝚛𝚎 𝚢𝚘𝚞 𝚎𝚡𝚙𝚎𝚛𝚒𝚎𝚗𝚌𝚒𝚗𝚐 𝚒𝚜𝚜𝚞𝚎𝚜 𝚕𝚒𝚔𝚎 𝚏𝚊𝚝𝚒𝚐𝚞𝚎, 𝚙𝚘𝚘𝚛 𝚖𝚘𝚘𝚍, 𝚛𝚎𝚜𝚒𝚜𝚝𝚊𝚗𝚝 𝚠𝚎𝚒𝚐𝚑𝚝 𝚕𝚘𝚜𝚜, 𝚊𝚌𝚑𝚒𝚗𝚐 𝚓𝚘𝚒𝚗𝚝𝚜, 𝚍𝚒𝚐𝚎𝚜𝚝𝚒𝚟𝚎 𝚞𝚙𝚜𝚎𝚝 𝚘𝚛 𝚜𝚔𝚒𝚗 𝚙𝚛𝚘𝚋𝚕𝚎𝚖𝚜? "𝑰𝒏𝒇𝒍𝒂𝒎𝒆𝒅" 𝚖𝚒𝚐𝚑𝚝 𝚓𝚞𝚜𝚝 𝚋𝚎 𝚝𝚑𝚎 𝚋𝚘𝚘𝚔 𝚢𝚘𝚞 𝚗𝚎𝚎𝚍 𝚝𝚘 𝚛𝚎𝚊𝚍 𝚗𝚎𝚡𝚝. 𝙰𝚛𝚎 𝚢𝚘𝚞 𝚛𝚎𝚊𝚍𝚢 𝚝𝚘 𝚝𝚊𝚔𝚎 𝚋𝚊𝚌𝚔 𝚢𝚘𝚞𝚛 𝚕𝚒𝚏𝚎? 𝙸 𝚔𝚗𝚘𝚠 𝙸 𝚊𝚖.
December 23, 2022
This is a great book if you’re diving into food nutrition for the first time. I’ve been organically reading and following the subject for 20-years+, so the vast majority of what’s shared wasn’t too helpful for me - I was looking for a more dense read on inflammation, and will look for something written by a physician and researcher who’s writing is accessible for the general public.
The book has a great work plan at the end, in-general this is a fantastic book for someone who wants to take action, get better control of their health and well being, with concrete steps to do so.
The book has a great work plan at the end, in-general this is a fantastic book for someone who wants to take action, get better control of their health and well being, with concrete steps to do so.
January 21, 2020
A very useful pot of information about why we should eat real, unprocessed food and what foods to avoid and why. A lot of information packed into a short book. The author was diagnosed with Rheumatoid Arthritis (RA), so the information was put together with that in mind. However, if you suffer from any chronic, debilitating disease - diabetes, heart disease, MS - the information is valuable. She has a website, but is not pushy about it, unlike other health improvement books I have read.
February 3, 2018
A great introduction to the issues of inflammation in the body, sources of inflammation, and how to fight back. I wish I'd had this a few years ago!
June 13, 2016
Inflamed is a must read for anyone interested in creating a healthy lifestyle for themselves and their family. I try to make healthy decisions, but am never sure what the best choices really are. Inflamed, finally puts the key information into one book and makes sense of the, "leaky gut, gluten free, GMO, etc..." discussions that leave us non-nutritionists overwhelmed.
Not only is it an interesting and fast read, the author includes an awesome Tool kit to help you take these first steps of living a healthier life. The book is extremely educational. It explains the science behind the various sicknesses and reactions that are caused by certain foods in a way that is easy to understand, but it's not full of dumbed down examples that plague other informational books. That was refreshing.
For my entire life, stomach aches have been a norm but tolerable. I'm aware that I'm gluten sensitive, but would rather deal with mild stomach discomfort, than join those people who live a life of limitations (in my mind). I like to enjoy life, I like to eat, I like wine. It also just seemed too hard of a change. In the past two years I've developed debilitating inflammation, which none of a dozen specialists have been able to explain or give hope of ever getting better. I know it's time to turn away from the medicine and look towards changing my diet, and this book is exactly the tool that I need to finally make the long awaited change. I am thankful that someone was passionate enough to put all this information in one place and make it easier for me to help my body be its best.
Not only is it an interesting and fast read, the author includes an awesome Tool kit to help you take these first steps of living a healthier life. The book is extremely educational. It explains the science behind the various sicknesses and reactions that are caused by certain foods in a way that is easy to understand, but it's not full of dumbed down examples that plague other informational books. That was refreshing.
For my entire life, stomach aches have been a norm but tolerable. I'm aware that I'm gluten sensitive, but would rather deal with mild stomach discomfort, than join those people who live a life of limitations (in my mind). I like to enjoy life, I like to eat, I like wine. It also just seemed too hard of a change. In the past two years I've developed debilitating inflammation, which none of a dozen specialists have been able to explain or give hope of ever getting better. I know it's time to turn away from the medicine and look towards changing my diet, and this book is exactly the tool that I need to finally make the long awaited change. I am thankful that someone was passionate enough to put all this information in one place and make it easier for me to help my body be its best.
June 27, 2016
Such an interesting book despite the fact it's crazy scientific (for me anyway). It's definitely a book for the layperson and while I'm not completely positive it holds all of the answers for me, it provides some good suggestions to cut down on inflammation of the body and discusses GMOs, CAFOs (confined animal feeding operations), food dyes, etc. It honestly makes me question what I'm eating (which isn't necessarily a bad thing) and how my health is affected by what I consume.
June 19, 2016
I received an ARC of this book in exchange for an honest review.
Inflammation and its effects on our bodies is presented in this book so very well, from the ways it can manifest in your body to the foods that may contribute to it. The action plan and recommended eating habits may lead you on the path to better health and wellbeing. Recommended reading.
Inflammation and its effects on our bodies is presented in this book so very well, from the ways it can manifest in your body to the foods that may contribute to it. The action plan and recommended eating habits may lead you on the path to better health and wellbeing. Recommended reading.
August 4, 2016
This is a new type of book which addresses How to Heal your autoimmune system, what the causes of fatigue are, why you feel out of sync, ache all over and have aching joints. its a refreshing look at things from a different perspective together with a step by step plan to change your life.
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