THE LAST BEST CURE will be in stores, on Amazon, Indiebound, and everywhere else in two weeks. I can hardly believe it.
Many of you are fans of The Autoimmune Epidemic (now in its 5th printing!). Which, as you know, talks about all the environmental stressors and toxins we encounter in our lives that add up to inflammation and illness. I call it the barrel effect. Our bodies can handle just so much in the barrel, and then, one day, there is that one more “hit” and it spills over, leading to chronic conditions too numerous to count (well, if we are counting, 133 million adults suffer from at least one chronic condition, and the numbers are skyrocketing). I wanted you to know everything researchers know about how we can decrease what’s overfilling our barrel, both by being aware, and by knowing how to eliminate what we can.
After I finished writing The Autoimmune Epidemic, I encountered a great deal of emerging research on how the chronic and acute stress we feel also acts on our immune systems exactly like a toxin. How our state of mind can overflow the barrel, or, conversely, help to protect the immune system.
To our bodies, it doesn’t matter if the “hit” is viral, toxic, or stress. It looks the same. Stress and anxiety can cause our “barrel” to overflow in just the same way. And so, I set out to research and write the “sequel” to The Autoimmune Epidemic. I’d talked about how to eliminate all the triggers we could to bring our immune system back to health, and why it was so important to do so.
I felt I owed it to you to talk about the one thing in our “barrel” that is most under out control: reversing the inflammation-promoting agitation, fear, stress, pain and anxiety we all encounter and experience in our lives, which leaks, like a toxin, into our barrel. Thousands of researchers have been studying how to best use scientifically studied methods to do just that. And how to activate instead, the healing secrets of the brain.
I would like to think my last two books form something of a health equation:
The Autoimmune Epidemic + The Last Best Cure =
Reclaim Your Body, Your Joy, Your Well-being, Your Life.
This stress thing is fairly simple to soothe/quell (can’t find the right adj,) but not EASY. The main culprit, I think, is the unconscious daily stress we carry. This hum of anxiety, lack of trust in the craziness of our world at large, and the daily rush of activity of being I-don’t -know-where is making us sick. There seems to be a pervasive attitude of negativity in the media, especially. Go on a media diet, I say. Be careful what, and how much you ingest. One can have the cleanest diet in the world, the most non toxic home and relationships, and still be polluted from emotional detritus. It’s never just one thing. Thank you, AGAIN, for sharing Donna!!