Based on the essential premise that contemporary Western medicine is failing to address the root causes of disease processes, Sustainable Medicine aims to empower readers to heal themselves through addressing the underlying reasons for ill health. Dr Myhill spells out her programme for maximising health and keeping lifestyle illnesses at bay without recourse to pharmaceuticals.
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Sugar – our non-essential and dangerous fuel; How sugar damages the body; Diagnosis of diabetes and metabolic syndrome; Addiction, stress, love, propaganda, myths and intellectual idleness; How the body normally controls levels of sugar in the bloodstream; Prevention, treatment and reversal of metabolic syndrome and diabetes; Why it is essential to reverse metabolic syndrome and diabetes; Appendices: Essential recipes; Why fats are so important to us; Good fats and bad fats; The fermenting mouth; The fermenting gut; The fermenting skin; Toxic causes of insulin resistance: prescription drugs, pesticides, volatile organic compounds, toxic metals; Tests: blood glucose, ketones, micronutrients, thyroid function, adrenal gland function, gut function and flora, toxic metals, POPs; Doctors are dangerous; Vital statistics
Author: Dr Sarah Myhill
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The Knackered Ape: The naïve doctor stumbles into the real world; The Naked Ape to the Knackered Ape; The knackerometer; The Knackered Ape is an addict; The energy equation: Energy generation: The correct fuel in the tank; The mitochondrial engine; Matching energy generation to energy demands; Sleep for regular servicing, healing and repair of our engines; Optimising energy expenditure through exercise; Free energy from sunshine and heat: Energy expenditure: Basal metabolic rate; Immunological holes in the energy bucket – inflammation from allergy, autoimmunity and chronic infection; The emotional hole: Get your act together: Groundhog days: Appendices: The PK diet; Groundhog Basic; Groundhog Acute; Groundhog Chronic; Vitamin C
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What is the PK diet? Why should we all be eating a PK diet? PK meals for those challenged by energy, time and/or inclination; PK bread; PK dairy products; PK breakfasts; PK lunches and suppers (starters and main courses); PK salads; Lard, dripping and fat; Sweeteners; Herbs and spices; Fermented foods; Sunshine salt; PK water. Good fats and bad fats; Essential equipment for the PK kitchen; Carb values for vegetables, salads, fruits, berries, nuts and seeds; Nutritional supplements for the PK diet
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I: Life is an arms race we are already losing: Life is an arms race; Infections that drive modern Western diseases; The immune system is our standing army; Your enemy is fiendishly clever; We are already losing the arms race; II: The starting point is to improve our defences: The general approach to avoiding and treating infection: 1 – improve the defences with diet, micronutrients and sleep; 2 – Energy delivery mechanisms; The gut microbiome; Vitamin C – our most important weapon; Iodine – a great all-rounder; Electromagnetic radiation; Dentists, doctors and other foreign bodies; Herbals – delicious doctoring; Use your brain; Groundhog Basic; III: How to treat acute infections that have got past your defences: Who is the enemy; Groundhog Acute; Acute coughs, colds, flus and their complications; Measles, mumps, rubella, chicken pox and other such friendly immune programmers; Acute gut infections; UTIs; Skin infections; STDs; Dental infections and mouth ulcers; Fermenting upper gut; Fungi and yeast; IV: Do you have a chronic infection? Chronic infection; Chronic ‘stealth’ infections; Groundhog Chronic; Chronic infection of the gut; EBV and other herpes viruses; Lyme disease; Bartonella and babesia; Mycoplasma and chlamydia; Rickettsia and Yersinia; Preventing antibiotic damage to the gut microbiome; All other infections; V: Be prepared for the kill: First aid box contents; See the whole picture
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Introduction – getting the best from past and present; Mothers and fathers – what to do preconception to reduce risks; the Paleo-Ketogenic (PK) diet – the non-negotiable foundation for success; Normal pregnancy – avoiding complications; Childbirth and immediate postpartum – being informed and involved in decision-making; Breastfeeding and weaning; Sleep; The baby who cries; The immune system – the ‘first brain’, vaccination decisions, training the immune system; Minor childhood ailments; Serious avoidable childhood problems; The ‘second brain’ – emotional confidence; The ‘third brain’ – sub-conscious, conscious and intellectual; Infertility and assisted conception; Appendices: Groundhog Basic, Groundhog Acute; Groundhog Chronic, PK recipes, Detox reactions.
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Introduction – why we should all be eating a PK diet; What is the PK diet? Balancing up the PK diet; Getting started; Diet, detox and die-off reactions; The PK pantry; Meals for those challenged by time or energy; The PK baker; The PK ‘dairy’; Breakfasts; Starters; Main courses; Salads and dressings; Puddings; Snacks; Herbs and spices; Sunshine salt; Fermented foods; PK water; Feasting and alcohol; Vegetarians and vegans; The carnivore diet; Fasting; Weight loss with PK; Carbohydrate contents; Essential equipment; The PK checklist.
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Part I The practical: Are you hypothyroid? The symptoms and signs; Blood tests for hypothyroidism; Before you start a trial of natural desiccated thyroid (NDT); The adrenal ‘gearbox’; How to trial NDT and balance up the dose long-term; Part II: The theory: How and why we become hypothyroid; What happens if the diagnosis of hypothyroidism is missed; Thyroid myths – how your doctor will discourage you; The hypothyroid child; The hypothyroid female; Thyrotoxicosis, nodules and cancer; Iodine; Appendices: How to access thyroid blood tests; The different NDT preparations and how to obtain them; The PK diet; Vitamin C; Detoxing; Groundhog basic; Groundhog acute; Groundhog chronic, DDD reactions; Resources; Glossary
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Introduction – the road map; Part II: Symptoms and clinical pictures; Part III: Mechanisms; Part IV: What to do – the basics; Part V: The bolt-on extras; Part VI: How to apply what we’ve learnt to current branches of medicine; Part VII: Case histories; Appendices: Groundhog regimens, Blood test results.
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The roadmap to recovery; The symptoms of poor energy delivery and how to treat them: Do the paleo-ketogenic diet, sort out the upper fermenting gut, take the Basic Package of supplements; The mechanisms of energy delivery in the body; The thyroid accelerator pedal and the adrenal gearbox; Sleep – when healing and repair take place; Pacing and the right sort of exercise; Myalgic encephalitis (ME) and Long Covid; The symptoms of inflammation; Overview of the mechanisms of inflammation and how to fix them; Allergy and autoimmunity; The general approach to reducing inflammation; Detoxing; The general approach to treating chronic infection: DMSO, Methyene blue, photodynamic therapy;; Reprogramming the immune system with micro-immunotherapy; Reducing the infectious load; Repairing the holes in the emotional energy bucket; The pattern of recovery; the politics of CFS and ME; Appendices: The ‘Groundhogs’ – Basic, Acute and Chronic; Diet, detox and die-off reactions; Commonly used blood tests and what they mean; State welfare benefits (UK); Sources of support; Bell CFS ability scale
