The Autoimmune Epidemic: Bodies Gone Haywire in a World out of Balance – and the Cutting Edge Science that Promises Hope by Donna Jackson Nakazawa

I’ve mentioned this book many times before.  It is a well-written, eye-opening look at how our bodies are desperately trying to keep up with our environment and what this has cost us.  It also offers a hopeful message through ways of managing and hopefully ending this epidemic.

We have to be informed.  Information is the best protection from this major health crisis.

If you or anyone you know suffers with autoimmune disease –even if you are a woman in good health,  please consider checking this out.

“It takes the human body thousands of years to adapt to new environmental stresses -yet in a hundred years we’ve dumped so many toxic substances into our environment that our immune system is being asked to differentiate between our own body and unrecognizable invaders nonstop.  Which makes our body much more likely to make a mistake than it was, say, a century ago.  There are just so many more opportunities to make mistakes.”

-Ahmet Hoke, MD, PhD Director, Neuromuscular Division, Johns Hopkins Medical Institutions