The Autoimmune Answer

Using Functional Medicine to Address the Cause, Eliminate Symptoms, and Optimize Quality of Life

By: Dr. John Bartemus

Narrated by: Lee Goettl

Length: 6 hrs and 27 mins

Publisher's summary

The Autoimmune Answer is your road map for healing from autoimmune disease naturally. No high-powered immune-suppressing medications necessary.

Each chapter of this book presents a real case from Dr. Bartemus' office and uses it to help you understand the specific autoimmune disease being discussed in that chapter.

From symptoms, to key findings in their past medical records that were overlooked, to relevant testing, to creating an individualized and specific care plan, each chapter walks you through the journey of a real person from suffering to healing.

The autoimmune diseases covered in this audiobook include:

• Parkinson's disease
• Psoriasis
• Crohn's disease
• PANDAS and PANS
• Traumatic brain injury-induced autoimmunity
• Celiac disease
• Gluten sensitivity
• Thyroid autoimmunity - Grave's disease and Hashimoto's disease

Other topics include:

• Gut-brain axis
• Microbiome health
• Depression and anxiety

The book also covers the spectrum of food reactions, from food allergy to food sensitivity to food intolerance, and helps you understand and determine which one(s) you are suffering with and how to correct them.

Which diet is the right diet for you? Find out how to determine which diet is the correct diet for you in your current situation. Is it a ketogenic diet? Is it a paleo diet? Is it a gluten-free or low FODMAP diet?

Lastly, you will learn why you cannot "Dr. Google" yourself to health if you have an autoimmune disease. And you will be empowered with the information you need to find and create the healing you desire.

©2020 Dr. John Bartemus (P)2020 Dr. John Bartemus

An internship with a health detective

This book takes you inside the mind of a health detective. Dr Bartemus takes us on a journey to understand autoimmune disease and the multiple triggers that drive it by walking us through real life cases from start to finish. If you have not been helped by the conventional medicine approach to autoimmunity, this book will show you why Functional Medicine is the answer you need.

Great info

Dr B really broke down the different areas of diet and functional medicine. If you are like my wife and suffer from a seemingly incurable disease, consider this book to start

This is literally gold

I'm obsessed with diets and trying to optimize my health because I have vitiligo and my mother has it too plus hashimoto's. I'm scared of getting hashimoto's too so that's why I'm focusing so much on improving my health. But now I realize diet is just one piece.
I'll try to find a functional medicine doctor and work with him/her as the book suggests.
But I have to say this book opened my eyes that it's not just about the diet. It's so much more.
Compared to the other books that I read on health this one was by far the most helpful. It's not complete but what it does is put you on a good path. If you want a diet book this is not it, but that's not what I needed.
I want to mention that I already wasted a lot of money on specialist doctors and different tests but nothing improved so I will seek out a functional medicine doctor next.

AMAZING

I have not visited this Dr. However i will make the 480 mile trip to see him.

Functional Medicine, finally!

A sound approach to finding root causes of health issues by looking at the detailed AND whole picture.

Nails the pitfall of modern medicine...

This book awakens the mind to the reality of today's medical practice, which often follows the mantra of "There is a pill for that ill." Modern lifestyles have led to a toxic world. We trash our planet, so it makes sense that without even realizing it, we also disparage our body's primary organs, but especially our guts. If you live in a modern culture, count the people around you suffering from chronic conditions, obesity, and mental illness (anxiety, depression, etc).

Now, I don't advocate watching TV. Still, when I go to the gym and see ten different stations playing at once, 80 percent of the advertising is from Big Pharma Companies- illness is so profitable in America it can make a person sick just thinking about it. Big Pharma influences big medical schools (i.e., your doctors), Lobbyists / influences our congressional leaders, and advertises on most of the top web search results.

Healing people is not good business for Big Pharma- so don't expect to get better if your doctor is quick to give you a pill without actually trying to do the hard work of figuring out why you feel like you do... Healing might be possible for many, but a pill probably isn't going to be healing- it might help manage your symptoms, but until you address the root cause of your illness, you will continue to try to manage your symptoms and continue contributing to the profits of Big Pharma.
This book exposes this reality and gives hope to those who are suffering chronically.