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Now Available! Why You Are Still Sick: How Infections Can Break Your Immune System & How You Can Recover

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Description

Over 20 million Americans suffer from debilitating chronic illnesses with varying symptoms. Children can be healthy one day, then crippled the next with emotional outbursts and bizarre symptoms. High-achieving adults can find it impossible to focus or sustain their energy. Now we know why.

A new autoimmune disease has emerged. Exciting medical research at the cutting-edge has clearly identified the condition, but most physicians do not yet understand how the symptoms are connected, much less how to treat this disease, so you can regain your vitality.

WHY YOU ARE STILL SICK explains this new autoimmune disease and shows you the steps you can take to recover. The power to take charge of your own health is in your hands. These are the same techniques Dr. Gary Kaplan uses to treat autoimmune diseases at The Kaplan Center for Integrative Medicine with astonishing success.

Table of Contents

TABLE OF CONTENTS

PART I: DO YOU HAVE AUTOIMMUNE DISEASE?

1. Missed Infections 3

2. How Your Immume System Can Turn On You 17

3. How Infections Trip Off Autoimmunity 37

PART II: WHAT SETS YOU UP FOR AUTOIMMUNE DISEASE?

4. Unhealthy Sleeep 55

5. Abused Gut 73

6. Environmental Toxins 93

7. Emotional Trauma 109

PART III: HORROR STORIES WITH HAPPY ENDINGS

8. SARAH | Strange Symptoms Of Infection 123

9. EMILY | Nothing Would Ever Be The Same Again 143

10. NATHAN | Terrifying Personality Change 161

11. JANET | Keep Looking. I Know Something’s Wrong 179

PART IV: A STEP-BY-STEP GUIDE TO RECOVERY

12. The Three Steps 199 Step One

13. Eliminate Infections 201 Step Two

14. Heal Your Immune System 213 Step Three

15. Heal Your Sleep 227

16. Heal Your Gut 237

17. Heal From Environmental Toxins 251

18. Heal Your Emotional Trauma 269

19. Heal With Support 287

20. Hope For The Future 313

Acknowledgements 321

Endnotes 325

Endorsements

“Inspirational, enlightening and informative. This book bridges the gap between integrative and conventional medicine and supports your journey to healing. I highly recommend it.”
– Dr. Anna Cabeca, DO, OBGYN, FACOG, bestselling author of The Hormone Fix, Keto-Green 16 and MenuPause

“Gary Kaplan is not only a pioneer in his field, he’s a badass who is changing the face of medicine. This book holds everything I wish I knew twenty years ago about autoimmunity. It’s an incredible resource for anyone with chronic pain and illness. It will bring hope and health to so many people.”
–  Dave Asprey, Host, The Human Upgrade Podcast and Founder, Bulletproof 360

“What am I missing? What do others like me know that I don’t? I think there must be an answer out there for my pain and suffering what with all the fantastic medical advances of the last few years. I just don’t know what it is and sometimes I feel despair.” If these thoughts have been going through your mind, then this book is for you. It provides a path and plan to finally alleviate your pain and suffering and return you to a time when you could just be you. This book is a breakthrough and a revelation and can truly help where others have failed.”
– Richard Rossi

“When patients get told for the fifth time that their symptoms are all in their head, a window should open and Dr. Kaplan’s book should come sailing through. This critical book should be read by every medical student, nurse, and physician.”
– Sarah Ramey, author of the critically acclaimed book The Lady’s Handbook for her Mysterious Illness

“Dr. Kaplan takes us on a journey of understanding our immune mechanisms and the havoc that can occur when a system designed to protect from infection turns against us, resulting in autoimmunity. With the creative use of analogies, such as the “ravaging raccoons,” he helps us understand that a heightened immune response directed at our own cells can create a diverse constellation of symptoms from chronic fatigue to depression, irritable bowel and POTS. Touching vignettes from his own patients’ experiences illustrate the pitfalls of just treating individual symptoms and the critical need to identify and treat the underlying infectious disease at the root of the problem. Dr. Kaplan’s compassionate approach brings striking clarity to overwhelming symptoms and provides patients with a roadmap to recovery.”
– Helene A. Emsellem, MD, director, The Center for Sleep & Wake Disorders

“Our current healthcare system and research capability has mostly failed to help our patients with chronic, complex, and costly autoimmune diseases. Patients with these conditions feel lost and dismissed in our healthcare system. They have learned they need to educate themselves in order to navigate through the confusion and be better advocates for effective healthcare. Our immune system protects us, but past infections and chronic, difficult to detect current infections and other dangerous triggers can provoke our immune system to cause chronic illness. The Step-By-Step Guide to Recovery section of the book helps patients to understand treatment options that are available. Knowledge of these options helps patients make better-informed consent decisions. In short, Dr. Kaplan’s book gives the general public knowledge of both complex autoimmune disease and treatment options; and knowledge is empowering.”
– Robert C Bransfield, MD, Distinguished Life Fellow, American Psychiatric Association

Excerpts

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A Revolutionary New Approach to Breaking the Cycle of Pain and Depression

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Description

According to Dr. Gary Kaplan, conventional thinking about the nature of chronic pain and depression is essentially flawed. Although physicians continue to diagnose conditions like migraines, fibromyalgia, chronic fatigue, chronic back pain, depression, anxiety, and PTSD, a growing body of research shows that these are in fact symptoms of something else – a deep-rooted inflammation in the brain. This inflammation can affect the nervous system for months—even years—to devastating effect.

In Total Recovery, Dr. Kaplan demonstrates that it is possible to “quiet” the inflammatory state at the root of chronic pain and depression, and lays out a revolutionary new medical approach to ending your suffering, and reclaiming your health.

Companion Toolkit

COMPANION TOOLKIT TO TOTAL RECOVERY! (FREE Download Below)

What’s in the Total Recovery Toolkit?

1. A 3-PART VIDEO SERIES ON THE GUT BRAIN CONNECTION

In this series, Dr. Kaplan discusses why people stay in pain, in spite of treatment, and how treatment strategies must change to become more effective. Topics include:

  • The neuro-physiological connection between the human gut and brain.
  • The gut’s role in mediating chronic pain conditions.
  • The effect of pain medications and antibiotics on gut health.
  • The problem of “leaky gut” and how this condition contributes to chronic pain, inflammation, obesity, fatigue, metabolic syndrome and depression.
  • How to improve gut health through nutrition, exercise and stress management.

2. AUTOGENIC MEDITATION INSTRUCTION

The Total Recovery Toolkit also includes an 8-minute autogenic meditation instruction MP3 to guide you in exploring several relaxation techniques to help regulate physiological variables such as body temperature and blood pressure. Say ah…

3. A HEALTH TIMELINE

Maintaining a health timeline helps you to see if/when a cumulative problematic health pattern has emerged. If you’re dealing with an illness, it will help you to find evidence of how your illness has evolved over the years. The toolkit includes a health timeline template to effectively track and chart your health history. You might be surprised at what you’ll find!

4. CONSUMER GUIDE TO CHOOSING A DOCTOR TO TREAT YOUR CHRONIC PAIN

Finding a top physician to treat your pain can be a tricky business, and it’s important not to make a mistake that could waste time and risk your health. This consumer guide offers 17 things to consider to help you make the right choices.

TO VIEW OUR TOTAL RECOVERY TOOLKIT PLEASE FILL OUT THE FROM BELOW.

Endorsements

With cutting edge science and clinical expertise, Gary Kaplan has identified the source of the inflammation that keeps patients in an endless cycle of pain and depression. He offers profound insight into the way our life experiences have a cumulative effect on our health. I highly recommend this book to anyone who has suffered without relief or wants a deeper insight into how our bodies work.
–Mark Hyman, M.D., author of the #1 New York Times bestseller, The Blood Sugar Solution, and chairman, the Institute for Functional Medicine

In Total Recovery, Gary Kaplan offers a potentially game-changing insight: the neurological key to the inflammation that keeps patients in a perpetual cycle of pain and depression. If you have suffered for years without relief, this remarkable book may change your life.
–Andrew Weil, M.D., founder and director of the Arizona Center for Integrative Medicine at the University of Arizona Health Sciences Center, and author of True Food

This fascinating book reads like a detective novel, but it’s not fiction. Gary Kaplan is a thoughtful integrative doctor willing to spend hours—even years—getting to the bottom of his patients’ chronic pain and illness. What he has learned could help you.
–Arthur Agatston, M.D., Medical Director of Wellness and Prevention for Baptist Health South Florida and author of The South Beach Diet

Dr. Kaplan’s book draws on his decades of research and clinical practice offering us paradigm-shifting insights into the causes of chronic pain. I highly recommend this book to the millions of people who live with pain and are seeking new answers.
–Brian Berman, M.D., Professor of Family and Community Medicine and Director of the Center for Integrative Medicine
, University of Maryland School of Medicine

This book reads like a riveting detective story, in which case study after case study leads to one of the most compelling findings in recent medical history. By unveiling and responding to the real culprit in chronic pain, Dr. Kaplan’s Total Recovery represents a radical shift in understanding illness and the path to optimal health.
–Tara Brach, Ph.D., author of Radical Acceptance and True Refuge

Gary Kaplan is the Sherlock Holmes of chronic pain. In Total Recovery, he describes how to uncover the underlying causes of chronic pain and, how by correcting them, seemingly hopeless patients can move toward health. It is a “must read” at every pain center, by every pain physician and for every patient with chronic pain.
–Wayne B. Jonas, M.D., President and CEO, Samueli Institute, Former Director (1995-1999), Office of Alternative Medicine, National Institutes of Health

Dr. Gary Kaplan is so good at seeing the whole person—looking for clues among seemingly disconnected events, as well as health issues that are frequently ignored in conventional Western medical practice. His highlighting of the role of the brain’s microglia in predisposing patients’ bodies and emotions to over-react to seeming small new traumas is fascinating. This is an excellent work for healthcare providers and patients alike.
–Woodson Merrell, M.D., Chairman, Department of Integrative Medicine, Mt Sinai Beth Israel Medical Center

Despite 42 years of holistic success in managing chronic pain and depression, conventional medicine remains in the Dark Ages in relation to this major problem! What the patient needs is a “Real Doctor,” exemplified here in Dr. Kaplan’s essential book for patients and physicians. Read and heed his outstanding advice.
–C. Norman Shealy, M.D., Ph.D., President, Holos Energy Medicine Education, Professor Emeritus of Energy Medicine, President Emeritus, Holos University Graduate Seminary

Excerpts

Excerpt 1 – “Gut Feelings”

Excerpt 2 – “Hidden Immune System”

Excerpt 3 – “What Gluten Does”

Excerpt 4 – “Bacteria in the Gut”

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