The 9 Steps to Keep the Doctor Away: Simple Actions to Shift Your Body and Mind to Optimum Health for Greater Longevity

I can't say enough about this book. It's shocking, alarming, eye-opening and entertaining, but most importantly...EMPOWERING. It will make you understand the power to change your health really IS in YOUR HANDS. We've come to believe that good health is "complicated" and that it's something best left to the "white coats" because we're somehow...not qualified to understand how our own body works. We're inundated with radio and TV commercials that insist you, "Ask your doctor if medication `X' is right for you." Is it any wonder we've become completely disconnected from our own instincts and don't know how to listen to our bodies anymore? We don't trust ourselves and have abdicated control of our most precious commodity, our health, over to a "professional" or industry we know nothing about. The real crisis in healthcare isn't the astronomical amount of dollars it continually consumes, but the loss of our own wellbeing. That's the real price. The 9 Steps gives great information on elements that are essential to ANY healing process, whether from a cold or cancer. These things HAVE to be incorporated into your life. I was glad to see they're easy and again...completely within the average person's power to make these life changes. You'll be surprised about the simplest things like hunger or your sense of thirst and what they're really telling you about your overall condition. Perhaps most important are the sections on toxicity and hormonal optimization. Your eyes will be opened about all the diseases you thought were "genetic" or that "just run in my family" that can be completely attributed to the toxic world we live in. This isn't some doomsday book. You'll be lead to the tools you need to really detoxify your body properly and how to protect it in the future. This is where Dr. Buttar becomes a real warrior for health. I was amazed at the stories of healing from patients with significant diseases that we used to think were incurable...especially his own son, from autism, no less. It's on these stories alone and the hope and inspiration they provide that I'd recommend this book. It showed that health isn't complicated, an accident or even a miracle. It's our normal process and when we give our body the right tools....it does its own healing.

I stumbled upon this book by chance, and read it in the absence of having anything else to do. However, I soon found it to have been well worth the chance I took on it. Dr. Buttar takes a refreshing look at human health, often examining the roots of the problems more than the treatments. For instance, in the case of cancer, he questions why all the effort goes into chemotherapy rather than administering to the cause of the issue. His previous medical records give this attitude much credibility, as we find out in the course of the book: there have been many cases where he has succeeded in curing apparently incurable diseases: his son's autism, for example, or the well-known case of the cheerleader with irreversible dystonia. He looks at how our health is affected by the toxicity of the environment in which we live, some of the results of which I found astonishing. It is a very engaging read, lightly humorous in many places, and displaying a true passion for his subject. Most of all, however, I found it inspirational. I have never previously given much thought to my health: it has been something I take for granted, and expect perhaps to go wrong now and again. This book has opened my eyes to what I can do to remain healthy, to avoid the inevitable problems. It teaches you to understand and respond to your body, and to make simple changes to your lifestyle to maximise your health. I now know that my health is in my own hands and, what's more, that remaining healthy is very achievable.