Chronic inflammatory bowel diseases (IBD), such as ulcerative colitis and Crohn's disease, are autoimmune diseases and are becoming increasingly common, especially in the industrialized Western world. Learn how Caro Beth and her son found success in reversing the supposedly incurable IBD.
Books and Movies
Announcements and reviews about books and movies recommended by FAIM.
The Autoimmune Cure
Dr. Sara Gottfried reveals how trauma can rewire your body to trigger autoimmune diseases and provides a comprehensive plan to reset your immune system and finally heal.
Attached
There are scientific theories on how to have successful relationships by analyzing each person's attachment style, whether it is "secure," "anxious," or "avoidant." Learn how to determine your style and overcome the challenges of past relationship issues.
Better Breast Health for Life
“Better Breast Health – for Life!,” by Tirza L. Derflinger, MBA, CTT, isn’t just a book; it’s your guide to a life of wellness, designed to inspire and empower you, in a journey that goes beyond conventional health approaches.
The Autoimmune Fix
Nourishment: What Animals Can Teach Us About Rediscovering Our Nutritional Wisdom
Fred Provenza's research has focused on the complex interactions between animals and their environment, with an emphasis on how animals learn to make dietary choices that optimize their nutrition. His work has challenged traditional views of animal feeding behavior by highlighting the role of learning, memory, and social interactions in shaping dietary preferences.
Unexpected: Finding Resilience through Functional Medicine, Science, and Faith
“Unexpected: Finding Resilience through Functional Medicine, Science, and Faith” is written by Dr. Jill Carnahan. Her new best seller is one of the most impactful stories of resilience. It will inspire you to seek healing on the deepest levels of mind, body, and soul.
Young Forever: The Secrets to Living Your Longest, Healthiest Life
Learn how to add years to your life and life to your years through Dr. Hyman's program.
The Nobel Adventures of Beryl and Carol
The Noble Adventures of Beryl and Carol is a story that combines adventure, an introduction to homeopathy and a life story of two best friends.
The Complete Cooking Techniques for the GAPS Diet
FAIM would like to introduce you to Monica Corrado’s book series Part I, II, III and IV as well as The Complete Cooking Techniques for the GAPS Diet. These cooking techniques represent a healing protocol for GAPS as well as an avenue for healthy eating.
The Survival Paradox
Modified Citrus Pectin (MCP) interferes with the inflammatory process by binding to galectin-3’s carbohydrate recognition domain – preventing galectin-3 from otherwise binding to ligands, interacting with cells, or forming lattice structures.
This chapter – “A Gift From Nature: Modified Citrus Pectin” – is from Dr. Isaac Eliaz' new book “The Survival Paradox.”
Nutrition and Physical Degeneration
Dr. Weston A. Price, DDS, and his wife traveled the world for almost 10 years to discover the secret to health. This ancestral wisdom was carefully documented by Dr. Price with photographs, observations, laboratory analysis and more demonstrating the importance of diet.
Why Zebras Don't Get Ulcers
The third edition of Why Zebras Don't Get Ulcers by Robert M. Sapolsky, a Stanford University biologist, points out how prolonged stress intensifies and can cause a wide range of physical and mental afflictions, including depression, ulcers, colitis, heart disease, and more. It also provides essential guidance to controlling our stress responses. The book features new chapters on how stress affects sleep and addiction, as well as new insights into anxiety and personality disorder and the impact of spirituality on managing stress and proclaims itself as a "Guide to Stress, Stress-Related Diseases, and Coping."
Ketone Therapy
Research is continually discovering conditions that are responding to the ketogenic diet. Many health problems that medical science has deemed incurable or untreatable are being reversed. People are discovering that a simple, but revolutionary diet based on wholesome, natural foods and the most health-promoting fats is dramatically changing their lives.
Heal Yourself
Exploring the fascinating and insightful, pharmaceutical-free, self-healing stories of incredible people – including the author’s very own life changing journey, “Heal Yourself” gives you, the reader, a highly emotional and eye-opening look into the lives of ordinary people healing themselves of many, often lifelong and debilitating, health issues and diseases. Some, from the depths of suicidal despair, to wellness and vibrant health.
Rapid Viral Recovery
HP nebulization quickly and effectively resolves the common cold and all variety of influenza viral syndromes, depending on long how the patients have been infected when the nebulization is initiated. It also means that ¼ of a penny can do what many extended hospitalizations costing many hundreds of thousands to millions of dollars do not do: heal the patient, spare the patient much suffering and possibly death, and permit the patient or family of the patient to avoid complete financial devastation.
Holistic Dental Care
“Holistic Dental Care” by Dr. Stephen A. Lawrence is a mind, body, and spirit guide to helping people obtain optimal dental health. The book addresses the whole body and offers a thorough holistic approach.
Toxic Legacy
Glyphosate is the active ingredient in Roundup. Nearly 300 million pounds of glyphosate-based herbicide are sprayed on farms – and food – every year in the US. Agrichemical companies claim this weedkiller is safe. But mounting evidence, and several highly publicized landmark legal cases, tell a very different story. Dr. Seneff shares the chemistry, the consequences, and what we can do moving forward.
The Pegan Diet
“The Pegan Diet” explains how to take the best aspects of the paleo diet (whole foods, good fats, limited refined carbs, limited sugar) and combine them with the best aspects of a vegan diet (a plant-rich diet with loads of colorful, disease fighting phytochemicals) to create a delicious diet that is not only good for your brain and your body, but also good for the planet. This book is inclusive. It’s for meat eaters, vegans, keto folks, beginners, seasoned dieters who are looking for balance, and anyone in between.
There’s No Pill for This
From a doctor living with MS: how to radically improve your quality of life with diet, hormones, supplements, exercise, and other lifestyle adjustments
Most of us take for granted the little things in life – like walking out to the mailbox, socializing with friends, or enjoying a mug of hot...
Food: What the Heck Should I Eat?
Nutrition, finally explained. Dr. Hyman breaks through the diet wars, sharing what the science really says on everything from meat and dairy to grains, legumes, seafood, and more, and explains how we can eat to truly thrive. For a look at all his favorite recipes using food as medicine, check out his companion cookbook, “Food: What the Heck Should I Cook?”
The Community Cure: Transforming Health Outcomes Together
“The Community Cure: Transforming Health Outcomes Together” offers a single, elegant solution to the biggest challenges facing healthcare: chronic disease, escalating costs, physician shortages, care access and affordability, physician burnout, loneliness and mental health.
The Cancer Killers: The Cause Is The Cure
“The Cancer Killers: The Cause Is The Cure” offers a radically new perspective on cancer, overcoming the prevailing half-century-old fatalistic view of “it is all in the genes.”
Food: What the Heck Should I Cook?
Dr. Hyman shares his food philosophy as there is so much confusion around "what to eat." He shows you how to create a kitchen that inspires choosing the right foods and how to cook from scratch in a way that's not complicated and packs a lot of flavor. This cookbook is loaded with his favorite recipes – everything from breakfast, lunch, dinner, sides, desserts, basics, and more.
You Can Fix Your Brain
For anyone worried about any type of brain ailment, ranging from the chronic conditions to simple brain fog and fatigue, this essential guide covers the full spectrum of prevention to treatment. This book offers a step-by-step approach to improve cognitive function.
An Integrative Paradigm for Mental Healthcare
This crucial volume provides a concise overview of the conceptual foundations and clinical methods underlying the rapidly emerging sub-specialty of integrative mental healthcare. It discusses methods for guiding practitioners to individualized integrative strategies that address unique symptoms and circumstances for each patient and includes practical clinical techniques for developing interventions addressed at wellness, prevention, and treatment.
How Healing Works
Dr. Jonas explains the biology of healing and the science behind the discovery that 80 percent of healing can be attributed to the mind-body connection and other naturally occurring processes.
The Science Behind Tapping
Emotional Freedom Techniques, or simply EFT, is a powerful way to deal with unresolved issues, transform beliefs, and reprogram yourself for greater happiness and success. Commonly called "tapping," EFT has been used by thousands people worldwide. The Science Behind Tapping presents the research and evidence behind Emotional Freedom Technique in an easy-to-read manner and also offers client stories of their experiences.
Hidden Epidemic
Infected teeth, infected gums, infected tonsils, and even infected sinuses always cause enough discomfort to drive us to a physician or dentist, but none of these are life-threatening... right? Wrong! In fact, dead wrong! They often kill, and they typically do it in a silent fashion.
The Plant Paradox
Lectins are found in many fruits, vegetables, nuts, beans and dairy as well as in grains, seeds, skins, rinds and leaves of plants. They are designed to protect plants from predators. Once we eat lectin-containing foods, a chemical battle begins causing inflammation leading to weight gain and other serious health issues. Dr. Gundry tells you everything you need to know about lectins and how to improve your health by avoiding them.
How to Starve Cancer
After being diagnosed with cancer Jane McLelland scoured the medical journals and came up with her recipe to survive cancer. Despite the title, the book is not just about diet, it covers supplements, exercise, and importantly, the use of “cancer-starving” low toxicity drugs.
The Biology of Belief
Vegetarianism Explained
Vegetarianism Explained gives up to date scientific information on how plants and animal foods work in the human body and how Mother Nature intends us to feed ourselves.
What is Autism, Really?
Most of what parents are told about autism is not accurate or, unfortunately, helpful. Sure, whoever diagnosed your child may have told you the symptoms of autism and how your child’s behaviors matched those symptoms, but I’m not talking about symptoms. I’m talking about the central aspect of what autism is.
Abundant Health in a Toxic World
We are constantly bombarded by toxins, chemicals, prescriptions, and fast food. Learn how to avoid these assaults and eliminate them from our bodies to restore health.
Stem Cell Therapy: A Rising Tide
From industry leaders, sport stars, and Hollywood icons to thousands of everyday, ordinary people, patients are experiencing health transformations with stem cells that mainstream medicine was unable to achieve. Many of them had lost all hope. These are their stories.
Cancer as a Metabolic Disease
Seyfried believes that cancer is not a genetic mutation but rather the result of metabolic dysregulation involving many aspects including mitochondrial function. Learn more about his suggested treatment protocol.
Grain Brain
David Perlmutter, renowned neurologist, goes into great detail to educate the reader on the impact of wheat, sugar and carbs on the brain. He includes a 30-day plan to achieve proper brain health. Many people believe it is only unhealthy carbs that are devastating for the brain, but the facts...
Stop Alzheimer's Now!
Dementia and other neurodegenerative disorders are disease processes that can be prevented and successfully treated with programs using ketone therapy and diet. Learn how you can treat and even prevent dementia in your life before it is too late.
The Eat Fat, Get Thin Cookbook
We can no longer afford to be a fat-phobic society says renowned physician, health advocate, and author Mark Hyman, MD, author of Eat Fat, Get Thin. Now, with The Eat Fat, Get Thin Cookbook, Dr. Hyman puts science into action with more than 175 mouthwatering recipes featuring nuts, coconut oil, avocados, and other superfoods to help you incorporate these good fats into your diet and continue on your path to wellness.
The Evolution of Medicine
The Evolution of Medicine provides step-by-step instruction for building a successful "community micropractice." This invaluable handbook will awaken health professionals to exciting new career possibilities.
EMF Freedom: Solutions for the 21st Century Pollution
Drs. Elizabeth and Marcus Plourde have published the 3rd Edition of EMF Freedom to help educate the growing numbers of families whose lives have been drastically altered by electromagnetic fields (EMF) and toxic chemicals. If you were ever wondering if EMF radiations are affecting your life and wanted to know what to do about it, this is a must read book.
Quantum Leap
In this movie/documentary you’ll learn everything you need to know about MMS and all the diseases that it can address.
Put Your Heart in Your Mouth
A New Fighting Chance: Silver Solution
Dr. Gordon Pedersen has put together a chronicle on the cutting edge ability of structured silver solution's ability to safely destroy bacteria, viruses and yeast. Learn the application of silver for many chronic and acute illnesses.
Eat Fat, Get Thin
In his new book, Eat Fat, Get Thin, Mark Hyman, MD debunks the biggest myths about fat – starting with the myth that dietary fat makes us fat and sick. This book is going to change the way you eat and change the way you feel.
Stop Vision Loss Now!
The ability to see is something we usually take for granted until we start having problems. Loss of vision due to cataracts, glaucoma, and macular degeneration becomes more common as we age, but eye problems can develop throughout the life cycle. Dr. Fife suggests that the increase in ketone levels, that occurs in response to consuming coconut oil, can protect eye health and improve or potentially reverse degenerative eye disorders.
Health Revelations from Heaven and Earth
More than a decade ago, Tommy Rosa died in a hit-and-run accident. He went to (what he understood as) Heaven, where he was taught by a spirit guide, and returned with 8 revelations about human health. In Health Revelations from Heaven and Earth, Tommy tells his story and teams up with renowned cardiologist Stephen Sinatra, MD, to share these amazing lessons and how they are corroborated by medical wisdom so you can revitalize your health, renew your sense of purpose, and balance your spirit. Now you can experience this life-changing story for yourself.
The Healing Power of Baking Soda
This is the first medical review of sodium bicarbonate in the history of medicine and it will change the way we think about baking soda, change the way we practice medicine and change the way we take care of our children. Our lives are made easier by sodium bicarbonate and that easing of the way extends to health and medical care and can even save our lives if we have cardiac, cancer or kidney disease.
The 10 Day Detox Diet
The secret of The Blood Sugar Solution 10-Day Detox Diet is this: we simply swap out processed foods, sugar, flour, and inflammatory foods and add delicious, whole, fresh, real, anti-inflammatory, detoxifying food, and the body does the rest.
The Great Cholesterol Myth Cookbook
The Great Cholesterol Myth Cookbook provides a detailed, yet easy-to-understand explanation of what it really means to eat for heart health. Authors Stephen Sinatra, MD, Jonny Bowden, PhD, and Deirdre Rawlings, ND, PhD provide a robust, detailed meal plan and roadmap to prevent and reverse heart disease.
Alzheimer's Disease: What if There Was a Cure?
The first edition of Alzheimer's Disease: What if There Was a Cure? detailed Dr. Newport's discovery and use of medium-chain fatty acids (which act like alternative fuel in the Alzheimer's brain). In this updated and expanded version, Dr. Newport continues the story of her husband Steve's progress and provides the most recent research on Alzheimer's disease and fatty acid therapy.
Whole-Body Dentistry
Whole Body Dentistry sheds a new light on how we all should approach dental health and the consequences that result from the use of old dental practices. Some belief systems regarding health care need to be revisited and looked at in a new way. Dentistry is one of the areas that need to be reassessed. Dr. Breiner presents these new insights in a substantive way with many examples, facts and references.
The Great Cholesterol Myth
Learn how to look at cholesterol and heart disease differently. This book is vital for anyone with heart disease, high cholesterol, taking statins, or if you simply want to protect yourself from heart disease in the future.
The Blood Sugar Solution Cookbook
In The Blood Sugar Solution Cookbook Dr. Mark Hyman shows you how to take an assessment of your own health status and how to prepare your kitchen to follow the principles of eating healthy for life. Best of all, it has more than 175 recipes to fill your kitchen with the enticing aroma of world-class meals.
Genetic Roulette: The Gamble of Our Lives
Evidence points to genetically engineered foods as a major contributor to rising disease rates in the US population, especially among children. Whatever your opinion about genetically modified foods, this movie is a must see for anyone who eats. It serves as a wake up call, informing consumers of important scientific findings and urging us all to take an active role in defending our food supply and, ultimately, our own health.
Endless Energy the Essential Guide to Energy Health
The emerging fields of energy psychology, energy kinesiology, and energy medicine have vastly altered what is known about how we function.
Queen of the Sun: What Are the Bees Telling Us?
Queen of the Sun: What Are the Bees Telling Us? Is a compelling and informative documentary about the plight of the modern honeybee.
The Blood Sugar Solution
The Blood Sugar Solution has a bold central goal: to address and begin to reverse a global epidemic of diabesity. It is a personal guide and plan, as well as a program for helping people get healthy together, based on functional medicine, and it is a blueprint for us to take back our health as a society.
Sunscreen as Biohazard
In Sunscreens – Biohazard: Treat as Hazardous Waste, Dr. Plourde provides extensive evidence of the dangers of sunscreens and their negative effect on the environment.
The Use of Mesenchymal Stem Cells in Orthopedics
Dr. Christopher Centeno has written a chapter on "The Use of Mesenchymal Stem Cells in Orthopedics" in Stem Cells and Cancer Stem Cells, Volume 1.
Defeat Cancer: 15 Doctors of Integrative and Naturopathic Medicine Tell You How
In her new book Defeat Cancer: 15 Doctors of Integrative and Naturopathic Medicine Tell You How, author and medical researcher Connie Strasheim provides the reader with an informative overview of some new and innovative cancer treatments.
Spiraling Through the School of Life
Diane Ladd's book, Spiraling Through the School of Life, is an inspiration about life and folk wisdom. She has a keen sense about healthy living mentally, physically and spiritually from which everyone can benefit.
Earthing: The most important health discovery ever?
It is now well established that the energy on the surface of the Earth is mainly electrical. The central theme of this book is that we draw this electrical energy into our body in the form of free electrons through our bare feet. These electrons resonate at a variety of frequencies and the frequencies reset our biology, providing the body with electrical energy and behaving as anti-oxidants.
There is a Cure for Diabetes
There is a Cure for Diabetes has been an interesting collective effort of over thirty-five years of input from clients and pioneers of the live-food movement to heal diabetes naturally.
Devil in the Milk Research Update
In this article Keith Woodford, author of the Devil in the Milk, provides updates on recent research on BCM7, what he calls "the milk devil."
Devil in the Milk
FAIM is always on the lookout for interesting concepts in health. It has come to our attention that there is a possible issue with milk. Since the public consumes so much dairy we felt it was important to share Keith Woodford's research.
Coconut, The Miracle of a Fat
Dr. Sérgio Puppin is a cardiologist from Rio de Janeiro, Brazil. He is author of the book: Coconut, The Miracle Of A Fat. Due to requests from our patrons who do not read Portuguese, FAIM is giving an outline of the book.