Contents

Acknowledgements xi
Who am I? xv
Preface: It’s all about asking the question ‘why?’ xvii
How this book is organised xxi
Introduction:
Whistle-blowing on 21st-century medical practice xxiii

1. Symptoms – our early warning systems

which protect us from invaders and from ourselves 1
Symptoms – our early warning system 1
Fatigue – the symptom that arises when energy demand
exceeds energy delivery 2
Symptoms that arise from poor energy balance 2
Pathology that arises if poor energy balance symptoms
are ignored or masked 6
Pain 7
Inflammation symptoms: infection, allergy, autoimmunity 10
Toxic symptoms 13
Deficiency symptoms 14
Hormonal deficiencies 15
Focusing on symptoms 15

2. Mechanisms and tests – the mechanisms

by which symptoms and diseases are produced
and tests with which to identify those mechanisms 17
The general approach to diagnosis 19
Mechanisms of energy delivery 21
Mechanisms of energy expenditure 47
Mechanical problems: structure, friction and wear and tear
– allergic joints, connective tissue and muscles 56
Growth promotion 60
Genetics 63
Acquired genetic lesions 64
Summary 64
 3. The tools of the trade to correct and
treat mechanisms of disease 65
Introduction 65
The Basic Package 67
The bolt-on extras 89
Conclusion 120

4. Treatment – the choice of tools

for particular diseases 121
The general approach to avoiding and treating all disease 123
Conditions collectively known as ‘metabolic syndrome’ 127
Conditions driven by the long-term effects
of metabolic syndrome and inflammation 143
Conditions associated with inflammation 150
Pre-conception care and afterwards 162
Twenty-first century syndromes resulting from
increasing environmental pollution 166

5. Case histories 171

Living to one’s full potential: Jeanne Calment 171
A case of cancer: Carwen and chronic lymphatic leukaemia (CLL) 172
A case of Gulf War syndrome: Joseph 175
A case of multiple allergies, heart disease and cancer: Patricia 177
A case of inflammatory arthritis: Jo and polymyalgia rheumatica 178
A case of CFS: Peter 180
A case of infertility: Agnes 181

Postscript 183
Recommended reading 187
Glossary 189
References 231
Index 233