Brady - The fibro fix: get to the root of your fibromyalgia and start reversing your chronic pain and fatigue in 21 days

In The Fibro Fix, Dr. David Brady provides a comprehensive, strategic, easy-to-utilize plan to eliminate fibromyalgias debilitating symptoms. Apply these principles and reclaim your life!

JJ Virgin, CNS, CHFS, celebrity nutrition and fitness expert and bestselling author of The Virgin Diet and JJ Virgins Sugar Impact Diet

The Fibro Fix is game changer and must-read for the millions of chronically ill patients who suffer from fibromyalgia and are failing under the conventional medical approach. Dr. Bradys program integrates the best of basic and clinical science through a cutting-edge functional medicine approach. Dr. David Brady is an internationally renowned expert in fibromyalgia, master nutritionist, scholar of natural medicine, VP of health sciences at the University of Bridgeport and compassionate healer. He has provided fibromyalgia patients a home run.

Gerard E. Mullin, MD, associate professor of medicine at The Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine and author of The Gut Balance Revolution

Dr. Brady takes his extensive knowledge and experience with fibromyalgia and gives readers a smart, holistic plan that treats the root cause of chronic pain and constant fatigue. Finally, a road map that will help so many people feel better immediately. This book is a game changer.

Susan S. Blum, MD, MPH, author of The Immune System Recovery Plan and founder and director of the Blum Center for Health

If you have fibromyalgia, chances are you have been misdiagnosed and misinformed at some point in your journey and are still suffering needlessly. With The Fibro Fix, help is here at last! Dr. David Brady unravels the puzzle of fibromyalgia with a comprehensive, individualized, and root-cause approach that can help you eliminate your pain and recover your health!

Izabella Wentz, PharmD, author of the New York Times bestseller Hashimotos Thyroiditis

This book is a must-read for anyone suffering from chronic pain. After years of helping people recover from fibromyalgia, Dr. David Brady has taken his clinical experience and made it accessible to those who may not be able to travel and see him. Dr. Bradys book can be thought of as a carefully crafted road map back to health. He helps you understand if you have fibromyalgia, what are the causes that give rise to it, and how you can reclaim your health in as little as 21 days. He helps you heal by sharing the most important steps for your diet, exercise, and supplementation. His approach is unique in that it focuses primarily on safe and nontoxic treatments. If you have chronic pain, carefully follow the steps in the book and share the references and use the well-referenced technical information to educate your physician.

Alan Christianson, NMD, New York Times bestselling author of The Adrenal Reset Diet

This book is intended as a reference volume only, not as a medical manual. The information given here is designed to help you make informed decisions about your health. It is not intended as a substitute for any treatment that may have been prescribed by your doctor. If you suspect that you have a medical problem, we urge you to seek competent medical help.

The information in this book is meant to supplement, not replace, proper exercise training. All forms of exercise pose some inherent risks. The editors and publisher advise readers to take full responsibility for their safety and know their limits. Before practicing the exercises in this book, be sure that your equipment is well-maintained, and do not take risks beyond your level of experience, aptitude, training, and fitness. The exercise and dietary programs in this book are not intended as a substitute for any exercise routine or dietary regimen that may have been prescribed by your doctor. As with all exercise and dietary programs, you should get your doctors approval before beginning.

Mention of specific companies, organizations, or authorities in this book does not imply endorsement by the author or publisher, nor does mention of specific companies, organizations, or authorities imply that they endorse this book, its author, or the publisher.

Internet addresses and telephone numbers given in this book were accurate at the time it went to press.

2016 by David M. Brady, ND

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This book is dedicated to all of the sufferers of chronic pain and fatigue, whether from classic fibromyalgia or the many other conditions that are commonly misdiagnosed as fibromyalgia. Many of you have been mismanaged and even mistreated by the health-care system and by providers who generally have just not been informed enough about this disorder to provide you with a proper evaluation and treatment. Some of you have even had your sincerity doubted; you have been told that your problems are all in your head and that there is nothing really wrong with you. If this has ever happened to you, it is unfortunate and inexcusable, and I am sorry. If this book helps even one of you who have had this kind of experience better understand what may really be wrong with you and find some solutions that help you feel better, if it helps you to be more empowered as an informed advocate for yourself as you try to navigate the health-care system going forward, then the effort will have been more than worth it.

F irst, I need to acknowledge the incredible work of my writing partner, Alison Rose Levy. Her ability to take my sometimes very complex ideas and former academic writings and presentations and wordsmith them into a form that everyone can understand and be entertained by is nothing short of astonishing. This book would simply not have been possible without her. The contributions of my good friend and colleague Ed McKiernan, DPT, who provided the movement and exercise instructions for the book based on his many years of physical therapy experience, and of Amy Berger, MS, who supplied the wonderful explanations of the relaxation techniques, made for a more comprehensive and better book, and for that I am most appreciative.

Much of what I have come to know about this mysterious thing we call fibromyalgia has been influenced over the past couple of decades by my friend and much respected colleague Michael J. Schneider, DC, PhD, a gifted doctor and researcher at the University of Pittsburgh School of Health and Rehabilitation Sciences. He has coauthored many pieces in medical journals and textbooks with me on fibromyalgia and has also been a true companion in this quest to shed some much-needed light on the subject for sufferers and health-care providers alike.