Jelinek - Overcoming multiple sclerosis : an evidence-based 7 step recovery program

Praise for Overcoming Multiple Sclerosis

A lot of people glibly refer to patient-empowerment and self-management as if it was easy for every one with multiple sclerosis to do and know how to do. Overcoming Multiple Sclerosis is a self-help guide that will not only empower people living with MS, but act as a manual on how they should manage their disease and their life, written by a person with medical knowledge and a personal story to tell makes the book more authentic. I would have no hesitation in recommending it to my patients, but also to my friends and colleagues. This book is not just about living with a disease, but it sets out a philosophy of how to live your life, be an active participant in decisions about your health and it makes you think very deeply about wellness. Being self-disciplined is clearly one of George Jelineks strengths and not everyone will have his self-discipline nor the desire to follow all of his recommendations. But the inspiration you will get from reading this book is that you, yes you, could also set-out on a journey of empowerment and change the way you live for the better. Tomorrow, today will be yesterday; there is no time like now to start living differently.

PROFESSOR GAVIN GIOVANNONI, MBBCh, PhD, FCP (S.A., Neurol.), FRCP, FRCPath, Chair of Neurology, Blizard Institute, Barts and The London School of Medicine and Dentistry

George Jelineks Overcoming Multiple Sclerosis is a remarkable and unique book. Born of his harsh personal experience of multiple sclerosis, it offers sound scientific evidence-based advice to optimise the chances of people with MS leading a normal healthy life. Overcoming Multiple Sclerosis combines hard scientific evidence with practical advice and compassion. It will be of benefit to nearly everybody affected by MS and I heartily recommend it.

DR PETER FISHER, FRCP, Physician to Her Majesty Queen Elizabeth II, and Director of Research, Royal London Hospital for Integrated Medicine

Fifty years ago my wife was diagnosed with MS and I was told by her neurologist what her future would be. At first I lied to her, in order not to take her hope away, until I realized lying would not solve her problem. It was at that time that I began exploring the field of holistic medicine and learning from physicians like George. She is still by my side today. Yes, she has some effects of the disease but has also far exceeded the predictions made decades ago. So take the challenge and understand it is not about failing but about participating in ones life, exceeding expectations and taking responsibility for your own health and well-being.

BERNIE SIEGEL, MD, author of The Art of Healing and Love, Medicine & Miracles, USA

As a Pediatrician who has been controlling his MS for 21 years, I wholeheartedly recommend this book for all people with MS. Diet and lifestyle changes offer enormous potential in facilitating recovery from this illness.

JOHN HOVIOUS, MD, USA

Professor Jelinek is inspirational in his approach to empower patients to take control of their multiple sclerosis and responsibility for the management of their disease. His holistic approach encouraging patients to consider more than just a pharmaceutical approach to the disease has proven itself as the modern approach to the management of multiple sclerosis. This is a book that all patients with multiple sclerosis should read and use as a platform for discussion with their neurologist.

DR PETER L SILBERT, MBBS (Hons) FRACP, Neurologist, Perth Neurophysiology, Australia

I cannot recommend this book highly enough whether you are diagnosed with MS, a support person or a medical professional. Through his work and research George Jelinek changes the paradigm of managing MS. Based on scientific evidence and a deep understanding of the mind body connection this book provides the tools to take your health and wellbeing back into your own hands.

DR. MED. MIRIAM NEATBY, Berlin, Germany

In this book Professor Jelinek details the path for recovery from Multiple Sclerosis and in doing so provides the blueprint for managing modern chronic illness.

DR SAM GARTLAND, MB ChB BSc (Hons) MRCP (UK) FRACGP, Australia

If you are a skeptic, read this book with an open mind, and you might just discover that overcoming multiple sclerosis is possible. If you are already a believer in lifestyle disease management, then get ready to be inspired.

JANINE STASIOR, Ph.D., M.S., ABPdN, Board Certified Pediatric Neuropsychologist, Child Development Network Inc., Lexington MA, USA

For people living with MS, or their families, this is the book you need to read. Through reading it you will take hopea lot of hopenot just from inspiring stories of recovery, but from a mountain of research all pointing in the same direction. There is much you can do to change for the better the course of MS and your life by following Professor Jelineks OMS program. These 7 steps are the essential management of MS although it may take the wider medical profession another generation or two to catch up to that fact.

ASSOCIATE PROFESSOR CRAIG HASSED, Department of General Practice, Monash University, Australia

This book has proved a life line. When I was first diagnosed with multiple sclerosis it made such a difference to have a template to live. Now 22 years on after my first MS episode I have remained relatively unscathed and here is the revised edition to provide me with the inspiration to maintain my cognition and an opportunity to confront the risks that come with a MS in the long term. Through Overcoming Multiple Sclerosis I have been given back a rich and blessed life that felt so close to being torn away. Thank you.

DR HEATHER KING, general practitioner, New Zealand

George Jelineks book is the Science, Art and Heart of Multiple Sclerosis. It provides a mountain of evidence showing his 7 step total change of life, for life program gives people with MS real hope of leading a normal, healthy life.

PROFESSOR ROB MOODIE, AM, Professor of Public Health, Melbourne School of Population and Global Health, Australia

We once believed the earth was flat and it took a brilliant mind and a very long time before the world understood this was not the case. My one hope is that the world of Neurology and Medicine is much quicker to catch on to the brilliance of the many minds whose research has been summarised here in simple terms by Prof Jelinek for everyone to understand.

DR JOANNE SAMER, MB. BS, Post Grad Dip Health Sciences, GAICD, Australia. Living well with MS since 1991.

This is the book everyone diagnosed with MS should read! As a clinical psychologist and as a person diagnosed with MS, I cannot recommend it highly enough.

DR RACHAEL HUNTER, BA (Hons), MSc, DClin Psychol, UK

I am a super sceptical medical doctor with MS and I had the great good fortune to be given George Jelineks Taking Control of MS 15 years ago. It was the best gift ever and the concepts and recommendations were a revelation to me. The information was all based on sound scientific evidence and that made it easy to accept and embrace the recommended lifestyle factors. The only side effects were better health. The new edition is extensively updated and we need to disseminate the enclosed valuable the information widely to our fellow MSers and educate our medical colleagues that there is hope of recovery.

DR VIRGINIA BILLSON, pathologist, Melbourne, Australia

Professor George Jelinek distils years of experience as a clinician-researcher to provide people with MS with a tool to navigate the vast array of information in the scientific and lay press to make informed decisions about their health. He does not profess to have all the answers but his approach offers measured hope and optimism for people with MS.