Mickey Trescott - The Autoimmune Wellness Handbook: A DIY Guide to Living Well with Chronic Illness

Packed to the gills with applicable solutions, The Autoimmune Wellness Handbook is my new favorite resource for todays #1 emerging health challenge. If you or a loved one suffers from autoimmunity and arent sure where to beginSTART HERE.

Russ Crandall, New York Times-bestselling author of Paleo Takeout and The Ancestral Table

It is normal to meet an autoimmune diagnosis with a tremendous sense of confusion, loss, and betrayal, and the information overwhelm can leave the initiate tumbling in its wake. This is where Mickey and Angies book comes in. The Autoimmune Wellness Handbook is an elegant and encouraging guide that not only succinctly reviews the nuts and bolts of autoimmune disease management but also leads you through an often tumultuous inner journey with loving wisdom. In its own unforgiving way, autoimmune diseases force us to honor human design, not societys (often shaming) version. The autoimmune patient must learn to rest, self-advocate, love and be loved, self-nourish, move appropriately, release toxic people and situations, and lift the veil on buried shadows. Like all of lifes best rewards, autoimmune management is hard-won. But, as this handbook shows you, the autoimmune journey can also be an enriching path to a more authentic you.

Datis Kharrazian, author of Why Do I Still Have Thyroid Symptoms? and Why Isnt My Brain Working?

The Autoimmune Wellness Handbook offers a powerfulyet safe and drug-freeapproach to the millions of people now suffering from autoimmune diseases. Mickey and Angie recognize that diet is the the cornerstone of managing autoimmune disease, but they also know that stress management, sleep, pleasure, and living a rich and rewarding life can be just as important. I cant recommend this book highly enough.

Chris Kresser, MS, LAc, New York Times bestselling author of Your Personal Paleo Code

When I think of a guide book, I think of a fishing guide, a travel guide, a study guidea book that shows me the way to do something. As the title lists, The Autoimmune Wellness Handbook is a do-it-yourself guide to living well with chronic illness. I would take exception to this title. As I read this book, I found it to be not only a masterfully written guide but much more. Its more than a journal and personal inside-scoop of two people who have found the path back to health. This book is in a category of its own.

Its not just a guide; its more of a health missal-a book containing all instructions and texts necessary for the celebration of life when addressing a chronic illness.

In my opinion, theyve found the right path back to health that has the potential to help hundreds of thousands. Read this book and you will understand what it takes to put a disease into remission and keep it there. Thank you to Mickey Trescott and Angie Alt for this inspiring road map to living well in this toxic world we have inherited.

Tom OBryan, DC, CCN, DACBN

An autoimmune diagnosis can knock our world on its side, leaving us hurting, scared, and confused. This book is a guide through that darkness, back into the light again. Mickey and Angie have walked this path themselves and helped thousands of others do the same. Theyve taken all of their personal experience and professional knowledge and created a thorough workbook for creating a healthy, vital, joyful life again. Our story doesnt have to stop with our diagnosis. In many ways, its a new beginning.

Eileen Laird, author of The Simple Guide to the Paleo Autoimmune Protocol

Mickey and Angie have created something wonderful: an unapologetically empowering guide to everything autoimmune that lets you know youre not alone. The Autoimmune Wellness Handbook is a true companion, friend, and advocate for anyone wanting to live vibrantly in the face of autoimmune disease.

Rachael Bryant, author of Nourish: The Paleo Healing Cookbook

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.

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

2016 by Trescott LLC and Alt-Ternative Autoimmune, LLC

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Most peoples autoimmune stories start the same way, with a trickle of strange, seemingly disconnected symptomsthings like increasing fatigue, joint pain, or more frequent headaches. In time, the trickle becomes a steady stream that exists as background noise in our daily lives. After repeated and desperate attempts to explain the symptoms to dismissive doctors, most of us resolve to silently suffer. Later, the steady stream becomes an undeniable flood, and with it comes the sensation that you are drowning in an unnamed illness. At this late stage, doctors may finally have a diagnosis, but follow-up, if it is even offered, consists of limited treatment options with disabling side effects. Feeling hopeless and demoralized is standard for those with autoimmune disease, and it is probably why you have this book in your hands right now. If you follow the conventional approach, living