Introduction  

Part 1. What’s Making Us So Sick?

Chapter 1. The State of Health – An Unfolding Worldwide Health Crisis

Chapter 2. Health Is a Three-legged Stool

         Identifying the Culprits by Elimination

         A Brief Detour to Causality

Chapter 3. Chemicals and Plastics

         Pesticides

         Other Chemicals

         Plastics

Chapter 4. Is Fat Innocent?

        How Was Dietary Fat Thrusted into the Spotlight in the 1950s?

        The Evidence, Trials, and Conviction of Fat

        New Trials, and Hung Juries 

        The Backlash against the Low-fat Diet and the Ongoing Controversies

         Saturated Fat: Good or Bad? – Compared to What?

         A Bird’s Eye View

Chapter 5. Are Sugar and Sedentariness the Culprits?

         Sugar – the Bitter History

         The Anti-Sugar Warriors

         Are We Going to Get Out of the Obesity and Diabetes Epidemic by Cutting Sugar Intake?

         An Evolutional Perspective – Is Sugar Just Empty Calories or A Poison?

         The Other Side of the Sugar Coin – Physical Activity

Chapter 6. We Are Sick Because We Are Too Clean?

         The Hygiene Hypothesis

         The Old-friends Hypothesis

Chapter 7. Are Free Radicals the Root Cause of All the Ills?

         Searching for the Elixir

         What’s Behind the Free Radical Theory of Aging?

         Free Radicals from Normal Cellular Metabolism

         Science or Fiction?

Chapter 8. Is Inflammation to Blame?

                                                  Part 2. The Fixes

Chapter 9. Are Chronic Diseases Curable?

         Why There’s No Cure?

         A Simple but Profound Fact

         Real-Life Evidence

         Why Are So Many Still Suffering?

Chapter 10. Understand Your Genes

        DNA Sequencing, SNPS and GPS

        Gene Expression and Epigenetics

        Generic Research in Perspective

Chapter 11. Calm Your Mind – Managing Stress

        What Is Stress Exactly?

        Stress and Health

        Measuring Stress

        Managing Stress

Chapter 12. Calm Your ‘Second Mind’ – Mending Gut

        Leaky Gut – Consequences and Triggers

        Leaky Gut – Fixes  

        Dysbiosis (Bad Bacteria Overgrowth) – Consequences and Causes Dysbiosis – Fixes

Chapter 13. Create Your Own Environment

        Diets

        Water

        Air

        Detoxification – Get the Toxins Out that Are Already In

Part 3. Alternative Medicine and Dietary Supplements

Chapter 14. Alternative Medicine – Quackery or Life Saver?

       Homeopathy

       Osteopathy  

       Chiropractic

       Naturopathy

       Orthomolecular Medicine

       Functional Medicine

Chapter 15. Dietary Supplements – Are They Safe and Effective?

Chapter 16. Dietary Supplements – Vitamins

       Vitamin C

       Vitamin D

Chapter 17. Dietary Supplements – Minerals

       Magnesium

       Zinc

Chapter 18. Dietary Supplements – Herbs and Others

        For Heart Disease, High Cholesterol and Hypertension

        For Type-2 Diabetes and Prediabetes

        For Overweight or Obesity

        For Autoimmune Diseases

        For Stress and Depression

        For Age Related Memory Loss

        For Cancer

Epilogue