Chronic

The Hidden Cause of the Autoimmune Pandemic and How to Get Healthy Again

By: Steven Phillips MD, Dana Parish, Kristin Loberg

Narrated by: Teri Schnaubelt, Thomas Allen

Autoimmune disease and chronic illness is a global pandemic. What is fueling it?

In this timely book, Steven Phillips, MD, and his former patient, Sony singer-songwriter Dana Parish, reveal striking evidence that a broad range of common infections, from COVID-19 to Lyme and many others, cause a variety of autoimmune, psychiatric, and chronic conditions. Chronic explores the science behind what makes them difficult to diagnose and treat, debunks widely held beliefs by doctors and patients alike, and provides solutions that empower sufferers to reclaim their lives.

Dr. Phillips was already an internationally renowned physician specializing in complex, chronic diseases when he became a patient himself. After nearly dying from his own mystery illness, he experienced firsthand the medical community’s ignorance about the pathogens that underlie a deep spectrum of serious conditions - from fibromyalgia, multiple sclerosis, chronic fatigue syndrome, rheumatoid arthritis, and lupus, to depression, anxiety, OCD and neurodegenerative disorders. Parish, too, watched her health spiral after twelve top doctors missed an underlying infection that caused heart failure and other sudden debilitating physical and psychiatric symptoms. Now, they’ve come together with a mission: to change the current model of simply treating symptoms - often with dangerous, lifelong drugs - and shift the focus to finding and curing root causes of chronic diseases that affect millions around the world.

©2020 Steven Phillips MD and Dana Parish (P)2020 Brilliance Publishing, Inc., all rights reserved.

Critic reviews

“This book shines an alarming light on emerging infections that cause chronic illnesses. Brimming with bulletproof science, Chronic is an insightful clarion call for more attention to this plague of the 21st century.” --Sanjay Gupta, MD

“An informative guide to ‘the pandemic in plain sight,’ urgent without undue alarmism.” --Kirkus Reviews

Exciting book for exciting times

After reading this audio book, I have been telling friends and coworkers about this book and how doctors are battling with each other to provide care to the patient. It’s an exciting book because there is a cure, so to speak. I would like to know what someone with Lyme disease thought about this book. Chapter nine was kind of a filler chapter for the pandemic and I think it should be removed.

Very Informative

Loved this book - been dealing with Lyme Disease for years and this helps me navigate the shark filled waters out there in the medical system.

such important info

Especially liked the last few chapters. I understand how it is more relevant to Lyme sufferers.

Great data

Great data and perspective. It opened my mind to new possibilities and gives me some hope.

A must read book

I learned so much from this book. It gives me hope for my condition. Everyone should read this book. Outstanding and easy to understand.