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Alternative Medicine and Multiple Sclerosis
by Allen C. Bowling, Allen C., Md. Ph.D. Bowling
from Demos Medical Publishing

Customer Reviews:

• Avg. Customer Rating: 3.5 / 5.0

• Misleading title - it's a pharmaphilic decoy
  I was very disappointed. This book is basically an attack on alternative therapies through the lens of self serving conventional medicine politics rather than attempting to find any merit and mechanism of different alternative modalities. For instance the coverage of vitamins and supplements were ridiculously weak and even out of date with modern research recommendations from conventional medical schools e.g. the sunshine vitamin D link to MS in particular and the much higher emerging vitamin D RDAs in... more info

• Very informative
  As a person living with MS there were some things in this book that even I didn't know. Its good to have all the correct information from a medical professional. I carry this book with me all the time and refer to it whenever someone tells me, I should do this or that for my MS. We need lots more books like this.

• Alternative Medicine and Multiple Sclerosis by Bowling
  Multiple Sclerosis is a system that impacts the immune system
  and the nervous system. There is a hereditary disposition to
  the disease. The main damage involves lesions of the brain and
  spinal cord. The disease may relapse and remit during various
  phases. The drug Betaseron may be employed for MS to decrease
  relapses in both length and severity. Alternative medicinal
  protocols may be employed i.e. acupuncture, exercise,
  biofeedback, chiropractic and massage therapy. Acupuncture has... more info

• Better than expected
  After reading some of the reviews I hestitated on buying this. I had just been diagnosed with MS. I started taking the shots (and still am) but wanted to find other things that I could do. From the reviews I thought this would be an alternative medicine bashing book but its not. It states the facts as they are and shows pros and cons, leave a lot for the reader to consider. I found this to be a well-rounded book that had good info.

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