Cured: The Power of Our Immune System and the Mind-Body Connection

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My son recovered from a terminal illness when he was ten from an extremely rare autoimmune disease. The prognosis was that the majority of children with the illness would not live to see their teens. Although I have a few ideas around how he got better, it is like a mystery I need to solve. I did a few unusual things instinctively, mainly around diet and lifestyle changes. Reading this book has confirmed that some of the ways I dealt with the illness were spot on. Medication was necessary and we followed most of the doctors' advice but there were some things I did that the doctors either said were pointless or advised against. I followed my instincts as a mother and all I know as provable fact is that my son got better and is a grumpy teen today. Thank goodness for grumpy teens :-).

This book EXCEEDED my expectations and I’m so glad I didn’t brush it off on the first glance as just another self help book. Those who experienced spontaneous remissions had something important in common, whether their illnesses were chronic or terminal: something inside them rose up, saying they were people rather than prognoses. This doesn't provide any single golden bullet - as we are all different, and there are as many different combinations of things that can mess with our DNA as there are people on the planet - but what it does offer is hope, and WONDER. And it really is a wonderful thing to hear such positive stories and how with a mix of science, self-belief, and love, we really do have the power to confront death, and ultimately learn to truly live, because of it. Through rigorous research, Dr. Rediger shows that much of our physical reality is created in our minds. Our perception changes our experience, even to the point of changing our physical bodies—and thus the healing of our identity may be our greatest tool to recovery. Things had fallen apart – me and the band, my first marriage. I had the disastrous court case – I owed a lot of money for that. I didn’t have anything much to do. I couch-surfed for a while, living with one set of friends during the week and then with others at the weekend.” During the economic crisis that put Thatcher into power, the utopian stuff of the late 60s curdled. Punk was a cleansingMarchant] has chosen very moving characters to show us the importance of the research…and she has an equal flair for finding inspirational figures… the studies are irresistible.” New York Times

Being dismissed by doctors is a bitter pill to swallow. I’ve sometimes felt like the doctors were my enemies as much as the cancer.So began a lifelong friendship that fourteen years later would result in the formation of The Cure, a quintessential post-punk band whose albums-such as Three Imaginary Boys, Pornography , and Kiss Me, Kiss Me, Kiss Me -remain among the best-loved and most influential of all time. Tolhurst is aware that the title may raise eyebrows. “I know there are loads of fans who are going to say: ‘What? No, the Cure were never goth!’ In fact, the original title for the book wasn’t Goth. I wanted to call it The Lesser Saints, but the publishers said: ‘What’s that about?’ I tried ‘Post-Punk’ on my editor but he said that was too broad.”