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Sustainable Medicine

Whistle-blowing on 21st century medical practice

Dr Sarah Myhill Chelsea Green Publishing, 2018 Reviewed by Anne Gastinger

Sustainable Medicine, by Welsh doctor Sarah Myhill, is a call to arms for us to actively take charge of our health. It describes the physiological mechanisms causing ill health and what is needed in order to function well.

As an environmental medicine practitioner and expert in the treatment of chronic fatigue syndrome, Myhill views nutritional deficiencies, infectious loads, and toxic stress from an increasingly polluted environment as the leading causes of disease. Addressing these issues rather than relying on symptom-suppressing drugs is necessary if we want to

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