The

Disease

Delusion

Conquering the Causes of

Chronic Illness for a Healthier,

Longer, and Happier Life

Jeffrey S. Bland

過去數十年來，布蘭德博士在功能醫學領域領先醫界群倫，這門醫學領域致力於找出及避免致病因子，而非僅僅治療病癥。布蘭德博士認為，目前光是處理慢性疾病就佔了四分之三的醫療支出，因為我們慣於以藥丸及暫時性療法，僅治療疾病卻忽略深層的病灶。更糟的是，這種治標不治本的方式，導致日後衍生出更多的疾病。

在《疾病偏誤》這本書中，布蘭德博士解釋何謂「功能醫學」，以及這門醫學所能提供的諸多協助。即便現代醫學昌明，在短短四個世代的時間內幾乎將人類壽命翻倍，然而吾人生命卻仍未發揮其應有潛力。在書中布蘭德博士勾勒了種種慢性疾病的成因，從氣喘、糖尿病到肥胖、關節炎與癌症，以及其他諸多疾病，並提供讀者多種根據科學且易於達成的解答，有助於減輕這些常見疾病，並提供給讀者受用一生的健康指引。

For decades, Dr. Jeffrey Bland has been on the cutting edge of Functional Medicine, which seeks to pinpoint and prevent the cause of illness, rather than treat its symptoms. Managing chronic diseases accounts for three quarters of our total healthcare costs, because we're masking these illnesses with pills and temporary treatments, rather than addressing their underlying causes, he argues. Worse, only treating symptoms leads us down the path of further illness.

In The Disease Delusion, Dr. Bland explains what Functional Medicine is and what it can do for you. While advances in modern science have nearly doubled our lifespans in only four generations, our quality of life has not reached its full potential. Outlining the reasons why we suffer chronic diseases from asthma and diabetes to obesity, arthritis and cancer to a host of other ailments, Dr. Bland offers achievable, science-based solutions that can alleviate these common conditions and offers a roadmap for a lifetime of wellness.

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Yet our current medical model—the way health-care professionals are trained and the strategy of therapy they apply—is not based in such systems thinking. Precisely because it derives from the germ theory, it is based in reductionist thinking: find the bug and nuke it with a drug developed for just that purpose. Period. As brilliantly as the model works in providing acute care, it clearly does nothing to restore or maintain balance among functional systems or the networks that connect them.

But functional medicine does exactly that. It looks at the patterns of dysfunction underlying the chronic diseases that are shadowing all our lives, and it offers a model of care that can prevent or reverse these illnesses.

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■傑佛瑞．布蘭德／Jeffrey S. Bland

Dr. Jeffrey S. Bland is known as the "father of functional medicine," and over the past thirty-five years has taught more than 100,000 health-care practitioners around the globe. He has been a university biochemistry professor, a research director at the Linus Pauling Institute of Science and Medicine, the cofounder of the Institute for Functional Medicine in 1991, and the founder/president of the Personalized Lifestyle Medicine Institute. He lives in Seattle, Washington, with his wife, Susan, and near his three sons and their families.

作者：傑佛瑞．布蘭德／Jeffrey S. Bland

版本：First Edition

規格：精裝／Hardback，16.1 x 23.5 x 3.9 cm，432頁

出版商：Harper Wave

出版日期：2014年05月06日

語言：英文

ISBN-13：978-0-06-229073-1

非新品書頁泛黃，附保護書套，不介意物品狀況再行購買。

Condition: Good. Pre-owned title with no missing pages or anything that would compromise the legibility or understanding of the text. All pages are intact, with dust jacket.