The Cure: Heal Your Body, Save Your Life
by Dr. Timothy Brantley
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Author: Dr. Timothy BrantleyEdition: Paperback
Audio: English (Original Language); English (Unknown); English (Published)
Published: 2008-11-10
ISBN: 0470376155
Number of pages: 240
Publisher: Wiley
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Book Review: "Doctor" Brantley fails 8th grade science
Summary: 1 Stars
On the one hand, this book strongly encourages the reader to partake of a balanced, healthy, varied diet. I applaud that. On the other hand, the rest of the book is filled with dubious claims, hypocritical complaints, bad science, and constant references to the author's wide variety of products.
The first half of the book is mostly the story of how the author had a series of bad experiences with doctors and established medicine. He rails about clinicians who push pills, refuse to answer questions, and apparantly don't know what they're doing or why. It's sad that he had such poor treatment, but real science is all about asking why, methodically researching answers, and basing actions on that knowledge. Any reasonably qualified doctor should know the answers to most of the questions he reports having asked. The nature, causes, and treatments of fungal infections, for example, are very well understood, despite the impression he seems to have developed.
The second half of the book is his program. Ironically, it seems to consist mainly of pushing his own products (right down to his own brand of bottled water, which he touts as being better and healthier than any other water without giving any reason why his is good or all other water is bad), making baseless claims, giving treatment steps with little or no supporting evidence or reasoning, and some astonishingly bad science. In other words, everything he was complaining about doctors doing to him in the first half of the book.
For example, he has his own brand of enzyme pills. He recommends buying them, taking them with meals, and not drinking at mealtime because the water would deactivate the enzymes.
Eighth grade science teaches us that the body produces its own enzymes and that enzymes cannot work unless they're in aqueous solution. In fact, that's exactly what saliva is - your body's own enzymes in water. It also teaches that our body fluids, including stomach juices and blood, are water-based. So not only is he pushing unnecessary pills, but he's wrong about how they work and about our body's basic function.
There are plenty of other instances, including a paragraph about microwaves which starts off promising to give us the "real facts" about microwave cooking and then, in a passage filled with careful qualifiers that let us know that this is really just his opinion, he gets things exactly backwards, misuses the word "cooking," and advances a theory which violates the most basic laws of physics. Microwaved food actually cools off faster than oven-heated food, "cooking" technically refers to chemical changes in food caused by extreme temperatures and not the process of gaining additional heat, and it is physically impossible for food to spontaneously continue to gain heat after being removed from the oven (so that food which does not burn your tongue can, shortly thereafter, become hot enough to scald your stomach lining).
It's glaring errors like that which make it so much more difficult to believe the book's other claims and recommendations, which are delivered with a minimum of explanation, evidence, or scientific backing.
To top it all off, the author's claim to the title "doctor" is based on a PhD in nursing from Pacific Western University in California. Pacific Western is officially recognized as a diploma mill. In 2004, an undercover federal investigator was offered a PhD from Pacific Western for $2,595 and explicitly told that not only was enrollment unnecessary but that the institution does not offer actual classes or training. (Source: http://www.gao.gov/new.items/d04771t.pdf )
This book has some good ideas, but it's also filled with dubious claims and misinformation. Be very careful about trusting anything from this author.
If you're looking for a good book with sound information about what you can do on a daily basis to improve and maintain your health, this book is not it. Happily, there are a number of good options out there. For example, YOU: The Owner's Manual. That book is not only written by actual doctors and filled with reliably tested information and recommendations, but it also takes the time to explain the hows and whys behind all of those recommendations. It's a shame it wasn't available to the curious child "Doctor" Brantley describes in the first half of his book.
Summary of The Cure: Heal Your Body, Save Your Life
According to Dr. Timothy Brantley, most health problems are not caused by genetics or germs but by the standard American diet. Drawing on Brantley's groundbreaking research and his years of working with nutritional healing, The Cure contains a revolutionary step-by-step program that can flush toxins out of the body, restore balance, promote natural healing, and increase vitality.Healing Books
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