The AFib Cure: Get Off Your Medications, Take Control of Your Health, and Add Years to Your Life

Easy to understand. Lots of information. Everyone who has AFib should read it!

Written by two doctors who's speciality is working with patients with electrical heart problems, including those with A-Fib. Timely advise and the latest knowledge available to apply to your own life. Easy to read and understand with examples of others who have made progress following the protocols in the book.

This is an excellent book for those eager to do what they can to reduce their chances of having recurring AFIB incidents.When I asked my cardiologist what I could do to prevent additional AFIB occurrences, as he walked out of the examination room and headed to the receptionist to schedule my next appointment, he just said that it gets worse with age. How depressing!His method was to prescribe pills and see me again in six months. That was over three years ago. Luckily my general practitioner at about the same time told me that I had pre-diabetes and the print out that accompanied my A1c results recommended cutting down or eliminating all the carbohydrates that I loved. I decided to give it my best effort and cut out carbs completely. On my next annual physical I had lost one hundred pounds and my A1c level was the same as that of my young, skinny GP, 5.2.I kept up the low carb diet and lost another fifty pounds the next year. Over the next year and a half, I have dropped another ten pounds. When I lose another five pounds, I will be at 165 pounds, half of what I weighed when my cardiologist offered me zero advice about how I could make changes to reduce my AFIB incidents. I also cut the cable TV subscription and stopped watching cable news three and a half years ago and as the book suggests, it greatly reduced my stress along with retiring from a stressful job.When I go to my next appointment with my cardiologist in August, I am going to hand him a copy of this book and tell him, “I know that you won’t bother to read this book, but keep it and the next time an AFIB patient asks what he or she can do to help reduce the chances of dying early from AFIB, you can show them this book and tell they can read it if they want to improve their odds of living a longer and healthier life!”I think that the authors are too easy on the lazy cardiologists who just write a prescription for their AFIB patients and send them on their way with no advice about making lifestyle changes. I would probably be dead now if I hadn’t changed my lifestyle to prevent my pre-diabetes from progressing to diabetes and those lifestyle changes I believe are why I haven’t had any additional AFIB incidents, since they also cured my sleep apnea. Thanks for nothing Doc!

My therapist told me diet has nothing to do with a fib. It’s all in the genes. But why not get healthier? Why not eat better? Why not dedicate yourself to a better life?

Before beginning the multi drug afib drug regimen prescribed by the Doctor Who diagnosed afib, I decided to learn all about the options for treatment and monitoring. I ordered and read 13 books on all aspects of the subject. It’s not even close. If you only get one book, this is the one you need! I am especially grateful for the information on biomarker testing and monitoring as well as lifetime lifestyle improvements. There is also info on medication, supplements and ablation. These doctors have made it easy to understand. I feel empowered to stay off medications for now and believe with their guidance I can indeed take control of my health and add years to my life! Thanks for this indispensable resource!

I discovered this book when I first received my AFIB diagnoses. I was prescribed a blood thinner after it was explained how my erratic heart beats can cause blood clots leading to a stroke. I am in my seventies and adverse to taking any drugs. I searched Dr Google that led me to this book. I found reading the intro to this book that Dr Days practice is in Salt Lake. I read the book then made an appointment to see Dr Day. I recommend everyone getting a smartwatch for early detection of Afib. Then if you can see an electrophysiologist an AFIB specialist. Read this book, it is game changer compared to what I was first told when diagnosed with AFIB. “AFIB will only get worse as you age.”

This book has a lot of good information. However, for someone that has already had a stroke due to AFIB, the book doesn’t seem to go into enough detail for post stroke AFIB. For me, the AFIB diet they share is just not realistic. As much as we all want to be healthy, that diet would be as bad as taking medication. I wouldn’t make it thru one day. For people that already eat fairly healthy, it might be ok.

I am too young (we’ll relatively) & healthy to throw life long drugs at a one time occurrence. Went with the anticoagulants Rx for 6 weeks & ended up with life threatening bleeding liver. Nope. I’m doing research (reputable sources only) & taking this into my own hands. This book is exactly what you need if you were just diagnosed & want options.

Libro ben scritto e ricco di bibliografia e riferimenti a studi scientifici. Forse tra i migliori libri scritti sull'argomento.

Having recently been diagnosed with AF I wanted to learn much more about the condition. The British Heart Foundation and some hospital websites like Royal Brompton have some good info and are a good starting point but I wanted a more comprehensive understanding. I am a masters lifelong endurance athlete. I chose three books, two from having read Amazon reviews and the third I had ironically learnt about shortly before the diagnosis. I am reviewing them all together as I like reviews where other books are highlighted, particularly if they are better or have something different to say. One word of warning whether typical of books on AF or not all three can be pretty demoralising for the newly diagnosed particularly the early chapters which explain the how’s and why’s and can make it sound as if nearly everything can be a possible trigger for AF. The first book is ‘Your Complete Guide to Afib’ (2020) by Dr Percy Morales. This is a short (119 pages) book dealing with definitions, causes, triggers, drugs and treatments. Factual, no case studies, and will probably satisfy most people’s quest to find out more about the condition. I give the book four stars as, from my perspective, not much on endurance athletes and the author, genuinely I hope, offers his weight loss course which I don’t think needs to be within the text. The second book is ‘The Afib Cure’ (2021) by John Day and T. Jared Bunch. The publication date should mean the book is completely up to date being one of the reasons I chose it. Their definition of cure might only be remission for some. It is more comprehensive than the first book, with case studies (not too flowery) and the first half is probably more demoralising too. It has a good chapter on ablation and has a comprehensive note section on the research reports the authors refer to and quote should you wish to go even deeper into subjects. I would have given this book four and half stars, with the loss of half a star as I would have liked a separate section on cardioversion, being an early initial procedure for many, which is dealt with but in a number of different paragraphs and not fully. Also, the book does have a small number of helpful paragraphs on endurance athletes with AF but again I would have like a dedicated section. The latter point (as with the first book) is that much of the self-help measures revolve around improving life style choices – diet, exercise, no smoking, but for athletes’ life style is likely to fairly well optimised already so much of these sections in the book are not really applicable. The third book is ‘The Haywire Heart’ (2018) by Chris Case, John Mandrola and Lennard Zinn. Whilst the book does deal with AF it also deals with other heart arrhythmias so not completely dedicated to AF. It has a comprehensive layman section on how the heart works and heart conditions and pulls together evidence and research on how extreme exercise can damage your heart. Again, pretty sobering if you are reading the book post diagnoses or a cautionary tale if not. The case studies are there to show there is life after training/racing. The chapter on treatment options is shorter that the second book but does provide a slightly different take more applicable to athletes. There is also a notes section on the research papers referred to. Again 4 stars as it does fill in some of the gaps in the other two books.

I am glad that I read this book before seeing my cardiologist as my paroxysmal afib is starting to become persistent. I've had afib for 45 years now and was very scared when my episodes are not stopping. This book gives me lots of hope that I should get an ablation and make some lifestyle changes to keep my afib episodes to a minimum.

Very authoritative and complete

I think the title of this book is worthy of a headline in the tabloid press, promising a cure for atrial fibrillation that will probably prove unachievable for most sufferers, the possible exceptions being those whose AFib can be attributed to being overweight or taking insufficient exercise or having an unhealthy diet or having underlying medical conditions such as diabetes. Having said that, it is written by two experienced cardiologists, and it does contain useful information which could improve matters for other sufferers, even though not achieving a cure. I liked the way that there was a simple summary at the end of each chapter that could be easily checked later.The text is aimed primarily at patients in the United States and makes frequent references to the American health care system where it appears that provided one has the right medical insurance it is easy to have all manner of tests carried out at the drop of a hat. Whether that is really the case in the US I can't say, but I'm sure sufferers in the United Kingdom would meet obstacles if attempting to get regular tests for the extensive list of biomarkers recommended by the authors. The authors are keen on ablation and argue that often it is better to get this done earlier rather than later, but British patients may struggle to get referred unless other measures, including drugs, have failed.In places, I felt that the text is somewhat condescending, and I also thought that the book was a lot longer than it needed to be.