The 9 Steps to Keep the Doctor Away: Simple Actions to Shift Your Body and Mind to Optimum Health for Greater Longevity

What a great book , a must have if you care about your health. Well written with lots of facts and easy to understand explanations. Everyone can get something from this book

I can't say enough about this book. It's shocking, alarming, eye-opening and entertaining, but most importantly...EMPOWERING. It will make you understand the power to change your health really IS in YOUR HANDS. We've come to believe that good health is "complicated" and that it's something best left to the "white coats" because we're somehow...not qualified to understand how our own body works. We're inundated with radio and TV commercials that insist you, "Ask your doctor if medication `X' is right for you." Is it any wonder we've become completely disconnected from our own instincts and don't know how to listen to our bodies anymore? We don't trust ourselves and have abdicated control of our most precious commodity, our health, over to a "professional" or industry we know nothing about. The real crisis in healthcare isn't the astronomical amount of dollars it continually consumes, but the loss of our own wellbeing. That's the real price.The 9 Steps gives great information on elements that are essential to ANY healing process, whether from a cold or cancer. These things HAVE to be incorporated into your life. I was glad to see they're easy and again...completely within the average person's power to make these life changes. You'll be surprised about the simplest things like hunger or your sense of thirst and what they're really telling you about your overall condition.Perhaps most important are the sections on toxicity and hormonal optimization. Your eyes will be opened about all the diseases you thought were "genetic" or that "just run in my family" that can be completely attributed to the toxic world we live in. This isn't some doomsday book. You'll be lead to the tools you need to really detoxify your body properly and how to protect it in the future. This is where Dr. Buttar becomes a real warrior for health. I was amazed at the stories of healing from patients with significant diseases that we used to think were incurable...especially his own son, from autism, no less. It's on these stories alone and the hope and inspiration they provide that I'd recommend this book. It showed that health isn't complicated, an accident or even a miracle. It's our normal process and when we give our body the right tools....it does its own healing.

Dr. Buttar has written a very cogent and readable guide on the fundamentals of wellness, how to structure one's way of life to promote health and stave off the causes of disease and illness. His theme is commendable and, for the most part, his advice very common sense and sound, as seen from the perspective of those who have long recognized the need to take responsibilty for our own health. The nine steps he outlines do indeed appear to be clearly stated and fairly comprehensive, and there is much practical advice in these pages.Where I feel his account falls short of the 5th star is in his somewhat heavy-handed treatment of the specifics -- i.e., the tenor of his presentation seems to say "this is the right way and the only right way," based no doubt on his personal knowledge and experience. But in fact there are other, more nuanced approaches to such areas as exercise, diet, and meditation that have proved to be equally or even more effective. I wonder if Buttar has had any significant exposure to the experts of Ayur-Veda for example, which recognizes that there are multiple body types, each with its own set of more specific requirements. For example, Ayur-Vedic kapha types (solid, tend to gain weight easily) may benefit very well from the kind of high-burn exercise regime he advocates, whereas vata types (lght, slender, nervous dispositions) would do much better with yoga, Tai Chi, or just walking. Similarly with diet and other lifestyle considerations. There is no one size fits all in promoting ideal health. Possibly the high incidence of obese patients with all their concomitant problems that plague a modern practice has painted a too monochromatic picture of the state of American health.That said, on the whole his categories and advice are very helpful. It's a powerful presentation for the average reader who has long forgotten, if he or she ever knew, that we make our own health or lack thereof by the way we live our lives.

I was looking forward to this book, but I finished it with mixed feelings. There are good things in the book, and, if not more, at least the work is good in opening you up to more research. There are a lot, and I mean a lot, of personal anecdotes about him and his patients - so expect that.What truly annoyed me was this - he opens the book with heavy metals and how toxic they are. He goes to some length in explaining this, and how crucial a systemic detoxification is, and I'm looking forward to a solution to this, but it never comes. I understand it's important, so now tell me HOW can I detoxify. What do I need to do? What foods can I purchase? What he keeps repeating is to go to a website that is accessible only to book owners for more information. When I do that, the Sign-in link brings back an error message.I'm sorry to say but there's barely anything palpable in the book, any actual information on "how-to" do/achieve a certain outcome. As I said, the 300 pages are full of anecdotes that I could live without. Then he goes and says that due to limits of the book... Here's an idea - take out the personal stories (which serve as empty information) and fill that space with information that the reader can apply today. Wouldn't that make more sense? What can I do today, for my health, with a story of one of your patients that happened 25 years ago?There are good things to take away from the book, but all in all it left me hanging and somewhat disappointed.

Dr. Buttar is an extremely knowledgeable physician who obviously cares greatly about his patients. However, I wish he'd cared enough not to include so many medical references, terms and formula in this book as I found it pretty heavy going. The jargon almost obscures the message of the nine steps which resulted in me skimming large swathes. The 9 steps are nothing new, just common sense really and Dr. Buttar presents them with far more medical information than the average person needs.

Firstly Dr Buttar is a great person, doing great things. But there are many things in his book, that I don't agree with. the consumption of meat and dairy for instance. Even if it's raw dairy. Dr Robert Morse arguably one of the best naturopaths around doesn't advocate dairy. Man didn't evolve to drink another animal's nursing liquid. Nor eat meat.. If you think we're meat eaters, do you fancy a raw chicken breast? No? there's a reason for that.. We don't see a road kill and get a craving to stop by and take a snack. You can't count cooking, no animal in nature cooks it's food. Better results can be obtained in the absence of these two things.. Dr Morse is a good example. However, Dr Buttar is still a great person whom I respect. He is fighting for many things. There's not much in here that isn't common sense and I didn't know already, but still good advice if you're living on the SAD (Standard American diet). Although I'm English.

As a constant seeker of anything that would help me to both understand and deal with my own health issue's this book is a breath of fresh air. The way it's written is humble yet powerful, it asks you to read and take whatever feels right for you based on hundreds of patient review's. It makes sense to me, but I'm still left wondering how much I would still have to spend on chelation to get my body back to a kind of normal, and also who I could approach to help.. Then again, it's a next step. I definitely recommend this book to anyone with health issues and who like me are looking for answers. Go for it, what have u got to loose? However don't expect menu plans or recipes as this book doesn't have any of this, just science and knowledge based common sense, or as more likely these days uncommon sense.

This is invaluable information in an age where cancer, autism and heart disease is sky rocketing and threatening to affect so many of us. I truly admire and trust Dr Buttars research and ethics - a true force of courage, knowledge and principles for health. I've asked every member of my family to read this book.

I am a lay person, not a Doctor or Nurse, and through the tone and style in the way he writes I felt I could trust this Doctor. I found this book easy to read and there were plenty of examples given of people's experiences with breaking through into better health, which I found inspiring. Well written, with helpful explanations of why and how each step is important and how they fit into the whole picture of the body's workings. As a father of an autistic child I was also very touched by Dr. Buttar's experiences with his own son, who was diagnosed with autism at an early age. The story of how he helped transform his son's autism and how he is now a fully functioning adult, is amazing. I finished the book determined to take the steps to get myself back to the kind of health I enjoyed in my youth, which I sincerely believe having read this book are not only possible, but realistically achievable, and this book has given me directions and a path to follow.