Cured: The Power of Our Immune System and the Mind-Body Connection

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When it comes to understanding the connection between our mental and physical health, we should be looking at the exceptions, not the rules. Visualize yourself confronting the situation head-on and then walking out the other side. And then do it. Once you walk toward a problem, it may turn out to be not the tiger you thought it was but a shadow on the wall that looked like one. Mixed thoughts about this book.at first but I learnt a lot about the body and it’s response to diseases. This is an assumption that would be convenient—quantum mechanics at one level, and Newtonian mechanics and the world as it appears to be at another—but so far, every step up the ladder into larger particles has resulted in continuing, indisputable evidence that this world does not behave quite as our traditional scientific canon would have us believe.

Cured is a rare glimpse into the mysteries of human health and disease. Why do some people with incurable disease suddenly heal? This phenomenon has been ignored by medicine rather than investigated. Dr. Rediger finally asks what we can learn from these cases of spontaneous remission and how can we activate the power of the human body using the mind to harness our body’s own healing systems.” Lol Tolhurst photographed in his home in Los Angeles, September 2023, by Pat Martin for the Observer New Review. I didn't think I was going to like this memoir... I've been a fan of The Cure for years and as such, the name 'Lol Tolhurst' has mostly negative connotations. However, I can honestly say I loved this book.

First I think I need to make it clear that I read this book because I find the subject matter interesting, not because I have been given a diagnosis of incurable breast cancer. I am post DIEP, have a new boob called Brenda constructed from my tummy fat (yes it is a long op and yes the recovery is tedious). I do not have to have radiotherapy am waiting for oncotype test results to find out about chemo and will be on aromatase inhibitors for five years. those with remarkable recoveries are the heroes in self-care, who have achieved something unusual because they see ability and opportunity where others see disability and disease. The message that I took from the book was that to survive a fatal diagnosis you should change your diet (what you change it to is not really explained as it seems that all the people did something different, however, the overriding message was to eat Vegan as that will save you), live as stress free as possible (one person took up daily yoga sessions and has completely and utterly built her entire life around this, while another cut off her family completely on the advice of spiritual guru at a retreat), do the things that make you happy, and for some individuals praying or visiting faith healers.

It can seem like we are biologically doomed to find reasons to be stressed, afraid, and anxious. [...] Long ago, it’s what kept us alive. Now, it’s killing us.The book also explains who is at greatest risk and why some people who have a “normal” Body Mass Index (BMI) develop the disease, when many people who are more overweight – or even obese – do not.

The most important idea presented in this book, is that given the right conditions, the human body has an amazing capacity to heal itself, and that discovering the science behind this phenomenon would unleash a revolutionary breakthrough in medicine. According to Rediger, healing from chronic disease requires an individualized, integrative approach, including such things as radically changing one's diet, developing social connections, meditation, prayer, and seeking out new experiences. What works for one person might not work for another, as each individual is biochemically unique, and must find their own individualized path to healing.

In looking at what created a common link in subjects experiencing spontaneous remissions of their terminal disease, Dr. Rediger uncovered that connection. He takes us on his multi year quest for an answer that continues to elude detection. Along the way, people changed their eating lifestyle or their stress level or their loving therapeutic community to facilitate a remission. Some changed their toxic family relationship. Others took up Yoga or meditation practice. But the aha moment that linked these cases was revealed at the end of the book.