Thriving with Your Autoimmune Disorder, by Dr. Simone Ravicz, is an excellent, well-written, comprehensive survey of a complex yet common phenomenon. It is the best book targeted to the educated layperson that I have read on this topic. I cannot cite a more sophisticated and comprehensive work by a nonphysician.

I specialize in treating patients with chronic fatigue syndrome (CFS), also known as chronic fatigue immune dysfunction syndrome (CFIDS); fibromyalgia syndrome (FMS); and related disorders, which I term “neurosomatic.” Dr. Ravicz discusses diverse research, clinical experience, and opinion about such illnesses, fortunately omitting a vast body of useless research that has hindered advancement and would be of no use to the reader. I congratulate her on her review of the literature and her synthesis. Thriving with Your Autoimmune Disorder will be an informative guide for patients and their families.

Many books on the subject belong in the junkpile. This one should be in your bookcase.

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