The Remarkable Story of a Woman Ahead of her Time
In a decade when acupuncture had barely made its way to the US, chiropractors were thought of as quacks, and it didn’t even occur to people on the street that they could actually question their doctor, a feisty suburban housewife named Rachelle Breslow, after being told her Multiple Sclerosis was “degenerative and incurable” had the chutzpah to say, “Who Said So?”
And with that, this 1960’s mother of three said good-bye to her neurologist who told her that “nutritional changes were nonsense,” and not to exercise as it would make her tired, and began her journey of self-healing – a journey that led her from the German clinic of the “renegade” Dr. Evers, to fasting and food-combining at Dr. Cheatham’s Shangri-La Natural Health Resort in Florida; from living at the yoga ashram of Amrit Desai, to forming friendships with health gurus Adelle Davis and Andrew T. Weil M.D.
“Rachelle Breslow’s book is an inspiring account of one woman’s refusal to take on the pessimism of conventional doctors about multiple sclerosis—and of her search for ways to stimulate the healing system of the body/mind. This is a great read.” Andrew T. Weil, M.D., Bestselling author and World Leader in Alternative Medicine…