I think this book is a good resource for people looking to make manageable, practical changes to improve their health. Anyone could learn something from reading it, no matter how healthy you think you are. The information is presented in succinct little sections, so this book is easy to put down and pick back up without too much disruption. Definitely a recommended read, particularly for people who want to be healthy but have no idea where to start.

Chatterjee brings over 17 years of medical practice and medical research together with a historical and practical approach to overall health and well-being. Chatterjee doen't wait for the science to prove in all circumstances that something has a causation before implementing a number of practices with patients that he found have significantly improved their health and removed their pain and symptoms. The main components include relaxation, foods, movement, and sleep. These four pillars highlight the primary things we need to be doing to significantly improve our lives. As an over simplistic overview: The stress of our non-stop modern western lifestyle is killing us by constantly keeping the body in a physiological fight or flight response which doesn't provide it time to proper regeneration of cells or down time in which to do it. The processed foods we eat are basically poison that we were not genetically designed to eat and in our day we are eating larger quantities of poor quality food stuff rather than the right quantities of high quality natural food. Our lives have become increasingly more sedentary and that has limited our movement which is decreasing muscle mass and flexibility. The huge adaptation of electricity into society along with television and smart phones means we are never without electronic stimulus which has multiple negative effects, the greatest perhaps being the contributions to negative impact on sleep. We are sleeping less today on average than our ancestors did even 50 years ago and that difference matters in our body's ability to thrive. Running through all of these themes are the links between the physical food and movement and the mental and emotional impact the right lifestyle has on providing a well-balanced healthy life. Chatterjee argues and shows sufficient evidence that many of the pains, disease, and mental health challenges we face are a function of our modern lifestyle and can be remedied faster and more effectively by changing how we eat and how we live rather than a cocktail of medicines. The body is a complex organism that developed and adapted over hundreds of thousands and millions of years and no single piece of it can be cordoned off and treated independently like you would the parts to a car engine, if one part isn't doing the proper job it's going to negatively impact the rest and those parts will start to degrade as well when they have to perform functions they weren't designed for or at a capacity that exceeds the body's ability to regenerate new cells. I'm working to make significant changes based on information in this book and going to see if I can't eliminate many of the chronic pain that I have been experiencing the last few years.

A very interesting approach to whole-health. Dr. Chatterjee is a physician in the UK and writes about his progressive medical approach with his patients. He believes that basic changes in four ares can change the course of disease and prevent/control/eliminate chronic issues. He structures them into four pillars: Eat, Move, Sleep and Relax. Part of his thesis is that the interconnection of these pillars impacts our health and staying in balance can make us healthier.

How to Make Disease Disappear is a quick read (I don't normally read health books) and his approach resonated with me. I am making my husband and daughters read it. No need to purchase exercise tools or follow a complicated diet. I have already deleted notifications from my phone, am trying to spend 20 minutes outside every morning and working on eating five vegetables a day! We will see if I can make more changes and see an impact on my inflammatory arthritis.

Shout out to Monika for suggesting this book to me!

I ordered the book after watching Dr. Chatterjee's TED talk which came across extremely balanced in the "Carbs are bad", "Fat is bad", "Urban life is bad" totalities.

It was a fast, balanced read. Extremely practical advice and balanced between giving too much and too little information. Looking forward to incorporating more healthy habits that the doctor suggests.

A very nice book of useful and uncomplicated steps to feeling better. Sure, we already do much of this, but a few we’ve slacked off on, and there were some new ideas we’ll try. Some of the text was informative, some was anecdotal, some was less than fully supported, and some was a bit woo-woo, so take what you need and leave the rest. We need more books like this that make it easy to make improvements in your health.

This book is a really easy read and full of practical advice that anyone will benefit from.

This whole book is gold! Chatterjee has a way of creating believable non-condescending ways to make your life better, happier, and healthier.