Chronic: The Hidden Cause of the Autoimmune Epidemic and How to Get Healthy Again - Paperback

by Steven Phillips (Author), Dana Parish (Author)

"A powerfully informative guide for patient and practitioner from a misinformed past toward a future of recovery and health."
--David Perlmutter, MD, #1 New York Times best-selling author of Grain Brain and Brain Wash

In this important and timely book, Steven Phillips, MD, and his former patient, Sony singer-songwriter Dana Parish, reveal striking evidence that a range of common infections, from COVID-19 to Lyme, cause a variety of autoimmune, psychiatric, and chronic conditions. Chronic explores the science behind what makes them difficult to diagnose and treat, debunks widely held beliefs, and provides solutions that empower sufferers to reclaim their lives.

After nearly dying from his own mystery illness, Dr. Phillips experienced firsthand the medical community's ignorance about the pathogens that underlie a deep spectrum of serious conditions--from fibromyalgia, multiple sclerosis, chronic fatigue syndrome, rheumatoid arthritis, and lupus, to depression, anxiety, OCD and neurodegenerative disorders. Parish, too, watched her health spiral after twelve top doctors missed the underlying infections that caused heart failure and other sudden debilitating symptoms. Now, they've come together with a mission: to change the current model of simply treating symptoms and shift the focus to finding and curing root causes of chronic diseases that affect millions around the world.

Author Biography

Steven Phillips, MD, is a Yale-trained physician and researcher who regularly appears in the media as an expert on Lyme and other chronic infections. In private practice since 1996, he has treated over 20,000 patients from nearly twenty countries. His practice is located in Wilton, Connecticut.

Dana Parish is a chart-topping singer/songwriter for Sony Music Publishing and sits on the board of Bay Area Lyme Foundation. She's become a powerful voice for change in the field of chronic disease. She lives in New York City.