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"Ecological Medicine - The Antidote to Big Pharma and Fast Food" 2nd Edition book cover
"Ecological Medicine - The Antidote to Big Pharma and Fast Food" book cover

2nd Edition Ecological Medicine

You can see full details of the 1st edition in sections 2, 3 and 4, as below, and directly below you can read about the changes between the 1st and 2nd editions. And you can see how to buy this new edition in section 1.5.

Read the first chapter for free

See here - Book2Look link for Ecological Medicine 2nd Edition

Changes made in 2nd edition

The 2nd edition has the following changes and additions:

  • all new chapter 21 (PK diet)
  • all new chapter 32 (iodine)
  • all new chapter 40 (ophthalmology/eyes)
  • greatly expanded chapter 48 (dermatology/skin) with addition of eczema, psoriasis, insect bites/anaphylaxis, infectious rashes and vasculitis
  • significantly revised chapter 31 (vitamin C)
  • important new information on tackling inflammation in chapter 36
  • new conditions added to chapter 43 (respiratory)
  • new information on microbiome health and faecal bacteriotherapy added to chapter 44 (gastroenterology/gut)
  • new information on crystals in joints and connective tissue in chapter 47 (rheumatology)
  • Appendix 4 (blood tests) updated with latest recommendations
  • thyroid issues updated throughout
  • uric acid issues updated throughout
  • importance of boron updated throughout
  • Covid-19 'vaccine' concerns included throughout and how to treat Covid-19
  • 40+ new references

Cover Blurb of 2nd Edition

‘Written with mathematician Craig Robinson, Ecological Medicine is Sarah Myhill’s magnum opus. As such it should be in every medical practice. It pulls no punches in looking at the degeneration of our health, overseen by doctors corrupted by Big Pharma. … If you buy only one book from this whole field, this should be it.’ David Lorimer, Paradigm Explorer: Journal of the Scientific and Medical Network 2020


Big Pharma-driven Western medicine, based on symptom-suppressing prescription drugs, is failing to prevent and treat our modern epidemics of diabetes, dementia, degeneration, cancer, heart disease and infections. Ecological Medicine gives us the ‘Rules of the Game’ and the ‘Tools of the Trade’ to prevent and treat these pathologies. It achieves this through a logical, evidence-based approach.

Launched in 2020, it is a distillation of over four decades of Dr Sarah Myhill’s experience as a doctor, starting out in the NHS and moving into private practice to escape the straitjacket of official clinical guidelines. Writing with Craig Robinson, she clearly outlines the roadmap to recovery and illustrates this from the perspective of all medical diseases, from cancer and cardiology to neurology and nephrology. These medical ‘ologies are further illustrated by real case histories that have shaped, and continue to shape, her medical practice.

Three years on there has been too much to add and update in a simple reprint, necessitating this larger second edition. With completely revised chapters on iodine, vitamin C, the paleo-ketogenic diet, and eye problems, plus new detail throughout drawn from experience during the Covid-19 pandemic, this represents the most comprehensive and up-to-date account of Dr Myhill’s approach to empowering us all to take charge of our own health.

Doctors should be clinical detectives and so should we with regard to our own health. Symptoms and signs give us the clues to the mechanisms of diseases and so lead us to the WHY of our health problems. Knowing the WHY provides the intellectual imperatives to drive through the difficult HOWs of disease reversal and restoration to full health. We should all just do it!

Preface to 2nd Edition

Medical practice should never stand still. It is called practice for a good reason – we are constantly learning.  I have received so many new ideas and much interesting feedback from physicians and patients over the last two years that a second edition became essential. The principles remain the same: work out the mechanisms from the symptoms and signs and this leads to logical and effective treatment. These principles meant that we were able to effectively treat covid 19 patients from the very start of this new disease – we simply applied Groundhog Acute. In consequence, none of my patients died. I only know of one who needed a brief hospital admission before recovering. For details of the treatment of covid 19 see chapter 52 (New killers of the 21st century).

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Book Review of 'Ecological Medicine'

This review was written by David Lorimer and appeared on page 61 of PARADIGM EXPLORER – Journal of the Scientific and Medical Network (ISSN 1362-1211 | No 134 | 2020/3)

"I have reviewed a number of Sarah Myhill’s previous books, and this one is her magnum opus, subtitled ‘the antidote to Big Pharma and fast foods.’ As such, it should be in every medical practice. The book pulls no punches in looking at the degeneration of our health overseen by doctors corrupted by Big Pharma ‘with kindness, gentleness and great humanity’ in spite of being locked into a pharmaceutical straitjacket. Myhill has been a courageous advocate of natural approaches and learned to her cost that most doctors ‘do not want to know about such safe, simple and effective medical interventions’, but rather treated her as a troublemaker challenging their ‘intellectually easy, drug based, simple algorithms for health management’. Only recently, a colleague sent me a petition where she was once again being hauled up before the General Medical Council, and in this book, we learn that has had to deal with 30 separate GMC investigations between 2000 and 2012, conducting her own legal defence, and being suspended in 2010 for lacking respect for the regulatory body! The GMC lawyers stated that ‘the problem with the Myhill cases is that all the patients are improved and refuse to give witness statements’ (!)"

"The book is designed to ‘empower people to heal themselves through addressing the root causes of their diseases’, progressing from symptoms to underlying mechanisms rather than just treating the symptoms allopathically and proceeding to sustainable treatments. Readers of her earlier books will be familiar with her emphasis on chronic inflammation and the usefulness of the paleo-ketogenic diet as well as her Groundhog Basic protocol. The book proceeds from symptoms and clinical pictures to mechanisms, then to the basics of natural health and bolt-on extras such as vitamin C, iodine and vitamin B12. It then applies these insights to the various branches of medicine and contains a detailed series of chapters with illustrative case histories. Interspersed in the text are many apposite quotations that add spice to the whole, such as Sherlock Holmes saying that ‘the world is full of obvious things which nobody by any chance ever observes’, or Sir William Osler – ‘just listen to your patient, he is telling you the diagnosis’; ‘the good physician treats the disease, the great physician treats the patient who has the disease.’ Towards the end, there are detailed worked examples of current case histories, which will be of extraordinary interest to practitioners."

"If you only buy one book from this whole field, this should be it.''

What is this book about?

This is my most extensive book - 496 pages in total, double columns on each page.

This book gives readers the ‘Rules of the Game’ and the ‘Tools of the Trade’ to both prevent illness and, where it arises, treat all disease, especially those driven by modern Western lifestyles.

The ‘Rules’ and ‘Tools’ will also enable the ‘well’ to achieve optimal wellness. The objective of this book is to empower readers to maximise both the quantity and quality of their lives.

This is achieved through a logical path, an ‘eco-logical’ path, using an evidence-based approach, taking the reader from their symptoms, which are clues, through to the mechanisms of disease and finally to sustainable treatments.

It is all about finding the WHY of disease in order to determine the HOWs to treat. Knowing the WHY gives the intellectual imperative to drive through with the sometimes difficult HOWs.

These treatments are all sustainable in that they reverse disease processes, rather than escalate them, as modern Western prescription medicine does, and also in that they are easily accessible to all – diet, supplements and so on.

This book is a distillation of four decades of my academic studies and clinical experience, working both in the British NHS, and as an Independent Medical Practitioner. The roadmap to recovery is clearly laid out, and this is illustrated from the perspective of a range of diseases, from cancer to cardiology, to neurology and nephrology. These ‘ologies are further illustrated by real life Case Histories that have shaped my practice and continue to do so.

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My Ecological Medicine Workshops

I now run Ecological Medicine Workshops where I go through the contents of this book and show how it can be applied to the individual circumstances of the workshop participants.

Originally, these workshops were conducted in person at village halls, individual's houses and so on, but for the time being, and whilst social distancing rules still apply during the Corona Virus Pandemic, I am doing these via Zoom.

  • There is a Facebook Group where you can discuss workshop queries with like-minded people, and also de-brief after having attended a workshop. Please see here - Dr Myhill's Travelling Workshops Facebook Group No 'Page' requests please - only individual profiles.

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Chapter List

Here is a chapter list:

PART I. INTRODUCTION

  • Chapter 1 The inquisitive doctor
  • Chapter 2 The roadmap from symptoms to mechanisms to diagnosis and treatment
  • Chapter 3 Stumbling and fumbling my way to the right questions

PART II. SYMPTOMS AND CLINICAL PICTURES

  • Chapter 4 Symptoms – our vital early warning system
  • Chapter 5 Fatigue: tired all the time
  • Chapter 6 Pain
  • Chapter 7 Inflammation symptoms
  • Chapter 8 Poisoning and deficiency clinical pictures
  • Chapter 9 Hormonal clinical pictures

PART III. MECHANISMS

  • Chapter 10 Diagnosis starts with detective work
  • Chapter 11 Fatigue mechanisms: the fuel in the tank
  • Chapter 12 Fatigue mechanisms: the engine and fuel delivery
  • Chapter 13 Fatigue mechanisms: the accelerator and gearbox
  • Chapter 14 Mechanisms: sleep
  • Chapter 15 Poisonings and how to detoxify
  • Chapter 16 Inflammation mechanisms
  • Chapter 17 Mechanical damage, friction and degenerative disease
  • Chapter 18 Mechanisms of growth promotion: benign, malignant and prion disorders
  • Chapter 19 Genetics and epigenetics

PART IV. WHAT TO DO – THE BASICS

  • Chapter 20 Start with Groundhog Basic
  • Chapter 21 The paleo-ketogenic (PK) diet
  • Chapter 22 Sleep – common reasons for poor sleep and how to fix them
  • Chapter 23 Exercise – the right sort to afford overall gains
  • Chapter 24 Sunshine and light
  • Chapter 25 Reduce the toxic chemical burden
  • Chapter 26 To love and to be loved
  • Chapter 27 Acute infection is inevitable
  • Chapter 28 Diet, detox and die-off reactions

PART V. THE BOLT-ON EXTRAS

  • Chapter 29 Bolt-on-extra tools of the trade
  • Chapter 30 Tools to improve energy delivery
  • Chapter 31 Tools: vitamin C
  • Chapter 32 Tools: iodine
  • Chapter 33 Tools: vitamin B12
  • Chapter 34 Tools for detoxing
  • Chapter 35 Tools for healing and repair
  • Chapter 36 Tools to switch off chronic inflammation
  • Chapter 37 Tools to reduce benign and malignant growths

PART VI. HOW TO APPLY WHAT WE’VE LEARNT TO CURRENT BRANCHES OF MEDICINE

  • Chapter 38 How to slow the ageing process and live to one’s full potential
  • Chapter 39 Infectious disease
  • Chapter 40 Ophthalmology (eyes)
  • Chapter 41 Endocrinology (hormones)
  • Chapter 42 Cardiology and vascular medicine (heart, arteries and veins)
  • Chapter 43 Respiratory medicine and ENT
  • Chapter 44 Gastroenterology (the gut)
  • Chapter 45 Dentists and their tools
  • Chapter 46 Nephrology and urology (kidneys and urinary tract)
  • Chapter 47 Rheumatology and orthopaedics (muscles, bones and joints)
  • Chapter 48 Dermatology (skin)
  • Chapter 49 Neurology (the nervous system)
  • Chapter 50 Psychiatry
  • Chapter 51 Immunology (allergy and autoimmunity)
  • Chapter 52 New killers of the 21st Century
  • Chapter 53 Oncology (cancer)
  • Chapter 54 Women’s health
  • Chapter 55 Preconception, pregnancy and paleo breast-feeding
  • Chapter 56 Paediatrics (children’s health)
  • Chapter 57 Haematology (blood issues)
  • Chapter 58 Prescription drugs

PART VII. CASE HISTORIES

  • Chapter 59 How to slow the ageing process and live to one’s full potential
  • Chapter 60 How to fight infectious diseases
  • Chapter 61 Ophthalmology/eye problems
  • Chapter 62 Endocrinology/hormone problems
  • Chapter 63 Cardiology/heart problems
  • Chapter 64 Gastroenterology/gut problems
  • Chapter 65 Dentistry – its hidden problems (with thanks to Dr Shideh Pouria)
  • Chapter 66 Respiratory problems
  • Chapter 67 Nephrology/kidney and urinary tract problems
  • Chapter 68 Rheumatology/bone and joint problems
  • Chapter 69 Dermatology/skin problems
  • Chapter 70 Neurology/nervous system problems
  • Chapter 71 Psychiatric/mental health problems
  • Chapter 72 Immunology and allergy problems
  • Chapter 73 Spotting the new killers
  • Chapter 74 Oncology/cancer
  • Chapter 75 Women’s health
  • Chapter 76 Conception and after
  • Chapter 77 Paediatrics/problems in childhood
  • Chapter 78 Haematology/blood problems
  • Chapter 79 Current cases – worked examples

PART VIII. APPENDICES

  • Appendix 1 Groundhog Basic
  • Appendix 2 Groundhog Acute
  • Appendix 3 Groundhog Chronic
  • Appendix 4 Commonly used blood tests and what they mean
  • Appendix 5 Chronic inflammation
  • Appendix 6 Useful Resources

Stylistic note

Use of the first person singular in this book refers to me, Dr Sarah Myhill. One can assume that the medicine and biochemistry are mine, as edited by Craig Robinson, and that the classical and mathematical references are Craig’s.

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