Autoimmune disease and chronic illness is a global pandemic. What is
fueling it?
In this timely book, Steven Phillips, MD, and his former patient, Sony
singer-songwriter Dana Parish, reveal striking evidence that a broad
range of common infections, from COVID-19 to Lyme and many others, 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 by doctors and patients alike, and
provides solutions that empower sufferers to reclaim their lives.
Dr. Phillips was already an internationally renowned physician
specializing in complex, chronic diseases when he became a patient
himself. After nearly dying from his own mystery illness, he 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
an underlying infection that caused heart failure and other sudden
debilitating physical and psychiatric symptoms. Now, they've come
together with a mission: to change the current model of simply treating
symptoms--often with dangerous, lifelong drugs--and shift the focus to
finding and curing root causes of chronic diseases that affect millions
around the world.
