This book was not good.

To be fair, it offered a thorough overview of what mainstream medicine knows about hemochromatosis. But since mainstream medicine doesn’t understand nutrition, the book is bound to be pretty useless (the only effective medical treatment is bloodletting, to this day).

It’s weird to have a book with so much information draw so few relevant conclusions. I definitely feel like I understand the problem better after reading this, but I had to make my own conclusions about the diseases that are usually found alongside hemochromatosis, and I had to guess which nutrient deficiencies might be involved based on those other associated problems. The book DID give me a lot of clues.

We don’t get a hemochromatosis case every day, but I have definitely seen it reversed several times (without bloodletting). Since we give people tons of different nutrients at once, I never knew which ones actually did the job, which is why I read this to try to figure it out.

The authors of the book should be the detectives, not the readers. I can’t blame the authors too much - they tell us everything that mainstream medicine knows. They didn’t even know that there were enough nutritional clues in their book to lead to a strong hypothesis of which nutrients are missing.

I really can’t see who I would recommend this book to.