The Immunotype Breakthrough: Balance Your Immune System, Optimise Health and Build Lifelong Resistance

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'In an era of heightened awareness of our immune system, the threat of pandemics, the rise of autoimmunity, and the revelatory new science that everything from heart disease to cancer, Alzheimer's to autism, and depression to diabetes is linked to disordered immune function and inflammation, The Immunotype Breakthrough is the most important guide available today to understand and optimise our immune function. It is an essential roadmap for anyone with an immune system (essentially everyone!), anyone looking to optimise their health and avoid today's modern plague - inflammation.'

DR MARK HYMAN, New York Times-bestselling author of The Pegan Diet.

'The immune system has been overlooked and misunderstood for far too long. In The Immunotype Breakthrough, Dr Moday gives us a glimpse into her speciality and explains the recent research in a way that we can all understand. Best of all, she gives us action steps we can each take to prioritise our immune system to elevate our overall health.' DR WILL COLE, New York Times-bestselling author of Intuitive Fasting

'This is a must-read for anyone who has experienced the pitfalls of conventional medicine and is ready to balance their immune system for optimal health.' DR AMY MYERS, author of The Autoimmune Solution and Thyroid Connection

'A revolutionary book from one of the best immunity experts around. The Immunotype Breakthrough explains the latest science on immunity, and offers unique, customisable advice to help you balance your immune system. A must-read for anyone interested in living a long and healthy life." JASON WACHOB, Founder & Co-CEO of mindbodygreen.com

To most of us, the immune system is a mysterious and complex network of cells, receptors, and messengers that we only notice when it goes awry. But our immune response, or lack of, affects nearly every aspect of our bodies and our health. Much has been made of 'boosting' immunity, but what exactly does that mean And what if boosting isn't really what our immune systems need

In The Immunotype Breakthrough, functional medicine doctor and immunity specialist Dr Heather Moday explains that, for the most part, what our immune systems truly need is not boosting, but balancing. She identifies four distinct immunotypes, and helps you find yours:

Smouldering: too much inflammation, resulting in diabetes, dementia, heart disease

Misguided: an immune system which attacks your own cells and organs, causing autoimmune diseases

Hyperactive: overreactive to harmless substances, causing allergies

Weak: an immune system that doesn't react fa

Author Bio

Dr. Heather Moday is an allergist and immunologist, as well as an integrative and functional medicine Physician, and the owner and medical director of the Moday Center for Functional Medicine in Philadelphia. After years of working as an allergist and immunologist in private practice, she completed a fellowship in Integrative Medicine at the Arizona Center of Integrative Medicine. She is part of the Mindbodygreen "Collective" - the wellness website's curated group of top 50 experts in the wellness space. Her focus is on empowering people to reclaim their health through education, and public speaking. To that end, her centre offers comprehensive lifestyle programs, which focus on reversing chronic disease, as well as creating optimum wellness. She lives in Philadelphia with her partner Erica and their brood of rescue cats and dogs, and when not working, she is doing yoga, trail running, and cooking up delicious plant-based foods.