How To Make Disease Disappear – by Dr. Rangan Chatterjee

We’ve previously reviewed a number of other books by Dr. Chatterjee, all of them good. This one’s perhaps his most generalized book that we’ve read, though it has a lot of overlap with his “Four Pillar Plan”, and indeed, each of those four pillars (relax, eat, move, sleep) gets a section in this book, each section getting 5 chapters on how to optimize the thing in question.

You may be wondering why “relax” and “sleep” don’t get one section between them; the idea of “relax” is about stress management, mindfulness (especially mindful eating), and so forth. Thus, it does connect to the other sections, but is very much its own topic also.

The premise is, as per the title, to “make disease disappear”. The way to do that, he argues, is through engaging in progressively healthy habits to accumulate chronic good health. With the 20 things you will be doing from the first four sections of 5 chapters each, you will be soon be well on your way, and he finishes up with “finding your balance”—because the trick, he says, is not to focus unduly on one, two, or even three of the pillar(s) as the expense of the other(s), but to ensure a good balance between them.

The style is light pop-science with a focus on readability; there are many personal accounts and examples, but nothing brash or self-serving, simply, illustrative. Indeed, he shows his mistakes as much as his successes, that we may learn from them.

Bottom line: this is, in essence, a rehash of his Four Pillar Plan, but tailored for an American audience. As such, American readers may find it more easily applicable than the previous book. Either way, the quality is just as good, so by all means take your pick between them.

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