The Homocysteine Solution: The fast new way to dramatically improve your health (Tom Thorne Novels)

Excellent book. Explains the role of homocysteine, the levels that are good or would benefit from attention, and a plan to help restore a good homocysteine level. I bought 2 for myself then a further 3 copies for my children.

Worth diving into as it’s a fascinating and informative book which could be lifesaving for many?! I would highly recommend

Easy for anyone to read, if rather wordy. Everyone should know about homocysteine - and the Medical Profession should ACT, making the measurement of Blood Homocysteine levels Routine.

OMG everybody should read this! My partner has rheumatoid arthritis, high blood pressure, migraines, he had a homocysteine test and was over 30 and off the scale. He is on the supplements recommended in this book so will do a follow up to this if I can in a few months when he has a retest. It really is worth having a test especially if you have a chronic health problem or autoimmune disease (also if you are considering having a baby). He had a club foot. at birth, we hadnt realised but this means that it is highly likely that both his parents also have high homocysteine levels. A very interesting book!

Excellent book along with other titles from Patrick Holford. The content of his book really does make sense and cross referencing the material supports his theory. Content rich and well worth the investment. Nature really does have most of the answers to maintaining optimal health already however pharmaceutical companies are not at all interested for obvious reasons. GP's should also brush up on the latest research and should not be influenced by the big pharmaceutical companies who fund GP training and offer incentives for towing the line. I have a number of titles on epigenetics and they support his findings and I rate this book highly.

I enjoy reading health books and try to read about different approaches to achieving a healthy life. This one here is a good one but dare I say dangerous book if this is one's first heath book read. Homocysteine in a non-scientific explanation, is a marker for health, which the author argues it is better than other markers like the cholesterol checking. Bear in mind while reading this book that Patrick Holford, the author, isn't the one who discovered the homocysteine, but wanted to grow the awareness of it. The author explains what homocysteine is and how it affects us and then proceeds at recommending a diet and supplements to remedy one's health status. The diet and supplement recommendations are separated from the homocysteine science and is all the author's view on how the homocysteine marker can be lowered in a person. Mr Holford keeps saying throughout his book how a high level of homocysteine could affect us and bring a plethora of bad events upon us from birth defects to cancer and even plain migraines. There is actually a whole list the author provides, and it's almost everything you can imagine, which apparently is caused by a high level of homocysteine. Caused by homocysteine...now this is the main focus of the author. And he argues that with a proper diet (of his devise) and supplements we can achieve super healthy status (along with enough physical and mental activities - but he doesn't focus on these ones). The high level of homocysteine though is actually caused by a bad diet. So one can argue that bad eating habits contribute greatly towards those awful diseases. But this is not what the author wants you to concentrate on, he argues that is the high homocysteine level directly provokes them. The author says, and this is probably why so many people have him in high regard, that drugs are not the solution but diet and supplements. He ticks a lot of boxes when he argues against drugs. He also argues that doctors shouldn't say diet or supplement will get you better, but diet and supplements will get you better...therefore greatly promoting the supplements. But what are supplements? Are they natural food or drugs? Well, since they're chemically synthesized in a laboratory or plant, can they be natural food? I honestly think not. Plenty of scientific evidence on how supplements are badly absorbed by our body. What's worse there's evidence that if we supplement long term, we will diminish our abilities to absorb nutriments from food and thus rely wholly on supplementing. Don't know about you, but that is a chilling thought for me. My opinion is that we should look to our eating habits and along the way we should look about engaging in good, fun physical and mental activities for a healthy life. It's true that if we find ourselves in bad health and want to regain our health faster, we should supplement as well, but that can only be a short term decision. Supplementing long term will eventually bring us down...hard. To end the longest review I've made so far, a couple of notes about Mr Holford's recommended diet: 1) The author recommends lean meat as opposed to saturated fat. Don't know what is the evidence he can came up with to support this, but now there is a ton of evidence of how indispensable is saturated fat to support good health, and I encourage everybody to read it. Lean meat is 100% protein. We need protein that's for sure, but the quantity of it depends on one's daily activities, especially the physical ones. Now saturated fat, which sounds awful, but actually the best source of it is actually offal...as in liver, heart, kidney, brain and well essentially the organs of an animal. It contains a lot of vitamins and minerals which you cannot find in lean meat or vegetables for that matter and contains both protein and fat so you basically shoot 2 birds with one stone. 2) The author recommends soy. Now this is maybe he's biggest flaw in the book. There was a time when soy was extremely recommended for a healthy life, but I think in the last couple of years there have been plenty of ink on paper to destroy this myth. Yes I know the Chinese eat plenty of it...or wait...do they? This has always been the main focus of the pro soy people, but at a close inspection, a different picture forms. Chinese, and Asians for that matter, don't eat plain soy, but the fermented version of it. And even in this form, it's just one of the many things a Chinese person eats. There is no preference for soy in the Asian diet. You might think then that fermented soy products are good to eat, like the author wants you to believe. The problem is that the market versions of these products are far from what are they supposed to be. If you really want miso or tofu, do the home version of them. Don't ever buy them from a market, even an Asian one. What's funny enough is that even the author half-heartedly admits that soy might be of some trouble to those people which are allergic to soy products. I would just say avoid them like the plague. There is nothing in the soy products that you need and won't find in other food products. 3) The author has a tendency to contradict himself. He advises against grains, then he says that folate fortified grain products might be a good idea. Furthermore we provides other evidence which shows that fortified grains might not increase one's level of folate and a bit further provides evidence that the same grains increases the level of folate in a person...so are folate fortified grains good or not? On a funny side note, he recommends liver as it is rich in choline and TMG...well isn't this ironic that liver is saturated fat, the very thing Mr Holford advised against? 4) Quote: "France has one of the lowest rates of heart disease in Europe, despite a high consumption of wine, cholesterol and foods rich in saturated fat – a phenomenon called the ‘French Paradox’." Well isn't this convenient...so if evidence of the contrary appears, just label it as paradox. Hah! As a final note, what's with all these may/maybe/possibly in the author's sentences? I know the homocysteine science is only at the beginning, but still he uses one to many assumptions which makes you think how many of these presented facts are just wishful thinking...

I would highly recommend this book to everyone. All of Patrick Holford's books are excellent. The subject of homocysteine is extremely interesting and in the future I am sure it will be regularly referred to when talking about health and avoiding illness. Checking your homocysteine level is easy and the plan in this book for lowering your level thereby increasing your health and decreasing your chance of getting cancer, heart problems, dementia and more is practical and straightforward.

This book was recommended to me by my Hollistic Therapist. Described to me as a life saver! I bought this book to educate myself further and I’m so glad I did!! Just wish I’d known about Homocysteine last year before we suddenly and most unexpectedly lost our dear brother in law! It’s a MUST read and I’m telling everyone I know about getting their Homocysteine checked and of course to read this book!

I did not know that a high homocysteine level in my blood analysis was more dangerous that a high cholesterol. The book explains clearly why homocysteine is dangerous and how to reduce it

A most informative book which, yet again, highlights the fact that there are excellent, proven and workable natural treatments for many of our ailments. In this case the analysis of the effect that high homocystein has on so many aspects of your health, and the proven way to correct the problems, is truly astonishing, and one can understand "big pharma" trying to negate natural remedies!

If you want to know the REAL cause(s) of some of the most horrifying - and all-too-comon diseases associated with aging...heart disease; stroke; diabetes-related complications; Alzheimer's...and MANY others...you MUST read this book. Homocysteine is the single greatest threat to your health. And you can (and should) get your blood levels tested if you are truly serious about preventing / controlling / reversing up to as many as a whopping ONE HUNDRED different ailments. I have been in the nutritional supplement industry for twenty years. And I can tell you with great certainty that individuals that have safe levels of homocysteine have little or no physical & neurodegenerative diseases. On the other end of the spectrum, those individuals I knew that had highly elevated homocysteine levels suffered significantly from physical and/or neurodegenerative diseases, took a lot of medications, had to make many visits to their doctors, had a lot of expensive medical testing and surgeries, were miserable, and usually died at a much earlier age than individuals with "safe" homocysteine levels. If you buy only one "health book" - The Homocysteine Solution is THE ONE you should buy - no ifs, ands, or buts about it.

Very clearly written, repetitions don't bother. Even if the book is from 2002! it is probably still totally relevant. Very well , clearly explained. Maybe the "side-effects" of too aggressive treatment should have been stressed,as they are mentioned in other places [detoxification effects??] Also , how fast is improvement expected in serious cardiovascular cases in the experience of the writers,in case they have personal experience?? What about vitamin K shortage and D,should they not be mentioned at the same tine even shortly when speaking about cvd?

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