A BOOK on healing by Palmyra-based functional medicine practitioner Jarrod Cooper has taken Amazon by storm and is already a number-one bestseller.

Cooper wanted to write the book after successfully treating thousands of chronically unwell patients who had been through the medical system but weren’t getting any better.

“People were coming to me having already done a lot,” he says.

“Changed their diet, taken supplements, seen multiple practitioners, spent thousands of dollars. 

“Intelligent, motivated people doing everything they were told to do. And they were still unwell.

“Not because they were not trying hard enough, but because nobody had shown them the order.

“They were doing the right things in the wrong sequence, and missing what I call ‘Health Blocks,’ the upstream drivers that were keeping them stuck.”

• Jarrod Cooper.

The book includes eight patient case studies.

“The Healing Hierarchy is a clinical framework that explains why the sequence you address your health in matters more than what you do,” Cooper says.

“Most health books give you a protocol. This book gives you a framework for understanding why protocols fail when the order is wrong and how to get the order right.

“It covers the foundations of recovery, the three tests that reveal what standard blood work misses, and the specific sequence that produces results that actually last.” 

Fatigue

Cooper says fatigue and gut issues were amongst the most common problems, but most patients have a combination of symptoms that don’t respond to conventional treatment.

“One patient who stands out is a woman in her mid-30s who had been repeatedly told her thyroid was normal,” he says.

“She had fatigue, weight gain, hair thinning, anxiety, and irregular periods. 

“Standard testing only checked one thyroid marker. When we ran a full panel her thyroid antibodies were 14 times the normal limit. 

“She had active Hashimoto’s that nobody had tested for.”

The book is receiving praise from other practitioners including Dr Izabella Wentz, the New York Times bestselling author of Hashimoto’s Protocol.

So what does Cooper, also a naturopathic doctor,  say to those who think functional medicine is a lot of new age baloney.

 “Healthy scepticism is a good thing,” he says.

“Question everything, including what I say. 

“What I would ask in return is whether the current approach is working.

“If someone has been told their labs are normal but they still feel terrible, that is worth investigating further,” he says.

The Healing Hierarchy: Restore Function. Rebuild Your Body was released this week. For more details see amazon.com.au/dp/B0DPXYMVGY and jarrodcoopernd.com.

by STEPHEN POLLOCK