Download Through the Shadowlands: A Science Writer's Odyssey into an Illness Science Doesn't Understand AudioBook Free

Julie Rehmeyer thought like she would the desert to perish. Julie fully expected to be breathing at the end of the trip - but driving a vehicle into Death Valley thought like quitting, surrendering. She'd put in years battling a mysterious illness so extreme that she often couldn't turn over in her bed. The most notable specialists on earth were powerless to help, and research on her disease, chronic fatigue symptoms, was at a near standstill. Having exhausted the plausible ideas, Julie considered an implausible one. Heading against both her instincts and her training as a research journalist and mathematician, she adopted the advice of strangers she'd met on the Internet. Their theory - that mold in her home and possessions was making her unwell - struck her as wacky pseudoscience. But they had recovered from chronic fatigue symptoms as severe as hers. To test the idea that toxic mold was making her unwell, Julie drove into the desert alone, abandoning everything she held. She wasn't even certain she was well enough to look after herself once she was there. She thought stripped not only of the life she'd known, but any future she could visualize. With only her methodical savvy, investigative journalism skills, and dog, Frances, to count on, Julie carved out her own way to wellbeing - and uncovered how surprising scientific disregard and misconduct possessed forced her and an incredible number of others to move it by themselves. In stunning prose, she explains how her illness transformed her knowledge of science, medicine, and spirituality. With the Shadowlands brings methodical specialist to a misunderstood disease and spins an unbelievable and compelling report of tenacity, resourcefulness, popularity, and love.

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