WHY YOU ARE STILL SICK: How infections can break your immune system & How you can recover

Over 20 million Americans suffer from debilitating chronic illnesses with varying symptoms. Children can be healthy one day, then crippled the next with emotional outbursts and bizarre symptoms. High-achieving adults can find it impossible to focus or sustain their energy. Now we know why.

A new autoimmune disease has emerged. Exciting medical research at the cutting-edge has clearly identified the condition, but most physicians do not yet understand how the symptoms are connected, much less how to treat this disease, so you can regain your vitality.

WHY YOU ARE STILL SICK explains this new autoimmune disease and shows you the steps you can take to recover. The power to take charge of your own health is in your hands. These are the same techniques Dr. Gary Kaplan uses to treat autoimmune diseases at The Kaplan Center for Integrative Medicine with astonishing success.

Inspirational, enlightening and informative. This book bridges the gap between integrative and conventional medicine and supports your journey to healing. I highly recommend it.  

— Dr. Anna Cabeca, DO, OBGYN, FACOG, bestselling author of The Hormone Fix, Keto-Green 16 and MenuPause

Gary Kaplan is not only a pioneer in his field, he’s a badass who is changing the face of medicine. This book holds everything I wish I knew twenty years ago about autoimmunity. It’s an incredible resource for anyone with chronic pain and illness. It will bring hope and health to so many people. — Dave Asprey, founder, Bulletproof 360

When patients get told for the fifth time that their symptoms are all in their head, a window should open and Dr. Kaplan's book should come sailing though. This is critical book should be read by every medical student, nurse, and physician. — Sarah Ramey, Author of the critically acclaimed book The Lady’s Handbook for her Mysterious Illness

"What am I missing? What do others like me know that I don’t? I think there must be an answer out there for my pain and suffering what with all the fantastic medical advances of the last few years. I just don’t know what it is and sometimes I feel despair." If these thoughts have been going through your mind, then this book is for you. It provides a path and plan to finally alleviate your pain and suffering and return you to a time when you could just be you. This book is a breakthrough and a revelation and can truly help where others have failed.

— Richard Rossi

Dr. Kaplan takes us on a journey of understanding our immune mechanisms and the havoc that can occur when a system designed to protect from infection turns against us, resulting in autoimmunity. With the creative use of analogies, such as the “ravaging raccoons,” he helps us understand that a heightened immune response directed at our own cells can create a diverse constellation of symptoms from chronic fatigue to depression, irritable bowel and POTS. Touching vignettes from his own patients’ experiences illustrate the pitfalls of just treating individual symptoms and the critical need to identify and treat the underlying infectious disease at the root of the problem. Dr. Kaplan’s compassionate approach brings striking clarity to overwhelming symptoms and provides patients with a roadmap to recovery. 

— Helene A. Emsellem, MD,  Director, The Center for Sleep & Wake Disorders 

Our current healthcare system and research capability has mostly failed to help our patients with chronic, complex, and costly autoimmune diseases. Patients with these conditions feel lost and dismissed in our healthcare system. They have learned they need to educate themselves in order to navigate through the confusion and be better advocates for effective healthcare. Our immune system protects us, but past infections and chronic, difficult to detect current infections and other danger triggers can provoke our immune system to cause chronic illness. The Step-By-Step Guide to Recovery section of the book helps patients to understand treatment options that are available. Knowledge of these options helps patients make better informed consent decisions. In short, Dr Kaplan’s book gives the general public knowledge of both complex autoimmune disease and treatment options; and knowledge is empowering.

— Robert C Bransfield, MD, , Distinguished Life Fellow, American Psychiatric Association