Infection Game

Dr Sarah Myhill qualified in medicine (with Honours) from Middlesex Hospital Medical School in 1981and has since focused tirelessly on identifying and treating the underlying causes of health problems, especially the `diseases of civilisation’ with which we are beset in the West. She has worked in NHS and private practice and for 17 years was the Hon Secretary of the British Society for Ecological Medicine, which focuses on the causes of disease and treating through diet, supplements and avoiding toxic stress. She helps to run and lectures at the Society’s training courses and also lectures regularly on organophosphate poisoning, the problems of silicone, and chronic fatigue syndrome. Visit her website at www.drmyhill.co.ukCraig Robinson took a first in Mathematics at Oxford University in 1985. He then joined Price Waterhouse and qualified as a Chartered Accountant in 1988, after which he worked as a lecturer in the private sector, and also in The City of London, primarily in Financial Sector Regulation roles. Craig first met Sarah in 2001, as a patient for the treatment of his CFS, and since then they have developed a professional working relationship, where he helps with the maintenance of www.drmyhill.co.uk, the moderating of Dr Myhill's Facebook groups and other ad hoc projects, as well as with the editing and writing of her books.

• I: Life is an arms race we are already losing: Life is an arms race; Infections that drive modern Western diseases; The immune system is our standing army; Your enemy is fiendishly clever; We are already losing the arms race; II: The starting point is to improve our defences: The general approach to avoiding and treating infection: 1 – improve the defences with diet, micronutrients and sleep; 2 – Energy delivery mechanisms; The gut microbiome; Vitamin C – our most important weapon; Iodine – a great all-rounder; Electromagnetic radiation; Dentists, doctors and other foreign bodies; Herbals – delicious doctoring; Use your brain; Groundhog Basic; III: How to treat acute infections that have got past your defences: Who is the enemy; Groundhog Acute; Acute coughs, colds, flus and their complications; Measles, mumps, rubella, chicken pox and other such friendly immune programmers; Acute gut infections; UTIs; Skin infections; STDs; Dental infections and mouth ulcers; Fermenting upper gut; Fungi and yeast; IV: Do you have a chronic infection? Chronic infection; Chronic `stealth’ infections; Groundhog Chronic; Chronic infection of the gut; EBV and other herpes viruses; Lyme disease; Bartonella and babesia; Mycoplasma and chlamydia; Rickettsia and Yersinia; Preventing antibiotic damage to the gut microbiome; All other infections; V: Be prepared for the kill: First aid box contents; See the whole picture