Dermot O'Connor misses out 2 vital factors in his 5-step recovery plan, the 1st one being DETOXIFICATION! You cannot rebuild and maintain a healthy immune system without cleansing it first, and I wasted £2,500 on acupuncture and Chinese medicine as a result of this book trying. Dermot also omits the importance of chiropractic treatment and the fact that misaligned vertebra can often cause many of the symptoms of MS. The spine is the backbone of the nervous system and correcting it must therefore be part of the key to the cure. In addition, he claims to have had a "particularly virulent strain of MS" - that is simply not true! All he had were 2 minor sensory attacks. A lot of people have these, do nothing and get better anyway. Dermot's so-called "recovery" would have been much more believable and convincing if he had been far more debilitated, ie if he had lost his mobility and/or his health had been rapidly deteriorating. Some of his suggestions are quite ridiculous too. You are not going to cure yourself of a serious illness by "punching a bag to get rid of your anger" or "imagining long blue roots extending from your feet into the earth" etc! Plus if you are seriously disabled from MS or any other disease, then you are not going to be able to do most of the exercises he recommends. These are really aimed at people who have minor illnesses or minor attacks of serious illnesses. At best this book has some useful tips. Take out of it what you want/need and dump the rest, but don't treat it as your bible.