A Mind of Your Own

This is one of the worst ‘pseudo-science' books I have ever read. She criticises ‘Big Pharma' for using studies with small sample sizes and for failing to control for placebo effects – but then the studies she posts as sources for her truly outrageous claims are so completely flawed it's hard to know where to begin in criticising them.

I was hoping for a book that explained some of the science behind depression, and had some of the studies of the recent links between the microbiome and mental health. What I got was an angry, controversy theorists' rantings about the evils of antidepressants, antibiotics, statins, vaccines and painkillers.

Her healing ‘plan' seems to be a version of whole30/paleo, with some meditation and exercise thrown in. Though, disclaimer, I quit this book 40% of the way through because I just couldn't take any more.