Julie Rehmeyer. (2017). Through the Shadowlands: A Science Writer's Odyssey into an Illness Science Doesn't Understand. Harmony/Rodale.

Julie Rehmeyer. 2017. Through the Shadowlands: A Science Writer's Odyssey Into an Illness Science Doesn't Understand. Harmony/Rodale.

Julie Rehmeyer, Through the Shadowlands: A Science Writer's Odyssey Into an Illness Science Doesn't Understand. Harmony/Rodale, 2017.

Julie Rehmeyer. Through the Shadowlands: A Science Writer's Odyssey Into an Illness Science Doesn't Understand. Harmony/Rodale, 2017.

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   • bioText: JULIE REHMEYER is an award-winning mathematics and science writer. She is a contributing editor to Discover Magazine, and has been published in the New York Times, Washington Post, Wired, Slate, Science News, and more. Her stories have been featured on The History Channel and NPR’s All Things Considered. She is the 2016 recipient of Ted Scripps Environmental Journalism Fellow at The University of Colorado, Boulder, and the Excellence in Statistical Reporting Award. She lives in Santa Fe, NM.
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Julie Rehmeyer felt like she was going to the desert to die.
Julie fully expected to be breathing at the end of the trip—but driving into Death Valley felt like giving up, surrendering. She’d spent years battling a mysterious illness so extreme that she often couldn’t turn over in her bed. The top specialists in the world were powerless to help, and research on her disease, chronic fatigue syndrome, was at a near standstill.
Having exhausted the plausible ideas, Julie turned to an implausible one. Going against both her instincts and her training as a science journalist and mathematician, she followed the advice of strangers she’d met on the Internet. Their theory—that mold in her home and possessions was making her sick—struck her as wacky pseudoscience. But they had recovered from chronic fatigue syndrome as severe as hers.
To test the theory that toxic mold was making her sick, Julie drove into the desert alone, leaving behind everything she owned. She wasn’t even certain she was well enough to take care of herself once she was there. She felt stripped not only of the life she’d known, but any future she could imagine.
With only her scientific savvy, investigative journalism skills, and dog, Frances, to rely on, Julie carved out her own path to wellness—and uncovered how shocking scientific neglect and misconduct had forced her and millions of others to go it alone. In stunning prose, she describes how her illness transformed her understanding of science, medicine, and spirituality. Through the Shadowlands brings scientific authority to a misunderstood disease and spins an incredible and compelling story of tenacity, resourcefulness, acceptance, and love.

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   • source: Meghan O'Rourke, author of The Long Goodbye
   • content: "Julie Rehmeyer's inspiring memoir of surviving the ravages of M.E/C.F.S casts much-needed light on what it's like to live with a poorly understood disease. Humorous, compassionate, and motivated throughout by curiosity, Through the Shadowlands will powerfully illuminate this murky realm for anyone wondering what it's like to suffer and survive."
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   • source: Joan Borysenko, New York Times bestselling author of Minding the Body, Mending the Mind
   • content: "Only a brilliant science writer could possibly traverse the mysterious landscape of America's most misunderstood affliction with such grace. From the politics of scientific research to the far reaches of alternative medicine; from the nitty gritty of molecules to the depths of raw emotion -- this is a riveting story that will change lives."
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   • source: Nancy Klimas, Director of the Institute for Neuro Immune Medicine and Professor of Medicine at Nova Southeastern University
   • content: "Julie Rehmeyer's self-taught journey through the murky world of mycotoxins, which she shares so eloquently in this book, has helped our whole clinical team change our protocols. With the help of the expert training of the American Academy of Environmental Medicine, we are now testing and treating people with mycotoxin poisoning. It is wonderful to see people getting better!"
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     April 1, 2017
     

     Science journalist Rehmeyer, contributing editor at Discover magazine, takes readers on a journey through her struggle with Chronic Fatigue Syndrome (CFS), an illness for which the medical establishment had no cure. Once a strong individual who ran marathons and performed search-and-rescue operations, the author sometimes felt so weak that she couldn't even move in bed. After an exhaustive course of visiting doctors, being tested repeatedly, and even being labeled with a psychosomatic disorder, she took matters into her own hands and headed out into the desert, heeding advice from Internet strangers about a possible link between her illness and mold. Rehmeyer became her own doctor and found herself contradicting earlier findings of the scientific community, with the results being a better understanding of the processes her body had gone through. Like Sarah Myhill's Diagnosis and Treatment of Chronic Fatigue Syndrome and Myalgic Encephalitis, this book encourages readers to consider causations and natural treatments that mainstream science has not delved into. VERDICT This personal account will appeal to CFS patients who are looking beyond the usual diagnoses and prognoses. The writer's reputation as a scientist will be of interest to researchers and medical professionals.--Bonnie Parker, Southern Crescent Technical Coll., Thomaston, GA

     Copyright 2017 Library Journal, LLC Used with permission.

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     December 19, 2016
     Science journalist Rehmeyer’s deeply personal illness memoir stands out for the lucidity of her self-analysis and pragmatism about managing a life turned upside down by chronic fatigue syndrome (CFS). She emerges as simultaneously a science journalist frustrated with established medicine’s dismissiveness, a patient open to the pseudoscientific approaches of non-traditional practitioners, and a desperate woman reaching out to suffering peers on the Internet for support and advice. This last avenue ultimately leads her to an extreme removal of mold from her environment, starting with a body-resetting solo expedition to Death Valley. Exploring ideas of dependence and self-sufficiency, Rehmeyer shows her illness through the lens of her personal relationships—with her strange and abusive mother, mentally ill first husband, mostly distant siblings, and two successive partners, the second of whom is supportive where the first one is not. In this way, she explores her illness’s psychological aspects while never giving up the idea that CFS has a real and profound physiological component. Rehmeyer’s frustrated but cautiously optimistic story will resonate with readers who value an intelligent, scientific approach to life but wonder what to do when there aren’t any good answers. Agent: David Doerrer, Abrams Artists Agency.

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     April 1, 2017
     Most of us know what it feels like to be bone-weary exhausted. But a good night's rest usually allows us to wake up the next day feeling refreshed. But not Rehmeyer. A mathematician and science journalist, she reveals what it is like to live with chronic fatigue syndrome, a mysterious illness that still bewilders doctors. She describes feeling so tired that she could barely walk, never mind work, because of overwhelming lethargy. After seeing doctor after doctor who failed to help her, she decided to head for the desert, fully expecting to die. But instead, she slowly learned how to manage her illness. She worked when she could; she socialized when she felt up to it. She experimented with her diet. She met with an immunologist. She researched the possible causes of her condition, looking into the effects of mold and trauma on the human body, and she studied the positive effects of physic healing. I'm doing really well, she concludes, but I'm also not cured. A hopeful memoir laced with ample doses of reality.(Reprinted with permission of Booklist, copyright 2017, American Library Association.)

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Julie Rehmeyer felt like she was going to the desert to die.
Julie fully expected to be breathing at the end of the trip—but driving into Death Valley felt like giving up, surrendering. She’d spent years battling a mysterious illness so extreme that she often couldn’t turn over in her bed. The top specialists in the world were powerless to help, and research on her disease, chronic fatigue syndrome, was at a near standstill.
Having exhausted the plausible ideas, Julie turned to an implausible one. Going against both her instincts and her training as a science journalist and mathematician, she followed the advice of strangers she’d met on the Internet. Their theory—that mold in her home and possessions was making her sick—struck her as wacky pseudoscience. But they had recovered from chronic fatigue syndrome as severe as hers.
To test the theory that toxic mold was making her sick, Julie drove into the desert alone, leaving behind...

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