Seven Weeks to Sobriety: The Proven Program to Fight Alcoholism Through Nutrition

by Joan Mathews Larson

Book Overview

"Comprehensive, rational and personal. It suppplies much of what is missing in traditional approaches to alcoholic rehabilitation. I believe that this book can save lives." Leo Galland, M.D. Open this... This description may be from another edition of this product.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0449002594
• ISBN13: 9780449002599
• Release Date: October 1997
• Publisher: Ballantine Books
• Length: 368 Pages
• Weight: 0.72 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.8" x 5.5" x 8.2"

Customer Reviews

Gives the dynamics of your body response to alcohol. There is so much more to it than “ just say sto

Haven’t found anything similar would like to see more from her about this. It helps mentally as well because the person sees they are not a loser and there is help there is hope.

This Book Works.

I read this book ten and a half years ago and haven't had alcohol since. I drank heavily for twelve years and tried countless times over those years to cut back or quit altogether -- I tried counseling, AA, Antabuse, and every book on the shelves at the time; nothing worked. The approach in this book worked the first time. For most of the past decade, I rarely even think about alcohol. AA is NOT the only answer. Read this book. If it makes sense to you, try it. Some days still won't be easy but you may find you have a fighting chance for once.

A marriage saver!

I learned about this book when I attended my first Alanon meeting. My husband had just come off another binge and I was at my end. He agreed to stop drinking to save our marriage and began attending AA meetings, but it wasn't enough. He'd stopped drinking before and always returned to it eventually. He needed a different solution. So, I purchased this book and we both sat down and read it. I didn't order the vitamins through their treatment center, but found everything we needed through Puritan's Pride There are A LOT of vitamins to swallow, but it's worth it. We learned that there are different types of alcoholism and that there is a chemical imbalance that causes the cravings and mood swings. By replacing what your body is missing, you can eliminate all of these things. If you are skeptical, try it and you'll be convinced. My husband was skeptical and now he's been sober, HAPPY, free from depression and mood swings, and has NO DESIRE TO DRINK for 6 months now. These changes began happening overnight. As soon as he introduced the right chemicals (through the vitamins) into his system, he began to feel "normal". I more than recommend this book, I insist on its importance to the health and well-being of anyone that wants/needs to quit drinking. So often it's the emotional side-effects of quitting drinking that drives the drinker back to their old ways - depression, anxiety, mood swings, anger, frustration, etc. Quitting drinking is not enough to save a marriage, as we found. You have to fix the emotional side as well. By fixing the WHOLE PROBLEM, we've saved our marriage and our family. Thank you to the developers of this system and the authors of this book. I will forever be grateful for what this book has done for our lives. Thank you, thank you, thank you!!!

Interesting...

I have often wondered what we as AA have to offer a detoxing newcomer other than "let go and let God", only to watch them get drunk before the night is over. Then we sit back and say "he isn't ready" or "she can't get honest". Larsons book opens many possibilities for AA and others to explore, and takes James Millam's book "Under The Influence" to a new level. I believe the conventional treatment industry and AA is going to be slow to try a new approach, even with thier dismal success rates, but Larson may have opened the door a little wider. This book is definatly worth a read, if at the very least, only to educate yourself as to some of the physical aspects of alcoholism, and at the very most, a working sobriety and knowledge to share with others. The only criticism I have is some of her dubious statistics, and her failure to offer sources for many of her nutrients other than her facility. I imagine that a practicing alcoholic could get frustrated going store to store trying to collect the numerous supplements, and a simple guide would go a long way in helping someone find these things. I hope that future authors will take the idea further. Perhaps it is time we began to take the treatment of alcoholism out of the 1930's.

Free at last

I have struggled with crack cocaine abuse for fifteen years and sought out many different forms of treatment with little or no success.After countless N.A.meetings,5 treatment centers and several private counsellors,I was unable to find a solution to my overpowering cravings.After reading 7 weeks to sobriety,I inquired about a cocaine formula which to my suprise they had.I immediatly ordered and began using the formula,which to my(and my families)amazement,began to work within 48 hours.Since that time I have not experienced a single craving for cocaine and have completly changed my outlook and behavior.I always knew there was something missing in traditional treatment and am grateful to Dr.Larson for finding that missing link.I encourage everyone who is struggling with an addiction to get a copy of 7 weeks to sobriety and follow her recommendations and I am sure you will find success as I have.

Traditional medical treatments for alcoholism are deadly.

After killing her alcohol-addicted son by inflicting him with traditional medical and psychological treatments, i.e., "tough love" in a psychiatric jail, Dr. Mathews learned the hard way that such methods are medical malpractice and a waste of time and money. By treating a patient as a sick human being instead of a prisoner to be tortured in a dungeon, a series of laboratory tests are needed to check for underlying diseases and malnutrition. Since these tests cut profitability of traditional alcoholism treatment corporations, such "hospitals" do not bother with these critical tests. Therefore, Dr. Mathews describes how to get these tests done outside the alcoholism treatment community. Anyone attempting to recover from alcohol addiction--or anyone attempting to help someone else beat this addiction--absolutely needs the life-saving information this book supplies. As Dr. Mathews reveals, "The best-kept secret of alcoholism treatment today is that it doesn't work.... A fascinating study at the Kansas City Veterans Administration Medical Center demonstrated what can be expected.... Inexplicably, the alcoholics who got no treatment at all did slightly better than those in either of the other two groups." According to a report by the 1980 Rand Report, only 7% of treated alcoholics remained sober after only four years. A 1985 report in The New England Journal of Medicine found 45% of alcoholism patients treated in one hospital were dead within the 7-year time span of the study. In other words, if you want yourself or a loved one to survive, avoid traditional alcoholic treatment hospitals like the plague. Either follow the medical and nutritional advice found in this book, or attend Dr. Mathews' and Dr. Sehnert's clinic (or find a clinic that uses the authors' Minnesota Model).