Would give this one six stars if i could! Such an important read about how to look after our bodies, paying attention on what we eat and ingest. I highly recommend it.

I was all set to give this book a higher rating, but then felt it didn't cover some crucial aspects of health pertaining to cancer. I've had cancer myself and that's why I'm letting myself get on my soap box.
While the information was really good and not stuff you'd usually hear anywhere else (and it actually made sense in that aha! way), there was a lot that is left lacking, too. For example, the author advocates for the consumption of nuts and lots of fresh produce, organic if possible. Not going to go into the debate of organic produce being too expensive (it is!), my point is, not everything that is supposed to be good will be good for everyone. Case in point - nuts are highly estrogenic, aka they convert into estrogen in the body. A good many of women's cancers, especially breast cancers, are estrogen-receptor positive and as such (simplifying, but it is the gist of it), having too much estrogen in the body can trigger more cancer in those cells. So telling someone who has had breast cancer which was estrogen-receptor positive to eat as many nuts as they can (and some fruits are also estrogenic, like strawberries and dates) is simply a recipe to poison their body with even more of the same hormone that caused their cancer in the first place.
The information is good on the whole, but this book read a lot like it wanted to be the 'be all and end all' of all cancer, but that is not the case as a lot is left unspoken, unmentioned, or we're simply told to 'go Google it and read about it' throughout

This book covers why we develop disease, how the disease develops, and how to defeat disease. What I liked most about the book was how easy it was to read and understand. The author did a great job explaining medical concepts in layman’s terms and showing how our environment impacts our health. I wish he had recommended specific supplements that are available to us in the U.S. Since the author is from Canada, his one recommendation was a Canadian company with very expensive supplements. Pictures and diagrams were not provided in the ARC, which I would’ve appreciated seeing. Other than that, I found the book very informative and worthwhile to read and apply to my own life and health. Thank you to NetGalley and the publisher for sharing this book with me.