Chatterjee brings over 17 years of medical practice and medical research together with a historical and practical approach to overall health and well-being. Chatterjee doen't wait for the science to prove in all circumstances that something has a causation before implementing a number of practices with patients that he found have significantly improved their health and removed their pain and symptoms. The main components include relaxation, foods, movement, and sleep. These four pillars highlight the primary things we need to be doing to significantly improve our lives. As an over simplistic overview: The stress of our non-stop modern western lifestyle is killing us by constantly keeping the body in a physiological fight or flight response which doesn't provide it time to proper regeneration of cells or down time in which to do it. The processed foods we eat are basically poison that we were not genetically designed to eat and in our day we are eating larger quantities of poor quality food stuff rather than the right quantities of high quality natural food. Our lives have become increasingly more sedentary and that has limited our movement which is decreasing muscle mass and flexibility. The huge adaptation of electricity into society along with television and smart phones means we are never without electronic stimulus which has multiple negative effects, the greatest perhaps being the contributions to negative impact on sleep. We are sleeping less today on average than our ancestors did even 50 years ago and that difference matters in our body's ability to thrive. Running through all of these themes are the links between the physical food and movement and the mental and emotional impact the right lifestyle has on providing a well-balanced healthy life. Chatterjee argues and shows sufficient evidence that many of the pains, disease, and mental health challenges we face are a function of our modern lifestyle and can be remedied faster and more effectively by changing how we eat and how we live rather than a cocktail of medicines. The body is a complex organism that developed and adapted over hundreds of thousands and millions of years and no single piece of it can be cordoned off and treated independently like you would the parts to a car engine, if one part isn't doing the proper job it's going to negatively impact the rest and those parts will start to degrade as well when they have to perform functions they weren't designed for or at a capacity that exceeds the body's ability to regenerate new cells. I'm working to make significant changes based on information in this book and going to see if I can't eliminate many of the chronic pain that I have been experiencing the last few years.

A very interesting approach to whole-health. Dr. Chatterjee is a physician in the UK and writes about his progressive medical approach with his patients. He believes that basic changes in four ares can change the course of disease and prevent/control/eliminate chronic issues. He structures them into four pillars: Eat, Move, Sleep and Relax. Part of his thesis is that the interconnection of these pillars impacts our health and staying in balance can make us healthier.

How to Make Disease Disappear is a quick read (I don't normally read health books) and his approach resonated with me. I am making my husband and daughters read it. No need to purchase exercise tools or follow a complicated diet. I have already deleted notifications from my phone, am trying to spend 20 minutes outside every morning and working on eating five vegetables a day! We will see if I can make more changes and see an impact on my inflammatory arthritis.

Shout out to Monika for suggesting this book to me!

I ordered the book after watching Dr. Chatterjee's TED talk which came across extremely balanced in the "Carbs are bad", "Fat is bad", "Urban life is bad" totalities.

It was a fast, balanced read. Extremely practical advice and balanced between giving too much and too little information. Looking forward to incorporating more healthy habits that the doctor suggests.

A very nice book of useful and uncomplicated steps to feeling better. Sure, we already do much of this, but a few we’ve slacked off on, and there were some new ideas we’ll try. Some of the text was informative, some was anecdotal, some was less than fully supported, and some was a bit woo-woo, so take what you need and leave the rest. We need more books like this that make it easy to make improvements in your health.

This book is a really easy read and full of practical advice that anyone will benefit from.

This whole book is gold! Chatterjee has a way of creating believable non-condescending ways to make your life better, happier, and healthier.

I'd recommend this book for people looking to learn the basics on how to improve health and happiness. This book provides you with the foundations, or "big wins", and communicates it in a simple, common-sense manner that is non-judgy and encouraging.

This book contains many simple life hacks for being healthier, all presented in a straightforward and clear voice and backed by real-life examples and/or scientific studies. I'm now a big fan of his YouTube channel (the exercises are detailed there). Pick this up from your library and start in on the easy list. Gems!

I don’t love the title of this book because it immediately rings the “pseudoscience” alarm bells. However, the content seems (to the best of my admittedly limited knowledge) to be anything but. The title in the UK is “The Four Pillar Plan,” which I think is much better.

I heard Dr. Chatterjee on the Rich Roll podcast and decided to start the audiobook when I noticed my library offered it. I found his advice extremely practical and though I’ve heard most of it before, he managed to organize and explain the information in a way that made it SO much more actionable. The content was concise and I was able to take notes with ease. I’m looking forward to implementing his plan to see if it brings me closer to achieving my own health and lifestyle goals.