Every book is a collective activity, and none more so than this one, which bears the silent fingerprints of a raft of people involved with What Doctors Don’t Tell You, the publication and website, since its beginnings in 1989.
Much of the information contained in this book represents the best material gathered over the years about arthritis by a number of WDDTY writers and editors, and published in one form or another in our newsletter magazine, or on our website. They include, chiefly, Bryan Hubbard, Lynne McTaggart and Joanna Evans, but also Dr Harald Gaier, WDDTY’s Medical Detective. We are also indebted to a number of doctors and practitioners for their help with research and ideas, particularly Dr John Mansfield.
Thanks are particularly due to Cate Montana, who was involved in the initial assembly of this material; Emilie Crosier, for crosschecking the facts and hundreds of references cited in this book; and Jo Evans, for some last-minute edits and additions.
The entire Hay House team has our deep gratitude for their enthusiastic and courageous embracing of this project, but most particularly Reid Tracy, Michelle Pilley, Julie Oughton and Jo Burgess. We are also indebted to Bob Saxton and Lucy Buckroyd, for their careful copyediting and suggestions, which improved the manuscript in countless ways.
Finally we are grateful to the other members of WDDTY’s indefatigable UK team, who add to its mission in countless ways, including Jimmy Egerton, Sharyn Wong, Trevor Jayakody, Laura Ramsay, Kelly-Marie During, Buster Manston, Mark Jones, Bruce Sawford, Emilie Crosier, Rick Greer and our teams at Comag and Esco who handle distribution and subscriptions.
Two others are responsible, in a sense, for the birth of this manuscript. As a young journalist, one of us (Lynne) was privileged to edit the work of Dr Robert Mendelsohn, whose prescient views about medicine initially influenced both of us. We were also extremely fortunate to have come across Dr Stephen Davies, the nutritional pioneer who not only successfully treated Lynne’s condition but also helped us to view disease and the means to treat it in a completely new light. They were the midwives who gave birth to what has become a major focus of our journalistic work – what we have come to believe is the biggest, most important story of all.