I received a free copy of this book from Readers First in exchange for an honest review. I haven’t ready many self-help/lifestyle medicine books before so I was intrigued to look into this one. Although I think this book had a lot of relevant information, I felt that it was in some respects trivialising certain medical conditions, effectively writing them off as curable if you practice a mindful lifestyle, and to me this is a dangerous approach, especially coming from an author who is a GP. I still think these conditions need to be thoroughly checked out to ensure they are not masking anything more sinister or are being left to develop into more chronic medical complaints. I tried to keep an open mind when reading this book but I found it a proper mission to get through and I don’t think any of the information was particularly new. To me, the book was just recycling things that have already been said, given the official stamp of a practising GP author, and given an extra checklist from a Christian point of view. The book did not immediately indicate that it was going to be religious so this was also slightly off-putting for me. There are constant references and biblical quotes throughout but also don’t have enough in-depth discussion behind them to flesh out the points the author is trying to get across – they just pepper the text but don’t really contribute anything of practical use which is what the book is supposed to be all about. I think these elements were what gave the book an excuse to be different so it could get published but, despite occasional interesting statistics that made sense and were interesting, overall there was just something lacking for me.