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Through the Shadowlands: A Science Writer’s Odyssey into an Illness Science Doesn’t Understand

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Julie Rehmeyer felt like she used to be going to the desert to die.

Julie fully expected to be breathing at the end of the commute―but driving into Death Valley felt like giving up, surrendering. She’d spent years battling a mysterious illness so extreme that she regularly couldn’t turn over in her bed. The top specialists on the planet were powerless to help, and research on her disease, chronic fatigue syndrome, used to be at a near standstill.

Having exhausted the plausible ideas, Julie turned to an out of this world one. Going against both her instincts and her training as a science journalist and mathematician, she followed the advice of strangers she’d met on the Internet. Their theory―that mold in her home and possessions used to be making her ill―struck her as wacky pseudoscience. But they had recovered from chronic fatigue syndrome as severe as hers.

To test the theory that toxic mold used to be making her ill, Julie drove into the desert alone, leaving at the back of everything she owned. She wasn’t even certain she used to be well enough to maintain herself once she used to be there. She felt stripped not only of the life she’d known, but any future she could believe.

With only her scientific savvy, investigative journalism skills, and dog, Frances, to rely on, Julie carved out her own path to wellness―and uncovered how shocking scientific neglect and misconduct had forced her and millions of others to go it alone. In stunning prose, she describes how her illness transformed her understanding of science, medicine, and spirituality. Through the Shadowlands brings scientific authority to a misunderstood disease and spins an implausible and compelling story of tenacity, resourcefulness, acceptance, and love.

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