Back on our Eat Real to Heal show is Susannah Meadows
Suzannah Meadows is the eloquently brilliant author of The Other Side of Impossible: Ordinary People Who Faced Daunting Medical Challenges and Refused to Give Up. After writing "The Boy With a Thorn in His Joints," in the New York Times Magazine about her young son's arthritis and her family's efforts to help him get better using a variety of therapies, including changing his diet. The story became the basis of her book, "The Other Side of Impossible,"
Meadows is Senior Staff Editor at The New York Times, a former Senior Writer for Newsweek and has contributed to The New York Times since 2002. She lives with her husband and twin boys in Brooklyn.
When Suzannah noticed her three-year-old son, Shepherd, shying away from soccer practice, she had no idea it was the first sign of juvenile idiopathic arthritis. The diagnosis was the first step of a long journey, physically painful for Shepherd and emotionally wrenching for her family. But they pressed on, and using a combination of traditional and complementary medicine they beat the disease, and the odds. In this show, we discuss the one consistent and powerful muscle that all people who overcome illnesses have developed. And Susannah shares what you can do to strengthen that muscle - just like she did - which helped her make the switch to a plant-based organic lifestyle to reverse juvenile idiopathic arthritis in her 3-year old son.