The Art of Healing

About the Book

This is the autobiography of Marc Herlands, an attorney, who was crippled by chronic fatigue syndrome, depression and anger management issues beginning in November, 1974 at the age of 26. For the next 17 years, his doctors could not determine what were the causes of his problems nor offer any forms of extended relief. By the age of 43, Marc had become constantly exhausted, in chronic pain, very depressed, morbidly obese, and suicidal. Without hope of discovering the causes of his illnesses or finding remedies for his illnesses, he felt he had no reasonable choice but to take his own life. But then, in 1991, after leaving his fate up to God, his luck changed. His wife’s relentless desire to find a doctor who could heal her husband paid off. They were led to Dr. Gary J. Shima, MD, who had dedicated his medical practice to helping those chronically ill patients who were difficult to diagnose and treat. Though it took many years to discover all of the underlying causes of Marc’s health problems, and even more years to recover from all of his illnesses, Marc has finally reached his goal of full recovery. This is the story of what happened to Marc, and why, and what he had to do to return to health – while using many new techniques for healing. During his ordeal, Marc suffered and recovered from the following illnesses, conditions and syndromes: chronic fatigue syndrome fibromyalgia obesity alcoholism sugar addiction celiac disease depression Gulf War Syndrome

About the Author

Gary J. Shima, M.D. was born in Minneapolis, Minnosota in 1940. He attended Arcadia (California) High School, University of Southern California (USC) for college and medical School. He has been a licensed California medical physician since 1965, and Board Certified in Family Practice. He was the original medical director at Comprehensive Medical Center, now known as The Center for Advanced Medicine, in Encinitas, California, and is now the medical director at the Health and Longevity Institute in San Marcos, California. He has specialized in caring for patients whose illnesses are hard to diagnose and challenging to treat, using all appropriate modalities for treatment. Marc S. Herlands, J.D. was born in Cleveland, Ohio in 1948. He attended Shaker Heights (Ohio) High School, Tufts University, Georgetown University Law School and San Diego University Law School. He has practiced law in Ohio and California and Washington, D.C., focusing on taxation, real estate, business, probate and court management. He became very ill during his first year of practicing law at the age of 25, and it took 17 years to begin to discover the underlying causes of his illnesses with the help of his doctor, Gary Shima, MD and his wife. It took him another 23 years to finish his major therapies and recover from all of his major illnesses.