Product details
- ISBN 9781781612729
- Dimensions: 138 x 216mm
- Publication Date: 12 Feb 2026
- Publisher: Hammersmith Health Books
- Publication City/Country: GB
- Product Form: Paperback
Secure
checkout
Fast Shipping
Easy returns
Do you suffer from fatigue? Inflammation? Chronic pain? Depression? Anxiety? Diabetes? Ageing? Allergies? Autoimmune disease? There is a treatment right in front of you - sunlight! Or rather, it's sunlight interacting with the commonest, simplest molecule in the world - water. While you may be aware that plants use sunlight to create energy, you are less likely to know that animals - including us humans - can also produce energy in our cells and to do all the things we need to do. But since our harnessing of electricity we have been retreating from sunlight and from all its many benefits. In Coherent Health, Dr Downing explains the science of sunlight and water, what you can do to stay healthy and well, and to age gloriously, by making best use of its properties, the different disorders and problems that can be helped by light and water, and dos and don'ts of photo-bio-modulation (light therapy). While light can treat just about anything, it is not the only treatment you should use. As this book shows, the key is to get everything working optimally together - that is Coherent Health.
Dr Damien Downing MB MS, MSB practises Ecological Medicine (aka Functional Medicine) - a systems approach to health based on understanding how things influence one another within a whole. He is President of the British Society for Ecological Medicine and was for 20 years Editor of the Journal of Nutritional and Environmental Medicine. He serves on the Editorial Board of the Orthomolecular News Service. Prefiguring Coherent Health, his 1988 book Daylight Robbery pioneered our understanding of how vital sunlight and vitamin D are for health. His book The Vitamin Cure for Allergies was released in 2010, and The Vitamin Cure for Digestive Disorders in 2013. In addition to the effects of sunlight, he has particular interests in membrane lipids and lipid therapy, mitochondrial dysfunction and environmental toxic effects.
