Book Reviews

Wolves, Gardens, and Chocolate  is chock-full of holistic health wisdom. It’s a winner.

 Doctors are trained to treat the result and not the cause. However, people are not mechanical objects and need to be treated in a holistic way which integrates mind, body and spirit. Wolves, Gardens and Chocolate offers us the guidance and insight into this integrated pattern of self care and medical care. We all need coaching in our lives when we encounter problems and Dr. Arrondo's wisdom can become your guide to better health and life.

Dr. Arrondo offers a wealth of health information supported by more than 800 scientific research citations. A wide-ranging discussion on well-being that offers plenty of food for thought and action. Overall, it’s a valuable holistic-health roundup.

Dr. Arrondo's book is a fantastic book for anyone seeking effective strategies to improve their health.

Dr. Arrondo provides a discerning and penetrating discussion of ourselves immersed in modern healthcare delivery. The practice of healthcare is about evolution and Wolves, Gardens, and Chocolate  bestows much foundation knowledge to make improved choices in that evolution. "Wolves" is a good read for clinicians and consumers alike.

A book that will be enjoyed by physicians and patients alike, Wolves, Gardens, and Chocolate addresses each concept and medical situation with great clarity. Dr. Arrondo illustrates through didactic analogies, as well as his valuable humanistic-clinical experience.

Dr. Arrondo’s book will help you find the health, energy, and inspiration you have been looking for. In this detailed, referenced tome is a roadmap to health—from the theoretical to the practical, from the simple to the complex. It has hundreds of simple steps you can take to regain and maximize your health. A must read!

What an inspiring book! Dr. Arrondo gifts us with a marvelous journey into our health and well-being with a novel approach that helps us rethink our position on nutrition, drugs, and especially on what healing and curing really mean in our body, mind, and soul. All of this is done skillfully and elegantly, by taking us gently in his world of science and facts where we start seeing a different side of the story, an intriguing way of recapturing our right to feel well and wonderful again. Science, art, and philosophy are married into a story we are very respectfully invited to make ours, and indeed he achieves all of this and more. You'll find practical solutions and insights to many of today’s challenges and many helping tips to learn and discover more about what it really means to regain and enhance our health, joy of living, and quality of life. What a refreshing book, so well written, and what a gift to all who choose to read it and make it part of their life.

This is a journal, kept by a compassionate observationalist devoted to philosophy who intends to freely and openly draw from lessons he learned or heard of along the way of his journey. Everyone has their hand gently held as you follow along being nourished by fascinating stories that lead you to a better life without all that effort nearly everyone tells us we should take.

Dr. Arrondo has done a wonderful job in explaining and demonstrating how every system in our body is inseparable and must function seamlessly to maintain health. This book provides insight in how improving the function/wellness of one “dis-eased” system (imbalanced microbiomes in and on our bodies, negative internal monologues, inflammatory eating, etc.) can inflate the wellness/functioning of the whole body.

In our ‘modern world’ there is an urgent need to reassess how we think and act about health and wellness. Wolves, Gardens & Chocolate   is an excellent primer, providing the essential information you need to know about improving your health from a highly experienced clinician.

As a former pharmaceutical sales representative for Fortune 500 drug companies, I can attest that Wolves, Gardens, and Chocolate offers a gift to readers not found in most natural health books: An intriguing and expansive approach to healing that integrates the deepest levels of our lives. Dr. Arrondo has written an invaluable healing aid.

Dr. Arrondo offers his readers an insightful look at how to handle the challenges of modern health care. He aptly presents the readers practical advice on how to achieve healthier and happier lives by understanding and using these delicate physical, mental, and spiritual interconnections to our benefit. In a medical universe of increasingly subspecialized medical training, Dr. Arrondo’s book reminds us of the importance of this holistic approach to modern medicine.

Finally, a new, evidence-based approach to address the true causes of much pain and suffering. More importantly, a true patient-based approach. Thanks, Dr. Arrondo, for this evidence-based and patient-based attempt to educate the public about the powerful choices that they can make to determine their level of health, illness, and lifespan.

Dr. Arrondo has written an excellent book that will help everyone learn how to better take care of their health. His well-researched book helps show the many connections between the different systems in our body and gives practical suggestions at the end of every chapter. Read this book and you will learn to think about your health in a more holistic way.

I am excited to have such a book available to recommend to my patients. Wolves, Gardens, and Chocolate  is a wonderful book about re-establishing & maintaining health in a post-millennial world.

Wolves, Gardens, and Chocolate  discusses the importance of our interconnections, not only of the biological systems within us but the social, cultural and technological systems around us that make us whole and complete.
Dr. Arrondo explains that when we are out of alignment with our life's purpose or life is somehow out of balance, disease and dysfunction can result, often as a wake-up call to get our attention and move us to make the necessary life/lifestyle changes. He offers suggestions on how to make changes and to find answers when we discover ourselves with ill health that we cannot seem to turn around. I highly recommend this book as a guide to all who seek optimal health and healing.

This is a wonderful explanation of the mind-body connection. Dr. Arrondo gives power back to the patient, teaching self-reliance and empowerment. Not that doctors are unimportant, but that listening to our own body is just as important. Thank you for showing us all how much power we have over our own health.

Dr. Arrondo has given you the key to preventing disease and the foundation for recovering from the diseases of civilization!

Dr. Arrondo has amalgamated science and his wisdom to help all of us navigate an ever more confusing world of "healthy choices". Wolves Gardens and Chocolate is a must-read for young and old. The information in this book can bring pragmatism and simplification to the complex subject of healthy living. Read, enjoy, and follow Dr. Arrondo on a journey toward optimal health.

Wolves, Gardens, and Chocolate  is well thought out, well researched and well laid out. In it, Dr. Arrondo presents a science-based approach to health care that engages and empowers the patient who is seeking to learn about their health, and improve their health. The rich scientific information is artfully and skillfully interwoven with traditional, cultural, culinary and healing practices dating back to antiquity.

Based on the premise that our body is one, with many parts, in which the parts work together as a complete ecosystem, the information flows seamlessly from chapter to chapter; and from disease to disease, highlighting how injury to one part affects other parts, and the whole body. This makes for easy reading. I would recommend this book to my patients and interested colleagues.

If you want to learn more about how to better care for yourself, pick up this book.

Wolves Gardens and Chocolate  provides engaging insight into fascinating connections within the body, promoting empowerment and guidance in the path toward wellness.This book is written in a very accessible way and provides practical suggestions that are useful for practitioners and individuals alike. Many thanks for distilling such a vast body of research into this amazing road map to vitality. I have already recommended Dr. Arrondo's book to a number of my patients. It has been such a wonderful synthesis of many of the elements that I work with patients on in my clinic, and has helped to revitalize my approach to some of the conditions that I treat regularly.

In this excellent book, Dr. Luis Arrondo draws on his clinical experiences and on extensive research in the scientific literature to reveal important connections for any person wanting to achieve better health.

Dr. Arrondo integrates his clinical expertise and thorough research to provide deep insight into the interconnections of bodily functions, mind and spirit as they play critical roles in maintaining and enhancing health. Each chapter offers practical suggestions for maximizing health through self care and, when necessary, working effectively with health care providers. For anyone wishing to maintain optimal health, this is an extremely valuable resource. I am grateful for the wisdom he shares.

I am thrilled to have an easy-to-understand guide that shows us at deeper levels how the human body works together to heal. I would recommend this book in and out of my classroom.

Whether you want to address a health concern or maintain optimal health, you’ll find solutions in Wolves, Gardens and Chocolate.