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Crooked: Man-Made Disease Explained: The incredible story of metal, microbes, and medicine - hidden within our faces. Paperback – January 18, 2018

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Why do babies have lopsided smiles? Why are so many people’s eyes misaligned? What started as a simple search to understand this phenomenon turned into a two-year quest that uncovered hidden links between our crooked faces and some of the most puzzling diseases of our time.

From autism to Alzheimer’s and from chronic fatigue syndrome to Crohn’s disease, Crooked methodically goes through the most recent scientific research and connects the dots from the outbreak of metallic medicine in 1800s England to the eruption of neurological and autoimmune disorders so many are suffering from today. If the theories put forth in this book are true, the convergence of metals, microbes and medicine that started two hundred years ago may have set humanity on a path of suffering that could make the deadliest epidemics in history pale in comparison. Thankfully, for the millions who are afflicted, who may have found nothing to explain the cause of their suffering — these same theories could also illuminate the path to healing and recovery.

WITH CHAPTERS & EXPLANATIONS FOR THESE ILLNESSES

ADHD
Allergies
Anemia
Asthma
Autism
Alzheimer’s disease
Chronic fatigue syndrome
Chronic traumatic encephalopathy (CTE)
Crohn’s disease
Diabetes (Type 1)
Eating disorders
Eczema
Fibromyalgia
Hearing disorders
Heart disease
Lupus
Lyme disease
Multiple sclerosis
PANDAS / PANS
Parkinson’s disease
POTS
Rheumatoid arthritis
Sarcoidosis
Sensory processing disorder
Tics
Tourette syndrome
Tuberous sclerosis complex
Ulcerative colitis
Zika

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Forrest Maready was born in Wilmington, N.C and grew up around a large film studio and the many movies and TV shows that filmed there. After receiving religion and music degrees from Wake Forest University, he plied his trade in the film and television industry for 13 years, working as an editor, audio engineer, visual effects artist or composer on two Muppet movies, Dawson's Creek, Varsity Blues and many other productions. He spent another 10 years working as a creative technologist in the advertising and mobile app space as a programmer, designer and consultant. He maintains a popular Facebook and YouTube series called "My Incredible Opinion" where he opines on the hubris of human beings. Forrest lives in North Carolina with his wife, son & dog.

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Publisher ‏ : ‎ CreateSpace Independent Publishing Platform (January 18, 2018)
Language ‏ : ‎ English
Paperback ‏ : ‎ 385 pages
ISBN-10 ‏ : ‎ 1983816620
ISBN-13 ‏ : ‎ 978-1983816628
Item Weight ‏ : ‎ 1.25 pounds
Dimensions ‏ : ‎ 6 x 0.86 x 9 inches

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Forrest Maready is a native of North Carolina and graduate of Wake Forest University, where he studied religion and music. He spent the early part of his career working in the film, television, and advertising industries as a sound engineer, composer, animator, and editor. He is the author of over a dozen books, many of them stemming from years of medical research. The Moth in the Iron Lung, his most popular, tells the true story of polio—a tale much different than most were taught as children. More recently, he founded Protarianism, a Christian denomination focused on restoring both tribes and an understanding of the faith before it was taken over by pagans, polytheists, and philosophers. His book Red Pill Gospel: Christianity, Before it was Ruined by Christians, documents the takeover. Maready lives in North Carolina with his family and is an avid musician, tennis player, and competitive shooter.

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A.T.

The best book to own if you want to understand the root cause of modern health issues

Reviewed in the United States on April 23, 2024

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That's my 2nd book. I live how it e plains in easy terms the mechanism damaging our children's health. It has plenty of examples.

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Mark Schneider

To conclude that the only way to provide true heath is to ingest, inject and apply chemicals to our bodies defies common sense.

Reviewed in the United States on June 21, 2018

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Crooked is one of the best books I have read in a long time. Forest does an amazing job explaining complex anatomy and why our society is stricken with so many disorders. It was fascinating to learn about metals and how the body does not flush them out, rather holds onto them in our white blood cells. Then whenever our immune system responds to an injury or inflammation it sends white blood cells loaded with metals to the most vulnerable area of our bodies. We are supposed to learn from our mistakes but unfortunately, we seem to be reliving our past. Crooked goes back to the late 1700s and reviews cases of heavy metal poisoning. The author reads case after case from 200 years ago with details that could be pulled from any medical chart today. We are truly living in a country with man-made disease and disorders. It's heartbreaking because it is all preventable. To come to the conclusion that the only way to provide true heath is to ingest, inject and apply chemicals to our bodies defies common sense. This book is a must read - Mark

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Kelly Harbeson

I wasn't an "anti-vaxxer" before I read this

Reviewed in the United States on April 27, 2024

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I grew up in the 60's and received the sugar cube OPV in 1964. I believed the narrative that the vaccine had "defeated" polio. I no longer believe that the great medical successes against polio and smallpox are anything but a delusion peddled by Big Pharma. I did not understand what "adjutivants" in vaccines were or that we have no idea why or how they seem to enhance immunological response. I am an anti-vaxxer now!

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excellent info

Reviewed in the United States on November 22, 2023

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This book is great for learning about health. I found it through a post on X. Everyone should read this book.

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Greg Glaser

Accessible knowledge

Reviewed in the United States on December 13, 2023

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The author makes the clearest connections for the reader.

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James Connor

Great ideas to chew on. Ignore the astro turfers and make up your own mind

Reviewed in the United States on April 4, 2018

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The reviews for this book are hilarious. All 1’s and 5’s. I guess Forrest has his fan club and his detractors. A good book either way. I’ve gone out of my way to recommend it to friends in the medical community as well as few others who are suffering from chronic conditions. Not because Forrest has given us the Hoy Grail that will solve all our problems, but because he’s made compelling arguments about why a lot of people might be suffering from debilitating conditions, that until recently, weren’t really a problem. Maybe he doesn’t have a degree in medicine or the sciences, but he’s got acute powers of observation. I’ve been chewing on these ideas for weeks.

But really, the one star reviews, come on. Did any of them even read the book? As of this writing, not a single verified purchase among his detractors. Practically all pithy, ad hominem attacks. Toilet paper, quackery, unmitigated garbage, etc. Several say that he only wrote the book to get rich by bilking the gullible. Something tells me Forrest isn’t exactly sitting home dreaming about the luxury sports cars he’s going to buy with all the money this venture will bring. One opines they DID read the book and they want that hour of their life back. While Crooked isn’t a heavy read, skimming the book in an hour doesn’t count as reading. You have to wonder if any of the one star reviews weren’t astro turfers! If you are observant you’ll start noticing signs of facial paralysis and strabismus seem to be visibly on the rise, especially in babies. And everyone at this point has heard of a friend or colleague or relative suffering from Lyme’s disease, chronic rheumatism, lupus, fibromyalgia. (Really, it is not some form of modern hysteria, and no, they aren’t making it all up.)

As far as discounting intelligent opinions in science, medicine, art engineering because the person presenting them doesn’t have the right degree, well most of our elected representatives are lawyers with fairly monotone backgrounds and yet we expect them to make determinations about a variety of complex subjects. And lately I would say more than a few people in the US and Europe seem to have had their fill with the “experts.”

Nuff said. Read it. Consider it. If you think he’s got it wrong, then let’s start seeing thoughtful arguments about what is actually causing this tidal wave of kids with autism, much less the ever increasing number of autoimmune disorders, Alzheimer's, Parkinson’s, CTE, etc. that never seemed to be a problem until recently.

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S. W. Holdings

A book every doctor, scientis and researcher should read

Reviewed in the United States on March 3, 2018

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The paradoxical thing about human health is that while the working of the human body, it's cells, organs and systems is incredibly complex and interdependent, the bases for maintaining health are actually very simple: supplying our body with healthy, nutrient dense, plant based food to allow for it's optimum performance, avoiding toxins and stressors.

Similarly, the hypothesies contained in this book while discussing a wide range of seemingly unconnected symptoms and diseases, are actually very simple and too logical to dismiss.

It's not surprising that it took a layman to put all the pieces of puzzles together. I can't imagine a doctor being able to do it.
The downfall of the western medical approach is that while it started branching out to become more and more specialized, it also lost sight, that while we are made of brains, organs, tissue and bones, we are one, complete and inseparable system.

Forrest's wholistic perspective, allowed for him to be able to make sense of fragmented, typically western reductionist information and turn it into a cohesive hypotheses.

I truly wish for this book to receive a recognition and attending it really deserves, so that further research and studies could be undertaken to examine this theory further.

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Kimberly Dowling

Unparalleled Research

Reviewed in the United States on March 16, 2022

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This book was suggested to me by a PhD in my interest to understand some of my own longterm health issues. I have 8 years of college under my belt myself, a degree in medicine and this book helped put together pieces I've been thinking about for many years. I now see viruses as exosomes that our body produces rather than something that comes from the exterior but even working within that framework I could make so much sense of it all. In a pandemic of chronic illness we all live in you can't afford to NOT read this book and contemplate. Thank you, Mr. Malready, for all of the time and energy you put into this research.

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Informative Look at Our Current State of Health

Reviewed in Canada on April 21, 2024

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Well written, making the concepts easier to understand. The historical information on mercury and its frequent "medicinal" use before the onset of conditions should raise red flags about the modern-day use of aluminum.

Sergio

As doenças fabricadas pelo homens

Reviewed in Brazil on August 5, 2019

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Ótimo livro! Leitura obrigatória para qualquer médico que quer entender o porquê do aumento das doenças autoimune. Autor faz uma revisão na literatura medica com o início histórico dessas doenças.

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pam

Excellent read for any disconcerting parent

Reviewed in Australia on February 17, 2024

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If you are skeptical of the current medical system, and you should be, this is the read for you. Fully referenced and from an unbiased point of view. Forrest covers all the signs and symptoms that children display when they have become vaccine damaged.

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Rose

Must read

Reviewed in the United Kingdom on April 6, 2018

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I've read a lot of books on vaccinations and this is by far the best. The research that Forrest has done it obvious and the links that it has allowed him to make answer SO many questions. I have listened to it on audiobook and also have a hard copy as I want to go back and read different sections.

I really quite cockily thought I knew a lot about vaccinations but this has added a whole new level to my knowledge.

The details of how metals have entered out bodies for the past few hundred years and what the aluminium actually does once it enters the body, the links to all the chronic diseases that we have to today that we know are in line with the start of vaccinations and increase in line with the ever expanding schedule.

You have everything to gain reading this book and nothing to lose. Do it!

30 people found this helpful

Anthony William

Compelling Arugments

Reviewed in Canada on August 1, 2020

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If you are prepared to pull the curtain back on "modern medicine" this book holds no punches. I was unaware how frequent heavy metals were used as medicine and the truly tragic effects they had on the population.

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