Book Review: Goodbye Autoimmune Disease by Brooke Goldner

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By May 2021, four months into healing my rheumatoid arthritis, my kitchen had turned green. Celery juice in the mornings (my husband Kyle runs the juicer), broccoli sprouts on everything, produce drawers packed tighter than my carry-on. Goodbye Autoimmune Disease by Dr. Brooke Goldner is part of the reason why.

Dr. Goldner’s story is the engine of the book. She was diagnosed with lupus as a teenager, went on to medical school, and years later reversed her own symptoms with a protocol built on massive quantities of raw vegetables — the kind of massive where the blender becomes a full-time household employee. The book lays out how she did it and how her patients do it, using nothing fancier than supermarket produce.

What I Loved About Goodbye Autoimmune Disease by Brooke Goldner

Receipts. Her recovery story is incredible on its own, and I haven’t found another doctor who can point to as much documented healing built on raw vegetables as she can — people with conditions as serious as lupus getting their lives back on green smoothies and stubbornness. When your own diagnosis arrives with the word “chronic” stapled to it, stories like that are oxygen.

I also love how unglamorous it is. There’s no boutique supplement line here, no $400 protocol, no proprietary anything. Just produce, water, and volume. My own healing ended up broader than her approach (the full story is in my remission essay), but this book is one of the reasons vegetables moved from “side dish” to “strategy” in my head and never went back.

I’m a writer, not a doctor, and autoimmune disease is stubbornly individual — my remission came with a care team, not just a blender. Please treat this as a book review and not a treatment plan.

What I Didn’t Love About Goodbye Autoimmune Disease

The production. The advice was exactly what I needed, but the book itself needed one more pass from a proofreader and a formatter. There are typos and layout stumbles that keep pulling you out of material this important, and that’s the reason my rating stops at four stars. It’s a fixable reason. Dr. Goldner, if you ever want an editor’s eye on the next edition, my inbox is open.

Final Thoughts on Goodbye Autoimmune Disease

If you’re facing an autoimmune diagnosis and need proof that the story can go differently, start here — then bring the ideas to your own doctors and see what fits your case. Pair it with The Immune System Recovery Plan if you want more structure around the why.

My final score: 4 out of 5 stars ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️

Do I recommend this book? 👍 Yes — especially if you need hope with vegetables attached.

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