"Connected" by Martha Carlin

CONNECTED: One Woman’s Journey to Unlocking the Root Cause of Chronic Illness
What happens when conventional medicine runs out of answers? When Martha Carlin’s husband, John, was diagnosed with Parkinson’s disease, she was hit with the questions every family faces, but few know how to answer: Why this body? Why now? What had been building beneath the surface for years?
Unwilling to accept that chronic illness was just "bad luck," Carlin embarked on a deeply personal and intellectually ambitious journey. What she discovered goes far beyond a single diagnosis.
CONNECTED is part gripping memoir, part scientific reckoning, and a direct challenge to modern medical dogma. Carlin traces the hidden, invisible links that conventional medicine often ignores—exploring how the microbiome, systemic inflammation, environmental stressors, and our food systems collide to trigger the modern chronic disease crisis.