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'Dr. Jill Carnahan shares her riveting personal story to introduce a new paradigm for readers, where fear and the unknown are replaced with resilience and healing." ~ Mark Hyman, MD, Author of 14 New York Times bestsellers including The Pegan Diet and Food Fix.
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"Dr. Jill Carnahan shares her journey with all of us in the hopes that her experience as a patient will help prepare us to fight the unconventional, and eventually change how we communicate with those in health care. What a read!" ~ Joan Lunden, Journalist, Author, and Television Host. Co-Host of ABC's Good Morning America (1980-1997).
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"One of the few books to guide practitioners AND patients through the ups and downs of traveling the health highway." ~ Amy Myers, MD, 2X New York Times Bestselling author
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" ... a guidebook, loaded with resources, to empower patients with new tools to support their journeys." ~ Frank Lipman, MD Chief Medical Officer, The Well, Founder Eleven Eleven Wellness, New York and Bestselling author.
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"Dr. Carnahan is both a clinical master and an amazing human spirit. This is a must read for anyone seeking answers on how to manage complex health issues”. ~ Jeffrey Bland, Ph.D., FACN, FACB, CNS, Functional Medicine Thought Leader and Founder, Institute for Functional Medicine
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"Dr. Carnahan is both a clinical master and an amazing human spirit. This is a must read for anyone seeking answers on how to manage complex health issues”. ~ Jeffrey Bland, Ph.D., FACN, FACB, CNS, Functional Medicine Thought Leader and Founder, Institute for Functional Medicine
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Unexpected: Finding Resilience through Functional Medicine, Science, and Faith
In her new book Dr. Jill Carnahan shares her story of facing and overcoming life-threatening illness using both science and faith. She encourages you to go on the journey with her and discover own path to profound transformational healing.
Unexpected reveals practical advice that can be used for conditions like mold and biotoxin illness, cancer, autoimmune disease, Lyme disease. Dr. Jill’s raw and honest account of her own challenges facing breast cancer, living with autoimmunity, and mold toxicity, while working in a medical system that has little tolerance for stepping outside the lines, offers a new path of empowerment for taking control of your health and wellbeing.
Her riveting and compassionate exploration of functional medicine demonstrates how to replace darkness and fear with hope and find unconditional love, and unexpected miracles in the process. For the skeptic or the faithful, Unexpected is a valuable guide for living an extraordinary life of love and resilience.
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#2 Live Q&A Webinar
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#3 Mold and MCAS (Mast Cell Activation Syndrome)
The Surprising Ways it Affects Your Gut. Access at your convenience, listen, and rewind to take notes. Dr. Jill outlines top tips for dealing with toxic mold and MCAS and how to restore your gut microbiome.
#4 Secret Chapter: Exclusive access to content not included in book
Yes, like all great works, the “cutting room floor” is littered with amazing content that just didn’t fit in. Listen to Dr. Jill reading Author’s Note on title in a free recording.
What You'll learn in this Book
Surrender your limiting ideas and discover a new paradigm, where fear and uncertainty are replaced with resilience, healing and unconditional love.
Explore one of the most impactful stories of overcoming ever written, inspiring you to reach healing on the deepest levels of mind, body, and soul.
Access cutting-edge protocols for mold and environmental toxicity, cancer, autoimmune disease, Lyme disease and co-infections and countless other complex health conditions from one of the most sought-after innovative medical doctors of our time.
Learn how to overcome environmental, emotional and relationship toxicity and trauma and unearth a world of unexpected miracles.
What people are saying about the book
Mark Hyman, MD
Author of 14 New York Times bestsellers including The Pegan Diet and Food Fix.
In this new book, Unexpected: Finding Resilience through Functional Medicine, Science, and Faith, Dr. Jill Carnahan shares her riveting personal story and uses her shocking diagnosis with aggressive breast cancer at 25 to introduce a new paradigm for readers, where fear and the unknown are replaced with resilience, healing, and a very realistic set of tools to inspire health - and communication with those who deal in health.
Amy Myers, MD
2X New York Times Bestselling author
Dr. Jill Carnahan’s “Unexpected” is one of the few books to guide practitioners AND patients through the ups and downs of traveling the health highway - speed bumps, detours, flat tires and all. Dr. Carnahan is a master storyteller and this book is a powerful glimpse into her own story, AND it is loaded with “base hits” and important protocols from this unexpectedly compassionate and inspiring MD
Frank Lipman, MD
Chief Medical Officer, The Well, Founder Eleven Eleven Wellness, New York and Bestselling author
Dr. Jill Carnahan’s book, Unexpected, uses her personal story to create a powerful roadmap for any reader who has had to face a chronic health condition. It is a guidebook, loaded with resources, to empower patients with new tools to support their journeys - and know how to communicate with their doctors to encourage a more holistic and partnered approach to root cause healing.
Jeffrey Bland, Ph.D., FACN, FACB, CNS
Functional Medicine Thought Leader and Founder, Institute for Functional Medicine
Dr. Carnahan is both a clinical master and an amazing human spirit who brings the best of her years of experience as a true doctor “healer” to her book UNEXPECTED. Through her own personal experience with environmental illness and that of the successful management of thousands of patients with unexpected chronic illness she lays out a blueprint for the creation of health. This is a must read for anyone seeking answers on how to manage complex health issues”.
Dr. Kara Fitzgerald
Naturopathic Doctor
I was captivated by the resilience and determination that Dr. Jill Carnahan exhibits through her own personal health challenges. You can genuinely feel Dr. Jill’s desire and determination to go from just surviving to thriving, full of energy and vibrancy! Using her own life-altering experience with breast cancer at the young age of 25, she became even more motivated to become a doctor that truly helps people find hope and healing even in the most difficult, complex illness.
Joan Lunden, Journalist
Author, and Television Host. Co-Host of ABC's Good Morning America (1980-1997).
Unexpected is a beautiful snapshot into the world of a young woman facing a life-altering diagnosis in the form of an aggressive breast cancer at only 25 years old. Dr. Jill Carnahan shares her journey with all of us in the hopes that her experience as a patient will help prepare us to fight the unconventional, and eventually change how we communicate with those in health care. What a read!
Christine Schaffner, ND
Founder of Immanence Health
“In her groundbreaking book, Unexpected, Dr. Jill Carnahan provides an effective, easy-to-implement snapshot on addressing chronic illness that is interspersed with her own health history and experiences as a breast cancer patient while still in medical school. A must-read for anyone in health or seeking health.”
Dr. Peter Kan
Board Certified Chiropractic Neurologist and Fellow American Association Of Integrative Medicine
“This is a cogent and truly well-written examination of the mechanisms underlying a very real health crisis by a young MD. This book shows how YOU can become your own best health advocate. Dr. Carnahan’s masterful text provides a pathway to reawaken health—and it’s a page turner you won’t want to put down!”
Madiha Saeed, MD
Bestselling Author
“I am thrilled to give five stars to Dr. Jill Carnahan’s book, Unexpected: Finding Resilience through Functional Medicine, Science, and Faith. Dr. Jill is a brilliant clinician, and her book should be read by every medical student in any realm of health, as well as anyone struggling with a health crisis. She is providing a lifestyle Rx—simplifying sophisticated mechanisms into everyday language. This book is a must read!”
Kelly McCann, MD, ABOIM
Diplomate and Renowned Mast Cell Activation Expert
“Jill Carnahan’s new book can be a reference manual for health care practitioners, as well as a roadmap to guide ANY of us toward the health we deserve. In Unexpected, she masterfully integrates decades of clinical experience as an MD and an unflinchingly honest account of what she went through after being diagnosed with a very aggressive form of breast cancer in her early 20s while she was in medical school. Her raw and honest account of her own journey reminds us this is not the dress rehearsal.”
Darin Ingels, ND, FAAEM
Bestselling Author of The Lyme Solution
“As a Naturopathic Doctor, I believe Dr. Jill Carnhan, has done a remarkable job painting a clear picture of what a serious health crisis looks and feels like—from the patient’s point of view—and loaded it with protocols and tools that are inspiringly simple—and I believe effective—wrapped around her deeply personal story. This book will change your life.”
Jodi Cohen, Bestselling Author
Award-Winning Journalist, and Founder of Vibrant Blue Oils
“Doctors are patients too! Dr. Jill Carnahan has created an exciting invitation to go behind the curtain via her new book, Unexpected: Finding Resilience through Functional Medicine, Science, and Faith. Navigating a life-altering illness and her experiences on both sides of the white coat, Dr. Jill paints a compelling and inspiring ‘can’t-put-it-down’ story.”
Rand McClain, D.O.
Chief Medical Officer at Live Cell Research, Regenerative Sports Medicine and Author of Cheating Death: The New Science of Living Longer and Better
In this inspiring book, Jill Carnahan, MD shares the story of her incredible journey, revealing how her deep faith set the stage for a transformative journey that enabled her to defy expectations and survive a brutal diagnosis of aggressive breast cancer at only twenty-five. She was able to chart a lifelong course filled with meaning and purpose - and inspire a new level of patient care. Whether you're struggling with your own health obstacles, looking to improve your life, or seeking inspiration as a health practitioner. Dr. Jill’s story will give you the inspiration AND the tools you need.
Sarah Morgan, MS
Nutritionist, and CEO & Co-Founder EVEN
"Life throws all of us curve balls. If you find yourself or a loved one staring down a giant, Unexpected, is a must read! Dr. Jill shares the deep, dark valleys she faced including an aggressive breast cancer diagnosis at the age of 25, Crohn's disease, environmental toxicity and relationship challenges. In the midst of unimaginable odds, she finds hope, answers and victory that will inspire and equip you to face your challenges. And you might even learn to love yourself a little more reading this book."
Rory Feek (Joey+Rory)
Grammy-Winning Music Artist and Best Selling Author
Jill Carnahan, like this book, is a light to the world. Hers is a story of perseverance, love and above all, grace. She has been given the extraordinary gift of finding hope for people who are hurting, especially herself.
Magdalena Wszelaki
Best-selling Author Overcoming Estrogen Dominance and Cooking for Hormone Balance
It used to be my limited view that as long as we get the right nutrition, supplements, some sleep and movement, there is no stopping us to heal and thrive. Dr. Jill, through her own life stories and empathetic encounters of her patients, paints a much more complete picture to healing - one where faith, love, empathy, forgiveness, and intuition are just as critical to our healing.
Richard Horowitz, MD
NY Times Best Selling Author of "Why Can't I Get Better" Solving the Mystery of Lyme and Chronic Disease
In this new book, Unexpected: Finding Resilience through Functional Medicine, Science, and Faith, Dr. Jill Carnahan shares her riveting personal story and uses her shocking diagnosis with aggressive breast cancer at 25 to introduce a new paradigm for readers, where fear and the unknown are replaced with resilience, healing, and a very realistic set of tools to inspire health - and communication with those who deal in health. A must read for those dealing with complex, chronic illness looking for innovative ways to heal.
James Maskell
Founder of The Evolution of Medicine
Dr Jill Carnahan is the trusted authority amongst her peers around the world in the fields of environmental medicine and biotoxin illness. This book will help so many people.
Dr Ilene Naomi Rusk
Director, Healthy Brain Program at Brain + Behavior Clinic
In her first and formidable book, Dr. Carnahan embraces us in warmth as she weaves pearls of functional medicine wisdom into her ever-evolving memoir of inspired growth. As someone who works with people dealing with the complex issues of brain health and trauma healing, I will recommend this gem to patients and colleagues because it’s filled with both academic mastery and a vulnerable story of unflinching faith and hope. “Unexpected” comes to us at a perfect time; when the embers of faith and hope need fanning, and medicine is calling for more heart. Bravo and a must read
Carrie Jones, ND, FABNE, MPH
Author at DUTCH Test
"This is a MUST READ book where Dr. Jill Carnahan not only shares her journey through breast cancer, Crohn's, and mold toxicity, but thoroughly explains how the modern medicine approach needs to change and also guides patients to be more proactive in their own healthcare. I appreciated the practical tips and resources she gives us while weaving them in between her heart-felt stories of sadness and triumph. All who are struggling with health issues will find it both helpful and relatable on so many levels. I absolutely loved it from start to finish!"
Dave Asprey
father of Biohacking, founder of Bulletproof, and New York Times Bestseller
Dr. Jill Carnahan shares her decades of work in clinical practice and walks you through exactly how to use the right tools in the right ways to make your body work the way you choose. You will rarely find a book where a well-qualified doctor exposes their own medical journey for all to see. Prepare to be inspired and informed when you set this precious book down.
Dr. Terry Wahls, FACP, IFMCP
Bestselling author of The Wahls Protocol: A Radical New Way to Treat All Chronic Autoimmune Conditions Using Paleo Principles
This is a must-read, inspiring, life-altering book. Unlike the experiences so many of us have with our doctors, Dr. Jill Carnahan is not distant, aloof, or hiding behind her intellect as an MD. She leads with a brave transparency, sharing her compellingly told story as a breast cancer patient with a powerfully kind heart.
Izabella Wentz, PharmD, FASCP,
New York Times Bestselling Author of Hashimoto's Protocol: A 90-Day Plan for Reversing Thyroid Symptoms and Getting Your Life Back
Unexpected is the deeply personal story of Dr. Jill Carnahan’s compelling life journey. You will immediately sense her compassion and genuine desire to give people hope to feel vibrant again. After facing her own journey through a life-threatening illness, Dr. Jill used her experiences as a powerful force in shaping her passion for teaching others how to heal and thrive. Every word in this powerful book leaves you with an incredible sense of hope and desire to not only want to live, but also to fall in love with life itself.
Dr. Jill is Featured In
Dr. Jill Carnahan, MD
Your Functional Medicine Expert®
Known as ‘Your Functional Medicine Expert®’ Dr. Jill Carnahan has been featured in People magazine, Shape, Parade, Forbes, MindBodyGreen, First for Women, Townsend Newsletter, and The Huffington Post as well as seen on NBC News and Health segments with Joan Lunden. She is a prominent global keynote speaker and a prolific writer sharing her knowledge on stage and podcasts.
With over a decade of producing popular content, her articles can be found in journals, newsletters, books, and social media posts!
She is the Medical Director of Flatiron Functional Medicine, a widely sought-after practice with a broad range of clinical services including functional medicine protocols, nutritional consultations, chiropractic therapy, naturopathic medicine, acupuncture, and massage therapy that attracts A-list celebrities and athletes.
A survivor of breast cancer, Crohn’s disease, and mold toxicity, she routinely treats patients who come to her for solutions to their medical mysteries that haven’t been solved.
Her YouTube channel and podcast features interviews with the healthcare world’s most respected names in medicine, science, and functional medicine. She co-authored the Personalized and Precision Integrative Cardiovascular Medicine Textbook and is set to release her prescriptive memoir through Forefront Publishing in 2023.
People relate to Dr. Jill’s science-backed opinions delivered with authenticity, love and humor. She is known for inspiring her audience to thrive even in the midst of difficulties.