The Book Series by Monte Mitchell, DO, JD

A TON OF CURE

An ounce of prevention is worth a pound of cure. These books argue it is worth a ton.

Three books and three companion study guides on what actually keeps people well - written by a physician who spent a career watching preventable disease arrive on schedule, and who followed the money to find out why.

Somewhere between eighty and ninety percent of chronic disease is preventable. We are not preventing it.

The reason is not ignorance. It is that prevention isn't profitable: there is money in treatment and almost none in a walk or a plate of vegetables. Beneath the medical case runs an older one - that we are fearfully and wonderfully made, that the body is a temple entrusted rather than owned, and that stewarding it is not merely wise but faithful.

The series takes that case through three territories: the diseases that kill us, the oils the wellness industry sells us, and the supplement aisle the law abandoned in 1994.

A Ton of Cure - front cover: cream title on a dark green ground, a red apple on an ECG line Book One · Available
Book One · The Case for Prevention

A Ton of Cure

Why almost everything that kills us can be prevented - and who profits when we forget.

Diabetes, the heart, blood pressure, cancer, dementia, the gut - eighteen chapters walk the diseases that fill every waiting room and show, with the trial evidence on the table, how nearly all of them announce themselves years in advance. Then the book turns to the harder question: why a system this expensive keeps treating what it could have prevented.

It closes with what actually heals - the healing foods, the four cornerstones, and the only method that has ever worked: each week, one bad thing out, one good thing in.

  • 18 chapters
  • The 200 healthiest foods, ranked
  • The fad-diet chart
  • What the Bible says about healing
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Companion Study Guide
Healing Foods in 21 Sessions
One session per chapter for small groups, Sunday-school classes, and personal devotion - with a nine-week condensed track and a write-in progress tracker.
A Ton of Cure: Essential Oils - front cover: an amber dropper bottle and sprig on the series' dark green ground Book Two · Coming Soon
Book Two · The Wellness Aisle

A Ton of Cure: Essential Oils

Some of it works. Most of it works modestly. A little of it is dangerous. Nearly all of the marketing is a lie.

Neither a believer's book nor a scoffer's, this one goes body system by body system - nerves, lungs, gut, skin, and the rest - naming the oils with real trial evidence behind them and dismantling the claims that have none. Lavender that has earned its place in anxiety trials sits beside the frankincense "cancer cure" that chemistry says cannot survive the still.

Along the way it follows the industry's money, teaches the safety rules the labels leave off, and ends with the short honest list for building a cabinet.

  • 19 chapters, by body system
  • The evidence, oil by oil
  • Safety and the three routes of entry
  • Building the cabinet
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Companion Study Guide
Essential Oils in 22 Sessions
One session per chapter with Scripture, discussion, and one weekly step - plus a ten-week condensed track and progress tracker.
A Ton of Cure: Supplements - front cover: an amber pill bottle and capsules on the series' dark green ground Book Three · Coming Soon
Book Three · The Supplement Aisle

A Ton of Cure: Supplements

"Test all things; hold fast what is good."

In 1994 a law called DSHEA rebuilt the supplement aisle so that no one has to prove what is in the bottle - and this book walks that aisle shelf by shelf, from vitamins and fish oil to the muscle aisle, the weight-loss aisle, the peptide underground, and the stem cell storefront. Two errors get corrected on the way: the enthusiast's, that natural means safe, and the skeptic's, that it is all snake oil.

The honest list turns out to be short, old, boring, and cheap - and the book names it, entry by entry, with a verdict on every bottle: take, consider, skip, or avoid.

  • 21 chapters, aisle by aisle
  • 50-entry supplement reference
  • Take · Consider · Skip · Avoid
  • Who actually needs what
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Companion Study Guide
Supplements in 24 Sessions
One session per chapter with Scripture, discussion, and one weekly step - plus a ten-week condensed track and progress tracker.

The Four Cornerstones

Every book in the series ends at the same four doors. They are not new, they are not for sale, and they are the reason the title is not an exaggeration.

Cornerstone I
Diet

Real food, mostly plants - shopped from a ranked list, not a slogan.

Cornerstone II
Exercise

The walk that outperforms most of the pharmacy, taken most days.

Cornerstone III
Sleep

The repair shift no supplement replaces, kept like an appointment.

Cornerstone IV
Relaxation

Stillness, prayer, and the quiet that lets the other three work.

Each week: one bad thing out, one good thing in.

About the Author

Monte Mitchell, DO, JD

Physician & Attorney

The author holds six degrees, three of them doctorates, along with a seminary degree. He lives in Fort Worth, Texas, with his son, two dogs, and one cat. He likes jogging, watching movies with his son, and going to church with his family.