Book excerpt: Effortless Healing "Effortless Healing" by Dr. Joseph Mercola is a holistic health guide that offers readers a comprehensive approach to improving their health through natural means. The book is a distillation of Dr. Mercola's decades of experience in the field of natural health, where he has treated over 25,000 patients and established the world's most popular natural health website, Mercola.com, which receives 25 million visitors each month. The premise of the book is that the human body possesses an inherent ability to heal itself, provided it is given what it needs to thrive. Dr. Mercola emphasizes the importance of steering clear of conventional medicine's reliance on drugs and interventions, advocating instead for a lifestyle that supports the body's natural healing processes.