ARTHRITIS A $115,000,000,000 BUSINESS
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For an amazing statistic, consider that 40 million Americans spend almost one and a half percent of the gross domestic product on of the gross domestic product on arthritis treatment–-that’s 115 billion dollars. Ninety-nine percent of this money is spent on drugs and surgery-both poor options for this condition, since arthritis is mostly caused by malnutrition with some caused by malnutrition and joint infections.
The other night I was at a party attended mostly by millionaires. The food was rich and processed. And the wine and booze were flowing freely. In the midst of this consumption, I met a woman who was equally rich, but eating only raw food. Upon questioning, she told me that besides other problems, just six months previously she was crippled with arthritis. And this at age 50! |
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She heard that a raw diet might help her problems, and after-six months she was radiantly healthy and limber. Given the company she travels with and there level of consumption. I was quick to admire her fortitude to stick with a very tough program. It became immediately apparent that if this woman could do it, anyone could.
In truth, if arthritis is caught prior to permanent joint damage, neither arthritis drugs nor surgery is needed. Switching from offending foods to the right healing foods and supplements to rebuild joints will resolve most cases in a year or less. Even with rheumatoid arthritis, this protocol will usually eliminate the joint infectious and resolve the problem. With the most stubborn of these cases, there may be a need for a year of very-low dose prescription antibiotics (Minocycline, also called Minocin) along with the protocol.
Diet of Inflammation
Using our recommended nutritional approaches, you could end your arthritis suffering for nickels and dimes compared to what we are spending now. So just what do you need to do? For starters, you must put an end to the relentless American diet of inflammation. This is a steady diet or foods and non-foods that trigger inflammation and pain in the body. They do this in many ways, including altering chemicals called prostaglandins. Anti-inflammatory foods induce healing prostaglandins, and inflammatory foods induce inflammatory prostaglandins.
Under certain conditions inflammation plays an important role in healing. If you are injured, the inflammation will induce healing. But when 80% to 90% of your diet is weighted to induce inflammation and pain without injury, this spells disaster-or the humiliating statistic of 30 to 40 million Americans taking anti-inflammatory drugs every single day.
In truth, if arthritis is caught prior to permanent joint damage, neither arthritis drugs nor surgery is needed. Switching from offending foods to the right healing foods and supplements to rebuild joints will resolve most cases in a year or less. Even with rheumatoid arthritis, this protocol will usually eliminate the joint infectious and resolve the problem. With the most stubborn of these cases, there may be a need for a year of very-low dose prescription antibiotics (Minocycline, also called Minocin) along with the protocol.
Diet of Inflammation
Using our recommended nutritional approaches, you could end your arthritis suffering for nickels and dimes compared to what we are spending now. So just what do you need to do? For starters, you must put an end to the relentless American diet of inflammation. This is a steady diet or foods and non-foods that trigger inflammation and pain in the body. They do this in many ways, including altering chemicals called prostaglandins. Anti-inflammatory foods induce healing prostaglandins, and inflammatory foods induce inflammatory prostaglandins.
Under certain conditions inflammation plays an important role in healing. If you are injured, the inflammation will induce healing. But when 80% to 90% of your diet is weighted to induce inflammation and pain without injury, this spells disaster-or the humiliating statistic of 30 to 40 million Americans taking anti-inflammatory drugs every single day.
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From Balanced to Imbalanced
Prior to the processing of our entire food supply, our diets were balanced. We ate healthful,restorative foods like raw fruits and vegetables, fresh meat and fish, seeds and nuts, raw dairy, eggs, and healthful oils like first-pressed virgin olive oil, cod liver oil, coconut oil, and flax oil. These outweighed the small amounts of inflammatory foods like wheat, grains, processed oils, fried foods, alcohol, and sugar. Today that balance is reversed with 90% of our foods inducing a state of chronic inflammation or pain. When once we ate oils with plenty of omega~ 3 fat content, today we eat mostly and even only inflammatory, processed oils loaded with omega-6 fats. A proper ratio of omega-3 to omega-6 would be one to four, or even one to ten, but today it is around one to 50, 70, or even one to 100! This spells disaster for arthritics. The way to end this is to toss all processed vegetable oils and salad dressings, and instead use only the healthful oils that are listed in this article. |
Prior to processing our food, we ate plenty of protein, good fats, and carbohydrates in proper balance. Today we consume mostly carbohydrates much of it in the form of wheat, grains, and processed, inflammatory foods. We think by loading up on synthetic chemicals that supplement makers call vitamins, we can offset this insult to our body and joints, but these can often make things even worse.
In the end, there is just no option. You must stop the bad stuff and start the good stuff. Ironically, it is not all that tough. Simply give up anything in a package. Eat exactly what is listed in this article, and consume at least one quarter of it raw. Supplement this massive dietary change with the right nutrients that rebuild and nourish healthy joints. As you get better, get off drugs-they are extremely toxic to your body. Start exercising as soon as you are able. After a year or so you will be a new person-effectively reducing your chronological age by 20 years! And to get even better results when you start exercising, use the Slow Burn Fitness Revolution exercise plan. Buy this book by Hahn, Hahn, and Eades at bookstores or on-line.
How to Feed Your Joints
If you did nothing else but eliminate the bad stuff and eat the good stuff, you would get better. Not everyone's diet should be exactly the same. Some people cannot tolerate dairy. Others suffer if they eat nightshade vegetables like potatoes, tomatoes, eggplants, and bell peppers. But the basics will stay the same. you can individualize your diet by adapting a Mediterranean-type diet with a Blood Type or Metabolic Type overlay. If you are overweight or diabetic, you would do best with a Low Carbohydrate version of this diet. Once you start this diet, you will do best by actually feeding your joints. Part of this feeding is in the form of minerals, protein, and raw bone. As I've said so many times before, dogs are routinely cured of crippling arthritis in six weeks. It is done by eliminating cooked dog food and feeding them nothing but raw meaty bones and vegetables. Besides eliminating arthritis, almost all other forms of disease dogs suffer from also improve or are eliminated with this diet. There is a powerful lesson here. And raw bone is part of it.
Today there are hundreds of joint supplements. Most are trash. Some are helpful. All are served up with a huge helping of hype. And all are overpriced. The best products for joints must be made from raw food, bones, and organic minerals. They must be grown and processed properly. And that means processing raw bones with the marrow into supplements that are edible for people. This is a tough job~and I know of only oln company that has the patented processes in place to do this; Standard Process.
So if you are an arthritis sufferer, you must start with the right supplements. This is also true if you also have osteoporosis. When you make these necessary lifestyle changes-including nutrition, exercise, and eventual prescription drug-weaning-you are on the way to virtually becoming a new person. The rewards are so great that the money saved becomes secondary. The alternative of drugs and surgery are not pretty.
Health Alert Dr Bruce West Vol 21 Issue 2
In the end, there is just no option. You must stop the bad stuff and start the good stuff. Ironically, it is not all that tough. Simply give up anything in a package. Eat exactly what is listed in this article, and consume at least one quarter of it raw. Supplement this massive dietary change with the right nutrients that rebuild and nourish healthy joints. As you get better, get off drugs-they are extremely toxic to your body. Start exercising as soon as you are able. After a year or so you will be a new person-effectively reducing your chronological age by 20 years! And to get even better results when you start exercising, use the Slow Burn Fitness Revolution exercise plan. Buy this book by Hahn, Hahn, and Eades at bookstores or on-line.
How to Feed Your Joints
If you did nothing else but eliminate the bad stuff and eat the good stuff, you would get better. Not everyone's diet should be exactly the same. Some people cannot tolerate dairy. Others suffer if they eat nightshade vegetables like potatoes, tomatoes, eggplants, and bell peppers. But the basics will stay the same. you can individualize your diet by adapting a Mediterranean-type diet with a Blood Type or Metabolic Type overlay. If you are overweight or diabetic, you would do best with a Low Carbohydrate version of this diet. Once you start this diet, you will do best by actually feeding your joints. Part of this feeding is in the form of minerals, protein, and raw bone. As I've said so many times before, dogs are routinely cured of crippling arthritis in six weeks. It is done by eliminating cooked dog food and feeding them nothing but raw meaty bones and vegetables. Besides eliminating arthritis, almost all other forms of disease dogs suffer from also improve or are eliminated with this diet. There is a powerful lesson here. And raw bone is part of it.
Today there are hundreds of joint supplements. Most are trash. Some are helpful. All are served up with a huge helping of hype. And all are overpriced. The best products for joints must be made from raw food, bones, and organic minerals. They must be grown and processed properly. And that means processing raw bones with the marrow into supplements that are edible for people. This is a tough job~and I know of only oln company that has the patented processes in place to do this; Standard Process.
So if you are an arthritis sufferer, you must start with the right supplements. This is also true if you also have osteoporosis. When you make these necessary lifestyle changes-including nutrition, exercise, and eventual prescription drug-weaning-you are on the way to virtually becoming a new person. The rewards are so great that the money saved becomes secondary. The alternative of drugs and surgery are not pretty.
Health Alert Dr Bruce West Vol 21 Issue 2