Lupus, Rheumatoid Arthritis and the Carbohydrate Connection
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Hundreds of thousands of` people-mostly young women~are diagnosed with either lupus, rheumatoid arthritis, or both. In most cases the diagnosis is never really exact. One day, or in a short period of a few days or weeks, the patient begins to suffer joint pains. This often begins with a high fever that will not come down. In many cases a prior condition like chronic bronchitis has required a long or double dose of antibiotics.
Soon thereafter a whole series of events takes place. Joint pains begin and quickly become intense, migrating throughout the joints of the body. A joint will swell, turn red, hurt severely then become normal as another joint suffers the same problem. A Rheumatologist is usually employed at this time, and the cause of the problem is often difficult or impossible to pin down. |
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So a diagnosis of lupus, rheumatoid arthritis. or both is used, and the usual treatments with Prednisone and anti-microbial or anti-infective drugs like Plaquenil begin. In most cases the condition just runs along, severe some months, less severe others. Months turn to years, and the drugs take their toll. Exercise and physical activities are curtailed or ended, and the young women usually begin to slowly gain weight. The pain continues.
For the lucky ones, an amazing thing happens. They decide to try to lose weight and go on a low~ carbohydrate diet. Within days of quitting the grains, wheat, pasta, pastries, refined foods, and most other carbohydrates, their pain starts to go away. Soon they are pain free, and if they haven't already, they quit the drugs. Amazingly, the pain doesn’t return.
Soon they begin to experiment-just to be sure! Like clockwork, when they gorge on carbohydrates, their pain returns. They can literally turn the pain off by excluding carbohydrates, and on by including them in their diet. When the pain returns, it happens like clockwork-and often with a cardinal sign-like a big nasty cold sore. No rocket scientist needed here. As long as they eat a healthful diet, their lifetime disease of "lupus" or "rheumatoid arthritis" is simply gone.
The ones with real guts confront their doctor, report their findings, and ask the burning question: "Why did a lupus and rheumatoid arthritis expert allow me to go through hell for all these years and nearly kill me with drugs when my problem was caused by carbohydrates?"
For the lucky ones, an amazing thing happens. They decide to try to lose weight and go on a low~ carbohydrate diet. Within days of quitting the grains, wheat, pasta, pastries, refined foods, and most other carbohydrates, their pain starts to go away. Soon they are pain free, and if they haven't already, they quit the drugs. Amazingly, the pain doesn’t return.
Soon they begin to experiment-just to be sure! Like clockwork, when they gorge on carbohydrates, their pain returns. They can literally turn the pain off by excluding carbohydrates, and on by including them in their diet. When the pain returns, it happens like clockwork-and often with a cardinal sign-like a big nasty cold sore. No rocket scientist needed here. As long as they eat a healthful diet, their lifetime disease of "lupus" or "rheumatoid arthritis" is simply gone.
The ones with real guts confront their doctor, report their findings, and ask the burning question: "Why did a lupus and rheumatoid arthritis expert allow me to go through hell for all these years and nearly kill me with drugs when my problem was caused by carbohydrates?"
If you are in this or a similar situation, take heed. Get a copy of the book Protein Power by Michael and Mary Eades, MD (Bantam Books). Get started on a low carbohydrate diet and eliminate all grains. If you are one of the majority of sufferers, your pain will begin to disappear. The side effects of this "radical diet?" You will lose weight, gain muscle, and final]y normalize your insulin-hormone response and blood insulin dramatically reducing your risk of heart disease. What a concept!
So, if you constantly deal with sore, swollen. painful, hot joints, you can be pretty sure you have come down with rheumatoid arthritis. In almost all cases rheumatoid arthritis is actually an infection in the joints. And the most common culprit is mycoplasma. Since there is limited blood flow to tendons and ligaments, it is tough to get rid of this type of infection. In most cases a year (12 months) of the low (acme) dose of tetracycline or minocycline is needed. There are scores of studies to show the infection-rheumatoid connection as well as the efficacy of antibiotic therapy.
I am never in favor of antibiotics, especially for a long period of time. But in these cases there is usually no choice. With the very low dose, there is rarely a problem with yeast overgrowth or gut problems. Ask your rheumatologist for a prescription for the acne dose of minocycline. If he or she insists on toxic treatments that never cure the condition like Prednisone, Methotrexate, gold shots, etc.-you probably need another doctor. You will need to start calling doctors from the yellow pages to find one with enough sense to help you by writing the necessary prescription.
Health Alert Dr Bruce West MD Vol 22 Issue 5
So, if you constantly deal with sore, swollen. painful, hot joints, you can be pretty sure you have come down with rheumatoid arthritis. In almost all cases rheumatoid arthritis is actually an infection in the joints. And the most common culprit is mycoplasma. Since there is limited blood flow to tendons and ligaments, it is tough to get rid of this type of infection. In most cases a year (12 months) of the low (acme) dose of tetracycline or minocycline is needed. There are scores of studies to show the infection-rheumatoid connection as well as the efficacy of antibiotic therapy.
I am never in favor of antibiotics, especially for a long period of time. But in these cases there is usually no choice. With the very low dose, there is rarely a problem with yeast overgrowth or gut problems. Ask your rheumatologist for a prescription for the acne dose of minocycline. If he or she insists on toxic treatments that never cure the condition like Prednisone, Methotrexate, gold shots, etc.-you probably need another doctor. You will need to start calling doctors from the yellow pages to find one with enough sense to help you by writing the necessary prescription.
Health Alert Dr Bruce West MD Vol 22 Issue 5