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Arthritis is not caused by aspirin deficiency

 

ARTHRITIS: THERE'S MORE YOU CAN DO THAN JUST LEARN TO LIVE WITH IT

By the time you are 88 years old, you have consumed 300

tons of food, air and water.

(R. Buckminster Fuller)

 

http://www.doctoryourself.com/arthritis_II.html

 

ARTHRITIS AND DIET

 

It is party-line medical doctrine that there is little or no

connection between arthritis and nutrition. That belief belongs on

the agenda of the next World-Is-Flat Society meeting. We truly are

what we eat. We started from a union of two tiny half-cells. All

that we are today, our trillions and trillions of cells, results from

the molecules we've accumulated from breathing, drinking, and eating

our food.

 

How can arthritis, or any other disease for that matter, be unrelated

to diet?

Naturopaths hold that the etiology of arthritis parallels a history

of bad diet. You will

rarely see an arthritic patient that is not a cooked-food-and-meat-

eater.

 

Proof exists, and plenty of it. Francis M. Pottenger, M.D. did

nutritional experiments on hundreds of cats over a period of two

decades. He found that cats fed our typical cooked diet did in fact

develop many degenerative diseases, including arthritis. What is

especially interesting is that Dr. Pottenger found you could reverse

the condition by feeding the animals only fresh, raw foods.

(References are available from the Price-Pottenger Nutrition

Foundation, La Mesa, CA 92041)

 

 

ARTHRITIS AND CALCIUM

 

The Arthritis Foundation has stated that the average adult eats only

about 550 milligrams or so of calcium daily. The US Recommend Daily

Allowance is between 800 and 1200 mg/day, and that itself may be to

low. Everyone knows that arthritis, whether rheumatoid or

osteoarthritis, is related to bones and joints... and so is what they

are largely made out of: calcium. Nationwide calcium deficiency, and

NO arthritis connection with diet? How curious.

 

If most adults are deficient in calcium intake, no wonder there are

joint and bone problems in America.

 

Calcium deposits or degeneration of the joints themselves may both be

seen as two aspects of a common disease if one will rise above a

craving for differential diagnosis. It often surprises practitioners

to discover that people with calcium deposits are actually as calcium

deficient as those people that are losing bone mass. Remember:

excess dietary calcium does NOT cause calcium deposits. Excess

calcium is simply not absorbed, and is excreted in the feces. It is

a lack of calcium in the diet that causes calcium deposits.

 

Two quick calcium supplementation suggestions:

1. Take an easily absorbed form of calcium, such as calcium citrate

or calcium lactate.

2. Divide the dose. Absorption is best if you don't take all your

calcium at once.

 

 

ARTHRITIS AND VITAMIN C

 

Deficiency of vitamin C-rich citrus fruits has been known to produce

scurvy since 1753, over 250 years ago. One of the chief symptoms of

scurvy is profound joint troubles. Sailors with scurvy used to be

heard literally rattling as they walked on deck. At that time, no

one believed that there was any connection between diet and joint

disorders, either. Then ship's surgeon James Lind cured the

condition in two weeks with just one lemon and two oranges a day.

 

" Arth- " means joint and " -itis " means inflammation. It would be

asking a lot of a few pieces of fruit to cure it. However, really

large doses of vitamin C have been shown to reduce all forms of

inflammation throughout the body. The joints are no exception. For

someone who has never experienced it, it is hard to believe that

simple vitamin C can help where medicines have not. No belief is

necessary; the proof is in trying it. The amount of vitamin C needed

is the amount that will get the job done. You take enough C to be

symptom-free, whatever the amount might be. You do not take the

amount of vitamin C that you think should help; you take the amount

that DOES help. (There are other vitamin C related articles posted

at this website.)

 

In addition to reducing inflammation, vitamin C also helps form

collagen, the protein " glue " that holds cells together. Collagen is

especially important in connective tissue to insure healthy

ligaments, cartilage, tendons and the joints themselves. Scurvy,

exemplified by our rattling sailor mentioned earlier, is what happens

to joints when vitamin C levels are inadequate. If you think scurvy

is extinct in modern life, may I remind you that William J.

McCormick, M.D. showed that every cigarette smoked robs the body of

25 mg. of vitamin C. That is a 500 mg deficit " each day " from only

one pack daily. With a US RDA of only 60 mg per day, we can see that

scurvy is not only possible but likely in the nearly 29 million

Americans who still smoke.

 

Without ENOUGH vitamin C collagen cannot be properly

made. " Abnormalities in this protein (collagen) are basic to the

crippling deformities associated with rheumatic diseases. " (Rivers,

J.M. " Ascorbic Acid in Metabolism of Connective Tissue, " New York

State Journal of Medicine, vol 65: pp 1235-1238, 1965) The key is

to " use " enough. Studies showing little vitamin C benefit generally

employed only a few hundred milligrams of C daily. " Thousands " of

milligrams, at least, are required for clinical improvement. Back in

1950, 4,000 mg was shown to be effective by B. F. Massell

( " Antirheumatic Activity of Ascorbic Acid in Large Doses, " New

England Journal of Medicine, vol. 242: pp 614-615). In Germany in

1952, Baufeld used 6,000 mg daily, often by injection. ( " Ascorbic

Acid in the Treatment of Polyarthritis, " Deutsche Gesundheitswesen

(Berlin), vol. 7, p 1077.) In 1953, Greer used 8,000 to 12,000 mg per

day. (Medical Times, vol. 81 pp. 483-484.) It may well take more

than that for some patients.

 

Arthritis is not caused by aspirin deficiency. It may indeed be

caused by nutritional deficiency. That is how Dr. Pottenger produced

arthritis in cats only on a cooked (read " vitamin C deficient " )

diet.

 

" There can be no doubt, " writes biochemist Irwin Stone, " about the

intimate association of ascorbic acid (vitamin C) and the collagen

diseases. " (The Healing Factor, Grosset and Dunlap, 1972, p. 109) A

person with arthritis seems to require vastly more vitamin C to

correct the problem than the deficiency it took to cause it.

 

 

B-VITAMINS AND ARTHRITIS

 

Look at the work of William Kaufman, M.D., Ph.D. This physician

suspected an arthritis-diet deficiency connection and acted on it.

One of Dr. Kaufman's primary tools was niacinamide, (or niacin,

vitamin B-3). He gave 250 milligrams of niacinamide (the form of

niacin that does not cause a warm flush) every 1 1/2 hours for a

daily total of ten doses. That is 2,500 mg. a day, not at all more

than many doctors today prescribe to lower serum cholesterol. The

results was improved grip strength and joint mobility. Dr. Kaufman

went on to treat close to one thousand patients with niacinamide plus

the B-vitamins thiamin (B-1), riboflavin (B-2), pyridoxine (B-6) and

pantothenic acid. It will not surprise you that he also gave large

doses of vitamin C. What will surprise you is that he started using

vitamins to successfully treat arthritis as early as 1935, and niacin

in 1937, immediately after it was identified. (Journal of the

International Academy of Preventive Medicine, Winter, 1983.)

 

One cannot help but wonder why vitamin therapies are not used

everywhere today if they were so helpful in the 1930's. Have

vitamins mysteriously lost their value, or could it be that they are

cheap and provide no profit incentive for large pharmaceutical

companies?

 

Dr. John M. Ellis, a physician in Texas, published an entire book on

vitamin B-6 (pyridoxine) in 1983 entitled Free of Pain (Dallas:

Southwest Publishing). Linus Pauling reports in How To Live Longer

and Feel Better (1986) that Ellis found that " B-6 shrinks the

synovial membranes that line the weight-bearing surfaces of the

joints. It thus helps to control pain and to restore mobility in the

elbows, shoulders, knees and other joints. " While very large doses

of B-6 alone may cause transient neurological side effects,

relatively modest doses of around 75 to 300 mg daily are very safe.

The

safety of one B-vitamin is magnified by giving it with the rest of

the B-complex.

 

What should the arthritic person be eating? Perhaps we may reduce

this discussion to the following protocol:

 

* Primarily raw food diet including cultured dairy products such

as cheese and yogurt

* 75 to 300 mg B-6 daily, preferably with a B-complex supplement

* Niacinamide every two hours or so, up to a thousand milligrams

or more daily

* Vitamin C to saturation (as much as the body will hold without

loose bowels)

 

In healing, I think it is important not only to know what to do, but

also to know WHY you are doing it. " Here, take these " is not good

medicine even if " these " are vitamins. You will want to do

additional reading, beginning with the references cited above, on

ascorbic acid (vitamin C), niacinamide (vitamin B-3) and pyridoxine

(B-6) The benefits of a primarily raw food diet is discussed in

Kulvinskas, Viktoras (1975) Survival into the 21st Century

(Wethersfield, CT: Omangod Press); and Wigmore, Ann (1964) Why

Suffer? (NY: Hemisphere Press); and Wigmore, Ann (1983) Be Your Own

Doctor (Garden City Park, NY: Avery.)

 

A more complete understanding makes for a more complete cure.

 

God bless,

Kandy

 

 

 

 

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[Guest guest]

That is a really cute title!! I have been saying the same thing for

years in my business:

 

ADHD is not caused by a lack of Ritalin!

Cancer is not caused by a lack of chemotherapy!

Etc.

Etc.

 

But so many people tell me " my doctor is taking good care of me - I

don't need what you have " . And I ask, " if your doctor is taking such

good care of your, then why aren't you better? " They don't know what to

say and walk away.

 

Carol Minnick

 

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mistylyn trepke [mistytrepke]

Tuesday, May 13, 2003 12:40 PM

 

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