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Rheumatoid Arthritis Protection Protocol

“Researchers in England discovered that patients with chronic pain have phenomenally low vitamin D levels.” Ann Rheum Dis. 2005 Aug;64(8):1217-9. 

“Several human diseases are inflammatory in nature, including asthma, Crohn's disease, rheumatoid arthritis, polymyalgia rheumatica, tendonitis, bursitis, laryngitis, gingivitis, gastritis, otitis, celiac disease (gluten intolerance), diverticulitis (infection of the diverticula in the colon), and inflammatory bowel disease. Additionally, a number of chronic diseases have inflammatory components, such as atherosclerosis, obesity, diabetes, cancer, and perhaps even Alzheimer's disease.” Victoria J. Drake, PhD

"A daily dose of vitamin B-6 at the current upper tolerable levels may reduce amounts of inflammatory compounds in people suffering from rheumatoid arthritis, a new study says. Levels of the pro-inflammatory compounds interleukin-6 (IL-6) and tumor necrosis factor-alpha (TNF-alpha) significantly decreased following 12 weeks of supplementation with 100 mg of vitamin B-6,.”   European Journal of Clinical Nutrition.

“Levels of estradiol were higher and levels of DHEA were lower in rheumatoid arthritis patients compared to subjects not suffering from chronic inflammation.” Tengstrand et al

“A high homocysteine level is also associated with Alzheimer's disease, as well as depression, multiple sclerosis, menopausal symptoms, and rheumatoid arthritis. Homocysteine is formed naturally when protein is broken down. Too much of it causes oxidative damage to the endothelium. Oxidative damage is caused by free radicals--byproducts of the body's normal processes that can damage body tissues. In fact, the risk for heart disease triples when the homocysteine blood level exceeds 15.8 umol/L - a reading still considered by many to be within the "normal” range (The optimum target should be under 8 umol/L). Worse yet, the odds of heart disease are directly proportional to the homocysteine concentration. The higher the blood homocysteine level, the higher the risk of cardiac disease.”    Doctor Michael Lam MD

"Capsaicin, found in red pepper is used to alleviate the pain of arthritis and headaches, it helps to build your joint synovial cells and can be an important arthritis prophylactic."   Note this seems to be a natural for RA

“Selenium is used to treat and prevent cancer, boost the immune system, and for cardiovascular and rheumatic disease ⁽²⁾. Recent data from four clinical trials suggests that selenium may prevent gastrointestinal cancer ⁽¹⁶⁾. A meta-analysis of 16 studies suggests that selenium may also afford protection against lung cancer ⁽¹⁷⁾. Findings from another clinical trial suggest effectiveness of selenium supplementation in reducing HIV-I viral load in infected individuals ⁽¹⁹⁾.” Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center

“A Meta analysis published in Seminars on Arthritis and Rheumatism concluded that GLA was proven effective in reducing the effects of autoimmune disease can have on joint linings.” Ariza-Ariza et al 1998

“Glucosamine should help treat any condition that involve repair of cartilage and joints including osteoarthritis, rheumatoid arthritis, ankylosing spondylitis, invertebral disc conditions, chondromalacia, tendinitis, bursitis, postsurgical repair of traumatic injury to joints and tenosynovitis. Glucosamine also is therapeutic on repairing torn tendons and ligaments.”    Luke R. Bucci PhD Glucosamine Expert

“People who ate the most cooked veggies and olive oil reduced their risk for RA by a most impressive 75%. And using olive oil on veggies and salads actually boosts the antioxidant strength of those vegetables”   British Journal of Nutrition

Rheumatoid Arthritis

"OA is accomplished by the same pathological pro-inflammatory immune factors involved in RA. Even more compelling was their finding that if treatment is initiated before symptoms manifest OA may be entirely prevented."   Life Extension, Note go to the OA protocol to learn this preventive treatment which will IMO certainly help your RA

RA often has roots in auto-immune disease and/or inflammation. Please make sure you have done all you can to resolve these two problems most of us suffer to one degree or another. Doctor Bob Martin states of the thousands of RA patients he has treated almost ALL have an underlying infection producing condition. Make sure your digestion process is working well. Some RA has been traced back to low stomach acid.

Skeletal Fluorosis Masquerading as RA

“The harmful effects of chronic fluoride exposure on bone are well established. Since the 1930s it has been known that fluoride intake causes excessive bone growth, which can result in joint pain, bone pain, and stiffness. These symptoms are difficult to distinguish from arthritis.”     Doctor Joseph Mercola MD

“Early cases of skeletal fluorosis cannot be distinguished form rheumatoid or osteo arthritis.”   WHO “Fluoride and Human Health” 1970, pp 238, 249

“I think there is every reason to be concerned that fluoride is contributing to the epidemic of arthritis in this country. “   Doctor Paul Connett, Fluoride Expert, Environmental Chemist

“If I were an arthritic individual I would be eliminating every possible source of fluoride exposure that I could think of.”   Doctor Phyllis Mullenix, Pharmacologist/Toxicologist

Please make sure your symptoms of "rheumatoid arthritis" is not just your chronic ingestion of the poison fluoride manifesting as joint pain.

Mycoplasma and RA

"According to Dr Shyh-Ching Lo, senior researcher at The Armed Forces Institute of Pathology and one of America’s top mycoplasma researchers, this disease agent causes many illnesses including AIDS, cancer, chronic fatigue syndrome, Crohn’s colitis, Type I diabetes, multiple sclerosis, Parkinson’s disease, Wegener’s disease and collagen-vascular diseases such as rheumatoid arthritis and Alzheimer’s. I have all the official documents to prove that mycoplasma is the disease agent in chronic fatigue syndrome/fibromyalgia as well as in AIDS, multiple sclerosis and many other illnesses."  Donald W. Scott MA  

"Sometime over the past 30 years, the organism has been altered to become more lethal. The Mycoplasmas found by the Nicolson’s, in their lab, contain unusual gene sequences that were probably inserted into the Mycoplasma by a specific laboratory procedure. This discovery has led them to conclude that the new forms of mycoplasma were specifically engineered for germ warfare. (9) In it’s laboratory evolution, the Mycoplasmas have became more invasive, more difficult to find, and capable of causing severe diseases in humans. Diseases, like Gulf War Illness, CFS, FMS, MCS, Rheumatoid Arthritis, and AIDS, for instance.”   Mycoplasma made in a lab

"In 1939, Dr. Sabin, the discoverer of the polio vaccine, first reported chronic arthritis in mice caused by a mycoplasma. He suggested this agent might cause human rheumatoid arthritis. Dr. Brown worked with Dr. Sabin at the Rockefeller Institute. Doctor Brown helped over 10,000 RA patients by treating for mycoplasma.”   Doctor Joseph Mercola MD

"Dr. Thomas Brown's effort to treat the chronic mycoplasma infections believed to cause rheumatoid arthritis is the basis for this therapy. Dr. Brown believed that most rheumatic illnesses respond to this treatment. He and others used this therapy for SLE, ankylosing spondylitis, scleroderma, dermatomyositis and polymyositis.”   Doctor Joseph Mercola MD

IMO if you have had a serious case of RA please get checked for mycoplasma. It is quire possible mycoplasma may be at least part of your problem. If you do have the mycoplasma not solving your mycoplasma problem will in all probability make solving your RA problem impossible.

Mycoplasma and vitamin D  in RA

Healing Auto Immune Disease

“Autoimmunity is born in the gut. That’s where it comes from – your gut wall. That happens because your gut flora is abnormal. In order to heal any autoimmune condition – whether it’s multiple sclerosis, rheumatoid arthritis, osteoarthritis, lupus, alopecia, psoriasis, or anything else that has got an autoimmune component – you have to focus on healing and sealing your gut lining with the GAPS Nutritional Protocol. And you have to focus on... normalizing your gut flora. You have to drive out the pathogens from the gut flora and replace them with the beneficial flora. Then a lot of healing will happen."   Doctor Natasha Campbell-McBride

“Once your gut lining begins to deteriorate, these disease-causing agents can be easily absorbed into your bloodstream and circulated throughout your body. Some of them have affinities for certain proteins, and will attach themselves to them. When that happens, it changes the three-dimensional shape of that protein molecule. When your immune system comes across this foreign-looking protein, it will attack it and begin producing antibodies against it.”    Doctor Natasha Campbell-McBride

Doctor Natasha Campbell-McBride IMO has made a revolutionary breakthrough in the treatment of auto immune diseases. Please go to her protocol and learn to use her GAPS treatment.

Vitamin C and RA

“Foods high in vitamin C protect against a type of RA called inflammatory polyarthritis, a condition in which two or more joints are affected. According to another study of 20,000 people who didn’t eat very many vitamin C-rich foods, researchers found they had 300% more arthritis than those who ate the most.”   Annals of the Rheumatic Diseases

Vitamin D and RA

The simple primal act of getting LOTS of the high noon sun on your bare “unprotected” skin in large amounts just may be the most important single thing you can do for your health. If the sun casts a shadow longer than you are tall you cannot make adequate vitamin D from the sun. You MUST take vitamin D3 at the daily rate of about 1000 IU/20 pounds of body weight.  

"A geographic association with northern latitudes has been observed for rheumatoid arthritis, multiple sclerosis and Crohn's disease, other autoimmune diseases that may be mediated by reduced vitamin D from decreased solar exposure and the immune effects of vitamin D deficiency.”   Lower rheumatoid arthritis rates linked to vitamin D

“Researchers in England discovered that patients with chronic pain have phenomenally low vitamin D levels.”    Ann Rheum Dis. 2005 Aug;64(8):1217-9.

Researchers conducted genetic analysis and found that vitamin D interacts with genes for such diseases as rheumatoid arthritis, type 1 diabetes, and multiple sclerosis as well as colorectal cancer. Deficiency in the vitamin was linked to development of the diseases.”   Genome Research

It is very possible your RA problems may be cured or greatly helped by getting your vitamin D levels up to say 85 ng/ml. This is NOT hard to do IMO use the sun if possible and UVB tanning beds or vitamin D3 capsules otherwise.

With ANY serious health problem IMO you MUST get your vitamin D levels up to at least 65 ng/ml. This is a MUST.

Mycoplasma and vitamin D  in RA

Fish Oil and RA

Clinical trials have shown that fish oil supplementation is effective in the treatment of many disorders including rheumatoid arthritis, diabetes, ulcerative colitis, and Reynaud’s disease.”    Fish and Fish Oil

“In healthy humans and in people with rheumatoid arthritis fish oil suppresses several inflammatory factors by up to 90%.”    James et al

“Fish oil has also proven to be beneficial in autoimmune joint conditions such as rheumatoid arthritis (RA). While fish oil supplementation has not been used in clinical trials for the treatment of psoriatic arthritis, it may be beneficial in treating this condition, which has many similarities to RA, including a common underlying inflammatory mechanism and immune dysfunction.” Michael Traub, ND, and Keri Marshall MS, ND

“The recommended daily intake of EPA plus DHA is about 650 mg rising to 1000 mg/day during pregnancy and lactation. Clinical trials have used anywhere from 1 g/day to 10 g/day, but little additional benefit has been observed at levels above 5 g/day of EPA and DHA combined. The benefits of therapeutic supplementation may become evident in a few weeks when blood parameters (triglycerides, fibrinogen) are involved, but may take 3 months or longer to materialize in degenerative diseases like atherosclerosis and rheumatoid arthritis.” Hans R. Larsen, MSc ChE

“The fatty acids in fish oil, EPA and DHA dramatically improve functional ability and diminish pain in a myriad of diseases, including psoriasis, psoriatic arthritis, gout, lupus, osteoarthritis and rheumatoid arthritis.”    McCarthy 1992

“Fish oils are particularly effective in reducing inflammation and can be of great benefit to people suffering from rheumatoid arthritis or ulcerative colitis. Daily supplementation with as little as 2.7 grams of EPA and 1.8 grams of DHA can markedly reduce the number of tender joints and increase the time before fatigue sets in. Some studies have also noted a decrease in morning stiffness and at least two clinical trials concluded that arthritis patients who took fish oils could eliminate or sharply reduce their use of NSAIDs and other arthritis drugs.” Hans R. Larsen, MSc ChE

“Fish oil has also proven to be beneficial in autoimmune joint conditions such as rheumatoid arthritis (RA). While fish oil supplementation has not been used in clinical trials for the treatment of psoriatic arthritis, it may be beneficial in treating this condition, which has many similarities to RA, including a common underlying inflammatory mechanism and immune dysfunction.”    Michael Traub, ND, and Keri Marshall MS, ND

“Fish oil combined with vitamin E delayed the onset of autoimmune diseases in autoimmune prone mice.” Venkattaman et al

So many people with RA have been helped by fish oil it is foolish not to try taking this simple supplement. Fish oil is an important anti-inflammatory and addresses auto-immune issues making it a natural for RA.

Continuation of  Rheumatoid Arthritis Protection Protocol (See Rheumatoid Arthritis Protection Protocol Continuation)

This site was last updated on: 16 May 2012 09:51 AM

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