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Cure Arthritis? Right!

Arthritis sufferers are daily bombarded with new, better, more exciting

treatments. Try Enbrel! Try Humira! Miracle drugs!Get your NSAIDS! Get

your DMARDS! Pump more chemicals into your system. Side effects? What side

effects? You have a choice; accept the side effects or get sicker and

sicker.

In order to allay our fears, the drug companies publish the results of

their clinical tests. This double blind study proved that that lethal

chemical reduced your swelling more than another, equally lethal

chemical.

Do they think they're playing with babies? Yes. That's exactly what

they think. Arthritis is such a horrible, debilitating disease that we'll

try anything to reduce the symptoms. And that's exactly what these awful

drugs do. They reduce the symptoms, temporarily. As the symptoms creep

back, your rheumatologist increases the drug or experiments with other

lethal concoctions to reduce your swelling or pain. We're told there's NO

cure for arthritis. We're told that no one knows the cause. Really! More

that thiry years ago we sent men to play golf on the moon. But we can't

pin point even one cause for this crippling disease?

It's time for a reality check. The drug companies will continue to pump

out really expensive chemicals, ostensibly helpful. Our doctors will

continue to serve up the concoctions fed to them by the drug companies.

Unless we refuse to go along with this travesty. We don't need a

revolution. We don't even need to take on our doctors or the drug

companies. We only need to pool our resources and conduct our own

quiet experiments.

We need to experiment with our habits. Just take one aspect of our life

and alter it for one month. For example, are you a heavy coffee drinker?

I'm pretty well wired to the ceiling by mid-day. Cut coffee from

your diet for one month. Document any changes to your system resulting

from this. You may, of course, suffer withdrawal symptoms but you may also

experience a very welcome reduction in arthritic pain and swelling.

That's just one suggestion. We have lots more. Feed-back from our brave

experimenters will eventually allow us to make real recommendations. The

revolution has started!