The cost and lack of complete effectiveness of the widely employed, medically recognized arthritis-relief techniques are major reasons why so many people turn to self-remedies and informal folk medicine. Some folk remedies people have sworn by for years but which modern-day doctors abhor include drinking vinegar, eating honey, and using snake venom.
Some arthritics say that they find relief in warm, dry climates, although weather conditions do not affect all sufferers. Recent medical research has found that climate has an impact on arthritis symptoms when humidity is high and the barometric pressure is low.
Some arthritics have reported that changes in their diets have improved their arthritis. During one of my recent public lectures, a woman told me that her grandfather’s arthritis cleared up completely when he stopped drinking milk and eating milk products. It is not unusual for me or my colleagues to be given this type of report. Traditionally oriented nutritionists and the medical establishment state that they have found no connection between diet and arthritis.
What is of special interest to the clinical ecologists, whether we are looking at “folk remedies” or “scientific treatments,” is that some therapies do help one individual and not another, or that an exposure to some environmental substance may provoke minor discomfort or harmful effects in one person and not another. Those facts, pointing to very important individual biologic differences in responses to environmental exposures (biochemical individuality), offer clues to the allergic or allergy-like nature of arthritis and numerous other conditions.
Avoidance of a given food or foods that specifically affect their joints as well as other body structures will help many arthritic individuals who are sensitive to these particular offending dietary substances. Complete elimination of the same food or group of foods cannot possibly relieve all allergic arthritis sufferers, since they do not have exactly the same pattern of food allergies, and one elimination diet cannot possibly be effective in all cases.
Arthritis may be called a patient-specific syndrome. This means that every biologically unique arthritic patient has his or her own one-of-a-kind body chemistry and immune system, which determine his or her particular allergic responses. Tearing up one’s roots, leaving family, friends, and a good job in order to move to a new climate, may simply remove a particular allergic-arthritic individual from an ecologically bad place to an ecologically good place that happens to be free from the specific environmental substances that trigger the symptoms. An ecologically undiagnosed arthritic who is allergically reactive to foods, inhalants, and various environmental chemical substances will not find relief in a new climate because he or she will continue to eat unsuspected food offenders and will still be exposed to airborne allergens and all the potential chemical offenders that are associated with modern living.
In some cases just moving across the street, around the comer, or to another part of town might be the answer. Perhaps changing methods of housecleaning or place of work or occupation in the same city will be all that is necessary to gain relief from arthritis that is caused by various chemical substances or airborne allergens present in a specific building. An expensive long-distance move could be undertaken unnecessarily because of modern medicine’s complete failure to recognize a case of chemically susceptible arthritis that is set off by avoidable indoor air pollution, or to spot a sufferer from inhalant mold allergy with arthritic manifestations who only needed to remove mold-containing potted plants or correct a mildew condition in the living quarters, basement, or crawl space.
Rather than following the traditional method of trying one form of drug therapy after another on a patient, the clinical ecologist is usually able to determine in advance which measure or combination of measures will be effective. This is because it has been discovered and confirmed that 80 to 90 percent of all arthritis is a musculoskeletal manifestation of an often body-wide (systemic) allergic or allergy-like reaction to some substances in the diet or the environment that affect the joints and surrounding structures as well as the muscles. Our treatment is directed against the specific causes, not the symptoms. Not only can the bioecologic approach relieve arthritis symptoms and often lead to reversal of tissue damage, but in the long run it can prevent recurrence of those symptoms and block the often crippling damage that results from continuous or recurrent joint inflammation.
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MANAGING ARTHRITIS: CHOOSING TREATMENT METHODS The cost and lack of complete effectiveness of the widely employed, medically recognized arthritis-relief techniques are major reasons why so many people turn to self-remedies and informal folk medicine. Some folk remedies people have sworn by for years but which modern-day doctors abhor include drinking vinegar, eating honey, and using snake venom.Some arthritics say that they find relief in warm, dry climates, although weather conditions do not affect all sufferers. Recent medical research has found that climate has an impact on arthritis symptoms when humidity is high and the barometric pressure is low.Some arthritics have reported that changes in their diets have improved their arthritis. During one of my recent public lectures, a woman told me that her grandfather’s arthritis cleared up completely when he stopped drinking milk and eating milk products. It is not unusual for me or my colleagues to be given this type of report. Traditionally oriented nutritionists and the medical establishment state that they have found no connection between diet and arthritis. What is of special interest to the clinical ecologists, whether we are looking at “folk remedies” or “scientific treatments,” is that some therapies do help one individual and not another, or that an exposure to some environmental substance may provoke minor discomfort or harmful effects in one person and not another. Those facts, pointing to very important individual biologic differences in responses to environmental exposures (biochemical individuality), offer clues to the allergic or allergy-like nature of arthritis and numerous other conditions.Avoidance of a given food or foods that specifically affect their joints as well as other body structures will help many arthritic individuals who are sensitive to these particular offending dietary substances. Complete elimination of the same food or group of foods cannot possibly relieve all allergic arthritis sufferers, since they do not have exactly the same pattern of food allergies, and one elimination diet cannot possibly be effective in all cases.Arthritis may be called a patient-specific syndrome. This means that every biologically unique arthritic patient has his or her own one-of-a-kind body chemistry and immune system, which determine his or her particular allergic responses. Tearing up one’s roots, leaving family, friends, and a good job in order to move to a new climate, may simply remove a particular allergic-arthritic individual from an ecologically bad place to an ecologically good place that happens to be free from the specific environmental substances that trigger the symptoms. An ecologically undiagnosed arthritic who is allergically reactive to foods, inhalants, and various environmental chemical substances will not find relief in a new climate because he or she will continue to eat unsuspected food offenders and will still be exposed to airborne allergens and all the potential chemical offenders that are associated with modern living.In some cases just moving across the street, around the comer, or to another part of town might be the answer. Perhaps changing methods of housecleaning or place of work or occupation in the same city will be all that is necessary to gain relief from arthritis that is caused by various chemical substances or airborne allergens present in a specific building. An expensive long-distance move could be undertaken unnecessarily because of modern medicine’s complete failure to recognize a case of chemically susceptible arthritis that is set off by avoidable indoor air pollution, or to spot a sufferer from inhalant mold allergy with arthritic manifestations who only needed to remove mold-containing potted plants or correct a mildew condition in the living quarters, basement, or crawl space.Rather than following the traditional method of trying one form of drug therapy after another on a patient, the clinical ecologist is usually able to determine in advance which measure or combination of measures will be effective. This is because it has been discovered and confirmed that 80 to 90 percent of all arthritis is a musculoskeletal manifestation of an often body-wide (systemic) allergic or allergy-like reaction to some substances in the diet or the environment that affect the joints and surrounding structures as well as the muscles. Our treatment is directed against the specific causes, not the symptoms. Not only can the bioecologic approach relieve arthritis symptoms and often lead to reversal of tissue damage, but in the long run it can prevent recurrence of those symptoms and block the often crippling damage that results from continuous or recurrent joint inflammation.*13/295/5*
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