arthritis article

[Guest guest]

(This article is reprinted from the Cowichan Valley Citizen newspaper)

Arthritis reversal just a supplement away

Body Electric

Many people who called me about Arthritis had missed the previous

articles or not grasped their importance so here's the information

presented in a new way. Although a " cure " for arthritis has not been

proclaimed, there is a large body of knowledge about how to reliably

slow or stop its progress, and a smaller body of knowledge on how to

reverse the cartilage damage. The gist of it is that it's an

oxidative stress illness, often associated with age-related

spontaneous degeneration. Antioxidants and drugs to suppress the

inflammation are being employed with varying degrees of success. The

missing ingredient is the master antioxidant and detox enzyme,

glutathione, as the following (peer-reviewed) Medline articles show:

From " The glutathione defense system in the pathogenesis of

rheumatoid arthritis " , " The results support a hypothesis that defense

mechanisms against reactive oxygen species are impaired in RA. " J

Appl Toxicol 2001 Jan-Feb;21(1):69-73. Another article asserts, " GSH

deficiency or oxidative stress plays a role in disease pathology,

e.g. rheumatoid arthritis, Parkinson's disease, hepatitis, liver

cirrhosis, septic shock and diabetes. " In an article titled " Free

radicals in chronic fatigue syndrome: cause or effect? " from

Department of Biological Sciences, University of Newcastle, New South

Wales, Australia, " We have demonstrated that certain morphological

and biochemical changes occur in chronic fatigue syndrome (CFS) and

in rheumatoid arthritis (RA). These changes in RA can be explained by

the well-established inappropriate increase in free radical

generation. The similar changes in CFS suggest a similar explanation

and a possible role for free radicals in the aetiology of this

condition. " And from the Biomedical Research Centre, Ninewells

Hospital and Medical School, University of Dundee, Scotland,

UK, " Increases in the intracellular levels of reactive oxygen species

(ROS), frequently referred to as oxidative stress, represents a

potentially toxic insult which if not counteracted will lead to

membrane dysfunction, DNA damage and inactivation of proteins.

Chronic oxidative stress has numerous pathological consequences

including cancer, arthritis and neurodegenerative disease.

Glutathione-associated metabolism is a major mechanism for cellular

protection against agents which generate oxidative stress. It is

becoming increasingly apparent that the glutathione tripeptide is

central to a complex multifaceted detoxification system, where there

is substantial inter-dependence between separate component members.

Glutathione participates in detoxification at several different

levels, and may scavenge free radicals, reduce peroxides or be

conjugated with electrophilic compounds. Thus, glutathione provides

the cell with multiple defences not only against ROS but also against

their toxic products. "

What the researchers are saying is that we are oxidizing until it

compromises our health across the board. This degeneration is the

free radical theory of aging in a nutshell. Although this is an

arthritis article, the degeneration will be obvious in more than one

area, your weakest points. You can stop this process, and stopping it

requires nutrients, not drugs.

You know from this and previous articles that we can get the

inflammation and free radical damage under control with glutathione

precursor HMS-90. Now let's regrow that degenerating cartilage. For

that you neeed a non-drug product that's guaranteed to do exactly

that or your money back. The product also controls Th2 cell mediated

inflammatory response by increasing Th1 memory cells like one of HMS-

90's properties. The last time I wrote on this in August, after

trying it for less than 2 months, one lady has taken off her knee

brace and is able to go walking on the trails all day, climb stairs

and such that she said " just wouldn't have happened last year. "

Another lady has removed and stored 2 knee braces and is giving her

wheelchair back to the Red Cross after using this product for only

two months. She had already had four surgeries to each knee but was

degenerating badly. Far from being crippled, she can now walk for

miles. Both these ladies are pain-free for the first time in more

than 20 years. Their testimonials appear on the local website

www.zeek.ca, which has started to mount my articles including a

longer one about this product, called Collastin (non-drug fibro and

arthritis relief). Email me for the free ebook " At Last Collastin " .

Because this therapy regrows cartilage, thus reversing the damage,

and because cartilage usually takes a long time to degenerate, the

relief obtained from a three month program can last for several

years. Of course, a person who practices good nutrition will respond

better and more quickly because he will have the other components,

the vitamins, minerals, proteins and all that readily available. You

can't rely on a therapy to work if you're killing yourself with bad

diet and poor lifestyle decisions.

Collastin is not available in stores. The MSM and the glucosamine

hydrochloride (you could also use Recovery for that), the vitamins,

the minerals including selenium and boron are all available at local

stores, and the HMS-90 glutathione precursor (Immunocal in the USA)is

available from distributors. You can find it on a google search on

the Internet www.google.com.