If you're currently taking NSAIDS, Steroids, TFN Blockers or other Arthritis Pain Relief Drugs please read this...

If you're suffering with Osteoarthritis, you've probably been told your symptoms are permanent. (In fact some of them can be reversed)

If Rheumatoid Arthritis is your problem, you've probably been prescribed the latest NSAID and are worried about the side effects.

If you’re taking steroids and you're happy with them - that's fine. But at least find out about what you're taking so that you can make an informed decision. If you're putting something in your mouth and swallowing it three times a day then you owe it to yourself to find out exactly what it is and what it can do for (and to) you.

Steroids
These are prescribed for calming inflammation. The trouble is they also suppress the immune system. This leaves you with a greater risk of infections such as colds, flu and slower wound healing. Those of us with Rheumatoid Arthritis aleady have a weakened immune system and a higher risk of infection.
High doses of steroids can trigger depression, restless sleep and insomnia, panic and anxiety, weight gain, skin and hair changes… the list goes on.

NSAIDs
It's estimated around 16,000 people a year die from intestinal bleeding due to these types of arthritis drugs. We're all familiar with the most infamous of these, Vioxx - in fact I'm not going to even waste your time telling you the grim details, you probably already know...
In fact NSAIDs simply cover up the pain while damaging your remaining cartilage...

TNF Blockers, DMARDs (Biologics)
A lot of people with Rheumatoid Arthritis have been helped with these. They work by Blocking the tumor necrosis factor (TNF).

The trouble with TNF Blockers is they work by suppressing the immune system that they increase the risk of cancer by three times - lymphomas and basal cell cancers being the most common. They also increase the risk of serious infections.
Plus there are no long term studies to fully assses these drugs as they are fairly new on the market.

Now there are folks who will not give up their TNF Blockers and they are indeed very effective for people with inflammatory forms of arthritis, such as rheumatoid. If you are one of these please make sure you have regular health checks.

Are you getting the picture?

That's right! No one is looking at the body as a whole. They are taking the symptoms of the disease and finding medications to suppress them. Then they have to invent new 'improved' medications to alleviate the side effects of the previous ones. The emphasis is on crisis-control, disease and sickness. Not on health and wellness.

I'm not knocking medical research. No one would be arrogant enough to do that. I'm simply against large pharmeceutical companies promoting these drugs without releasing the full details of the side effects. (Well I suppose they'd never sell any if they did)

I'm also against these same companies offering 'kick-backs' to doctors for prescribing their medications. That's bribery at the expense of our health!

There must be a better way!

Conventional medicine is constantly searching for ways to improve the symptoms of arthritis. This is a very short sighted approach as it completely ignores the causes of the disease. I'm saying it's better to either prevent arthritis from occuring, or get rid of it out of your body!

This is very achievable using natural medications and techniques. If you've tried glucosamine and it hasn't worked for you, don't worry! There are many people who haven't had relief with glucosamine (the dosage depends on your body weight, also it's more effective in combination with other remedies). There are also many other potent natural remedies available for you to try.

"If natural medicine is so good, why don't we hear more about it?"

A fair question! Well the simple answer is because it doesn't make the pharmeceutical companies any money. If people had the knowledge that kept them disease free in the first place, what would happen to the poor old drug companies?

And what if you already have arthritis? Can these gentle, natural remedies help? Absolutely!

The facts below should be front page news. The fact that they've been suppressed doesn't make them any less true.

Recent studies have suggested 3-6 mg of a naturally occuring mineral may actually reverse symptoms of osteoarthritis. This is not available in the average American diet.

Which natural substance is a powerful anti-inflammatory and also normalises the immune system?

If you live in some parts of the world (for example New Zealand)  your soils are depleted of an impotant micronutrient, needed for immune system health