Dr. Abram Hoffer, MD, FRCP (C) and Dr. Harold D. Foster, PhD
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 Many patients, particularly arthritics, have reported that they feel much better when their joints are warmed up by the niacin flush. Some will stop taking niacin for a few days in order to reactivate it.
There are many physical and psychiatric diseases that benefit from niacin. When these are being treated, there will, of course, be other positive side effects. If a patient, for example, takes niacin to normalize blood lipids and, as a result of the vitamin activity, feels very much better, displaying more energy or faster healing, these are positive side effects. |
Mike Adams, the Health Ranger
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 You have inflammation in the joints. You need to knock that inflammation down. The nutrients we just talked about slowly rebuild and repair connective tissues over the course of weeks or months. We put other nutrients in Joint Health Formula that act much more quickly, like tumeric and quercetin chalcone.
If you have inflammation, you have pain. The turmeric and quercetin chalcone will knock it down so fast that suddenly -- and I know this because sometimes when I overdo it in yoga or during exercise, and I have pain and I take this stuff -- the pain goes away. If I forget to take it, pow! |
| We wanted a powerful anti-inflammatory for joints. Quercetin chalcone, as well as turmeric, are just phenomenal for joint problems. Then we have the grape seed extract in there. So we put quercetin chalcone in Pet-C Plus because it was a more recent design than Pro-C, and that makes this formula even more potent.
Back to the issue of vitamin C with an animal -- any animal that has an illness is going to need more vitamin C. These other factors in there are going to strengthen their bodies and trap free radicals and detoxify. |
Tori Hudson, N.D.
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 Allow at least 8 weeks for conditioning of your muscles and joints: exercise very moderately and increase weight gradually every week as you get stronger.
More Advanced
• For 6 weeks, do 10 reps, 2 sets.
• Keep increasing weight every week, gradually.
Advanced
• Divide workout into upper body exercises on alternate days.
• Do 10 reps, 3 sets of each exercise.
Preventing Injury from Strength Training
• Work with an exercise specialist who can show you the safe way to use weights.
• Do not compete with anyone but yourself. |
| This is not currently well understood, but it is likely there is a connection between hormones, immune function, and inflammation in the joints. Osteoarthritis, specifically, is a common joint disease that increases with age and affects women more than men.
Osteoporosis and Cardiovascular Disease.
While the symptoms of hot flashes, mood swings, insomnia, sexual dysfunction, and the rest are annoying at best, and can significantly impact quality oi life, the most significant changes associated with menopause are osteoporosis and cardiovascular disease. |
| JOINT WARMING EXERCISES
The following exercises are designed to protect the joints against injury from weight-bearing exercise. These exercises should be performed before any cardiovascular or strength workout.
1. Neck
Rotate neck gently to left 5 times, then to right 5 times.
2. Shoulders
Rotate shoulders forward 10 times, then backward 10 times.
3. Elbows, Wrists, and Fingers
Begin with arms bent, elbows against the sides of body, hands forming a fist against shoulders. Then extend arms fully, directly in front of you, while opening hands and extending fingers. |
| When sitting in this position, you should be able to feel a stretch on the inside of your thighs, vagina, and hip joints. You may also feel stretching in your knees and ankles.
• Sit on the floor with your back straight and legs stretched out in front. You can sit against a wall to support the lower back.
• Bend your knees and let your knees relax away from each other to each side, bringing the bottom of your feet together. The soles of your feet should now be touching with the outside ankle region resting on the floor. |
| The pelvic joints open and the muscles are able to relax and lengthen in the low back and pelvis. Stretch only as far as you can without bending your back, and then hold this position while breathing deeply. You should be able to feel the stretch in the vaginal region and in the knees and ankles.
• Kneel on the floor with knees as wide apart as possible, the top of your feet on the floor, and your toes pointing in toward each other. Try to sit between your feet with your buttocks on the floor or sit on top of your heels. |
Donna Jackson Nakazawa
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 In this case, fighter cells, or T cells, were activating autoantibodies, antibodies directed against self, to destroy the lining of LaShekia's joints. The result, for LaShekia, was the kind of burning pain, swelling, and inflammation from which JRA patients so often suffer.
Upsetting as a diagnosis of JRA was, however, the Chat-mans—LaShekia, her mom, dad, and grandmother—were happy finally to have something to work with. LaShekia started taking Tylenol for joint pain, with the hope that she would begin to feel better. For a while she did, although her physical improvement, if any, was slight. |
Dr. Abram Hoffer, MD, FRCP (C) and Dr. Harold D. Foster, PhD
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| Heart, muscle, bones, joints, skin and the hollow viscera, which move continuously or act as bearings, must all, one would suppose, be subjected to continuous mechanical deterioration due to friction and flexion. These organs ought to deteriorate long before the brain does... All that has to be done is (1) to reduce the small amount of vascular wear and tear in the brain, and (2) discover and then inhibit chemical changes in cerebral tissues which lead to tissue failure. |
Donna Jackson Nakazawa
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| Bone X-rays confirmed that LaShekia's joints were badly inflamed. The two findings together pointed to the diagnosis of juvenile rheumatoid arthritis, known for short as JRA. In JRA, as in all autoimmune diseases, fighter cells in the arsenal of the body's exquisitely synchronized immune system, what we might think of as the body's central intelligence agency—which normally safeguard us against dangerous infiltrators such as viruses, bacteria, or environmental toxins—skew off kilter. |
Dr. Edward F. Group III, DC, ND, DACBN
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| It's low-impact
(so it won't damage joints), it's aerobic (it provides oxygen and we've seen how important oxygen is for the body), and has even been described by N.A.S.A. as the most efficient workout ever. If you think exercise is boring, tedious, or uncomfortable, you simply must try rebounding. Once you start bouncing, twenty or thirty minutes will have passed before you know it!
Health Benefits of Rebounding: Fig. |
| The displacement of vertebrae is referred to as subluxation, which stresses the spinal muscles, discs, and joints. The nervous system can also become aggravated, which can further hinder organ functions all over the body. The first Lumbar nerve (in the lower back) controls the opening and closing of the ileocecal valve and regulates the contractions of the colon. A misalignment of the LI vertebrae in the lower back affects the intestinal tract, resulting in possible constipation, diarrhea, or colitis. Hemorrhoids have also been linked to misalignment of the coccyx (tailbone). |
Donna Jackson Nakazawa
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| At that point she seemed stable enough that her doctor began to wean her off it, but suddenly she had another severe flare—her joints swelled and she developed pleurisy, an inflammation of the lining of the lungs. She began having severe migraines. And so she began another course of prednisone.
Joy and her rheumatologist often discuss new drugs coming down the pike that might be helpful in lupus—a disease for which no new drug has been approved for forty years—but clinical trials are only now in the works, and the potential health risks and side effects of the new drugs are far from known. |
Joerg Gruenwald, Ph.D.
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 The rhizome is used in folk medicine for conditions of the respiratory organs, particularly for dry catarrh and for rheumatism of the minor joints; additionally used for fever, skin diseases, inflammation of the oral mucosa, nervous strain, headache and insomnia. The herb is used internally in folk medicine for coughs, hoarseness, tuberculosis, as an expectorant for throat inflammations and bronchitis accompanied by fixed mucous, nervous strain, insomnia and hysteria. Externally, the herb is used in skin lavages for various skin diseases. |
Donna Jackson Nakazawa
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| Her muscles and joints and connective tissue ached so much it took an hour to get in and out of the shower and another hour just to coax on her pants and shirt, with breaks in between to rest from the exertion.
Doctors, of whom Anderson saw dozens during office visits and intermittent hospital stays, were perpetually stumped. At times, she thought she must simply be insane. Not one doctor ever thought to test her for lupus. |
Bill Sardi
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 His joints ache. After three months of this he cannot go on. He misses a scheduled chemotherapy appointment. His family doesn't know what to do. He is too sick to go to the clinic.
Manny has always had a strong heart, his doctors told him in the past. But suddenly he has a heart attack. His family wonders how such a strong man could now have a heart attack in addition to cancer. After a night in the intensive care unit, more medicines are prescribed although the cardiologist says the event was mild. His family asks the doctor if something can be done for his pain. Morphine is prescribed. |
Donna Jackson Nakazawa
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| In lupus, deranged immune fighter cells, triggered into acts of self-sabotage by a combination of genetic predisposition and environmental triggers, can turn against virtually any organ or tissue, including the joints, kidneys, heart, lungs, brain, blood, or skin, inflicting severe pain, inflammation, and cellular damage.
If the illness is caught before the body's rogue immune system significantly advances its attack, patients can work with their doctors toward a relatively decent outcome. |
| Imagine the slow, creeping escalation of seemingly amorphous symptoms: a tingling in the arms and fingers, the sudden appearance of a speckled rash across the face, the strange muscle weakness in the legs when climbing stairs, the fiery joints that emerge out of nowhere— any and all of which can signal the onset of a wide range of life-altering and often debilitating autoimmune diseases.
Imagine, if you can: the tingling foot and ankle that turns out to be the beginning of the slow paralysis of multiple sclerosis. Four hundred thousand patients. |
Tori Hudson, N.D.
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| For swimmers, the shoulder joints especially should be stretched as well as the lower back and calves.
2. Strengthening. Often muscle imbalances can create injury problems. For knee problems in runners, for example, often the hamstrings are too strong and the quadriceps are too weak, so progressive resistance exercises for the knee (extension) can be performed, both for prevention and treatment. |
Ron Garner
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 Symptoms of lowered immunity in our bodies can be: frequent colds and flu, herpes (cold sores), allergies, continual fatigue, Candida yeast overgrowth, painful joints and muscles, parasite infections, psoriasis, eczema, and inflammatory disorders.
Healthy immunity is dependent on a healthy ecology in the gastrointestinal tract. This includes having the right food and all necessary enzymes to completely break it down into its component molecules so the body can process it for its needs. It depends on a healthy stock of bowel bacteria in the intestines. |
Dr Ron Roberts
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 After performing the upright exercises, gradually move to the floor by bending your knees and crouching up and down a few times to flex your joints.
11 Kneel on all fours, then raise left leg and right arm together and push away from your body, just like a cat stretching. Alternate with right leg and left arm and repeat 3-5 times each side. No need to hurry, but do think about breathing out while you are lazily stretching.
11 Lie on your front and do push ups, either from the knees or if you are able to, the feet. |
Michael T. Murray
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 Most of these problems are related to increased susceptibility to injury of joints, ligaments, and muscles as a result of loss of muscle mass.
Stretching exercises should be done daily. If you are not familiar with stretching, we recommend that you take a beginner's yoga class. If a class is not available to you, you can pick up a yoga video or well-illustrated book. Stretching is extremely important, as most people with diabetes suffer from premature stiffening of the spine and joints. |
J. Douglas Bremner
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 Carrying around unnaturally large amounts of weight puts undue strain on the joints and cartilage of the body. The most important thing you can do for your joint pain if you are overweight is to lose weight. Also sports injuries early in life have a tendency to spur osteoarthritis in later life. Based on this information you should think twice about pushing kids, especially reluctant ones, onto the playing field. In spite of popular myths to the contrary, there is no evidence that sports like running increase the risk for osteoarthritis. |
| RA can also cause inflammation of the tissue around the joints and organs in the body. RA is a chronic illness, meaning it can last for years, and people with RA may go for long periods without any symptoms. However, RA is a progressive illness with the potential to cause joint destruction and functional disability. Aspirin and NSAIDs are the safest medications for treating the symptoms of RA if it is not aggressively progressing. |
| Osteoarthritis is caused by the destruction of cartilage in the joints that increases with age and is exacerbated or triggered by physical injury or wear and tear. It's a dreadful ailment that truly does limit sufferers from the potential joys of activities like knitting, walking, or golf, let alone gliding across a frozen pond on razor-thin blades.
So I can't blame anyone who has joint disease from seeking pharmaceutical solutions, which do exist but must be used and chosen with caution. |
| Obese people also wear out their joints from carrying around extra pounds, which can cause joint disease and joint failure. The cost of these obesity-related health problems is $70 billion per year.
Access to unlimited amounts of food and the large number of jobs that are almost completely sedentary, relatively recent phenomena in human history, have made it very easy for us to eat more calories than we burn?the magic formula for weight gain. (The reverse—burning more calories than we eat—results in weight loss. |
Ron Garner
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| Acid wastes that are stored in tissues, joints, and fat layers cannot be disposed of as long as the colon and liver are congested and under-functioning. As liver function improves, toxins from the rest of the body can also be released and eliminated. This is how the detoxification process happens.
One of the liver's main functions is to produce quantities of bile to alkalize and break down foods in the small intestine. Adequate amounts of bile cannot be made when the liver is congested with toxins, cholesterol crystals, and stones. Digestion suffers accordingly. |
Joerg Gruenwald, Ph.D.
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| The drug is used in external application as an ointment for treating pains in the joints, arthritis and muscle rheumatism.
PRECAUTIONS AND ADVERSE REACTIONS
General: The drug is toxic. The toxicologically harmless polysaccharide and glycoprotein fractions of the drug are usually the parts used for therapeutic purposes.
Use in Pregnancy: The drug is misused as an abortifacient.
OVERDOSAGE
Symptoms of poisoning, in particular after misuse of the drug as an abortifacient, include queasiness, vomiting, painful diarrhea, and mucous membrane hemorrhaging. Instances of death have been reported. |
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