Arthritis Help - By Request. Pain Free is Key to Happiness

Arthritis is an all too common ailment which is once again avoidable and reversible if it has not progressed too far.  How far is too far?  That depends on the person's overall heallth and what you are prepared to do to change it.

Bone health in general and another ailment such as osteoporosis will also benefit from the below comments.

Having said that, as always the nutrition to add to your diet is fairly simple.  It may be the foods I ask you to refrain from which are the challenge.  Nevertheless if you adopt my suggestions you should experience some fast relief.

I will summarise at the end with a supplement regime - with discussion of each along the way.

Avoid pasteurised dairy.  This subject deserves a whole post of its own.  In short for now, the calcium in pasteurised dairy has been altered and will form hard deposits in your body. Can you still have milk or cream in your coffee?  Yes maybe this will be ok, but please do not fall victim to the advertisements which push large glasses of milk and serves of cheese daily.  If you can access raw milk (which the establishment has made illegal for mass sale to people) then drink all you want as it is a live food not a dead food and is very good for you.

Do not take calcium supplements. These may give you a "bonus" of kidney stones as a by product for starters - but also arthritis.  Don't believe me?  Do the research for yourself and see what you find. 

Avoid soy products like the plague - see my other post.  Soy leaches calcium from the bones giving you a weak skeleton.

Avoid processed grains.  These leach calcium from your bones and cause a huge array of digestive issues etc.  This is a hard one since white flour is in almost every processed food.  At least avoid the easy ones to spot like bread, pasta, rices etc.  The only time grains are good for you is when they are prepared in the traditional manner which usually involves sprouting fresh grains etc

Avoid hydrogenated oils such as vegetable oil, canola, etc etc. Use coconut oils and butter for cooking and virgin olive for salads etc.  Processed oils are pro inflammatory and the enemy of arthritis.

Get plenty of vitamin D - some supplemental forms are ok - do your homework. Apart from that try to get 15 - 20 minutes of sun on your torso on a daily basis. This will assist with strong healthy bones.

Omega 3 fats - natures anti-inflammatory.  We are all so, so deficient in this amazing essential fat.  Good for your heart and good for your arthritis.  This time you can believe the advertisements - this stuff works!  One person I assisted in the past was in his late 40's and his fingers were starting to become so riddled with arthritis he could not straighten them and he told me he was unable to play golf anymore since he could not grip the club handle.  I gave him a 3 step strategy - one step was large doses of fish oil tablets. I saw him again 3 months later and he was over the moon - playing golf again and pain free. 

Magnesium - if you are deficient your body will again leach calcium from your bones.  Powdered supplements are best for this - but be sure to add it to your routine. I cycle mine with breaks between containers of magnesium until I buy some more and consume it again. BTW this supplement is great for headache sufferers if it is tension or muscular related.

Boron - This amazing mineral is one of the most important. It is required for proper metabolism and use of calcium in your bones.  Take the time to research Rex Newnham and Boron supplementation.  Incredibly this mineral was so effective at curing arthritis the establishment restricted its availability.  To get some you need to order in from New Zealand (this is legal).  I will include a source below.

There are a range of other minerals important for health when it comes to arthritis.

For quick relief and to make some encouraging progress I recommend the following strategy first of all. The man I spoke of above only did these three things for relief from his arthritis.  Omega 3 and Boron added to diet and grains removed - simple.

• Remove processed grains (breads, pasta, rice) from your diet as much as possible. This will reduce inflammation.
• Obtain a good Omega 3 supplement (fish oil is best if you can handle it), but otherwise use the gel capsules. Take 10 or so per day for the first 200 pills.  Yes 10!  Don't mess around with tiny doses of this superfood. Later reduce your dose to say 5 per day. 
• Obtain a Boron supplement - Takapuna Health Store, Attn: Andrew Jones, Takapuna, New Zealand, NZ Phone/Fax: 64 9 486 1245, Email: nzhealthstore@yahoo.com

 Then, if you are really serious about your health - add the other strategies I discussed above and watch for the improvements in your health.

That is all for now.  If you implement the above and experience relief please let us know!!

Diabetes Reverser - Alpha Lipoic Acid

This one is my favourite anti-oxidant, also known as ALA. Scientifically it is a fat soluble and water soluble antioxidant which means it can get into all parts of your cells to work its magic.  It also means it is one of the few substances which can cross the blood brain barrier.  Benefits for the brain may include providing some protection from stroke.

Most amazingly, it is understood to be able to bring back the liver from the brink of disaster - and we only have one liver for life!

Apart from processing alcohol - the liver has a large part to play in helping our immune system and also digestion of fats. Two very important functions.  In short, it's primary function is an organ of detoxification - this means with today's poor diet and exposure to environmental toxins daily - it has its work cut out for us.

The recent rise to fame of ALA and its use as a natural therapy seems to be aligned with Dr Burt Berkson who had an interesting experience in 1977.  He was asked to take care of a couple who had eaten poisonous mushrooms and were probably going to die due to acute liver damage.  Not being prepared to stand by and watch them die (since modern medicine could not assist them) he made some enquiries with some of his colleagues. He established that ALA had shown promise in the past with improving liver function.

He thus provided some large doses via IV to the two patients.  What happened next?  They made a full recovery and their liver function rapidly returned to normal with no permanent damage.

Anyhow my interest was sparked in ALA when I heard of this story.  This lead me down a path of research and further discovery which pointed towards ALA benefits with neuropathy (nerve damage) and also diabetes for blood sugar control.

What does the science say?  ALA appears to enhance insulin signaling, helping to bind it to its receptors and increasing the ability of the cells to take in glucose — possibly lowering insulin resistance (the signature feature of Metabolic Syndrome).

This action makes ALA a great tool for  managing blood sugar. It’s hardly coincidental that in Germany, ALA is an approved drug for diabetic neuropathy, the painful degeneration of nerves in the arms and legs

I referenced some ALA studies to a very close relative of Kate's, who has type 2 diabetes, insulin controlled.  He was provided with some ALA in capsule form and commenced a daily dosage of 200mg per day.  What happened next was rather astounding.

His blood sugar level typically was around 9 units with spikes up to 12 common after some types of meals.  Immediately after his first day of ALA he experienced a drop in his blood sugar which remained low after meals - when usually it would have spiked. Readings of his sugar levels reduced over following weeks down to as low as 4 which is getting unsafe due to it being too low.

It has now been about 3 weeks and he has had to halve his insulin dose not once, but twice.  He is maintining supervision with his doctor while waiting to see where it all leads.  It looks like the next step may be to cease insulin and go to medication only.  Beyond that - I wonder is a cure possible from one little antioxidant pill in standard sorts of doses??  Time will tell.

If you want to give it a try.  How much? 100 mg should do for a basic protective dose, though some experts recommend anywhere from 100-300 mg. If you’re diabetic, have blood sugar problems or liver disease, a dose of anywhere from 300-1200 mg is likely to kick start your health.

Another failed attempt at a short post - anyhow, until next time.

Cameron

Nothing new to report...

Well, there seems to be no change at all today, apart from the redness subsiding some what. 

Thank goodness there was no more itching today, and it didn't wake me up in the night.

It looks as though there is no need for a second application which is good.

I have applied a 'healing cream', which I purchased from the naturopath, Adrian Jones.   The cream consists of Vitamin E, olive leaf extract, echinasea, and zinc.  I will apply it twice a day and see what happens.  This cream is great, but it's not available on his website as yet (I was lucky enough to purchase it at the seminar on Saturday).  Will let you know when it becomes available.  It's a great way of speeding up healing the skin. 

For now, I won't even bother to photograph my back because it's not all that different from yesterday :-)

Will let you know if there are any more changes.
-Kate

Well, it has now been almost 24 hours since I applied the black salve.

You can see in the pic that the salve has made the area red but no eschar so far.  No sooner had a I clicked 'publish post' last night, than the area began to itch like mad!  It even woke me up a couple of times in the night, and I was convinced something was happening.

But maybe not.

If nothing happens I will be relieved, as it will mean that nothing needs to happen.  So that will be good.  Either way, I'll be happy. 

Cam thinks the scar is a different colour now, so we shall see what tomorrow brings. 

Day one.

Off to apply some aloe vera to relieve this  i t c h! 
Kate

Cancer is NOT a death sentence - It is just a wakeup call...

I love the title of this post.  Simple.  Yet controversial for the vast majority of persons who may read this.  So is it blind optimism that would lead someone like me to make that statement?  Well firstly I have to admit I stole that statement from a medical specialist recently.   Still, I love it and embraced it.  So, once again, is it blind optimism that leads me to repeat the statement or is it the culmination of the research I have done and the evidence I have reviewed or had first hand contact with?

In my first post in this blog series I spoke of how the medical industry makes all illness into a big mystery.  They complicate things, which is easy to do once you delve into the science of it all.  They also ignore many commonsense approaches too. I propose that health is simple - and that anyone with access to the right information can find an existing cure or figure out a cure for themselves - maybe for anything!

Many people will look at someone like me and say wait a moment - you, Cameron, claim to know how to beat  cancer when all the billions of dollars in research and the best minds in science in the world have failed for years! You, Cameron, must be an absolute nutcase, oout of your mind, delusional.

Well - if this was truly the case I would agree with you all.  However the truth of the matter - and yes I am all about truth - is that THEY are not really trying to cure cancer at all.   That comment applies to ALL disease - as all they want to do is treat people with expensive drugs to maximise profitability.  Don't believe me?   Well let me ask you this - when have THEY ever cured anything?  I cannot think of any disease they have cured offhand. 

Note that the biggest cures in the last few hundred years where achieved with vitamins - scurvy with vitamin C and one other which escapes me now but I will update later when I remember. How interesting. 

The cancer industry makes far too much money for a cure to ever be brought to market.  The model of business and profit could not sustain it.  If it were up to one person who could create the cure, bring it to market (knowing they would be out of a job thereafter, but very famous) and give it to the world it could perhaps happen.  But the establishment is not one person - and THEY control the way the model or the system works. Moreover, I can guarantee you that such cures would be natural substances like food or other nutrients and could not be patented so there would be no profit in it for the cure discoverer anyway.

Take black salve for instance.  Banned for human use by the establishment - why?  It is natural and cannot be patented, thus no profit and also they don't want to cure anyone.  Imagine the dermatologists who would be out of business.  In my research I have constantly found where there is something that really works it will be either restricted in its availability or banned for promotion as a treatment or a scare campaign mounted so that we all only are happy to take a small amount at a time (eg selenium and vitamin C).  Black salve works for cancer and I have had first hand contact with persons who used it to cure breast, thyroid, bowel, prostate and skin cancer. 

Back to me and the simple approach to health.  Cancer metabolism processes have been known since Otto Warburg won the Nobel Prize in 1931 for proving cancer cells were anerobic - whereas all healthy cells are aerobic. (Of course the establishment call his dicovery a "theory" only when in fact it is easily proven. This allows them to have plausible deniability when they continue to ignore this approach for curing cancer)

This means we know how to kill the cancer cells or at least convert them back to a normal cell. Basically, starve it of oxygen and/or the acidic environment it thrives in.  Also, don't forget to starve it of the sugars it feeds on.

There are a number of powerful treatments for internal cancers based upon Alkaline therapy (eg DMSO and cesium chloride) which are fast acting and highly effective.

This whole cancer thing is just one big profit centre for the sickness industry.  Don't believe me? I am happy to debate this with anyone.  Where do you get your health info from?  The media?  They are in effect owned by multi-nationals and on the payroll of the sickness industry.  The doctors?  They are only allowed to offer mainstream conventional treatments - which are profitable, but hardly work or make the cancer worse. 

Take the Brisbane oncologist in a senior position who a couple of years ago sent his own daughter to germany for alternative treatment when she got cancer.  She was cured.   Again this information came to me first hand.

So in conclusion, if you receive that terrible diagnosis.  Stop. Pause and take a breath. Do not get caught up in the fear tactics that conventional medicine promotes - "Oh no you will have to book in for surgery NOW.  Or we need to start chemo NOW.  Step back and seek out some knowledgeable people and access some good information for yourself. 

I would never take the conventional route if I was ever diagnosed with the big C.

Maybe this blog will be my own little war on cancer - but unlike the cancer industry, I will win it.

Here we go again...

Cam and I had the amazing opportunity of attending the 'An Answer to Cancer' seminar on the Gold Coast today.  This event was put on by the people who released the dvd, explaining all about black salve and it's amazing way of treating skin cancer.  I don't say this lightly, but it's even more than a treatment...this stuff is an actual cure.  Don't believe me?  Check out the dvd for yourself. 

It was wonderful to listen to both medical doctors, and naturopaths speak about the wonders of black salve, and other methods for fighting and preventing cancer. 

Anyway, Cam and I will both blog about the seminar experience and the key points we learned, at a later date.  It deserves more than just a brief mention. 

For now, I am going to focus on one thing.

I took the opportunity of speaking with naturopath, Adrian Jones, about the small scar left behind from my experience with black salve, last December.  I have been applying aloe vera religiously (mixed with DMSO so it gets straight where it's needed) but I was curious as there was a slight pink scar left behind.  I totally expected Adrian to tell me that it'd be fine in a month or two, but alas...he took a good look at it, and felt the area, and told me that it looked as though I'd need a second application. 

He explained that some more "aggressive" lesions need a second application of the salve, and that I was more than welcome to photograph it as it is now, and again after my second application, and email the results to him.  He'd then advise me what should be done, if anything at all.

How scary to think I almost did nothing about this mole, and originally put a small dab of black salve on it to see what would happen. 

So here we go again...another application, and hopefully this one shall be the last. 

Black salve was applied tonight, so now I have to sit back and let it do its thing for 24 hours.  This time around I will avoid the temptation of taking a squiz, and leave it covered until this time tomorrow night. 

This time around I won't be so stingy, and I will invest in some decent hypoallergenic dressings.  Last time I used il cheapo dressings and the allergic reaction (see first pic) was almost worse than the salve site! 

I will blog about the changes each day and keep you updated. 



Day 15 after the first application. 
You can see just how well it has healed
in the weeks since.



My scar as it is today...so much better than just 6 weeks
ago, but still a little dodgy looking. 



The application of Black Salve.



 Until tomorrow,
Kate 



Soy - Advertisement - just could not resist...

Ok so I proudly bought some women's fitness magazines yesterday for Kate.  She has been enjoying the gym more than ever lately, and has discovered the joys of protein shakes hehe.

So as I stole her mags to browse the... erm...articles, some lowlife ad executive took a red rag to the bull so to speak.  You know the deal.  Pretty girl looking fit, as they blabbed about "feeling better on the inside leading to looking better on the outside", and making the switch to Soy milk which is "naturally better".

Many of you will not be aware of this - but soy milk is not a health food, it is not a healthy option and in fact - it is really bad for you.

In recent years soy has emerged as a 'near perfect' food, with supporters claiming it can provide an ideal source of protein, lower cholesterol, protect against cancer and heart disease, reduce menopause symptoms, and prevent osteoporosis, among other things. But how did such a 'perfect' food emerge from a product that in 1913 was listed in the U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) handbook not as a food but as an industrial product?

According to lipid specialist and nutritionist Mary Enig, PhD, "The reason there's so much soy in America is because they [the soy industry] started to plant soy to extract the oil from it and soy oil became a very large industry. Once they had as much oil as they did in the food supply they had a lot of soy protein residue left over, and since they can't feed it to animals, except in small amounts, they had to find another market."

And another market was what they found. To put it simply, after multi-million dollar figures spent on advertising and intense lobbying to the Food and Drug Administration (FDA), about 74 percent of U.S. consumers now believe soy products are healthy. Same goes for Australia.

Consider this...there is so much science proving the dangers of eating soy that I am not prepared to post it here for fear of boring you all to tears. The list goes on, cancer, hormone disruption, osteoporosis, thyroid disruption just to name a few.

Here is the one area that really did it for me.  Soy vastly increaes estrogen levels in male or female infants.  Soy infant formula is like giving the equivalent of 5 birth control pills daily.  This is at a time when development of many fundamentals for future health and sex characteristics are occurring.  Not Good!! 

There  are numerous studies backing the above points. Research it yourself.  If some of the science is a little difficult to follow allow me to translate.  Avoid soy milk and for the little ones - avoid infant formulas like the plague.

This is just another example of the way big business does not care about our health.

Let me know if you want me to provide links to the best studies.

So next time you see me order a skinny double shot soy chai latte at the coffee shop, you will truly know I am taking the micky out of the attendant.

Yours in truth and health - Cameron