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tel jetson wrote:I'm working on some arthritis or arthritis-like issues at the moment and trying to avoid NSAIDs, too, so this is very welcome. I was prescribed diclofenac, but it sounded pretty nasty to me.
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Matt Todd wrote:I'm a fan of CBD. Better feel-goods than "the herb" and none of the negatives (legalities, lethargy, paranoia, etc.) But I have found the industry to be so full of gimmicks that it's hard to suss out what "the good stuff" is. I avoid the alcohol based extracts because those you usually have to mix and drink, which is less effective than oil extracts you hold under the tongue for maximum effect. Only buy from a place where you can look up the Certificate of Analysis, prepared by an outside lab. I like the most potent milligram to ounce ratio so I don't have to use a lot. My current source is from "Liberty Brand Hemp." Once ounce for $170 seems spendy, but at 6000mg in that ounce it's the most bang for your buck I could find.
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Annie Collins wrote:One of the main culprits of inflammation is an acidic diet. If the food is acidic, the body needs to protect itself since acid is caustic. Hence the inflammation. Acidic body conditions also often cause bone problems because calcium is one of the main buffers the body uses to try to neutralize the acidity. So it gets calcium from the bones.
Change your diet to alkaline and it's amazing what happens. However, for some people that is a huge change. There are many foods that people are used to eating that cause acidity in the body, including meat, eggs, and grains. There's a very good book by Arnold Ehret called Mucusless Diet Healing System.
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Annie Collins wrote:One of the main culprits of inflammation is an acidic diet.
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R Scott wrote:It is SO personal. Diet is a huge driver, and just because you made it from scratch doesn't mean it is good for YOU. Soy in any form, including as feed for the chickens that make my eggs, bothers me immensely. Many spices and dried herbs bother me, not because of the spice itself but the processing-many are very high in mold mycotoxin because of where they grow, especially organic! Pepper is one of the worst, for me.
Most of the essential oil brands have an anti inflammatory blend, look up several and then research each of the individual oils.
Buy a cheap blood sugar monitor (cheap test strips, not the machine itself) and use it until you just can't afford to lose more blood! Take it first thing in the morning, then 15 or 30 minutes later, then every 15 minutes after you eat until you are back to a normal value, at bed, if you get up at night. Keep a journal and include ANY food or exercises or stress as well as the glucose readings. I know a surprising number of skinny vegan diabetics whose only noticeable symptom was inflammation. After a week or two you should see patterns and can cut back on the bloodletting.
There are the minerals, especially zinc, chromium, selenium, magnesium and potassium when it comes to inflammation and arthritis. Your area of the Ozarks is deficient in some particular minerals, but I don't remember which. Azomite and green sand in the garden can do a world of difference.
Alpha lipoic acid is a good one for blood sugar and inflammation. I don't remember dose, but taken before eating.
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Tereza Okava wrote:Topical diclofenac has really been a game changer for me
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Jordan Holland wrote:From what I understand, osteoarthritis is the body's way of shoring up and protecting a joint that is having problems. Modern medical techniques tend to treat inflammation as a disease that should be eradicated. But I understand inflammation to be healing. Force stopping inflammation with things like NSAIDs or corticosteroids would also logically force stop the healing. If there is arthritis, there must be some stress factor causing it. Misaligned skeleton, physical trauma, emotional stress, lack of certain nutrients, excess of certain chemicals, something. I heard one doctor say, "If your doctor tells you it's from old age or 'wear and tear,' fire your doctor!" If the inflammation is stopped without eliminating what caused it, the problems will likely persist. I think the food as medicine approach is the right track. Food provides building blocks to regenerate. The kicker is what caused the problem in the first place?
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Michael Adams wrote:Interesting to read Cats Claw being helpful. I have a large supply of it but have not been using regularly. Anyone using it with benefits?
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Jordan Holland wrote:From what I understand, osteoarthritis is the body's way of shoring up and protecting a joint that is having problems. Modern medical techniques tend to treat inflammation as a disease that should be eradicated. But I understand inflammation to be healing. Force stopping inflammation with things like NSAIDs or corticosteroids would also logically force stop the healing. If there is arthritis, there must be some stress factor causing it. Misaligned skeleton, physical trauma, emotional stress, lack of certain nutrients, excess of certain chemicals, something. I heard one doctor say, "If your doctor tells you it's from old age or 'wear and tear,' fire your doctor!" If the inflammation is stopped without eliminating what caused it, the problems will likely persist. I think the food as medicine approach is the right track. Food provides building blocks to regenerate. The kicker is what caused the problem in the first place?
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C Mouse wrote:My mom had serious degenerative arthritis. She SWORE by sour cherry juice. It's expensive, she'd buy it in glass bottles and dilute it into water and drink it every night. Placebo or not she seemed to start doing a lot better! If the sour cherry wasn't there she got black cherry but she said the sour cherry worked better.
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Back in the 1950's I was calling on an elderly man taking care of his elderly mother who told me his mother had insisted on this remedy. Since I have come to understand what is the possible mechanism of action. Pectin is a soluble fiber meaning fluids dissolve into it. This holds irritating compounds, expelled by the liver into the bile, until they are expelled instead of being reabsorbed back into the blood stream. Another factor that I learned more recently is that These soluble fibers can be digested by bacteria in the colon releasing butyrate and other compounds that are anti inflammatory.personal experience. I have found that liquid pectin (Certo brand) with grape juice to be very, very effective
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