Borax-boron how to detox and heal yourself inexpensively / Arthritis

When i first ventured into the elimination diet, I saw a reduction in RA flareups within a few short weeks. After following the Ultra Simple Diet for a few months, my rheumatologist was astounded at the effect it had on every marker they measured. However, I wasn't out of the woods by a far stretch.

Then, when I shifted over to the paleo diet, I felt I had passed over a major hurdle. I now experience perhaps one flareups a month which lasts between a few hours to a couple of days, with a tenth of the intensity. Since I'm not able to secure enough grass fed pork, I imagine the residual affect of the grains in the pork continues to have negative effects. As well, I think it will take me at least another year to fully heal my gut.

I should mention that supplementing vitamin A, D, fish oil, magnesium and calcium, as well as topical applications of DMSO also had a huge impact.

Last checkup with the rheumatologist verified my diseases were in complete remission with no markers in my blood and a huge increase in flexibility and range of motion. He's never seen it beforehand has been recommending his patients consider the dietary angle.

Before I made the diet changes,he was looking at prescribing me the disease-modifying antirheumatic drugs, or DMARDs, since I refused to take the more toxic drugs like methotrexate and sulfasalazine. That scared me enough to try changing my diet as the damage these drugs could do far outweighed the fear I had that diet change would have negligee benefits.

I have several overlapping conditions beyond RA and the diet has either reduced or eliminated the symptoms of all of them.

So, before venturing into the world of toxic pharmacology, perhaps your mother would see things the same way and ask herself what she could lose by taking a serious stab at the diet that has a high likelihood of ameliorating her condition and will possibly cure it.

If she can manage, there's plenty of research that also shows moderate exercise can have immediate benefits on RA as well as depression, which often occurs with RA and/or chronic pain.

Finally, another component I found extremely important, which is often ignored by doctors, is the need for restful, reparative sleep. Not only does it help give one the energy needed to endure constant pain, it has been shown to reduce patient's pain scores. Since RA is an autoimmune disease and sleep is essential to a healthy immune system, it's no wonder RA sufferers have benefited from good sleep hygiene.

I hope she is receptive to these suggestions, both for her own sake, but also for you. I know how hard it is to feel helpless when someone you loves is in agony.

Gonzo
 
Gonzo said:
Finally, another component I found extremely important, which is often ignored by doctors, is the need for restful, reparative sleep. Not only does it help give one the energy needed to endure constant pain, it has been shown to reduce patient's pain scores. Since RA is an autoimmune disease and sleep is essential to a healthy immune system, it's no wonder RA sufferers have benefited from good sleep hygiene.

I hope she is receptive to these suggestions, both for her own sake, but also for you. I know how hard it is to feel helpless when someone you loves is in agony.

Gonzo
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I want to second everything Gonzo wrote, and emphasize the sleep benefits. Sleeping in a totally dark room is very important, and sleeping for an adequate period of time, at the right time in synch with the planet's rhythm. I try to get to bed by 10:30 and get up around 7. That's the best for me. I don't always succeed because stuff happens, but if there were no pressing demands on me, I'd be in bed at that time, read a little bit, turn out the light, and sleep in total darkness. And I do mean TOTAL - not even a glowing red light on an appliance is allowed in my bedroom. I have room darkening shades, too, for the nights that the moon is out.

This sleep issue is super-important for healing the gut because it is only in total darkness that certain crucial functions of the immune system are able to come into play.
 
The Paleo diet alone is the most amazing thing in the world when it comes to pain reduction.

I too, used to be in pain and didn`t realize that my body was in anguish and out right rebellion to what I was consuming.

It was trying to tell me the only way it could, with pain, that something was terribly wrong.

I agree with what everyone else has said regarding diet, and how important it is in pain reduction and how the whole quality of life in general, improves dramatically when your really taking care of yourself.
 
Also, your Mother might try grounding/earthing. I wrote a short review of the book EARTHING by Ober et al here:
http://cassiopaea.org/forum/index.php/topic,25153.0.html

Also, you can find out more about it here:
http://earthing.com/about-earthing.php

In the book Ober tells about several people whose RA was improved dramatically by grounding. In my humble opinion grounding/earthing is something we should all do because it is part of our ancesteral heritage, just as the Paleo diet is.
 
Thanks guys,

I will present this information to her, I think the personal accounts will help dramatically.

So I'll be saying no to the SAMe then.
 
chaps23 said:
Thanks guys,

I will present this information to her, I think the personal accounts will help dramatically.
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It's really worth a shot. The friend I referenced was in such bad shape that she was taking an injection every two weeks (can't recall the name of the RA drug), and she stopped the injections completely about two weeks after starting the diet and never looked back. She is very strict on the diet, of course, because you have to be. She keeps her carbs around 40 a day and on the paleo diet. I really hope your mother considers it, because it works with zero pharmaceutical side effects.
 
anart said:
(can't recall the name of the RA drug),
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methotrexate?? Thats the poisen they are about to start mum on.... :cry:

anart said:
and she stopped the injections completely about two weeks after starting the diet and never looked back. She is very strict on the diet, of course, because you have to be. She keeps her carbs around 40 a day and on the paleo diet. I really hope your mother considers it, because it works with zero pharmaceutical side effects.
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40 a day is a bloody low target I'm still on way more than that... God its alot of work. But worth every minute of it. I will definately give it my all thanks again.
 
chaps23 said:
anart said:
and she stopped the injections completely about two weeks after starting the diet and never looked back. She is very strict on the diet, of course, because you have to be. She keeps her carbs around 40 a day and on the paleo diet. I really hope your mother considers it, because it works with zero pharmaceutical side effects.
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40 a day is a bloody low target I'm still on way more than that... God its alot of work. But worth every minute of it. I will definately give it my all thanks again.
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Make sure you've read all the threads and books about transitioning to high fat / low carb diet first. She needs to be gluten and dairy free (no sugar also). Go slow and steady with the reduction of the carbs for you and your mom. It does take a while to adjust, etc. but it's really worth it. You'll eventually find your personal approximate amount of carbs where you feel the best, probably under 45 to 50 grams to stay in permanent nutritional ketosis. I personally find carbs under 25 grams to work best for me and most days I have about 5 to 10 grams, but everybody's different. Best of regards to you and your mom.
 
chaps23 said:
40 a day is a bloody low target I'm still on way more than that... God its alot of work. But worth every minute of it. I will definately give it my all thanks again.
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Actually, it is easier than you think. What's so hard about eating meat and fats most of the time and only occasionally having half a sweet potato or a bit of green beans? That's what we do. Oh, yeah, occasionally we decide to make a dessert like pumpkin "custard" made with gelatin and xylitol, but that's really about it. It's a LOT easier than trying to fiddle around to see what of this or that or the other you can eat and count the carbs.

Breakfast: pork patties smeared with butter and several slices of bacon. An occasional egg. (In the beginning, you have to cut out eggs and test them because a lot of people have problems with them, but then later you may be able to take them back.)

Lunch: Pork chop or thick slice of ham or piece of liver or steak or veal or fish. Maybe half a sweet potato steamed or deep fried as "french fries."

Dinner: Same as lunch.

Believe it or not, when your body is being fully satisfied nutrient-wise, you don't get bored with this same diet all the time. Cravings for variety are simply the body telling you that it is not getting what it needs. When you have cravings, eat more fat.
 
Thanks guys, still quite difficult to source grass fed meats where I live though, espeacially pork. Might have to do some research into the situation and see what I can come up with.

Will Grain fed beef still provide me with basic nutrition?
 
chaps23 said:
Thanks guys, still quite difficult to source grass fed meats where I live though, espeacially pork. Might have to do some research into the situation and see what I can come up with.

Will Grain fed beef still provide me with basic nutrition?
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It's much better to avoid grain fed beef (and everything else). A cow that's fed grains becomes sick very quickly -- it is only meant to eat grass and can't properly digest grains. And because of this they're usually pumped up with antibiotics and other drugs. Plus you probably get effected from the grains they ate (similar to eating grains yourself). Also, grains totally mess up the omega 3 to omega 6 balance in the fat -- grain fed animals have a much higher ratio of omega 6 which is not healthy. Your omega 3 to omega 6 should be about 1 to 1.
 
SeekinTruth said:
chaps23 said:
Thanks guys, still quite difficult to source grass fed meats where I live though, espeacially pork. Might have to do some research into the situation and see what I can come up with.

Will Grain fed beef still provide me with basic nutrition?
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It's much better to avoid grain fed beef (and everything else). A cow that's fed grains becomes sick very quickly -- it is only meant to eat grass and can't properly digest grains. And because of this they're usually pumped up with antibiotics and other drugs. Plus you probably get effected from the grains they ate (similar to eating grains yourself). Also, grains totally mess up the omega 3 to omega 6 balance in the fat -- grain fed animals have a much higher ratio of omega 6 which is not healthy. Your omega 3 to omega 6 should be about 1 to 1.
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I'm hoping to get clarification on this. Are you saying that if the choice is between grain-fed meat or no meat at all, perhaps due to lack of availability of grass-fed meat or sufficient finances, it is better to avoid eating meat? Put another way, is the potential for harm so great that it outweighs whatever benefits one might derive from eating the grain-fed meat similar to how non-organic tobacco's harm far outweighs whatever benefits one might derive from smoking it?

This is a rather important issue that I feel we should be clear on as we are advocating against a vegetarian diet but, if grain-fed meat should be avoided at all costs, the vegetarian diet might end up being the only diet some can manage to eat until they can get access to, or afford, organic, grass-fed meat.

Thanks,
Gonzo
 
My perspective is that if grain fed meat is all that is available, then that's what you eat. It won't be perfect, but it will be better than the alternative. We did okay on grain fed pork and veal until we found a source of pork that was acorn and grass fed.
 
Sorry, Gonzo for giving the wrong impression. No I did not mean avoid grain fed "AT ALL COSTS." It's just that if at all possible to put the efforts in to secure grass fed, it's really worth it. Vegetarian diet is totally wrong for humans, no matter how you look at it. Besides, the vegetable based foods have many problems too. First you can't eat any grain, then fructose is a real problem so avoid most fruits most of the time, they're all very high in carbs and fiber, incomplete proteins, can't get the healthy fats (and cholesterol) -- healthy fats being the most important macro nutrient -- and thus the fat soluble vitamins and minerals (e.g. vit A, D, E, K, magnesium, calcium, etc.).

Then there's the problem of lectins and other anti-nutrients. Then the problem of lack of nutrients and minerals in the soil from not alternating crops and just growing monoculture crops season after season, etc. etc. Whatever problems there are with animal based foods are there for plant based but worse. So again, sorry for giving the wrong impression, but I just wanted to point out the downsides of grain fed and encourage chaps23 to continue to search for grass fed and see what he comes up with.
 
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