Day 62: Arthritis and Joint Health
Juice Feasting and Arthritis Elimination; MSM for Pain; Fibromyalgia; COX-2 Pharma Drugs
Welcome to Day 62!
Attached today are two files which concern one of the leading causes of doctor visits and the use of prescription and OCDs: pain.
Pain is essentially constipation – poor circulation brought on by lack of activity, the constipating effects of dehydration, and a diet of processed meat, dairy, wheat, soy, hydrogenated vegetable oils, excitotoxins, and sugar.
In my health practice, I have never come across a case of chronic pain that has not been alleviated or eliminated by the use of Juice Feasting, skillful fasting, and a dietary approach high up on the Spectrum of Diet.
Arthritis
Millions of people suffer from some form of arthritis. Because arthritis is commonly believed to be incurable, the standard medical response has been simply to prescribe medication to reduce the symptoms.
Substantial evidence, however, now shows that the pain and disability caused by arthritis can be alleviated, and even prevented, through diet, nutritional supplementation, environmental medicine, bodywork, stress reduction, and other alternative therapies.
Today’s huge file download on Arthritis includes three clinical perspectives on MSM and Arthritis from The Miracle of MSM by Stanley Jacob, M.D. He writes:
MSM impacts osteoarthritis in the following ways:
+ It reduces pain.
+ It reduces inflammation.
+ It reduces muscle spasm around arthritic joints, which also helps relieve pain. – It lessens the formation of scar tissue.
+ It improves blood flow throughout the body, including painful joints.
+ It may slow down the degeneration of cartilage.
+ It delivers biologically active sulfur to the body.
A number of medical studies over the years have indicated that sulfur levels in arthritic joints are lower than normal.
In a 1995 study, sulfur concentration in arthritic cartilage was shown to be about one-third the level of normal cartilage. This figure was comparable to earlier sulfur measurements reported in The Journal of Bone and Joint Surgery and the Journal of the Southern Medical Association during the 1930s, which described the use of intravenous and intramuscular injections of sulfur for arthritis. These studies found the cystine content of fingernails to be 25 percent lower in arthritics. Cystine is a sulfur amino acid that helps build hard tissue such as fingernails and hair. In one of these older studies, when a group of 100 arthritics was given a solution of sulfur intravenously, pain was relieved in many cases and the cystine fingernail test returned to normal.
MSM offers major benefits for osteoarthritis. At this time we don’t know precisely how the sulfur in MSM is utilized by the body to help arthritis, and whether, for instance, it directly contributes to the maintenance or repair of cartilage and joints. Sulfur-containing compounds called glycosaminoglycans are abundant in the cartilage and synovial fluid of joints.
In my (Stanley Jacob, MD) clinic I have used MSM routinely for many years, often for severe, debilitating osteoarthritic cases where patients have traveled long distances seeking help. These are not minimal cases of pain and discomfort. MSM supplementation has provided significant improvement-less pain, less stiffness, greater mobility.
Fibromyalgia
Fibromyalgia is a condition typically characterized by musculoskeletal pain and fatigue. The pain can be severe and affecting a number of muscles, tendons, ligaments and soft tissues. Toxins deposited in muscles and joints in Fibromyalgia as opposed to Arthritis, where toxins are built up in the joints. Fibromyalgia is a painful disorder for which mainstream medicine has no solution other than heavy, and often ineffective, use of painkillers.
Perhaps you have been told by a well-meaning but uniformed doctor that you will “just have to learn to live with it.” Actually, Chronic fatigue, fibromyalgia and environmental illness can be permanently reversed using nontoxic alternative medicine treatments, such as Juice Feasting, MSM, Natural Cellular Defense, and Vitalzym.
My experience with Juice Feasting and the aforementioned additions has resulted in significant reduction in pain within just 3-4 weeks.
COX-2 Drugs
As you will read in my file on Cox-2 Drugs, both my father and I had arthritis problems for which surgery were recommended by multiple MDs.
I had surgery – before I knew about nutrition, and my father was saved from it through a Juice Feast in which I made him juice every day at 3:00 am for 90 Days. On Day 47, he came to me and said, “I don’t know if I should tell you this, but I don’t think I am going to need back surgery.” My father never required surgery, I am happy to report.
POTENT STORY: After my father finished his 90-Day Juice Feast, he was at the office Monday morning (several days into the Feast-breaking process) and reported to the people in his office that he felt like he was having a heart attack.
I was called by his office with word that my father, who felt like he was having a heart attack, was driving 15 miles back across the city of Houston by himself. Unable to reach him, I waited at home, and while waiting called my colleague, John Rose, who has been conducting extended juice fasts for 15 years.
I asked John, “Have you ever heard of anyone having cardiac distress after a 90-day juice fast?” He said he had never heard of it, and that, if anything, the person is more unlikely than ever to have a heart attack after such a heart-healthy program.
My father returned home, and I had him lay down. We called his doctor, and I took him immediately to her office. Her first comment was, “Wow! Mr. Rainoshek, you look great!” He had lost 40+ lbs, after all (he was 70 at the time). “Yes, my son had me on a juicing program for the last 90 days, and I feel great, except this pain in my chest.”
She took him in to the room, ran an EKG, listened to his heart, consulted with a cardiologist accross the hall, and reported back within minutes that there was nothing wrong with his heart, and that his blood pressure was excellent. Then she began palpating and raising his arms, when he said, “Ouch!” She raised his left arm again (he is left-handed), “Ouch!”
“Mr. Rainoshek, what were you doing this weekend?”
“Oh, my wife had me in the yard the whole weekend! Moving dirt here, digging up plants… She really worked me.”
“Mr. Rainoshek, have you been doing a lot of physical activity lately?”
“No, actually last weekend was the first time in a couple of years that I have really been able to work outside with my back…”
“You have pulled a muscle.”
Immediately, I called his office, and let them know that he was better than okay. And that the only hazard my father encountered as a result of Juice Feasting was OVERWORKING too soon. Ha!
Now, an important point about this story is that his M.D. that we visited had recommended back surgery. On her wall was this outrageous document about patient concerns with prescription painkilling drugs:
This is outrageous. Completely outrageous. Instead of giving alternatives or better modalities for healing arthritis, the doctors above insult patients for being concerned about the side effects of drugs.
My father’s doctor’s response to his healing was the same as the response I got from my MDs. “Great. Whatever you are doing, just keep doing it.” Not, “That is amazing! What did you do so that I can look into this for my other patients!” He avoided expensive back surgery, lowered his total cholesterol 70 points, lost 40+ lbs, and was feeling great. I (David Rain) ended heart palpitations, arthritis, Acid Reflux Disease (GERD), and obesity (not to mention the need for 10-12 hours of sleep/day). I ask you, wouldn’t you think someone in the field of health would be more interested?
It would not be nearly so upsetting if I did not live daily with the knowledge that:
(1) people are living with terrible pain moment to moment, and
(2) they can remove the causes of the pain and heal their body without negative side effects.
This is not like selling bad used cars. Poor, uniformed medical advice is ruining the lives of families, and in my line of work, I am reminded of it every day.
To be fair, our medical community is dealing with the impossible from their patients: dietary and lifestyle habits that create severe and daunting health problems matched with a populace that is reluctant at best, and completely unwilling at worst, to make the routine changes necessary to avoid the need for pharmaceutical or surgical intervention. Yet proper training of our professionals in nutritional healing at every level of the health fields is vitally important at this critical stage of our nation’s overall health.
From my (David Rainoshek) reading on COX-2 inhibitors, and my personal experience having been prescribed them, I can verify that doctors are not looking to dietary/lifestyle solutions first with regards to their prescriptive habits vis-à-vis inflammatory conditions.
I had arthritis all through the joints in my body that was crippling—for three years. Of the many physicians that I went to complaining of my symptomology, no MD ever suggested dietary change or use of natural supplementation of any kind to help heal my condition.
I was prescribed Vioxx, Paxil, Ativan, Tylenol, and Ibuprofen for my specific complaint, but NO MD ever said,“Perhaps you need more omega-3s in your diet. Let’s remove some of the inflammatory conditions out of your diet. How much water do you drink? Is it hard water? Have you considered taking proteolytic enzymes such as Vitalzym? How is your digestion? Have you used digestive enzymes? Perhaps your bowel is stopped up and this is aggravating your inflammatory disease through autointoxication. Have you heard of MSM?”
None of this was ever said. I was told emphatically that I would have arthritis and Acid Reflux Disease (GERD) the rest of my life.
Just THREE WEEKS on a plant-based, Live/Raw Vegan Diet changed all that, and now I understand why.
ALL of my clients have experienced the anti-inflammatory benefits of a plant-based diet that incorporates the use of supportive and healing nutritional elements such as proteolytic enzymes (Vitalzym), Spirulina, and MSM.
It cost me over $50,000 in medical bills and damaging medical advice before I came into live food nutrition.
What was the response of my MDs? The same as is outlined by T. Colin Campbell at the end of this file, per his conversations with John McDougall, M.D.
Our MDs are not stupid, cruel, apathetic, or greedy. Many of them unfortunately have a deficiency of training in the field of nutrition, and a complete misunderstanding/lack of appreciation for the importance of dietary considerations and modalities for healing, exacerbated by the profit motives of the pharmaceutical industries who support, cajole, wine-and-dine, and proselytize.
Some MDs, such as Caldwell B Esselstyn, John McDougall, Gabriel Cousens, and many other lesser known and courageous are moving philosophically and practically away from the pharmaceutical matrix to implement possibilities that address the underlying causes of our dis-eases.
Concerning my father’s experience on this front, a GP, a specialist, and a chiropractor all told him to get in right away for back surgery on his lumbar spine, which was scheduled and then cancelled by my father during my program. He had been crippled with back pain for 2 years. 90 days of Juice Feasting, Vitalzym, MSM, and blue-green algae healed the inflammatory process in his lower back, eliminating the need for very expensive surgery.
Yet the sign above was on the wall of the Doctor’s Office.
‘Nuff said for now.
Keep doing your great Juice Feast, serving yourself, your family, and everyone simultaneously. See you in The Green Room!
Fasting: Reduce Inflammation | Boost Longevity. Thomas DeLauer presents “How Does Fasting Affect Inflammation”
There's more to it than just "not eating.” :)
Theme Music: “Old Man” performed LIVE by Neil Young
An Integrated Dietary Approach for healing and preventing arthritis. In this video, Dr. Axe shares the top natural treatments for arthritis. Arthritis affects a lot of people and actually starts in your gut! Even if you want to eat plant-based, you may have friends or family who do not, but need to heal arthritis. This is great perspective, no matter where your Center of Gravity is on the Spectrum of Diet.
An Integrated Dietary Approach to Healing Arthritis with Dr. Ken Berry MD.
David Wolfe on MSM
Vitamin C is sweet but not sugary. So it makes your morning water easier to drink. So that's one thing, vitamin C. The next thing is, what I believe to be, the greatest discovery in the last -- probably in the last hundred years in the field of nutrition other than vitamin C and enzymes and that is sulfur, MSM, Methylsulfonylmethane.
MSM is a biologically available form of sulfur that's naturally found in wild food, untended food. We don’t really have access to that hardly at all any more. I mean, almost all our food is grown on farms for us. It's not being watered naturally by the rain. It's being irrigated like in the great inland valley of California where most of our food comes from.
It's all irrigated. It just comes from well water. It's not coming from the rain. The rain contains sulfur compounds and I'm not talking about sulfur rain or acid rain. I'm talking about the natural sulfur that's produced in the oceans that helps create clouds, then drops them on the land that we need nutritionally in order to produce flexible collagen. Now that in the world does that mean? It means that sulfur produces flexible skin. It produces flexible muscle tissue. It stops, in essence, wrinkling and increases the juiciness of the collagen and the discs, the joints that basically separate our bones from each other. On top of all that, it increases the growth of our hair, our nails, so that we have thicker, richer growth of our hair and nails. This can all be easily
experienced within two weeks of taking MSM.
Kevin Gianni: It's going to grow like weeds.
David Wolfe: It's really incredible and people who want thick quick growth of their hair and nails are almost always completely shocked by how powerful MSM can be. You can get it in capsule form. You can get it in a powder form. It's available in every single health food store now. Even though you may never have heard of it, once you start looking into it, and especially when you take it, here's what you're going to find out.
You're going to find it's one of the most important things you've ever taken. I have randomly polled hundreds of people about MSM. Meaning that when I talk to someone, let's say I'm waiting to go on a TV and I'm in the back room and I'm talking to other guests there. We start talking about nutrition and I say hey, have you ever heard of MSM? I almost always to a T here from people who have taken it before. "Oh, MSM changed my life." I've heard that dozens of times, that exact quote. "Oh, MSM changed my life."
Juicy Tips
If you have someone in your life with chronic pain, such as arthritis, preaching about the tenets of good nutrition may not be the best route. An excellent way to wake them up to the power non-drug methods for relieving their pain is to get them The Miracle of MSM by Stanley Jacob, M.D. That should be enough to get them interested.
And on that point. You are now entering into a time where you are becoming a true light for everyone around you. The best way to help others be healthy is to just continue to be healthy yourself. When asked, don't knock anybody else's way of eating or living, just let them know what has worked well for you. Fascinate them with your experience of Juice Feasting and encountering Live Food Nutrition. But always remember, fascination and curiosity, (instead of fear or defensiveness) are the kinds of emotions we should invoke in others!
You are a shining light!
Fasting to Heal Arthritis.
Fibromyalgia is Lactic Acidosis. David Rainoshek, M.A. : What he does not tell you in this video is that MSM - the sulfur compound - dramatically reduces lactic acid in the body. So if you are treating Fibromyalgia, using MSM to reduce Lactic Acidosis is HUGE.
Dr. Sanjay Gupta explains how the medical community is using CBD oil, and how CBD can be beneficial.
BELOW is the best CBD Oil (at the best price), developed by the folks who professionally, conscientiously created the Charlotte’s Web strain for CBD Oil. This is the CBD I recommend to all my clients with pain, anxiety, and sleep challenges.
MSM is a supplement that we use on a daily basis. Many of our students have had inflammation and scarring issues that have been mitigated or resolved due to therapeutic use of MSM. For more information, go to the Resources page on JuiceFeasting.com to read about The Miracle of MSM by Dr. Stanley Jacob, or go to Day 11 of The 92-Day Juice Feasting Program.
On the Juice Feast: Up to 1 Tablespoon of OptiMSM Powder in your Morning Water, and 1-2 more Tablespoons during the day in your water. If you are new to MSM, make sure to place lemon juice in your water, and begin with 1 teaspoon per quart and work up. MSM is completely non-toxic: it has a toxicity level the same as water. However, it is possible early on to use more than your body knows how to access (resulting in a sulfury burp, nothing more), so start with 1tsp in your Morning Water with Lemon, and work up over a 7-14 Day period to 1-3 Tablespoons per day.
Today’s Downloads
arthritis
Millions of people suffer from some form of arthritis. Because arthritis is commonly believed to be incurable, the standard medical response has been simply to prescribe medication to reduce the symptoms. Substantial evidence, however, now shows that the pain and disability caused by arthritis can be alleviated, and even prevented, through diet, nutritional supplementation, environmental medicine, bodywork, stress reduction, and other alternative therapies.
cOX-2 inhibitors
NOTE FROM DAVID RAINOSHEK: From my reading on COX-2 inhibitors, and my personal experience having been prescribed them, I can verify that doctors are not looking to dietary/lifestyle solutions first with regards to their prescriptive habits vis-à-vis inflammatory conditions. I had arthritis all through the joints in my body that was crippling—for three years. Of the many physicians that I went to complaining of my symptomology, no MD ever suggested dietary change or use of natural supplementation of any kind to help heal my condition. I was prescribed Vioxx, Paxil, Ativan, Tylenol, and Ibuprofen for my specific complaint, but NO MD ever said, “Perhaps you need more omega-3s in your diet. Let’s remove some of the inflammatory conditions out of your diet. How much water do you drink? Is it hard water? Have you considered taking proteolytic enzymes such as Vitalzym? How is your digestion? Have you used digestive enzymes? Perhaps your bowel is stopped up and this is aggravating your inflammatory disease through autointoxication. Have you heard of MSM?” None of this was ever said. I was told emphatically that I would have arthritis and Acid Reflux Disease (GERD) the rest of my life. 3 weeks on a plant-based, live foods vegan diet changed all that, and now I understand why. ALL of my clients have experienced the anti-inflammatory benefits of a plant-based diet that incorporates the use of supportive and healing nutritional elements such as proteolytic enzymes (Vitalzym), Spirulina, and MSM. It cost me over $50,000 in medical bills and damaging medical advice before I came into live food nutrition. What was the response of my MDs? The same as is outlined by T. Colin Campbell at the end of this file, per his conversations with John McDougall, M.D.
fibromyalgia
Fibromyalgia is a condition typically characterized by musculoskeletal pain and fatigue. The pain can be severe and affecting a number of muscles, tendons, ligaments and soft tissues. Toxins deposited in muscles and joints in Fibromyalgia as opposed to Arthritis, where toxins are built up in the joints. . . Fibromyalgia is a painful disorder for which mainstream medicine has no solution other than heavy, and often ineffective, use of painkillers. Perhaps you have been told by a well-meaning but uniformed doctor that you will “just have to learn to live with it.” Actually, Chronic fatigue, fibromyalgia and environmental illness can be permanently reversed using nontoxic alternative medicine treatments.
MSM: miracle sulfur compound
This is a 46+ Page file on MSM!
After reading it, you will never want to be without this elemental substance again, and your health will be the better for it.
If you have not yet included this in your Juice Feasting Program, you may want to get this in now.
Online Articles
The FDA Exposed: An Interview With Dr. David Graham, the Vioxx Whistleblower
The following interview with Dr. David Graham (senior drug safety researcher at the FDA) was conducted by Manette Loudon, the lead investigator for Dr. Gary Null. This interview contains jaw-dropping insights about the corruption and crimes that take place every day inside the Food and Drug Administration. This is no outside critic, either: these are the words from a top FDA employee who has worked at the agency for two decades. If you've ever wondered how the drug industry could pull off the greatest con of our time—and turn the human body into a profit-generating machine—you're about to learn the shocking answers in this interview.
Arthritis creams merely mask symptoms and offer no long-term relief, study shows by Mike Adams
Most People With Arthritis Don’t Get Enough Exercise (press release) by Mike Adams
People with arthritis don’t exercise enough, and more than a third of adults with arthritis don’t exercise at all, according to a study in the May issue of American Journal of Preventive Medicine. “People with arthritis are not meeting physical activity recommendations made at the federal level…
Joint pain, back pain, arthritis caused by chronic dehydration, says doctor by Mike Adams
Dr. B.: The human body also has its emergency calls for water. These are localized emergency calls. We call these heartburn, rheumatoid joint pain, back pain, migraine headaches, colitis pain, fibromyalgiac pain, even angina pain — signs of dehydration in the body. And the mechanism is…
Vioxx disaster shows health hazards of prescription drugs, failure of FDA to protect the public by NaturalNews
There is a new national uproar over a prescription drug, Vioxx, which has been an extremely popular anti-inflammatory drug manufactured and marketed by Merck. Vioxx was recently pulled from the market by Merck after studies revealed the drug increases the risk of cardiovascular disease, which is the…
Herbal Medicine for Natural Pain Relief by Brigitte Mars
Pain can serve a protective function by letting one know that something is wrong. Resolving the underlying problem, when possible is the best way to eliminate pain. The brain responds to pain by producing morphine-like hormones known as endorphins. Besides drugs, there are other ways to stimulate endorphin production.
NSAIDs Pose Death Risk for Heart-Attack Patients (press release) by NaturalNews
People who have survived a first heart attack have a higher risk of dying or having a second heart attack if they are taking non-steroidal anti-inflammatory drugs (NSAIDs), including the newer class called cox-2 inhibitors. The research detailing these findings appears in the June 20 issue of the journal Circulation, and was first presented at the 2005 meeting of the American Heart Association. The results of the two studies are almost the same, although the latest study shows an even higher correlation between NSAID use and a second heart attack.
With COX-2 decision, no longer any doubt about FDA corruption and U.S. drug racket by Mike Adams
Following the death of as many as 60,000 Americans from COX-2 inhibitors (source: British Medical Journal, author Dr. David Graham, FDA drug safety researcher), an FDA advisory panel has now voted to allow the drugs to return to the market with full FDA safety approval. The fact that a single COX-2 drug…
Ibuprofen and Other NSAIDs Kill 2,500 a Year in the UK by David Gutierrez
As many as 2,500 people per year die in the United Kingdom each year from stomach bleeding, a well-known side effect of non-steroidal anti-inflammatory drugs (NSAIDs) such as aspirin and ibuprofen.
Great Books
by Ellen Kamhi and Eugene R. Zampieron
This indispensable reference features the latest alternative approaches to diagnosing, treating, and preventing arthritis. It also details how to pinpoint the underlying factors leading to arthritis and includes proven and nontoxic ways to heal or manage arthritis naturally and without the risk of serious side effects.
A completely updated and expanded guide to alternative treatments for arthritis.
Covers supplement therapy, organ detoxification regimes, and immune system boosters to relieve joint pain, stiffness, and inflammation.
From the creators of Alternative Medicine magazine and THE ALTERNATIVE MEDICINE DEFINITIVE GUIDE, which has sold 650,000 copies.
By Dr. Stanley Jacob, MD
“Here is something natural, a supplement that appears to be safe and is helping many people. Why shouldn’t you be one of them?” —William Regelson, M.D., co-author of The Melatonin Miracle
MSM, or methylsulfonylmethane, is the first safe, natural, side-effect-free remedy for many types of pain and inflammatory conditions. In this authoritative look at MSM, Drs. Stanley Jacob and Ronald Lawrence reveal how to tap into the benefits of this amazing “miracle” compound. Experienced in the successful treatment of thousands of patients for pain, they explain how to take MSM—how much, when, with what foods, and in what form—to relieve pain in its many varieties, including:
Degenerative arthritis, Chronic back pain, Chronic headache, Muscle pain, Fibromyalgia, Tendintis and bursitis, Carpal tunnel syndrome, TMJ, Post-traumatic pain and inflammation, Allergies, and more.
By Dr Hartmut Fischer
DMSO is a natural substance that is obtained from wood. Medical and pharmaceutical studies have repeatedly shown that DMSO has the greatest range and number of healing effects ever recorded for a single substance. Its comprehensive healing properties are unique, all working in synergistic harmony.
Over the last sixty years, more than forty thousand research articles on this substance have been published but the general public remains unaware of these discoveries, partly as a result of efforts from certain quarters to suppress the dissemination of that information. Having been treasured as a secret for many years by just a small number of specialists and alternative practitioners, DMSO is currently enjoying a remarkable comeback in the field of alternative medicine.This book now makes this information available in an accessible and engaging manner, revealing all about this wonderful universal medicine, its uses and its applications.
Harmut Fischer, an alternative health practitioner with a background in scientific and pharmaceutical research, has been researching this substance for many years and uses it privately and professionally in his practice. This book is intended as a practical, application-oriented reference book for patients who treat themselves, as well as for doctors, alternative health practitioners and other therapists.
by Eileen Konieczny RN and Lauren Wilson
A complete, easy-to-understand guide to cannabidiol (CBD) treatments and benefits.
Drawing from years of patient experience, extensive scientific studies and the current product landscape, this complete guide provides everything you need to know about cannabidiol (CBD). Authors Eileen Konieczny, RN, and Lauren Wilson use their years of medical and writing experience to separate the CBD facts from fiction.
Finding accurate information on the health benefits of CBD can be difficult, but this easy-to-understand book breaks down all the studies and medical information, including:
• What CBD is and how it’s made
• How it’s different than THC
• Potential treatments for common ailments
• How to buy safe, quality products
• Dosing considerations and effects
• An overview of the endocannabinoid system
• SPECIFIC HEALTH CHALLENGES AND CBD STUDIES / USE. This is HUGE.
Media, Films, & Documentaries
Prescription for Disaster | Gary Null
Learn How the Pharmaceutical Industry & the FDA are Endangering Your Health for Profit. It is estimated that in America in 2008, nearly $2 trillion was spent on health care -- and virtually all that money was spent on treating disease.1 Despite this massive expenditure on treatment, more Americans are sicker than ever before with diseases that are largely preventable: heart disease, cancer, diabetes, arthritis, fibromyalgia, and depression, to name a few.
[Audio] Dr. William Wong Discusses Vitalzym
An excellent discussion of Vitalzym by its head researcher!