Treating Rheumatoid Arthritis&Diet

Supportive Measures in Treating Rheumatoid Arthritis:
To achieve the best results in treating any chronic degenerative disease it is important to remember that simply giving a drug to kill a disease causing germ is not enough. In the first place, these patients have been ill for many months to years and their entire body chemistry,
digestion, nutrition, and immune system has been continually stressed and damaged over this period of time. The next slide will list the supporting facets of treatment which first not be overlooked if a physician wants to give his patients the very best opportunities to achieve the most successful improvement. Supportive Evaluations for Better Results in Treating Any Chronic Degenerative Disease
1. Diet and proper nutrition.
2. Correction of any Nutritional Deficiency or imbalance.
3. Correction of any digestive malfunctions.
4. Elimination of contributing factors that may be suppressing the patient’s immune system:
a. Food, inhalant, and chemical allergies.
b. Concomitant infections such as yeast, virus, foci of infections.
c. Exposure to toxins such as heavy metals and petrochemicals.
5. Exercise.
6. Rest and relaxation.
7. Removal of physical or mental stress factors.
8. Instill hope and positive mental attitude in patients.
9. Intraneural injections for arthritis patients.

Intraneural Injections

Most patients with Rheumatoid and Osteoarthritis have developed inflammation in various nerves that go to the joints. These areas of inflammation in the nerves may be caused by calcium deposits in the nerve areas, trauma or injury to the nerves or even invasion of the nerves by germs like the amoebae or Candida-yeast infections. Our Foundation’s Medical Director, Dr. Paul K. Pybus, has been working with this problem for several years and has developed various techniques of intra-neural injections that have caused remarkable improvement in many patients. I will be speaking tomorrow concerning these injections and will go into detail to explain the theories involved, the preparation of solutions for injection and the actual techniques of injection, but I just wanted to mention here that this is a supportive measure I use in treating all arthritic patients. I would now like to go into a little more detail on a couple of the other very important supportive measures.

Diet:

There are more incidents of the chronic degenerative diseases in our land today than has ever been known in the history of mankind. These diseases include all the forms of arthritis and auto-immune diseases but also obesity, diabetes, and cardiovascular diseases which include heart disease, arteriosclerosis, and peripherial vascular disease. Today, with the processing of most our foods, many important vitamins, minerals, amino acids, and fatty acids are removed so the foods will last longer on the shelves. Many soils which are used to grow our foods are becoming depleted of essential nutrient substances, especially minerals. Also thousands of chemicals are added to soils in the growing process and also preservatives and other chemicals are added to our processed foods. Because of all of this, we are finding that our entire society is suffering from a diet that is plagued with over-consumption and under-nutrition and the incidence of chronic degenerative diseases can only increase in severity. Most Americans are now conditioned to follow this “S.A.D.” or Standard American Diet and our diet plays a very important factor in treating all arthritic patients. It can spell the difference in getting poor, fair, good, or excellent results in the treatment of our arthritic patients.

Summary of Diet for Rheumatoid Disease Patients Avoid These Foods:

1. Processed foods (foods in box or can).
2. Alcohol, caffeine, nicotine.
3. Processed cereals, white rice, and corn products.
4. Four vegetables — Irish potatoes [white potatoes], tomatoes, eggplant, and peppers.
5. All forms of pork.
6. Peanuts, walnuts.
7. Skim milk or low fat milk.
8. Any known allergenic foods.
9. All sweets, deserts, sugars, candy, soft drinks, ice cream, pies, cakes, pastries, etc.
10. All white flour such as white breads, crackers, biscuits, spaghetti, macaroni, pasta.
11. All “hydrogenated” or “hardened” cooking oils or fats, and especially margarine.
12. Excessive diet drinks (2 per day permitted).

Eat These Foods:

1. Fish, fowl, eggs, cheeses, lamb, and beef (up to 3 times weekly), yogurt, venison, shrimp.
2. All vegetables, preferably raw or “wok” cooked, (avoid potatoes, tomatoes, eggplant, and
peppers).
3. All vegetable juices except tomato.
4. All salad vegetables.
5. Whole wheat or whole grain breads (if 100%).
6. Whole grain cereals — non-processed.
7. All nuts except peanuts and walnuts.
8. Home canned foods without sugar added.
9. All fruits and juices including dried fruits. (The whole fruits are preferable to the juices.)
10. Decaffeinated coffee, herbal teas, whole milk, buttermilk, spring or mineral water, juices.
11. Butter, olive oil, cooking oils that are “cold-pressed.”
12. Adequate vitamin, mineral supplements with cod liver oil.