Because treating symptoms is the only method orthodox medicine is trained to practice, they administer pain-killing drugs which will relieve pain temporarily. But, in the long run, due to their many undesirable side effects, these drugs only cause more damage and ultimately aggravate the condition instead of improving it. Arthritis is a systemic disease which affects the whole body. Therefore, the only measures that can be successful in correcting the disease, bringing it under control, and accomplishing a lasting cure, must be ones directed at correcting its underlying causes. This can only be accomplished by treating the total body to help overcome the systemic disturbances, normalize the metabolic processes, and help restore all normal functions of the body.
Arthritis is caused by a metabolic disorder in the body.
The distorted or disordered metabolism, in turn, is affected by health-destroying environmental factors, including faulty nutrition, overeating, emotional and physical stresses, sedentary life, etc. Arthritis is not an unrelated, localized disease of certain joints. It is a systemic constitutional disease which always affects the whole body. Arthritis is caused by metabolic disorders and systemic disturbances which effect the pathological biochemical changes in all tissues of the body, specifically in collagen. These biochemical changes cause inflammatory and degenerative . . .