Many products claim to reverse or delay conditions associated with aging. Cosmetics and creams are said to erase wrinkles or cure baldness. Vitamins and minerals are said to cure or prevent disease or even lengthen life. A healthy lifestyle may help delay conditions associated with aging, but no preparation or process can stop the process. Arthritis Individuals who suffer from chronic illnesses often turn to questionable treatments.
Arthritis is a painful and sometimes debilitating disease that has no cure.
However, it can go into spontaneous remission, meaning that pain and swelling can disappear for days, weeks, months or even years. When people experience such a remission, they are easily convinced that whatever they have been doing brought the relief. Thus, unproven miracle cures for arthritis flourish. Examples of unproven remedies include vibrating chairs, sitting in abandoned uranium mines, unapproved drug treatments and questionable diets such as gin-soaked raisins. Since there is no cure for arthritis, these treatments not only are ineffective, but they can do considerable harm in addition to delaying proper diagnosis and treatment.