The body s immune system responds by releasing lysosomal enzymes from the bone cells. The material is hydrolyzed and rendered harmless, but the smooth articular surface becomes pitted. As the process continues day after day, month after month, and year after year, the damage finally becomes obvious. A diagnosis of arthritis or degenerative joint disease is finally made and treatment can begin. Since medicine has considered the condition to be a self-inflicted disease, correct therapy has been to suppress the immune system with drugs to prevent the body s own natural defenses from destroying itself.
Inflammation is a natural defensive response to foreign matter in the extracellular fluid.
As we all know, this approach has never yielded satisfactory results and, in fact, has a deleterious effect on the body. No doubt you have experienced the disastrous effects that steroid drugs, such as prednisone, have had on your patients. The study compared the immune systems of 51 patients diagnosed with rheumatoid arthritis with 47 people of similar ages who did not have the condition. The study reported that the chromosomes in the stricken patients were worn and frayed. What this means is that patients with rheumatoid arthritis actually have suppressed immune systems, and conventional pharmaceutical treatments are not only ineffective, they are contraindicated.