In the last two posts we viewed osteoarthritis through the lens of inflammation, poor circulation, and calcification as dominant and overlapping disease processes. A genetic predisposition (family history) or arthritis can accentuate these causes, but like most all chronic disease, it takes lifestyle and environmental factors to express arthritis in its most painful and debilitating […]
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Osteoarthritis Part 1: Wear, Tear and No Repair
One of the most common and debilitating conditions is late-stage arthritis. Osteoarthritis is defined as a degeneration of the joints causing stiffness, pain, and deformity and is differentiated from rheumatoid arthritis (an autoimmune type) and psoriatic arthritis (which occurs alongside the skin condition psoriasis). Osteoarthritis itself can further be broken down into several distinct disease […]
Osteoarthritis Part 2: A Crisis of Calcium
In the last post we covered the inflammatory and degenerative links to arthritis. These fundamental causes exist to a greater or lesser degree in every case of chronic arthritic pain and require individualized treatment strategies, the options for which will be covered in the last part of this series. Now we turn our attention to […]
The Apple Cider Vinegar Cure?
[et_pb_section fb_built=”1″ _builder_version=”3.0.47″][et_pb_row _builder_version=”3.0.48″ background_size=”initial” background_position=”top_left” background_repeat=”repeat”][et_pb_column type=”4_4″ _builder_version=”3.0.47″ parallax=”off” parallax_method=”on”][et_pb_text _builder_version=”3.19.6″ background_size=”initial” background_position=”top_left” background_repeat=”repeat”] You may have heard anecdotes about apple cider vinegar treating just about everything except death. Though not a miracle remedy, raw and organic apple cider vinegar does have a lot of therapeutic applications. It is inexpensive, readily accessible, and has […]
Healing a Lifetime
All healing is an exercise in change. If you want different results, you have to be willing to do something different. Looking over the breadth of a lifetime of destructive choices, sometimes there is much that needs to be done differently.