Comments on: Is there a cure for Rheumatoid Arthritis?

By: Dave Bacic

Dave Bacic — Mon, 09 Jan 2012 00:33:23 +0000

There is a cure for RA it has been done at many institiutions, bone marrow transpant with chemotherapy drug infusion. High risk and high reward. This is from the Ottawa Hospital.

By: Kelly Young

Kelly Young — Fri, 30 Dec 2011 17:19:47 +0000

Thanks for being here for your wife Marc. We are working on that kind of awareness here too!!

By: Marc Metlis

Marc Metlis — Fri, 30 Dec 2011 17:14:54 +0000

My wife has lived with RA for 5 years now. It is a terrnible disease. Her RA is getting progressively worse. No one can understand what it feels like to live with constant pain all the time. People with RA are on meds all the time. These meds lower the bodies immunities in order to slow the progression of the disease. If the individual gets a cold or infection, due to the low immunity they are taken off all RA meds and they start all over. Most people without RA think it’s just arthritis, and all you need is an asprin! I wish that were true. The public needs to be educated. That’s as.Important as finding a cure. RA’ers live long with no pain.
Marc

By: Kelly Young

Kelly Young — Tue, 20 Dec 2011 17:56:26 +0000

Almost anything is worth a try.There are cases of reactive arthritis or food sensitivies in which the symptoms mimic RA. Sometimes, an RA “cure” can be traced to this. Sadly, there is not a “cure” for RA but a small percentage do have remissions which must be heavenly for them. Sadly, there are also not able to be duplicated by copying whatever lifestyle changes others found helpful.Millions keep trying – someday we’ll know why – and what can stop the unrelenting kind of RA.

By: Sharyn

Sharyn — Tue, 20 Dec 2011 17:17:59 +0000

Sandra, thank you for your post. I have had RA for 12 years, was diagnosed with severe rheumatoid. For years I was reasonably careful with my diet but while I improved I would still flare. It wasnt until I cut dairy out of my diet that I became mobile again. I get an occasional flare now but I can usually trace it back to dairy slipping into my diet. I also suspect sugar (oh no) is a problem for me. My belief is a certain number of those with RA can be completely cured by diet. Just wish everyone could be. Well worth a try though.

By: Sandra Jacobs

Sandra Jacobs — Thu, 17 Nov 2011 00:58:15 +0000

Hi there, here are some thoughts, based on my previous health research in general – as I am going to research RA as someone in our family has it.

These are just general thoughts, but with 2 pertinent refs included.

Perhaps various different things cause the general symptoms of RA. Why should this be just one disease? Or, it may be that different substances cause the RA reaction in allergic/susceptible individuals. RA has been cured by rejection of all dairy products it seems, and this material seems authentic, consdering everything in it:
http://www.notmilk.com/forum/798.html
So this method may not cure everyone – but it seems worth trying by everyone.

Also – what is needed is something to get the body to reverse what it is doing. There is likely to be a trigger that starts the body doing RA (as it were) – and it is dairy products in some. Perhaps look at what you are doing. What things do you eat all the time? Dairy, soy, additives, various forms of sugar, grains, acid fruits, commercial foods, processed meat, polyunsaturated oils, and anything, actually? Is your blood pH acid (conducive to inflammatory) and not alkaline? Perhaps some people’s systems cannot stand acid blood… Combine that with something else, or lack of something such as vitamin D3 and you may get RA…

What should you be getting that you’re not? vitamin D3 (it’s now one of most important hormones in the body)? One could go thru all the vitamins/enzymes/minerals etc in turn and take a course of them to see if any had a positive effect. One could do this, after having got the blood pH alkaline. See Wikip on Vitamin D3 and RA: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rheumatoid_arthritis

Some people’s systems just cannot take the abuse that others can. Some people may have to eat and alkaline (anti-inflammatory) diet, plus keep vitamin D3 levels up, plus avoid dairy products maybe – or even eat cococnut butter and raw nuts to get the good oils, etc.

These days the normal diet is an abusive one, meaning that we live on commercial foods that are denatured, fractionated, chemical-laden, acid producing and totally cooked and this is raising degenerative disease in general. People susceptible to RA may not be able to handle this imbalanced, malnourished bodily environment, and this may lead to various things being able to trigger RA. As well as RA being able to be triggered by certain specific things like dairy in some people.

Drugs don’t treat the cause, and may possibly even lock the system into it’s RA regime because they don’t treat the cause.

If the cause is complex, then it needs a complex investigation, and this can only be up to the individual, as the drug companies will have no interest in it.

By: Kelly Young

Kelly Young — Tue, 25 Oct 2011 13:31:40 +0000

Stephanie, I’d recommend that you join (membership page coming soon!) the Rheumatoid Patient Foundation at http://rheum4us.org. We are the first non-profit charity just for RA. Please stay in touch since we will be helping folks do just what you said – to raise awareness and funds for a cure for RA. The whole reason that the foundation was formed was to help patients and care-givers come together to do what was too hard to do alone.

By: Stephanie

Stephanie — Tue, 25 Oct 2011 06:14:08 +0000

My mom has RA and it has been more than tough. I want to raise money f0or RA and don’t have a clue on where to start.

By: Niles

Niles — Wed, 03 Aug 2011 16:58:37 +0000

Why are the bloody cures always “decades away”….?

By: Manuel R. Lazo MD.

Manuel R. Lazo MD. — Fri, 11 Mar 2011 05:42:50 +0000

I work in Mexico and I CURE, yes you read well, I CURE any kind of ARTHRITIS. I prescribe diferents kind of Antibiotics for 3 Month, yes 3 Month, because this is the time when my patients are CURED.
There are many patients with chronic arthritis that can be cured with 3 month of antibiotics.
I treat Lyme disaease for 20 years and I see many patients with Arthritis and at the moment they are CURED.
All my patients with Arthritis have Lyme disease, and not all my patients with Lyme disease have arthritis.
You can send to me any kind of patients with Arthritis an I can cure them, maybe 90 % of them.

Dr. Lazo,
Ph. xxx-xx-xxx-xxx-xxx in Mexico, Tijuana.
and in Calif. xxx- xxx-xxxx