Subject: Re: Charles de-Coti Marsh - Arthritic Association
Hi Bsk - you wanted me to elaborate...it's quite complicated The treatment I was given when I was about 21 - I am now 46 was run by medical doctor J. Mansfield from a clinic in Banstead, Surrey. I do not remember all the details and my pain at the time I started this treatment was only a fraction of what it became a number of years later. He started with a detox (I think Epsom salts) - then fluids for a period of time to cleanse. I was then asked to only eat a very limited diet for 1 week - foods that were less likely to cause a reaction - - Cod - Sweet Potatoes - Pears - Bananas - Rice ( I think this was allowed) - A number of other vegetables but not many After the first week I did not feel much better - then we stuck with it for another week and I did begin to feel a lot less soreness in my joints. Unfortunately I let the irrepairable residual stiffness / damage that I had since 17/18 over rule my judgement of what "better" really is and gave up initiallly - the continuance of the treatment would have taken months of gradual reintroduction of different foods. I always felt guilty with not sticking with it for longer but I was addicted to my diet - my joke nickname was Mr Stay Puff because of my love of Danish pastries - my social drink was Guinness. I went down hill and developed more damage and long periods of intense soreness in my hips, ribs and back. i also had terrible tiredness until I revisited the idea of food "issues" at about age 26. An alternative therapist in Canterbury "diagnosed" wheat, corn and milk as my issue foods. I was strict with the advice given - switched to pure Rye bread (i think i have since developed an allergy to this too) and had muesli with lots of seeds. More importantly - I was also given supplements to repair and have been taking them off but mostly on for 20 years - - Magnesium / Calcium - Selenium / Zinc (detox for lead and mercury) It was not much of a surprise that 2 weeks later I was looser in my shoulders, neck and my hip and rib soreness eased. An osteopath that I had only seen a matter of weeks before could not believe my back improvements. I spent a whole year without wheat, corn, dairy, milk chocolate, refined sugar, coffee - I felt amazing with good health and lots of energy (ran two half marathons at 30). There was always a niggly background inflammation - and this becomes slightly worse from time to time which I have learned from the Internet is caused by my own bacteria in my gut. I could bore you with how I try and tackle this but I think I have rattled on too much. I am not here to tell anyone what to do - I truly care and would like to help anyone else that is in pain - and call me paranoid but I fear that there are forces at work to maintain drug company profits and demonise this as a quack therapy - living like this can be tough but has become normal for me a bit like people with Celiac - plus I am in control. Here is a link to the New Scientist article from 1989 (it might have been me as one of the trial patients) - 3 out 4 improved in the controlled clinical trial of the same treatment given to me - knowing what I know makes me passionate to get this information out there - especially to newly diagnosed young people! http://books.google.co.uk/books?id=asaPM...ebo&f=false http://www.allergiesexplained.com/pages/Milk%20is%20an%20Occasional%20Cause%20of%20Arthritis.htm On a lighter note three quotes from Thomas Edison that I saw earlier - Many of life's failures are people who did not realise how close they were to success when they gave up. The doctor of the future will give no medicine, but will interest her or his patients in the care of the human frame, in a proper diet, and in the cause and prevention of disease. Results! Why, man, I have gotten a lot of results. I know several thousand things that won't work. I wish you all a Happy New Year!😃
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