Subject: Re: Natural cures?
Let's be fair most people are open and honest about their experiences on here. There is a degree of skepticism of course to any claims of "cure". I've reached out in the last year to a number of people on twitter - there are more like me all over the world using diet change to treat their AS and other autoimmune diseases. I have learned to be respectful - as there are differences in us all. However, I truly believe (from extensive research - enough to make most people yawn) that ALL of us have much in common at a fundamental level. We are all experiencing an errant immune response to something (AS, RA, MS.. and many other diseases are all linked), I do not believe that that the immune system just attack us for NO reason. It is attacking something and creating "dodgy" anti-bodies that attack us. By discovering our "something" we can work to reduce the immune response to it and us at the same time. That "something" is described in most medical research - food protein, bacterial protein - may remain a mystery through lack of experimentation or skepticism in some cases - but I fully understand the need to trust doctors and drugs also. Trouble is on drugs it is harder to determine if your alternative is working. So there is no point trying if you are on drugs. One exception might be B Cell deletion drugs... This is because I understand that B Cells can carry memory to react again to the unknown "something"... so a time for experimentation would be after these drugs. I'm not cured but I am drug free since age 26, was 50 last month (had this disease AS since my teens) - I might get occasional flares in my back / hips. So I have no idea how someone else would fare on any alternative regime. If someones symptoms did not subside without drugs who can blame you - I know the pain that come come from arthritis. Then again - if we all ignore the wealth of research then it will perpetuate the lies from big-pharma that we all need to be medicated with Statins, Blood pressure drugs etc. 450,000,000 people with diabetes and rising and same dietary advice leaves more getting more ill and taking drugs. Since being on twitter - I have linked up with many who follow a diet called LCHF for diabetes. For me there is a comparison to auto-immune disease in the way that diabetes is treated - for diabetes they ignore a lot of research in to regulation of insulin response with carbohydrate reduction. I believe that the "somethings" and underlying causes for auto-immune diseases are ignored and that switching off the immune system is a short cut one size fits all pharma approach - this is because time is money and treating us all individually is difficult. I don't believe the system does the best it can to implement what it knows about these diseases. Main stream media / Pharma are complicit in talking down some alternatives and making out that some things are quackery when they are actually routed in science. Profits first!
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