When Your Joints Say No!

You may ignore the stiffness in your joints until one morning your hands resemble a claw and your knees or elbows ache when you try to straighten them. You may continue to ignore what your body is telling you until you bend over to tie your shoes or wash your feet in the shower and your back remains in that bent over position.

When your joints say no to you, your life, once active, becomes a passive retreat. This is not a sign of entering the golden years. It's simply a message from your body to simply take a closer look at your lifestyle and nutritional habits. This message can save you from more potentially harmful diseases.

Toxic food elements in what you presently eat, along with excess stress, can cause joint inflammation, pain and a jarring halt to every day simple motion. When your joints say no, you may have Rheumatoid Arthritis.

Rheumatoid Arthritis is a chronic condition of inflammation of the joints that disturbs every part of your body, including your emotional state. The word itself means inflammation (itis) of the joints (arth).

SYMPTOMS:

Symptoms may include joint stiffness, pain ranging from dull to severe, weakness, fatigue and low-grade fever.

CAUSES:

Scientific studies and an array of evidence have led to the conclusion that Rheumatoid Arthritis is a reaction in which certain antibodies within the body attack our own joints. Investigations of the culprit have led to speculation ranging from lifestyle to nutrition. The possibilities of interfering factors include food allergies, and bacterial and viral invasions caused by an imbalance in the bodies normal intestinal flora.

In most Rheumatoid Arthritis cases, digestive disorders including constipation contribute to the body's imbalance. If constipated, you may be absorbing toxic antigens through the intestinal wall that eventually become lodged in the joint tissue.

Constipation develops as the result of consuming empty foods such as refined white flour, refined white sugar, and foods with artificial additives and preservatives. These refined substances cause a sticky plaque on the lining of the intestinal wall as well as on the lining of blood vessels.

The consumption of refined products along with such products as coffee and alcohol create plaque and leach calcium from your bones. This calcium finds its way into weakened joints in the forum of calcium deposits, causing arthritic effects.

The refining processes of food strips beneficial nutrients that balance the foods' nourishing qualities and digestive abilities. Use of cows' dairy products cause an excess of mucous congestion and yeast products can aggravate and imbalance the normal intestinal flora, causing digestive disturbances.

Prescriptive Medicine

Many physicians prescribe drugs that block digestive secretions as a way to decrease pain in the stomach due to ulcers and an uncoordinated release of digestive juices. However, this method of symptom relief causes additional digestive disturbances that can lead to constipation and malnutrition due to poor and improper digestion.

Supplementation

A simple digestive enzyme supplement may be all you need to resume proper digestion and a good acidophilus product will restore your intestinal flora. Prolonged use of chemical antacids that decrease digestive secretions may damage normal secretory processes. Most nutritional experts agree that enzyme supplementation makes more sense when dealing with this type of disorder.

Dr. Mary Rodio

Mary Rodio, Ph.D., is an Ethnobotanical Research Scientist and the Director of Natura Health Services, Inc. in Scottsdale, Arizona where she formulates botanical remedies that encompass her life's work in the fields of both Conventional and Traditional Medicine.

As a scholar of both medical science and cultural studies, Dr. Rodio focuses her research on the cultural identity and the neurobiologics that become imprinted on and affect the health and interactions of human beings.

Educated at various colleges and universities in the United States and Europe, Dr. Rodio has established an extensive and unique background with numerous courses beyond her academic degrees. Her graduate and post-graduate studies and/or research projects have been conducted at Brown University, Clayton College of Natural Health, Harvard University, Middlebury College, Providence College, Southeastern Massachusetts University, the University of Florence Medical School (Italy), and others. Dr. Rodio also holds degrees in Naturopathy, Nutrition, Medical Technology, and Foreign Languages and Culture.

Her past professional career includes work as a Medical Technologist in both hospital and private medical laboratories, Histologist, and Public Health Microbiologist for the Rhode Island Department of Health in the Food, Dairy, Water and Diagnostic Microbiology Laboratories.

Dr. Rodio makes appearances on radio and television as a guest, and has hosted local, radio and television talk shows. As a public speaker and an author of numerous magazine articles, she warmly shares her knowledge in an easy to understand manner.

With over twenty-five years of experience in the health field, Dr. Rodio provides the public with well-researched health information that unites conventional medical techniques with time-tested natural therapies.