Fighting RA With a Nasal Spray?
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U.S.
drug maker Vical is currently working with researchers in the U.K.
to develop a nasal spray that could deliver gene treatments and
better treat rheumatoid arthritis (RA) sufferers.
Early research has found a formulation that contains a modified
version of a natural protein that switches off the inflammatory
process that causes RA. Although, the delivery of that anti-inflammatory
protein, interleukin-10, turned off immune cells that contributed
to the pain, they also turned on cells that could keep the harmful
ones at bay.
Researchers believe giving interleukin-10 through the nose will
target more effectively a group of cells that create disease, rather
than shutting down the entire immune system.
Despite development of the TNF alpha antibody therapy for RA, scientists
believed there was a need to find more accurate ways of modulating
the immune system with a drug that has fewer side effects and is
less expensive.
However, scientists in another clinical trial found interleukin-10
had some possible benefits, they also discovered there was immunosuppression
when it was given intravenously.
The
Scotsman August 4, 2004
Dr. Mercola's Comment:
Drugs are terrible options for RA sufferers because they don't
solve the root problem. In fact, the solutions I recommend to lessen
if not eliminate the effects of RA are healthier--no toxic drugs--and
not expensive.
There's no more effective way to get started than to modify
your diet according to your personal metabolic
type. It is very easy to understand how a physician who successfully
treats one patient with a particular diet would conclude the diet
that person was on was the "cure" for RA, when in fact
nothing could be further from the truth.
Another person with the same disease could quite possibly need
an entirely different diet to receive any benefits, that is how
powerful metabolic typing can be. If you want to figure out your
metabolic type on your own, please take my free
basic test.
To learn even more behind how metabolic typing works, consider
my latest book Total Health
Cookbook & Program. It explains a number of concepts in
greater detail:
- How metabolic typing works
- Why people should stay away from processed foods, grains
and sugars
- How people can get the nutrients their bodies desperately
need without supplements
The Emotional Freedom Technique (EFT) can also be quite useful
to resolve energy disruptions that will help you rally your body's
resources to better health. (Prayer
can accomplish the same results, but most haven't used it in
a way that resolves the problem.)
I also use EFT extensively in my practice and have a free
manual that can teach you how to use it. Still, the emotional
trauma that causes RA is nearly universally quite severe and is
best treated by a professional.
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