I couldn’t believe what I was reading! The medical profession was going to use nutrition to help patients with arthritis and kidney problems. But, as I read on, I found out that they were using nutrition in the same manner as they use drugs—merely to suppress symptoms! And they were advocating withholding essential fatty acids from the diet of sick people because by doing so the inflammatory process was impaired as well as impeded.

The following quotation was in regard to all rheumatic diseases, such as arthritis and lupus erythematosus: "Deposition of immune complexes is a major pathogenetic (meaning structural damage to tissues) mechanism in many of these conditions. Enhanced ability to develop immune reactions in some modern population groups may result from their improved nutritional status over that of prior generations, thus leading to the apparent increase in incidence of these diseases."

The medical profession, in general, thinks in such strange ways that I have often said that its thinking is backwards, upside down, and inside out. The profession is actually lamenting that the present day population has stronger immune systems, which they say is producing a more intense inflammation and actually causing the pathological changes in arthritis, as well as causing an increase in the incidence of arthritis with its autoimmune problem such as is seen in Lupus Erythematosus.

What is being said by these researchers is that our own immune system is causing the destruction and damage of tissues in cases of chronic arthritis and apparently causing an increase in arthritis itself! If the profession only knew how easily acute arthritis is remedied by fasting and correct living, maybe they would think differently. But according to their thinking The "Immune System" which is the body’s means of defense is the cause of degeneration! How backwards can one be?

The Immune system is a defense system, and should be called The Defense System. It defends us from foreign agents. Immunity is a fantasy. We can never become "immune to disease" as long as the causes of disease abound. It is a cause and effect situation and can’t be otherwise. If The Defense System is working well, it is going to protect us as best it can under all circumstances. If the causes of any disease are not removed, then chronic disease develops and, yes, there will be structural damage over the years. But this is because of chronic provocation and not because of the defensive measures the body is forced to take against all the toxic substances. Toxins and impaired functioning from wrong living are the cause of the pathology and not our defense mechanisms.

When chronic toxemia prevails the body has to learn to live with the toxins. Therefore, it sets up defenses against them so that the underlying tissues won’t be destroyed or damaged. People think they are not hurt by their poison habits. They have a tendency to rationalize, "I have drunk coffee for years, my body is used to it. I’m adapted to it. It doesn’t hurt me. Besides, it gives me the boost I need to get going." People do not understand that there is no genuine adaptation to a poison. The body merely tolerates foreign substances; it never adapts to them. It goes down fighting. There is no such thing as true adaptation as addicts undergo changes that reduce the vigor of their resistance to toxic substances such as nicotine, caffeine, as well as medications, but the fact that they are progressively damaged by taking these poisons indicate that no true adaptation occurs. The body just tolerates them.

We have a wonderful organism which enables us to learn to tolerate almost anything but the detrimental nature of the substances with which we force our bodies to "adapt" is commonly overlooked. Even today the majority of people seem to ignore the abundance of information that warns of the dangers of many harmful products and substances commonly consumed/and or used. For instance, it was just announced on FOX news, May 2, 2003, that seven of the last 8 high school killings were done by those children who were on antidepressants. Yet, the medicating continues on and on, because families have no time to care for their children and do not know how to fix the problem without drugs.

THERE IS NO TRUE ADAPTATION

Dr. Herbert M. Shelton formulated a law which explains this perfectly. It follows: "Every adaptation to inimical substances is achieved by changes in the tissues which are away from the ideal." For example an individual who takes his first drag on a cigarette, quickly establishes tolerance but at the expense of his/ her sense of smell and taste. The lining tissues of his/her nose, pharynx, mouth, trachea become thickened and rendered less sensitive to stimuli. If smoking is long continued soon the ciliated columnar cells of the lungs lose their little fringe-like cilia that beat in a manner to push foreign particles up to larger bronchi so they can be expelled by coughing. If these are destroyed by cigarette smoke the pollutants in the air such as carcinogenic automobile exhaust cannot be expelled by the lungs, and the individual will be more predisposed to the development of cancer. A little later these tall column-like cells become flattened like skin cells. Instead of being one layer of tall cells with cilia on them they become flattened like fried eggs and packed one on top of the other five or six deep throughout the lungs. That is why the pathology develops and not because of the inflammatory products which the medical profession is fighting.

It is unfortunate but the medical profession still thinks that it is the Immune System’s products that are causing the disease itself. Here is their thinking: "A variety of immune mechanisms occur in these (rheumatic) diseases: we are beginning to recognize and understand nutritional influences on these immune phenomena, which may become more important in the future." (Mod Nut 1472) Actually there is a complete failure to understand the real causes of disease; and disease itself. What they are trying to do is to get rid of the inflammation instead of getting rid of the cause of the inflammation.

Inflammation is a complicated process and it does many things in order to repair, defend and to heal tissues all over the body. If you cut your finger inflammation comes to your aid, and in a week or so, depending on the size of the cut, the cut will be healed. If you get a thorn in your finger, the site of the thorn becomes inflamed. If you leave it long enough the body itself pushes the thorn out. The inflammation, the exudation into the area, the white blood cells and all the inflammatory products abound. Then one day the thorn just pops out with the fluid exudate and white blood cells.

The same thing happens, but quite differently, in animals. My dog got tangled up in a cactus bed, getting not one, but hundreds of large and small needles in her. They hurt her so much she would not let me pull any out. The tiny almost microscopic ones were really bad. I would try to pull them out because they did not seem to hurt the dog as did the big ones; but they would just break off leaving only a tiny almost microscopic point so close to the skin you could not even get it with tweezers. Nothing would get those out. But Mother Nature came to "Peaches’s" rescue. There was an exudate around the spines which would not wash off easily. I bathed peaches but made sure I did not touch the spines because it would hurt me as well as Peaches. The exudate was blackish on the spine and all around it for about a quarter of an inch. I was scrutinizing every change on my dog’s skin, just wondering what would happen in dogs. I knew from experience what happens in humans. Meanwhile, Peaches did not seem to be suffering much at all. Finally, I realized that these spines were dissolving; they were shorter and did not hurt Peaches as in the beginning. So I started scratching at them a little. The black exudate and whatever was left of the spines just came off easier than dandruff. Her body rid itself of the prickly pear spines by its own exudate. She was definitely in pain when they were first stuck into her and there was no way she would let me take them out. I would have had to tie her down or anesthetize her, and as I did not want to do either I waited upon Mother Nature. Needless, to say Peaches does not go near cactus anymore.

Inflammation is a healing process. There will be heat, redness, swelling, pain, and impaired function until abrasions or cuts have healed. Would you give yourself a medication to prevent the inflammation? If you did you would be preventing the very healing process itself. If you put your hand in a fire, and it was burning your hand, would you take a medication to keep your hand in the fire? The answer is so evident that it makes you scoff. Then why can’t the medical profession see that? You don’t need drugs—you need to find causes and eliminate them; and they are not bacteria! They are in our lifestyles.

The medical profession is now thinking about manipulating diets in order to modulate the inflammatory response to injury. It is stated: The "Generation of a series of biologically active fatty acids from arachidonic acid, the prostaglandins, and leukotrienes forms another key component of the inflammatory process. Many of these processes can be affected by nutritional influences. Recent studies have focused primarily on the role of dietary fatty acids." Mod Nut 1472-73

Protaglandins and leukotrienes cause things to happen that are a part of the inflammatory process which physicians are trying to quell. Prostaglandins are any of a class of physiologically active substances that are present in many tissues causing dilation or constriction of arteries, stimulation of intestinal or bronchial smooth muscles, stimulation of the uterus, and antagonism to hormones that influence lipid metabolism. Leukotrienes are products of eicosanoid metabolism, usually in metabolizing arachidonic acid, a fatty acid. These two substances, the prostaglandins and leukotrienes are synthesized by numerous cells in our bodies including leukocytes and platelets. These products are synthesized from essential fatty acids and arachidonic acid, which may be essential to mice and rats. Both prostaglandins and leukotrienes are mediators of inflammation but we need to realize that they also perform many other important functions besides being mediators of inflammation. To quell the function of these products is to impair function in many other places in the body besides the inflammatory spot if there is one. To stifle their physiological activities by any method, be it cortisol other medication, or by diet, is damaging to say the least. These prostaglandins of the E series cause many of the pathophysiological changes in inflammation such as vasodilation, so more blood is brought to the area for nourishment and healing, this is the hyperemia (extra blood) in inflammation. Also, they cause tenderness as well as exudation around the injury. Prostaglandins, in a roundabout way though the suppressor T cells, cause an increased antibody production, at least in the laboratory.

Another thing engaging the interest of physicians is that arachidonic acid is preferentially incorporated into the phospholipids of activated lymphocytes, and arachidonic acid constitutes over 20% of the total phospholipid fatty acids of macrophages. These cells are prominent in inflammation and even more so when activated. Can you not see from this that the body, by preference wants and needs arachidonic acid to be incorporated with the phospholipids in the lymphocytes and the macrophages? It needs these in order to develop the inflammatory process. It is essential to their proper function. (Mod Nut1473) So what are they going to do? They are going to feed a diet deficient in essential fatty acids and high in Omega 3 fatty acids to take the place of arachidonic acid in the cell membrane in order to prevent the action of prostaglandins and leukotrienes, and inflammation in general from occurring!

Here the medical mentality research thinking at its best: "Diets deficient in essential fatty acids can modify the response of experimental animals to inflammatory stimuli. For example mice on a diet deficient in essential fatty acids showed a significant reduction in immune responses, both primary and secondary. Responses to both T-cell-dependent and T-cell-independent antigens were blunted. Evidence for diminution in immune response on a diet deficient in essential fatty acids was reported in F1 hybrids of New Zealand Black and New Zealand White (NZB/NZW) mice, who developed a form of glomerulonephritis, accompanied by antinuclear antibodies. Pathologically, this disease resembles the renal disease seen in human systemic lupus erythematosus. These rats uniformly die before one year of age, but litter-mates kept on a diet deficient in essential fatty acids have a much lower incidence of renal disease, and a considerably longer survival. The rats on a diet deficient in essential fatty acids showed a decreased incidence of glomerulonephritis, decreased subepidermal deposition of immunoglobulins, and decreased development of antibodies to double-stranded DNA") Mod Nut 1473.

It is almost unbelievable that the medical profession will prescribe a diet that withholds the feeding of essential fatty acids. The reason follows:

"Rats on a diet deficient in essential fatty acids show reduced experimental chronic inflammation. ("Experimental" means the inflammation was caused by something the laboratory did to the rats to cause it. Author) Adjuvant arthritis, an experimental form of inflammation that is widely used for screening drug effects, is suppressed in rats fed such a diet. Inflammatory exudate induced experimentally in these animals is decreased in quantity, and has a lower concentration of prostaglandins than in controls fed a normal diet. In another study, a diet containing evening primrose oil comprised of 9% linoleic acid and only 0.3T arachidonic acid shifted prostaglandin synthesis toward E1 from E2. In rats on this diet, the chemotactic response of polymorphonuclear leukocytes is significantly impaired." Mod Nut 1473

Can you believe this? They are really pleased that they can decrease the inflammatory response by feeding a diet deficient in the essential fatty acids. They decreased the inflammatory exudate and prostaglandins that is sorely needed under these circumstances. These diets decrease the normal chemotactic function of polymorphonuclear leukocytes These white blood cells no longer instinctively called to the site of injury as they normally are. They continue with even more ominous information.

BEWARE OF OMEGA-3 FATTY ACIDS!

"Changes in dietary fatty acids can bring about alterations of the fatty acid composition of membrane lipids. Feeding with diets high in omega-3 fatty acids results in such compounds substituting for the arachidonic acid in membrane lipids in man and laboratory animals. When stimuli result in prostaglandin formation, the resulting compounds differ from those produced from arachidonate, which are mostly of the 2 series. The omega-3 fatty acid studied most extensively is eicosapentanoic acid (EPA), WHICH IS PRESENT MAINLY IN DIETARY FISH OILS. Mod Nut 1473

Lets analyze the first sentence: "Changes in dietary fatty acids can bring about alterations of the fatty acid composition of membrane lipids." This is the worst thing that we would ever want to do! The body builds a particular kind of fatty acid in its cell membrane because of its need for that special one to maintain the correct structure of the membrane and to protect the cytoplasm and all its organelles and membranes within the cell itself. The cell membrane is one of the most important structures in the body! It prevents substances it does not need and which are therefore harmful from penetrating it. Its structure and function requires large quantities of arachidonic acid. It does require the omega-3 fatty acids! The omega-3 fatty acids are long chain polyunsaturated fats that are less stable than arachidonic acid. The omega-3 fatty acids do not prevent atherosclerosis as we have been told. Yet they still want to change the physiology of our cell membrane by feeding fish oils that were proved damaging years ago!

It is advocated that we need diets high in omega-3 fatty acids because these have been found to turn up in the cell membrane on diets lacking in arachidonic acid and essential amino acids. We should shun a diet lacking in the essential amino acids. We need them. Why take anything other than what the body really wants and needs? If it puts arachidonic acid in the cell membrane then that is what should be there. "Feeding with diets high in omega-3 fatty acids results in such compounds substituting for the arachidonic acid in membrane lipids in man and laboratory animals." People in the health field have been wrongly advising people to eat fish oils in order to get the "marvelous omega-3 fatty acids,. aka eicosapentanoic acid (EPA). This is harmful and was proven so years ago.

Recently it has been found that the most severe degree of atherosclerosis was observed in rabbits fed fish oil, with a similar trend in the linseed oil (flax) group. It has also been documented that feeding fish oils rich in omega-3 fatty acids slows down clotting time, in other words the bleeding time is increased even in Eskimos on a high fish oil diet. Other laboratories have described the dangers of omega-3 fatty acid fish oils containing 20 carbon atoms with five double bonds; and those containing 22 carbon atoms with 6 double bonds. These fish oils promote the development of cardiac necrosis (death of heart muscle cells)and an increased sensitivity to catecholamine (epinephrine and norepinephrine) stress. It has also been discovered that yellow fat disease is a result of tocopherol deficiency, which occurs only when oils rich in omega-3 polyunsaturated fats are in the diet creating a need for more Vitamin E. Yellow fat disease as a consequence of feeding omega-3 polyunsaturated fatty acids, has been observed in cats, swine, wild rabbits, Shetland ponies, rats, horses, and minks. In piglets, even excess tocopherol from administering mackerel oil cannot prevent yellow fat disease.

Now they are extolling the value of omega-3- fatty acids which in addition to kicking out arachidonic acid from the cell membrane also changes the composition of prostaglandins, as well as other structures in the body! This is definitely detrimental. It can’t be anything else.

I have stated before that the profession has always been trying to quell inflammation as if it were something damaging. Here it is from their own mouths: "Most of the drugs used in the treatment of the rheumatic diseases affect synthesis of prostaglandins. Nonsteroidal anti-inflammatory drugs inhibit a key early step in the synthesis of these compounds: the cyclo-oxygenase that converts arachidonic acid to prostaglandins. Phospholipase activity, which releases arachidonic acid from membrane lipids, is decreased by treatment with corticosteroids. Such approaches, diminishing prostaglandin formation, are more practical in patients at this time, but in the future dietary modifications may be found to be a safe and effective means of altering the responsiveness of the cells involved in the inflammatory process. Alterations in fatty acid content of the diet, such as supplementation with eicosapentanoic acid, could by reducing the synthesis of prostaglandins, offer a novel and nontoxic approach to the modulation of a chronic inflammatory response." Mod Nut 1474

Putting people on fatty acid deficient diets may be a novel approach to the "modulation" of a chronic inflammatory response, but it certainly is not a nontoxic way. We the people who want freedom for all so strongly that we go to war for it are not willing to give our God-given bodies any freedom to function the way it was supposed to! We always want a cure! We want to modulate inflammation! We want to get rid of the pain and disease quickly. It is sad but we are in too much of a hurry to wait upon the natural healing capacities of the body. Our bodies are struggling to be free from toxins, medications, poison habits, and dead food yet we keep forcing these noxious, poisonous and pernicious substances upon it. When we feel the rebellion of our own bodies, then we poison it still more. Is that sanity?

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