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Accurate diagnosis and effective treatment of the causes of any illness is essential to ensure a sufferers full recovery. Conventional Arthritis treatments generally compromise by relieving physical symptoms only, which are secondary to a primary cause.

Müller (11) details therapeutic options commonly employed by the international medical fraternity in the treatment of rheumatic disorders. Many of the conventional drug and physical treatments reviewed do not deal with the underlying causes of arthritis.

i.e. the physical, emotional and pathogenic factors which are responsible for further progress of the illness have not been identified and dealt with. The sufferer is left in a highly painful and chronic state of degenerative illness.


Currey (10) suggests the causes of Osteoarthritis are unclear and may be of either a pathological nature or simply due to age related changes in the human body. Brewerton (10) hypostulates that reactive arthritis may be related to an inherited antigen which occurs in 7-10 percent of the white population. Bames (10) simply remarks that the cause of Rheumatoid Arthritis is unknown.


Within the context of this Study precise conclusions relating to the causes of Arthritis in humans is impossible. However, the Study data suggests that:

1. Systemic toxicity may contribute to the development of arthritis in susceptible individuals. The HLB blood tests reveal:

ninety percent of the study volunteers were suffering from severe liver stress

one hundred percent of the study volunteers were suffering from overloaded detoxification pathways (lymph, colon)

accumulated heavy metal toxicity (ranging severity) was evident in seventy percent of the study volunteers. Likely sources of these accumulations may be a polluted living or work environment and/or long term consumption of contaminated food and drink.

2. Functional disorders and weaknesses in the endocrine system were common in the study volunteers (HLB tests):

seventy-nine percent were suffering from acute hormonal imbalance, eighty-nine percent were suffering from adrenal exhaustion (ranging severity), eighty-five percent from allergy/sensitivity.

Assuming the Study Groups were representative of the Australian arthritic population, a valid assertion may be:

The underlying causes of Arthritis in humans will be related to human "stress factors" contributing to the Arthritic Syndrome as defined by the Study blood tests.

i.e. anything which can cause chronic systemic toxaemia in humans may also contribute to the development of arthritis in susceptible individuals.

The current stresses of living in our modern community accelerate the degenerative processes normally associated with ageing. These stresses prematurely reduce the body's immune response to infection and the competency of the digestive system to cope with the overprocessed/contaminated foods which are customarily consumed in excess by the general community.

Major accumulations of systemic toxin giving rise to lactic and/or uric acidosis in Arthritics may result from food intolerance in an undernourished stress weakened system. Endotoxins from smouldering mixed infections in a weakened host or any other factors listed in Figure 6 may also add to the toxic load thereby contributing to the development of such illnesses as Arthritis [Study findings], Cancer [Poehmann (6)], Chronic Fatigue Syndrome [Rosenbaum (12)] and others depending on the hereditary weaknesses of each affected individual.

Therapy leading to general detoxification and strengthening of any arthritic sufferer is therefore highly recommended.

Sufferers of Arthritis should eliminate or moderate the degree of all "external stress factors" (Figure 6) in their lifestyles, especially those relating to diet. Each patient should be assessed for the presence and severity of all "internal stress factors" by an experienced and qualified Medical Practitioner and/or Alternative Medical Practitioner and an effective program of curative treatment implemented until the patient is well.




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Figure 6. Possible Causative Factors Contributing to Arthritis in Humans

1. External "Stress Factors"
a) Poor Diet - long term consumption of "junk" food, processed or contaminated food, food intolerance.
b) Stressful Lifestyle - overwork, lack of adequate rest and exercise.
c) Long Term Emotional Problems - domestic problems with spouse and family etc.
d) Drug Abuse, Alcoholism.
e) Polluted living or working environment.

2. Internal "Stress Factors"
a) Accumulated heavy metal toxicity - i.e. resulting from over exposure to lead, mercury, aluminium etc. used in industry, cooking, dentistry (amalgam fillings - Godfrey (13)).
b) Accumulated chemical toxicity - i.e. resulting from exposure to chemicals, pesticides and sprays used in agriculture and industry,
c) Mixed infection syndrome - i.e. recurring viral infections such as Glandul& Fever, chronic bacterial and fungal infections such as Staphylococcus, Candida Albicans, etc.
d) Susceptible or weak hereditary constitution. i.e. everyone in my family has it, so I've got it too".
e) Old Age - normal age related degenerative changes in the human body.
f) Accumulated drug related toxicity - resulting from over treatment with medicinal drugs.