Arthritic patients have been referred to as "the most neglected segment of the medical population." The fact that this disease has not been readily produced in experimental animals has been a drawback to understanding it. One strain of mice spontaneously develops an illness similar to arthritis; and a high-protein diet delays its onset and decreases its severity. An abnormality simulating arthritis has been produced in rats deficient in pantothenic acid, and the amount of vitamin C in the blood of these animals becomes extremely low. If vitamin C is given them in huge quantities, it markedly delays the onset of the "arthritis"; pantothenic acid completely prevents or corrects it.
Arthritis has been produced in rats by injections of formaldehyde and in vitamin-C-deficient guinea pigs by injections of bacteria, both of which are forms of stress; the rats were protected if given massive amounts of vitamin. E and the guinea pigs by vitamin C. Rats kept on a diet low in calcium and high in phosphorus have developed arthritis, which was. corrected when twice as much calcium as phosphorus was given them.
If experimental or farm animals are undersupplied with magnesium, calcium is laid down in the soft tissues, a condition that is corrected soon after magnesium is given them. In rats deficient in vitamin E, the calcium content of the soft tissues increases as much as 500 per cent. Both of these nutrients, therefore, may be important in helping people with osteoarthritis-osteo means bone-like-and in removing spurs.
The most persons with arthritis have been under severe stress before the onset of the illness; that their diets are appallingly deficient in many respects; and that the level of vitamins in their blood, particularly vitamin C and pantothemc acid, extremely low. Human volunteers deficient in vitamin B6 have developed sore joints similar to mild arthritis, a condition corrected soon after the vitamin was given them. When several arthritic patients received 25 milligrams of pantothenic acid daily as their only dietary improvement, some experienced a decrease or disappearance of pain and stiffness within two weeks.
Arthritis remained a mystery until it was shown that remarkable results were obtained when cortisone was given. Obviously, if the body were producing all the cortisone it needed, further cortisone could bring no improvement. Such results indicated that persons with arthritis were in the exhaustion stage of the stress reaction ; and that their pituitary and/or adrenal glands could no longer function normally. Persons frequently believe that when arthritic spurs have formed or joints are cemented together, as are the vertebrae in spondylitis, nothing can be done.
When Medication is Given
No nutrient interferes in any way with cortisone, ACTH, or aspirin therapy. Each of these medications increases the need for vitamin C, and aspirin especially destroys huge quantities of it. The "side effects" of cortisone therapy such as ulcers, pancreatitis, demineralized bones, and diabetic-like symptoms are far less severe when pantothenic acid is generously supplied; and if ACTH is given without simultaneously increasing pantothenic acid, the adrenal glands can be severely damaged. Since 10,000 milligrams (10 grams) of pantothenic acid have been given daily with only good results, there need be no fear of taking too much. After an adequate diet has stimulated the natural hormone production, medication is rarely needed.
A diet low in salt and unusually high in protein and all the B vitamins greatly decreases the toxic effects of cortisone.W hen cortisone is taken, salt (sodium) and pounds of water are held in the tissues and a potassium deficiency is produced. In rats a lack of potassium causes the adrenals to become severely damaged. The retained fluid both presses against the sore joints and causes the blood pressure to increase. If several I-gram tablets of : potassium chloride (15 grains each) are taken throughout:the day, sodium and water are excreted and the blood pressure usually decreases. The quantity of potassium needed varies with the amounts of cortisone taken and of water retained.
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