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he once needed to keep his test results in check. AH that just from changing what he ate.
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Common Inflammatory Diseases of Arteries
Aortic aneurysms
Bowel and other infarctions
Claudication (legs)
Degenerative disks of the spine
Gangrene
Hearing loss
Heart attacks
Impotence
Kidney failure
Macular degeneration
Strokes
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S TAR M C D OUGALLER:
Juliea Baker, College Student, Bay Area, California
One morning when I was 15 years old I awoke with severe jaw pain. My doctor found no reason for it, and the pain disappeared as mysteriously as it began. Soon one shoulder was sore. Then the other. Again, the pain left. When it came raging back in my knees, my mom took me to the pediatrician. A year into my illness, the doctor put me on medication. By the following Christmas my knuckles were so swollen I could not get a size 10 ring over them. It hurt just to shake hands. I became depressed.
As my rheumatoid factor spiked and antibody markers rose, my doctor diagnosed juvenile rheumatoid arthritis. My body was on the attack—against itself. He prescribed a low dose of the cancer drug methotrexate to suppress my immune system. As I researched the drug I was so frightened by its side effects I refused to take it. Mom agreed.
Mom and I happened to be reading a book on veganism at the time,
The Kind Diet,
by Alicia Silverstone. The book referenced several doctors who believed arthritis could be cured through diet, among them Dr. John McDougall. My mother e-mailed him and he replied, recommending articles and books to read and a diet eliminating all meat, dairy, eggs, wheat, and soy. He said I should expect to feel better in about 4 months.
Within 2 months I felt 90 percent better. The pain was gone except for slight swelling in my knuckles. When soreness returned, Dr. McDougall encouraged examining my food more closely. My mom finally found the culprit: a packaged food I ate for breakfast that contained egg whites. It turns out that, for me, eggs and dairy trigger joint pain and inflammation overnight.
I now know firsthand that rheumatoid arthritis can be cured through diet. Were it not for the starch-based diet Dr. McDougall recommends, I would be suffering with terrible pain and disfigured joints, and taking a horribly toxic drug that might have destroyed my liver. Instead, I am a healthy 18-year-old college student, living a joy-filled life with a bright, healthy future in front of me.
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S PONTANEOUS H EALING FROM I NFLAMMATORY A RTHRITIS
Juliea, above, suffered from the hot, swollen, painful joints characteristic of inflammatory arthritis. As her immune system was compromised through years of eating a diet based on animal foods and vegetable oils, it should be no surprise that changing her diet improved her condition. That the improvement came so quickly—within just a few days—attests to the powerful effect of what we eat on the way we feeland the spontaneous healing performed by a healthy body.
When the animal proteins were eliminated from Juliea’s diet, her body immediately stopped producing the antibodies that were attacking her joints. I’ve seen it over and over again. The result is almost instant relief from pain and swelling. The body continues to heal, with the painful inflammation beginning to subside within 4 to 7 days. Within 4 months of avoiding free oils (oils that have been separated from the foods that originally contained them), like olive and corn oil, and eliminating animal foods from the diet, more than 70 percent of people with inflammatory arthritis are dramatically improved or cured altogether.
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Common Autoimmune Diseases
Ankylosing spondylitis
Crohn’s disease
Dermatomyositis
Diabetes (type 1)
Lupus
Multiple sclerosis
Nonspecific inflammatory arthritis
Pernicious anemia
Polymyositis
Psoriasis
Psoriatic
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Common Inflammatory Diseases of Arteries
Aortic aneurysms
Bowel and other infarctions
Claudication (legs)
Degenerative disks of the spine
Gangrene
Hearing loss
Heart attacks
Impotence
Kidney failure
Macular degeneration
Strokes
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S TAR M C D OUGALLER:
Juliea Baker, College Student, Bay Area, California
One morning when I was 15 years old I awoke with severe jaw pain. My doctor found no reason for it, and the pain disappeared as mysteriously as it began. Soon one shoulder was sore. Then the other. Again, the pain left. When it came raging back in my knees, my mom took me to the pediatrician. A year into my illness, the doctor put me on medication. By the following Christmas my knuckles were so swollen I could not get a size 10 ring over them. It hurt just to shake hands. I became depressed.
As my rheumatoid factor spiked and antibody markers rose, my doctor diagnosed juvenile rheumatoid arthritis. My body was on the attack—against itself. He prescribed a low dose of the cancer drug methotrexate to suppress my immune system. As I researched the drug I was so frightened by its side effects I refused to take it. Mom agreed.
Mom and I happened to be reading a book on veganism at the time,
The Kind Diet,
by Alicia Silverstone. The book referenced several doctors who believed arthritis could be cured through diet, among them Dr. John McDougall. My mother e-mailed him and he replied, recommending articles and books to read and a diet eliminating all meat, dairy, eggs, wheat, and soy. He said I should expect to feel better in about 4 months.
Within 2 months I felt 90 percent better. The pain was gone except for slight swelling in my knuckles. When soreness returned, Dr. McDougall encouraged examining my food more closely. My mom finally found the culprit: a packaged food I ate for breakfast that contained egg whites. It turns out that, for me, eggs and dairy trigger joint pain and inflammation overnight.
I now know firsthand that rheumatoid arthritis can be cured through diet. Were it not for the starch-based diet Dr. McDougall recommends, I would be suffering with terrible pain and disfigured joints, and taking a horribly toxic drug that might have destroyed my liver. Instead, I am a healthy 18-year-old college student, living a joy-filled life with a bright, healthy future in front of me.
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S PONTANEOUS H EALING FROM I NFLAMMATORY A RTHRITIS
Juliea, above, suffered from the hot, swollen, painful joints characteristic of inflammatory arthritis. As her immune system was compromised through years of eating a diet based on animal foods and vegetable oils, it should be no surprise that changing her diet improved her condition. That the improvement came so quickly—within just a few days—attests to the powerful effect of what we eat on the way we feeland the spontaneous healing performed by a healthy body.
When the animal proteins were eliminated from Juliea’s diet, her body immediately stopped producing the antibodies that were attacking her joints. I’ve seen it over and over again. The result is almost instant relief from pain and swelling. The body continues to heal, with the painful inflammation beginning to subside within 4 to 7 days. Within 4 months of avoiding free oils (oils that have been separated from the foods that originally contained them), like olive and corn oil, and eliminating animal foods from the diet, more than 70 percent of people with inflammatory arthritis are dramatically improved or cured altogether.
----
Common Autoimmune Diseases
Ankylosing spondylitis
Crohn’s disease
Dermatomyositis
Diabetes (type 1)
Lupus
Multiple sclerosis
Nonspecific inflammatory arthritis
Pernicious anemia
Polymyositis
Psoriasis
Psoriatic
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