Arthritis can no longer be viewed as a disease associated with senior citizens. Although the incidence does increase with years, it can affect women at any age, including during childhood. In fact, nearly three out of every five people with arthritis are under age 65.
According to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), arthritis is the number one cause of disability in the US, affecting 43 million men and women. And they predict that number will rise to 60 million by 2020.
Fortunately, having arthritis doesn't have to mean the beginning of the end if you enjoy physical activities. Here's how you can ease the pain if you already have arthritis, and possibly lower your risk of developing it if you don't.
Lignisul MSM™ (MethylSulfonylMethane) is a naturally-occurring sulfur compound found in our bodies as well as in many common beverages and foods, including milk, coffee, tea and green vegetables. In its purified chemical form, it is an odorless, white, water soluble crystalline solid. It is a natural based product derived from certain trees and is one of the least toxic substances in biology, similar in toxicity to water.
Some of sulfur's essential functions include maintaining structure of the proteins in the body, helping the formation of keratin which is essential for hair and nail growth, aiding in the production of immunoglobulin which maintains the immune system and catalyzing the chemical reactions which change food into energy.
Lignisul MSM temporarily relieves joint stiffness. It is widely used by athletes to reduce soreness and pain associated with injuries, strained or cramped muscles and over-extended joints.
CMO™ (cerasomal-cis-9-cetylmyristoleate), developed at the San Diego International Immunological Center, directed by Dr. Len Sands, is neither an immunosuppressant, nor an immunostimulant; it is an immunomodulator, the only immunomodulator available today to correct the memory T/cells in autoimmune conditions. It is a naturally derived substance (naturally associated Bovine fatty acids) that has received the highest safety level attainable by certified independent laboratory LD-50 testing. Designed to protect and support healthy joints, tendons, ligaments, cartilage, muscles, connective tissue and bones.
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For Stiff and Painful Joints
SUGGESTED USE: As a dietary supplement, for normal daily maintenance, on an empty stomach, take 1 caplet before breakfast and 2 caplets at bedtime. For overly stiff and painful joints, muscles, tendons, etc., take 3 caplets, on an empty stomach three times daily. As symptoms subside, decrease to normal daily maintenance.
First 30 days: Absolutely avoid alcohol, coffee, black tea, sodas, chocolate and greasy foods which will impede effects of product. To improve benefits, add ActiVin® OPC 50™, Assimilator™ to your daily intake and drink plenty of Alka-Line Coral Calcium™ treated water .
KEEP OUT OF CHILDREN'S REACH.
STORE IN COOL, DRY PLACE
Serving Size: 1 Caplet/1450 mg
Caplets Per Bottle 90
Amount
per Serving % Daily Value
MSM Lignisul™ (MethylSulfonylMethane) 750 mg *
CMO™ (Cerasomal-cis-9-cetylmyristoleate)
from (naturally associated Bovine fatty acids) 250 mg *
Propreitary Blend 450 mg *
Di-calcium Phosphate, Coral Calcium Basic pH +™ Ca:Mg=2:1 Powder, Glucosamine Sulfate
Percent Daily Values based on 2000 calorie Diet.
* Daily value not established
Other ingredients: Magnesium stearate, vegetable coating.
Arthritis and Autoimmune Diseases
Following are excerpts reprinted from a memo released by Dr. Len Sands, Director of the San Diego International Immunological Center
The Arthritis Process Step-By-Step with CMO™ Intervention
1. Infection, trauma, or excessive wear affects some joints. (Usual infections are rheumatic fever, flue, or bacteria. Traumas are auto wrecks, falls, sports injuries, etc. Excessive joint wear comes from being overweight, or from repetitive use of keyboards, jackhammers, etc.)
2. #1 causes damaged or infected cartilage particles to become dislodged. This happens regardless of whether it's "osteo" or "rheumatoid" or "reactive" arthritis.
3. Macrophages of the immune system begin cleanup of dislodged cartilage particles.
4. Macrophages report their activities to dormant memory T-cells (m/T-cells).
5. Dormant m/T-cells programs activate and develop aggressive anti-cartilage cleanup programs, which do not distinguish between healthy and damaged cartilage.
6. The m/T-cells programs stimulate more macrophage activity, which in turn activates even more dormant m/T-cells.
7. Increased m/T-cell population stimulates even more macrophage activity, and the self-perpetuating cycle of cartilage destruction expands. Because m/T-cell programs don't limit macrophage activity to damaged cartilage only, destuction of healthy cartilage also occurs. It has developed into a destructive autoimmune process. But, until sufficient cartilage has been destroyed, symptoms are not evident. The initiating factor (infection, trauma, or wear) may have disappeard months or even years ago, but the destructive autoimmune process remains active. It is self-perpetuating and no longer dependent upon the initiating factor.
8. The cycle is compounded by the fact that the mechanism which should deactivate certain m/T-cells (those that have completed their mission) fails to function. The constant restimulation of the m/T-cells keeps them active. So now there is an overabundance of m/T-cells propelling macrophage cartilage destruction. The immune system is totally out of control and massive cartilage destruction begins. Early symptoms of pain and inflammation appear.
9. Cartilage destruction accelerates. The cycle reaches critical mass. Macrophages are now scouring the body to find and destroy any cartilage anywhere it can be found. Symptoms become more severe. Pain, inflammation, and joint deformity appear at new sites as they suffer macrophage attacks.
10. Symptoms of pain, stiffness, swelling, nodules, and deformation often reach intolerable and crippling levels - especially as joint cartilage disappears and bone-on-bone erosion occurs. Conventional arthritis medications take their toll on the liver, kidneys, and heart. Normal life span is often shortened by up to ten or twenty years from both the ravages of arthritis and medication side effects.
11. By deactivating the m/T-cells, CMO™ INTERVENTION (the sooner the better) can stop the autoimmune process at any point.
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Dr. Len Sands, PhD, is the clinic director of the San Diego Immunological Center and the author of the books Arthritis Defeated at Last - the REAL Arthritis Cure and Arthritis Beaten Today, which have been translated into five languages so far, including Chinese. He is currently writing other books on arthritis, cancer, and viral diseases.
After ten years working on classified government projects, Dr. Sands began his direct active participation in clinical matters in 1970, as an associate of Manhattan Fifth Avenue Clinic in New York City. Within the next four years, he opened and became the owner and director of six medical clinics, as well as acquiring Southland General Hospital in Texas. Later, he opened two medical clinics in Mexico. He became involved in medical research projects concerning autoimmune diseases, viral diseases, diabetes, and cancer.
By the mid-1980s, he was thoroughly disillusioned by the limitations of conventional medicine and spent ten years traveling the world researching innovative therapies involving both conventional and alternative medicines, especially seeking those which were documented by exacting clinical trials in the major European countries. He also explored many unconventional as well as documented therapies in various Asian, Middle Eastern, Latin American, and Oceanic countries.
As clinical director of the San Diego Immunological Center, he encourages his researchers and medical staff to specialize in what he calls "curing the incurable" - diseased for which convetional medicine offers no hope of true remedy. Curing the Incurable was the title of a one-hour interactive weekly radio program Dr. Sands hosted in 1997.
Early in his career, he produced scientific and marketing material for industrial corporations, as well as for Parke-Davis and the pharmaceutical division of the Dow Chemical Company, among others.
It was Dr. Sands' own bone-grinding arthritis that prompted him to relentlessly prod his research associates into finally finding a lasting cure for arthritis. The research resulted in the development of the world's first and only true immunomodulator, a naturally occurring substance that is expected to impact the course of medical history. It certainly is changing the way autoimmune diseases will be treated in the future. That discovery, CMO™ (cerasomal-cis-9-cetylmyristoleate) in 1995, is now proving to be of great value for numerous other incurable diseases with strong autoimmune factor ailments like multiple sclerosis, fibromyalgia, lupus, ALS (Lou Gehrig's Disease), emphysema, Crohn's disease, scleroderma, sarcoidosis, and myasthenia gravis among others. It is also relieving or curing ankylosing spondylitis, psoriasis, carpal tunnel syndrome, prostate inflammation, Sjogren's syndrome, TMJ, Behcet's syndrome, macular degeneration, Reiter's syndrome, sciatica, tendonitis, and more - all of which have strong autoimmune components. CMO™ is now being used to treat autoimmune diseases on every continent in the world. Its phenomenal success with these diseases uncovers more options and the research goes on. Nothing could please Dr. Sands more, including the continuing research and clinical studies on even more diverse incurable diseases.
Therapies using CMO™ combined with the proper supportive nutritional products and proper diet for a minimum of the first 30 days have been proven to be beneficial for all autoimmune diseases like those mentioned above, plus muscular dystrophy, chronic fatigue syndrome, Alzheimer's, Parkinson's, Raynaud's, hypertension, and heart and vascular diseases, as well as ridding the body of conditions caused by environmental, dental amalgam, medicinal, chemical, metallic, and other toxins.
CMO™ is the world's first and only true adaptogenic autoimmune immunomodulator. CMO™ is not an immunosuppressant or an immunostimulant. CMO™ is considered "adaptogenic", meaning: it is capable of altering the course of a disease, because of its corrective and restorative immunomodulatory properites for autoimmune diseases and inflammatory processes. Other so-called "immunomodulators" are not. They function as immunosuppressants or immunostimulants. They are capable of one principle action, either temporarily suppressing or stimulating immune function, not correcting or restoring it. CMO™, on the other hand, permanently corrects the programmed autoimmune attacks controlled by the memory T-cell (m/T-cells) themselves. That is why a single 30-day CMO™ therapy program of three 90 caplet bottles (270 caplets) ordinarily lasts indefinitely without any need to repeat the therapy or use any additional medications of any kind thereafter. To maintain protection against autoimmune diseases, one 90 caplet bottle per month is recommended with the necessary supporting nutritional products.
Some practitioners have theorized that, in the case of arthritis for example, CMO™ merely acts upon pain receptors at the arthritic site. It that were so, their theory cannot explain why CMO™ has the following effects:
1. It benefits virtually any and all ailments associated with autoimmune diseases.
2. It lowers blood sedimentation in lupus patients.
3.It relieves certain symptoms of multiple sclerosis.
4. It reverses lung inflammation in emphsema.
5. It lowers the need for insulin in diabetics.
6. It reverses prostate inflammation.
7. It corrects Crohn's disease.
8. It reverses fibromyalgia.
9. It improves the health of ALS (Lou Gehrig's Disease) patients.
10. It lowers high blood pressure, yet elevates low blood pressure.
Obviously, CMO™ is a general remedial immunomodulator that acts upon the memory T-cells, which control the autoimmune processes within our bodies. It is also important to understand the CMO™ acts only upon memory T-cells and does not inhibit the activities of any of the several other types of T-cells that are responsible for combating infective microorganisms or invading substances. Unlike the immunosuppressants commonly used to try to temporarily control the symptoms of autoimmune diseases, CMO™ does not leave the body vulnerable to attack by disease-causing agents. Nor does it inhibit the body's resistance to tumor formation, as do the dangerous new tumor necrosis factor (TNF) suppressants of some new arthritis drugs.
Authentic CMO™, as reasearched and developed by the San Diego Immunological Center is the primary ingredient in our HTN product,
Dr. Jeff's Joint Health™ - a link to which can be found on our Products page.
Dr. Jeff's Joint Health™ which combines CMO™, Lignisul™ MSM, and Glucosamine Blend was developed using the combined research of Dr. Sands, Dr. Grange, Dr. Bennert, and a host of other professionals, who collectively believe this is the most effective combination of ingredients available on the market today to combat and prevent autoimmune disfunctions. It is important to follow the directions. Take 3 bottles, 90 count each, totalling 270 caplets in the first 30 days, three upon waking, one hour before eating, three one hour before lunch, and three before dinner. Dr. Jeff's Joint Cream™ will help to curb immediate pain and those dull aches. For full effectiveness you must follow the recommended diet for the first 30 days, and on an ongoing basis supplement the Dr. Jeff's Joint Health™ combination by drinking 1 1/2 quarts of Alka-Line™ Coral Calcium treated distilled water daily. You should also supplement this program by taking Assimilator™, enzymes and minerals, Omega 3/60+ with Shark Liver Oil, bioflavonoids like ActiVin® OPC 50, and Nature's SBO's (soil-based organisms). (All of these ingredients come packaged together to save you money in HTN's Pak-of-Life Plus More.)
After 30 days, you can return to your normal diet. But to maintain your health on a monthly basis, we recommend one bottle of Dr. Jeff's Joint Health™ and a monthly supply of the other support ingredients mentioned above. Prevention of autoimmune diseases is what we all should strive to achieve. Cleanse, Nourish, and Balance Your Body so it can heal itself Naturally!
San Diego International Immunological Center (SDC) is a research and treatment facility and does not sell or benefit from the sale of CMO™ or any other product. We do, of course, dispense CMO™ and the supporting nutritionals to subjects enrolled in our studies and to clinic patients who may be part of our diagnosis and treatment programs. CMO™ counterfeiters seem to show up every week. Most are hit and run artists and quickly disappear. CMO™ is made in 6%, 11%, 40%, 50%, 80%, and 100%. It is difficult and confusing to know if youi have found the real 100% authentic CMO™ source or some ineffectivbe imitation.
The reliable sourse for 100% authentic CMO™, Lignisul™ MSM, and Glucosamine Blend of Dr. Jeff's Joint Health™, Dr. Jeff's Joint Cream™ and the recommended support nutritionals is: Health Thru Nutrition - HTN. (This website is a retail outlet for HTN nutritionals exclusively. Use the "Our Products" link on the upper left of this page. This website also provides the means for becoming a member and receiving significant discounts and other benefits of membership - check the Discounts link at the upper left of this page.)
NOTE: This document is supplied for information and educational purposes only. It is not intended to recommend or prescribe any treatment for any condition or illness. Contact a doctor or medical professional who is trained in natural nutritional supplements before adding any new protocol or when starting any health or exercise program.
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