Imuran Tablet size: 50 mg Usual dose: variable Effective within: six weeks to six months Azathioprine was initially introduced as a form of cancer chemotherapy and is still being used for that purpose. It is also used to prevent rejection in organ transplant recipients. It was the first immunosuppressant to be approved by the FDA [...]
Can the NSAIDs (non-steroidal anti-inflammatory drugs) ruin my kidneys? This is particularly true of people who have bad kidneys to begin with. The elderly, the dehydrated, and those taking drugs that cause dehydration are all at risk of encountering problems with these drugs. There is some evidence that the NSAIDs can lower the filtering capacity [...]
When a research associate of the San Diego Clinic found the report, he immediately recognized its potential. Intense research on arthritis by that group had been ongoing for several years, spurred on in part by the personal interest of the clinic’s director who himself was suffering from very severe osteoarthritis in both knees. It wouldn’t [...]
The cure for arthritis – you’d think we were after the holy grail or something. It seemed so incredibly difficult and elusive. After all, medical science has been searching for it for centuries with nothing more to show than a few pain relievers and anti-inflammatory drugs. Nothing before even came close to being a cure. [...]
Some of the information that follows may be a bit complex for the average reader However, I am including these details because many people seek advice about CMO from their physicians. Altogether too often they’ve been told that them is nothing that could accomplish what CMO achieves, and that there is no “science” behind it. [...]
It is important to note that this very same process occurs with virtually all diseases that have autoimmune factors. It is often the crippling factor in neurological diseases like multiple sclerosis, Alzheimer’s, Parkinson’s, ALS, polyneuropathy, and other demyelinating diseases. In these diseases, instead of cartilage it is nerve or brain tissue that is being attacked [...]
Now what if you could get in there and somehow intervene or interrupt that vicious chain of events? Shouldn’t that halt the arthritic process, stopping it dead in its tracks? Absolutely-regardless of whether it’s rheumatoid or osteoarthritis! However, there are no conventional pharmaceuticals that can safely alter the process that is causing the attacks against [...]