Join us as we explore what is arthritis... and what science has recently discovered about how to prevent and reverse arthritis. You can be completely pain free again.

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Arthritis is: Joint Inflammation... and it is the leading cause of disability in the United States, affecting one in every six Americans. More than one hundred diseases are categorized as arthritis: Osteoarthritis, Rheumatoid arthritis, Ankylosing Spondylitis, Bursitis, Fibromyalgia, Gout, Infectious arthritis, Juvenile rheumatoid arthritis, Psoriatic arthritis, Reactive arthritis, Scleroderma, Systemic lupus erythematosus (SLE), Tendinitis (tendonitis), etc.

Risk factors for developing arthritis are:

• Age - people who are 40 years of age have a much higher risk.
• Gender - two-thirds of arthritis sufferers are women.
• Weight - heavyset people are much more likely to get arthritis.
• Injuries - a past injury to a joint adds to arthritis risk.
• Ethnicity - Caucasians are 2.5 times more likely than African-Americans to develop rheumatoid arthritis

The alternative viewpoint (alternative to medical viewpoint) is that arthritis is “friendly fire on joints”; in other words, the body has begun attacking its own joint tissues. It is a bit like the flock of chickens who attacks one of the chickens in the flock because it looks funny and pecks it to death. The body’s immune system often has a similar reason—namely that the tissue it is attacking looks “funny”. More specifically, the immune system believes the joint tissue is a foreign enemy and must be destroyed.

Why the immune system would come to the conclusion that the joint tissue is an enemy that must be destroyed is the great question. In its answer, we will also find the way to overcome arthritis.

The answer is that foreign elements have intermingled with the joint tissue.

During the Vietnam war, American soldiers would often realize that North Vietnamese fighters had intermingled with ordinary South Vietnamese villagers. It would become very difficult to identify the good guys from the bad guys and sometimes innocent people would be killed while trying to kill the enemy combatants. One of the facts of war is that often during combat there is collateral damage of killing innocent people while trying to kill the bad guys.

This is essentially what arthritis is. It is an attack directed at bad guys within our body that does collateral damage to our own good, natural tissue.

Now, let’s look at how foreign elements (the bad guys) can intermingle with our own natural tissue and stimulate an immune system attack against both the bad guys and our natural tissue.

A primary source of foreign elements within the body is poor digestion coupled with leaky gut (perforations in the intestines) which allows partially digested food particles to enter the blood stream improperly where they appear to be “enemies” and cause the immune system to attack them.

The immune’s system job is to destroy foreign proteins (enemies such as bacteria and bacterial toxins and virus). One of the body’s instinctive means of dealing with foreign elements that get into the blood stream is imprison the foreign material within prisons of fat, fluid or plaque. Often the body will choose joint areas and build plaque prisons there. This creation of prisons for partially digested food particle enemies is one of the major causes of arthritic enlargement of joints.

Even worse than enlarging our joints... after plaque prisons have been built, the immune system will often attacks then commence at attack against the foreign material in the prison... with collateral damage (inflammation of the joint tissue). This is the primary cause of arthritis—friendly fire on joints... caused by foreign proteins in the body cause by poor digestion.

Other sources of foreign elements within the body include environmental chemicals, heavy metals or allergens. All of these can be imprisoned within joints... starting the inflammation processed described above... wherein the immune system attacks.

Successful treatment of arthritis (as opposed to masking symptoms) always includes dealing with the root cause—a hyperactive immune system that is attacking foreign elements that have intermingled with joint tissue. In the alternative viewpoint, if we stop the root cause of arthritis and can calm down the immune system we can stop and then reverse the arthritis condition. (Note that the medical community does not believe that eliminating poor digestion of food can help, but we do.)

CREATING AN IMMUNE SYSTEM CEASE FIRE

Since Arthritis is an autoimmune condition... enticing the immune system to enter a cease-fire... where it no longer seeks to destroy the enemies within our joints... is a very useful effort for VERY RAPIDLY STOPPING ARTHRITIS SYMPTOMS. This coupled with removing undigested food particle and other toxins from the body provide the best chance of long term relief.

Some natural healing practitioners have called arthritis the most easily cured disease of all. We won’t go so far as to say that, but we will state that education and seeking to alleviate root causes is a wise course for anyone to follow who is suffering from arthritis. Here are what the alternative doctors at the Advanced Center for Medicine in California believe are effective courses of action for arthritis sufferers:

Natural ways to help your body heal itself.

1. Collastin & Collastin Support
2. The Eight Day Digestive System Cleanse
3. Digestive Enzymes

87% of arthritis sufferers have gained significant relief of their symptoms from Collastin.

Arthritis is often reversible through a modern discovery that is like WD40 for human joints and like coolant for a hyperactive autoimmune system...

• Collastin, a mixture of cetyl myristoleate and other fatty acid esters has proven to be an 87% (in combination with Collastin Support) effective arthritis treatment
• It is a lubricant for joints and arteries
• It is an anti-inflammatory
• It is an immune system regulator
• It comes with up to a 100-day money-back guarantee

How and Why of Collastin:

First of all, let’s discuss why you won’t hear about Collastin from your physician. The reason is that natural products like Collastin cannot be patented, so the pharmaceutical industry is not interested in them. There’s no big money in Collastin because anyone can make Collastin since its components are naturally occurring. Without the money motive... unless your physician considers alternative solutions—he or she will never even learn about Collastin.

Next, let’s state what Collastin is and how it came to be. Collastin is a mixture of fatty acid esters—the primary ester being cetyl myristoleate. Cetyl myristoleate was discovered in 1964 by a forty year old man named Harry W. Diehl, a researcher and chemist working for the Institute of Arthritis, Metabolic, and Digestive Diseases.

Discovering that a certain species of mice was immune to efforts to induce arthritis in the mice, Mr. Diehl worked to discover what gave mice their immunity to arthritis and discovered it in cetyl myristoleate. Rather than chopping up mice to get a quantity of this amazing molecule, Harry learned to make it in the laboratory. He approached the pharmaceutical industry with his discovery... but they weren’t interested... because cetyl myristoleate occurs in nature and hence cannot be patented. That ended Harry’s interest in cetyl myristoleate until 1991 when Harry, himself, developed arthritis...

When Harry’s doctor floored him with the verdict about his joint pain, “Nothing can be done”, Harry remembered cetyl myristoleate, made up a new batch after all those years and within 90 days was 100% free of arthritis pain. In 1994, he published his research in the Journal of Pharmaceutical Sciences. Since then two clinical studies have been carried out with approximately 500 patients with various forms of arthritis. Using Collastin, over 64 percent of the persons involved showed significant improvement. And, combining Collastin with Collastin Support, 87 percent showed improvement. In one of the trials it was noted that those who failed to respond had liver disfunction. Harry’s research showed that the liver was a storage or processing center for cetyl myristoleate... meaning that liver disfunction would indeed interfere with the action of Collastin. By improving liver function first, it appears possible to achieve nearly 100% arthritis improvement. That’s why a 100-day guarantee is offered to those purchasing Collastin and Collastin Support.

Collastin Support is a mixture of helpful anti-inflammatory and joint support nutritionals. It includes for instance, Glucosamine hydrochloride (better than glucosamine sulfate), manganese (component of synovial fluid), Esterified Vitamin C (important for production of Collagen), Boswellin™ (African & Indian frankincense) and Sea Cucumber (regulates inflammation) and zinc (required for connective tissue metabolism).

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Collastin and Collastin Support Are Very Helpful with the Following:

1. Osteoarthritis. This is a slow, progressive degeneration of the cartilage found between the ends of the bones, particularly in the weight-bearing joints like the hips and knees; but also in joints used extensively such as hands and fingers. Using Collastin and Collastin Support, 90% of those suffering from osteoarthritis can have symptom relief as cartilage is repaired, synovial fluid and tendons thickened and inflamed tissues healed.
2. Rheumatoid Arthritis. This is classified as an autoimmune disease in which the body’s immune system attacks its own tissues. In addition to the above healing factors, Collastin and Collastin Support assist the immune system to calm down. The body’s immune system constantly guards us from foreign substances, but sometimes it gets overzealous and attacks our own tissues, including, in the case of rheumatoid arthritis, joints, tendons and cartilage, which then causes sedimentation to “seal” the joints from the body’s own attacks on it and creates enlarging and fusing of joints. The ability of Collastin to calm down the immune system is a major ability.
3. Psoriasis and Psoriatic Arthritis. This is a condition characterized by an abnormal growth rate of inflamed cells (nearly ten times the rate of normal cells). Psoriatic Arthritis is psoriasis in joint tissues. Again, Collastin helps to calm things down and restore normalcy. It does this by restoring normal production of leukotrienes, which cause inflammation and deregulation of cell growth.
4. Fibromyalgia. This is a syndrome involving muscular pain and stiffness, generalized fatigue, depression and joint swelling. Fibromyalgia is associated with autoimmune dysfunction. Collastin’s ability to calm the immune system down and its anti-inflammatory properties help Fibromyalgia suffers to obtain relief.
5. Aging Skin. If you feel good, you look good. Aging skin is a first sign of poor health. Collastin and Collastin Support are extremely healthy nutritional supports for all tissues, including the skin. Especially, glucosamine and Ester-C are valuable in maintaining collagen production which regulates the production of prostaglandins, forms a healthy skin matrix, increases skin circulation and limits inflammation... all leading to supple, unwrinkled skin.
6. Prostate Enlargement. Inflammation of the prostate is common in men over fifty, but Collastin and Collastin Support reduce this inflammation.
7. Cardiovascular Disease and Emphysema. Collastin is a surfactant. It lubricates joints and arterial walls. But, the current buzzword about cardiovascular health is C-reactive protein... or inflammation within artery walls. Collastin is amazing at reducing this inflammation and opening arteries. Collastin reduces the body’s production of leukotrienes which cause blood vessel constriction. Often, Collastin will produce a five point drop in blood pressure... by itself. It helps similarly to open air pathways to relieve asthma and emphysema.

Digestive System Tune-Up... or the Eight Day Cleanse — Like tuning up your car’s engine!

The discussion on digestive system tune-up is too long to include here. For additional information, please go to the separate section Digestive System Tune-Up. Suffice it to say here that dirty digestive/eliminatory organs produce thousands of partially digested proteins and other chemicals that trigger autoimmune misidentifications, that may result in attempts to destroy the body’s own tissues and organs. Also, doing the Eight Day Cleanse prepares the liver for effectively utilizing the Collastin product with maximum effectiveness.

Cleansing Enzymes - Protecting Your Body Against Unidentified Food Particles Entering Your Blood Stream

We don’t eat simple foods anymore. In fact, we usually eat a mixture of foods that don’t digest well together, like sugar or carbohydrates and dense proteins together, fruits and vegetables together or foods that digest in minutes and foods that take half a day to digest. Unlike former times, when people ate mostly a single food at a time and that food was therefore processed efficiently by our stomachs, nowadays, many incompletely digested foods leave our stomachs... and often enter the bloodstream as compounds that mother nature probably never intended to be there.

The various immune systems of the body then have to deal with these compounds... and that’s where disease begins.

Cleansing Enzymes is a big part of the answer to this problem. It provides digestive enzymes that will quickly help digest a meal regardless of how complex that meal is... every digestive enzyme needed is supplied in Cleansing Enzymes. Cleansing Enzymes even includes probiotics (good bacteria) which act like afterburners in our intestines to finish processing food that wasn’t totally processes in the stomach and small intestines. And, Cleansing Enzymes includes powerful nutritional aids for the liver... the master organ for keeping our internal system purified.

Cleansing Enzymes is an important weapon in your arsenal against degenerative disease that begins when partially digested food particles enter our system and create auto immune disorder.

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Arthritis Testimonials

Dr. Chuck Cochran, D.C. from Aptos California, owner and operator of a multidisciplinar y clinic that included practitioners from four different backgrounds, states, "Collastin is a gift from Nature... It’s not one of man’s drugs with hundreds of dangerous side effects. Daily, I receive testimonies of those whose lives have been dramatically changed because of Harry W. Diehl’s marvelous discovery... Superfoods, like Collastin, have the potential to help mankind through the huge leap it must make if we’re to survive the changes coming about on this planet All we need to do is make the time to listen, trust your guidance, and take the leap!." Listen to Dr. Cochran speak about Collastin.

Dr. Joe Hymer, M.D. of Castroville, TX says about Collastin, "30 years ago, I had surgery for ruptured disks. Since that time, I have lived with nearly constant pain from the arthritis that developed around my disks following the surgery. Everyday tasks such as driving, walking, sitting or even standing were agonizing. I could not even get out of bed in the morning without help.

I operate a medical rehab clinic and have many patients in as much or more physical pain than I experienced myself. When I heard about Collastin it sounded almost too good to be true. What a godsend for me and my patients!

Before putting any of my patients on it, I decided to put it to the test and began taking it myself.

One day my wife noticed that I was getting out of bed without any help for the first time in our married life. I realized that the pain had lessened significantly! I decided to recommend Collastin to some of my patients. They began having the same terrific results. I can drive, walk, sit and stand pain free for the first time in 30 years."

Dr. William R Kellas, Ph.D., Biochemistry, N.D., Cofounder of the Center for Advanced Medicine, co-author of three books, "Surviving The Toxic Crisis," "Thriving In A Toxic World," and "Toxic Immune Syndrome Cookbook." He also is the CO-host of a syndicated radio talk show, featured guest on major radio and television shows nationwide, and keynote speaker at numerous conventions across the United States. Dr. Kellas is chairman of the board of Integris, a nutritional firm in Texas.

In the early 1970s, he was diagnosed with ankylosing spondylitis, a debilitating form of arthritis. He was told he would spend the rest of his life in a wheelchair. He began a search for health and developed a deep understanding of how the body works. He found that a regimen which works with the body, including dietary modifications (outlined here) keeps his illness under control.

Wanting to use his knowledge to help others led to his founding his Health Centers. Since then, thousands of chronically ill people from all over the world have visited his clinics and received help. Tens of thousands have used his recommended Digestive System Cleanse and Collastin and Collastin Support.

Dr. Mark Drucker, M.D. and Director for the Advanced Center for Medicine in Encinitas, California, states, “I’ve seen some very impressive results when we’ve given Collastin to patients desperate for pain relief. Many of the patients had rheumatoid arthritis, and Collastin brought them the most helpful and impressive pain relief they’ve had during the course of their illness.”

Dr. Jolyn English, Chiropractor from San Antonio, TX says, "While skiing in 1988 I fell and damaged my wrist badly. As a result the cartilage wore out. It was difficult to give adjustments to my patients. I took everything with minimal results. I used to bench press 235 lbs., but after the accident I couldn't lift at all. The doctor wanted to operate. After just one week on Collastinª I had almost no pain. After 6 weeks, I have full range of motion and I can now bench press 185 lbs".

Virginia (Jean) Ogure says, “I have been taking the Everlasting (Collastin) and Everlasting Support (Collastin Support) supplements since December of 1998. When I first started I had pain in most of my joints, had a hard time getting up from a setting or laying position and walking was difficult. At that time my RA blood test was 246, C-Reactive Protein was 2.04 and my Sed Rate was 50. All were high showing pain, inflammation, (showing active arthritic disease). Today my RA is 126 (normal is <40. I am getting there), C-Reactive Protein is .4 (normal), and the Sed Rate is 12 (normal). I am again active, biking,
working out at the Rec. center, golfing and best is that I can enjoy our Grandchildren again by being able to get on the floor and play with them. Also, I can once again kneel in church. Boy! Do I have a lot to be THANKFUL for...

Fern Livingston of Troy, TN says, "I have a degenerative disease in my back and couldn't bend my knee. I had to climb stairs one at a time sideways. I started on the product on July 24, 1997. In just 3 weeks I have no pain, no stiffness and no headaches. I'm thrilled!”

Connie Manning of Tuna, Idaho says, “I have fibromyalgia and chronic osteoarthritis for over 30 years. In three weeks on the product my pain is almost gone and I'm off my Dapro medication that I was on for 12 years.”

Ron Wardell of North Carolina says, "I'm 50 years. I've had seven surgeries on my knee as a result of a compound fracture of my femur when I was eighteen. I was in traction three months, all cartilage was removed and my kneecap was shaved. I subsequently tore my anterior crucia ligament in 1982. It was reattached with staples to the bone. Doctors wanted to do a knee replacement. I started taking Collastin and in not that many days the pain was gone and now no more stiffness. I can now bicycle and play racquetball!"

Jennifer Childers, KS says, “five months ago I was probably facing surgery as a result of two partially degenerated discs, the two lowest in my spine that despite a year's worth of "medical community efforts", left me with extreme PAIN when sitting on ANYTHING, especially my automobile, but pretty much any sitting at all.

My good buddy and also Integris distributor, Elaine Brown, told me about the Collastin products and all I could say was, "How FAST can I get some?".

And of course, the PAIN when sitting was only a part of all the problems, i.e., discomfort, lack of mobility, etc., that I had been experiencing for about one year. I'm usually a very active, athletic person who enjoys tennis, swimming, walking, working out and tons of yard and outdoor home maintenance work.

After four months of being on Collastin, the therapeutic dose, I am almost pain free. I suppose I'll always have some discomfort, as I'm a "young lady" of 65. At least I won't be disabled like I was and hopefully, thanks to Collastin, will be able to avoid surgery FOREVER! You see I plan to live to be over 100!

So, I'm going to try the "maintenance" dose for a while to see how I do. And I love the Seven Essentials, too!

Keep it coming and keep up the good work!" August 2003.

Sarah McGuire had reached the point of being house-bound due to arthritis stiffness and pain. Collastin and Collastin Support have made it possible for her to resume a completely normal life. She is again enjoying walking her neighborhood. She says that nothing more significant in her life has ever happened than for the discomfort and stiffness to vanish.

Grady, Georgia says, “In 1972, while operating one of my hydraulic cranes, I accidentally turned it over and broke two bones in my left leg right above the ankle. After two surgeries the surgeon practically insisted that I have the ankle fused. I refused, as I still had some movement, hoping that artificial joints would improve in the future. I have had a bad case of arthritis in both of my hands and in my right knee for approximately 10 years now. I couldn’t close my fist, and an arthritis specialist said I had two choices: Cortisone shots (which he said, “ I did not want unless the pain became unbearable.”) or replacement knee surgery. Luckily, I hesitated on both decisions. I’ve also had several degenerative discs in my neck for about 20 years. When driving, I had to twist in my seat at an intersection to see left and right. I finally came to the conclusion that all of my problems were due to “old age” as I’d been to many doctors over the years with no help. Then I heard about Collastin... I first began seeing results in two weeks and everything began to improve over the next three months. There’s no pain in my ankle and leg that was broken in 1972. The pain in my hands and fingers is gone. I can now make a tight a fist as ever, with no pain. I can turn my neck from side to side again, and can see continuous improvement in my mobility. The stiffness in my arms and legs is now as as limp as a dishrag. I can now run up and down steps and work 12 to 16 hours with no pain. It has been 3 1/2 months since I started taking the products. I wake up in the morning feeling rested and look forward to each day as I have gained my full and wholesome life back.”