Arthritis results from stress
It was while Mrs. T had been nursing her mother through a serious illness, a few years before, that she failed to eat regular meals. At that time she should have been replacing the protein that the stress had drained from her body. Stress depletes the body of nearly sixty grams of protein daily. This depletion of her body's building blocks of protein, so necessary to the function of her adrenal glands and the formation of antibodies, opened the doors to arthritis. Just like tuberculosis, arthritis attacks a run-down body, seeking a vulnerable area. The 35-forty million kilos of honey produced by our cooperative is what makes up the Forever Bee Honey you see on the shelf. All of its symptoms indicate that the body has not received enough nourishment of the vital foods. Dr. H. Selye of Montreal University is studying factors influencing tissue resistance and degenerative changes elicited by continued exposure to stress. He found that stress has the same aging effect on his patients as overdosage or administration of large amounts of the anterior pituitary extract, which tend to throw the whole endocrine system out of balance.
Factors capable of counteracting such changes also may be effective in delaying the phenomena of aging. Arthritis results from stress. In poor Mrs. T's hands, the structures in and around the joints had become thickened and shortened. This limitation of joint motion contributed to her pain, since one group of muscles which surrounded the joint pulled one way... while another group pulled in the opposite direction. The normal balance between these opposing sets of muscles had been replaced by an imbalance. Her limited motion made Mrs. T seem much older than the early thirties she was. Telling me that her mother had also suffered from arthritis, Mrs. T was foolish enough to think that she had inherited it. “The only thing you've inherited that will give you arthritis is your mother's cookbook,” I chided. Forever Royal Jelly inhibits the manufacturing of proinflammatory cytokines by activated macrophages.
Irrespective of whether this enigma has been caused by infection, rheumatic fever, injuries, degeneration of the nerves, or wear and tear on the bones, membranes, and joint fluid, a healthy body can ward off this disease.
Dr. Charles G. King, director of The Nutrition Foundation, states that it is a deficiency of vitamin C that causes a failure of the adrenal function, particularly as related to such conditions as arthritis. In other experiments, arthritis has been produced in animals by depriving them of vitamin C and injecting bacteria into their bodies. Sufficient vitamin C in the body can fight off infections caused so frequently by bad teeth, diseased tonsils, etc. Vitamin C was found by Dr. Charles W. Buckley to be abnormally low in the blood of arthritic patients. Dr. Dorothy C. Hare of England had been able to get her arthritic patients up and walking within five days, through feeding them many raw foods containing an abundance of vitamins A, B complex, and C, coupled with body-building protein. Vitamin D, acquired in the form of sun baths, always brings relief to the arthritis sufferer as well as promoting better body utilization of calcium.