* The program in this book is intended to help millions who suffer from chronic arthritis pain to heal, rather than to just medicate their symptoms.
* Takes a holistic approach to finding the causes of arthritis pain and proposes a self-help treatment program intended to heal the body from the inside out by incorporating medicinal herbs, nutritional supplements, exercise, diet, and chiropractic care.
* Raquel Martin is the author of the bestselling book The Estrogen Substitute.
Every year thousands of people struggling together with the debilitating results of arthritis listen to their doctors say this they will just have to study to exist together with the pain. Afterwards experiencing this firsthand, Raquel Martin was determined to locate a better way. Mutually together with Dr. Karen Romano, Martin developed a comprehensive self-help program intended to prevent and reverse degenerative inflammatory disease not including drugs and their unwelcome or dangerous side results. The authors show readers how to address the causes rather than medicate the symptoms of arthritis by implementing holistic way of life changes--from medicinal herbs, nutritional supplements, and natural hormone therapy to whole foods, exercise, and chiropractic care. Thoroughly researched and clearly presented, Preventing and Reversing Arthritis Naturally guides readers throughout the labyrinth of recent medical studies and proposes advice for initiating consumer-led modify in existing insurance policies to press for coverage of substitute therapies.
In the fast-paced, and frequently artificial, lifestyles we live these days, most of us have lost or forgotten the peace, stamina and exuberance of truly healthy bodies and minds. Those "vehicles of the spirit" have become congested, sluggish, and often painful.
Her fascinating description of nutrients, herbs (phytonutrients), exercise, body therapies, stress management and sunlight is thorough, and well documented and referenced. But perhaps her most valuable contribution is the call for courage, personal responsibility and discipline; qualities innate in all of us, that must be nurtured and developed. Her personal experience and example attests to that, and these qualities combined with knowledge can lead any of us back naturally to our birthright of vibrant health.
The concept of natural hormone replacement explained in this book is "an idea whose time has come". It is a vital path to improving health and well-being.
Mrs Martin and Dr. Romano also outlines strategies for making the most of our present medical-pharmaceutical-insurance-system and suggests ideas for compassionately making it better.
I enthusiastically recommend this book, not only for people with arthritis, but for anyone who wishes to explore new ways to achieve optimum health. I also recommend it to my colleagues who would like to learn more about nutrition, phytonutrients and alternative/complementary medicine.
Ralph C. Lee, M.D.
David Getoff, Naturopath Board certified clinical nutritionist and Educator San Diego California