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Fighting Rheumatoid Arthritis With a Nasal Spray

U.S. drug maker Vical is currently working with researchers in the U.K. to develop a nasal spray that could deliver gene treatments and better treat rheumatoid arthritis (RA) sufferers.

Early research has found a formulation that contains a modified version of a natural protein that switches off the inflammatory process that causes RA. Although, the delivery of that anti-inflammatory protein, interleukin-10, turned off immune cells that contributed to the pain, they also turned on cells that could keep the harmful ones at bay.

Researchers believe giving interleukin-10 through the nose will target more effectively a group of cells that create disease, rather than shutting down the entire immune system.

Despite development of the TNF alpha antibody therapy for RA, scientists believed there was a need to find more accurate ways of modulating the immune system with a drug that has fewer side effects and is less expensive.

However, scientists in another clinical trial found interleukin-10 had some possible benefits, they also discovered there was immunosuppression when it was given intravenously.

The Scotsman August 4, 2004



Dr. Mercola''s Comments Dr. Mercola's Comments:

Drugs are terrible options for RA sufferers because they don't solve the root problem. In fact, the solutions I recommend to lessen if not eliminate the effects of RA are healthier--no toxic drugs--and not expensive.

There's no more effective way to get started than to modify your diet according to your personal metabolic type. It is very easy to understand how a physician who successfully treats one patient with a particular diet would conclude the diet that person was on was the "cure" for RA, when in fact nothing could be further from the truth.

Another person with the same disease could quite possibly need an entirely different diet to receive any benefits, that is how powerful nutritional typing can be. If you want to figure out your nutritional type on your own, please take my free basic test.

To learn even more behind how nutritional typing works, consider my latest book Total Health Program. It explains a number of concepts in greater detail:

  • How nutritional typing works
  • Why people should stay away from processed foods, grains and sugars
  • How people can get the nutrients their bodies desperately need without supplements

The Emotional Freedom Technique (EFT) can also be quite useful to resolve energy disruptions that will help you rally your body's resources to better health. (Prayer can accomplish the same results, but most haven't used it in a way that resolves the problem.)

I also use EFT extensively in my practice and have a free manual that can teach you how to use it. Still, the emotional trauma that causes RA is nearly universally quite severe and is best treated by a professional.

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