A comprehensive self-help program designed to prevent and reverse degenerative inflammatory diseases without drugs and their unwelcome side effects.
• The program in this book is designed 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 offers a self-help treatment program designed 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 Alternative.
Each year thousands of people struggling with the debilitating effects of arthritis hear their doctors say that they will just have to learn to live with the pain. After experiencing this firsthand, Raquel Martin was determined to find a better way. Together with Dr. Karen Romano, Martin developed a comprehensive self-help program designed to prevent and reverse degenerative inflammatory disease without drugs and their unwelcome or dangerous side effects. The authors show readers how to address the causes rather than medicate the symptoms of arthritis by implementing holistic lifestyle 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 through the labyrinth of recent medical studies related to the effects and treatment of this disease. In addition, it discusses the exclusion of alternative therapies from most insurance coverage and provides advice on the action consumers can take to address this.
Part practical medical resource, part encouraging guide, Preventing and Reversing Arthritis Naturally will inspire all readers to take charge of all aspects of their health.
Raquel Martin, who lives in Georgia with her husband, is the author of The Estrogen Alternative and Today’s Health Alternative. Karen J. Romano, R.N., D.C., also a resident of Georgia, is a chiropractor in private practice and has taught nutrition at Life University in Marietta. Raquel Martin’s experience of her own serious health problems taught her that the beneficial effect of chiropracti care could be reinforced by means of nutritional and hormonal rebalancing. She has since dedicated herself to spreading information about the need for safe natural alternative therapies, co-authoring The Estrogen Alternative and Preventing and Reversing Arthritis Naturally. She lives in Georgia. Karen J. Romano, R.N., D.C., a resident of Georgia, is a chiropractor in private practice and has taught nutrition at Life University in Marietta.
Table of Contents
Foreword
Acknowledgments
Introduction
Part I Wise and Otherwise Choices 1. Arthritis: Its Causes, Deficiencies, and Many Cures 2. Medicating Symptoms Versus Addressing the Cause of Disease
Part II Study the Cure Before Treating the Pain 3. The Healing Power of Natural Substances 4. The Fat/Oil/Cholesterol Debate 5. Nerve Interference and Degenerative Arthritis (Joint Care through Chiropractic) 6. Hormonal Deficiency Leading to Arthritis 7. Insurance for Natural Therapies
Epilogue: Intercepting Hereditary Traits
Appendix A: Resources
Appendix B: Suggested Reading
Notes
Index
What People are Saying About This
David Getoff
"As an educator in the holistic health field who teaches 200-300 new students each year, I try to keep abreast of the vast number of new books that are constantly barraging the health arena. Every year my students ask me to recommend titles in various areas of holistic health and I need to know which select few in each field are the good ones. As both a Naturopath and Board Certified Clinical Nutritionist in private practice, I like to suggest books to my patients which are both informative, accurate, easy to read, and comprehensively cover their topic. Ever since I first discovered Raquel's book The Estrogen alternative , it has been my first choice for books to educate both students and patients on the topic of alternatives to prescription hormone replacement therapy. Well she's done it again. Her new book on natural therapies for arthritis is fantastic. Somehow, Raquel and her co-author, Dr. Karen Romano, have managed to supply the reader with a very useable amount of information in just about every single subject area related to arthritis. This book is an astounding encyclopedia of useable information and it succeeds in making every other book I have read on arthritis unnecessary. This one book has it all."
