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This article gives this elegantly simple answer: “The problem starts when, for reasons no one fully understands, a few misguided T-cells incite other immune system cells called macrophages to attack the joints.”

Those so-called “misguided T-cells” are actually what are known as memory T-cells. In the arthritic process (whether rheumatoid, osteo, or other) these memory T-cells develop an internal program, just like some sort of computer,, which commands macrophage cells to attack and destroy cartilage. This destructive process results in the inflammation of the joints that is so typical in people afflicted with the disease.

The inflammation, in turn, affects the nerves and that’s what usually causes the associated pain. The inflammation may also push some bones out of place resulting in the disfigurement that is so typically found in arthritic joints.

Unfortunately, those memory T-cells never give up. It seems their malfunctioning programs go on forever. Moreover, they clone themselves, generating more and more misprogrammed

T-cells that direct more and more attacks against your cartilage. That’s why, as time passes, arthritis only gets worse, virtually never gets better.

But how does it all start? No one is absolutely certain, but probably it’s because some macrophages discover some particles of diseased or damaged cartilage that needs to be disposed of. Macrophages are like garbage collectors inside your body. Their job is to get rid of any foreign matter and organisms they encounter. They destroy invading organisms like viruses and bacteria, and they clean up waste matter as well. That includes any fragments of unhealthy cartilage damaged by some physical trauma or produced by some invading organism like that which causes rheumatic fever – or maybe even the flu. (Remember those achy feelings in your joints when you had a serious bout with the flu?).

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Article begins like this: “A KILLER WAS ON THE LOOSE … It was her own immune system, which had gone berserk, attacking the joints in her body and crippling her so badly that she often had to use a wheelchair. Left unchecked, rheumatoid arthritis might have shortened her life 10 to 15 years.”

The article reports on how all three of the most advanced scientific research projects today are intensely focussed on intervening in the immune system involvement in the arthritic process.

Of course the first thing you probably want to know is how any of this, can benefit you personally-specifically, how you, like the thousands before you, can be rescued from the crippling pain and inflammation of arthritis. First, it’s important for you to know a bit about the arthritic process in order to understand how it can be reversed.

Stopping the symptoms doesn’t stop the disease-There have been thousands of volumes written by thousands of authors on the how-and-why theories of arthritis. There are almost as many different theories as there are authors. Some of them are pretty screwy, but all of them are pretty scary.

The scary part is that no one has been able to stop the relentless, destructive advance of arthritis – until now!

Sure, you may sometimes slow it down a bit through diet and nutritional supplements. You can ease the symptoms with anti-inflammatory drugs and pain relievers. Your doctor can clobber your system with highly toxic anti-cancer drugs like

Methotrexate (also disguised under the less frightening name of Rheumatrex), which just maybe could give you some temporary relief at the cost of sacrificing your liver. But, until now, nobody has been able to halt the destructive onslaught against your cartilage and your joints.

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