People with rheumatoid arthritis must be thoroughly sick of hearing doctors tell them that they have an auto-immune disease, that the body is fighting itself and destroying its joints with an inflammatory condition.They often fail to tell them that they must make their body strong, to give some parts of it a chance to fight back, to slow down and even stop the deterioration. After that the fight back really begins.

The immune system is to do with your ability to fight infection, your inner strength if you will. And that can be undermined in many ways, with poor diet that allows inflammation to flourish, lack of exercise that results in the blood heating up and making the joints sluggish, and lack of pure, cooling fluids – water – that will give the body a chance to eliminate the inflammation. Not to mention various drugs that aggravate the kidneys and liver.

Just imagine your body trying to combat inflammation. What would it need? For a start it would need healthy blood from your liver, containing healthy, oxygen from the lungs. It would need to eliminated the toxic inflammation around the joints, so would need healthy kidneys to clear turgid fluids and a healthy bowel for elimination of toxic waste.

If any of these vital organs are inefficient then your poor body is scuppered from the start. It has no chance of fighting the disease.

If your liver is choked with fat from a poor diet, this will cause heat in the blood, which will aggravate your condition. Liver congestion goes with overweight, headaches, indigestion, trouble with the eyes, tiredness, constipation and a general sluggishness. If you are developing an inflammatory disease on top of this then you are doomed to get worse.

The frustrating thing is that it's so easy to create a healthy liver. It responds to a healthy diet, the Mediterranean diet is perfect – 15 per cent protein, 45 per cent carbohydrates (roughage) and 40 per cent fruit and veg. You need plenty of fresh fruit and some raw veg like carrots and salads. It really is easy and the response from your body is amazing, within days.

If you should smoke your lungs will obviously be suppressed. The lungs are very much needed to fight disease. The oxygen that they put into the blood through those delicate membranes is essential for health, healing and to fight inflammation. They can also be damaged by neglect. They need to be stretched,with deep breaths in the fresh air. Work to an exercise system. We all need lots and lots of fresh air, ozone and oxygen. Without it you can forget about healing anything.

Your body needs energy to fight the disease. It needs health-building foods without much saturated fat, with plenty of fresh fruit and vegetables. It also need vitamin and mineral supplements to give it the ammunition to fight inflammation.

The things you need are the anti-inflammatory products, fish oil with omega-3, mega vitamin C, selenium, beta carotene, aloe vera, cherries, ginger and the joint lubricants – glucosamine sulfate, MSM, pycnogenal, colladeen, and anti-stress products, like ginseng, vitamin B, calcium. There are so many it can drive you mad wondering what to take! But get advice and keep taking them daily.

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