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| Curing Genetic Arthritis Risk Naturally |
Research out of Harvard Medical School reveals evidence of a genetic link to arthritis, but doctors are hoping it may translate into a new solution.
Caution, though, is advised from the world of natural health since some of the drugs being recommended are not designed to treat arthritis, but rather are powerful cancer drugs.
Instead, there is a natural alternative that tackles the exact same issue – without side effects.
The study shows that there are more than 40 areas in a person’s DNA that could lead to the development of rheumatoid arthritis, or RA.
It is currently held in Western medicine that there is no cure for RA, and that the best sufferers can hope for is a regimen of immunosuppressive therapy to manage symptoms. However, the discovery of the genetic impact has given scientists room for hope.
What the researchers found was in the DNA of arthritis sufferers, compared to those who do not have RA, there are 42 areas that are faulty or not healthy in some way. Western medicine hopes that new drugs can be marketed to help compensate for these faults.
The weaknesses are known as single nucleotide polymorphisms (SNPs), and the study of these genetic faults is very new. As with any new discovery, much more study will be needed, but the new path for research is promising.
There are powerful cancer drugs already in use that affect some of the same genetic areas, but as with all other drugs the list of side effects is long and dangerous.
However, there is also the natural alternative that should not be forgotten. Now that doctors have found which areas are at risk, natural therapies that help the misfiring areas of DNA can also be developed and inflammation cycle that is generated may be stopped naturally…without the use of dangerous medications.
The best news is that we in the natural health field have not been waiting for big-pharma to give us a solution on a silver plate.
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