Excellent article. After 15 years of being sick with multiple autoimmune illnesses, I burned out on Western (US) medicine because I did everything they said, but saw no improvement. I actually got worse over time.
In desperation, I saw a Traditional Chinese Medicine doctor. He insisted on the protocol described in this article. I started by correcting my diet and eliminating prescriptions. I admit that I never really ate organ meats, though. Bone broth, yes. I was mostly strict otherwise. If I strayed, especially in the first two years of this protocol, it was a setback in my health. Eventually, I realized it wasn’t worth it to stray from these most excellent foods.
It took two years to become 80% better. And in another three years I was 99% well. So 5 years total.
This protocol has been my daily lifestyle for two decades now. Super healthy. Age 62. No prescriptions or over the counter meds. No chronic illnesses. I occasionally get an acute illness like 1x per year, probably from toxin exposure in the environment. I let it run its course.
If I can do it, you can do it. I had a sugar & flour habit, even though I mostly ate what I thought was healthy. Meat, veg, fruit, grains, dairy. Plus a few cookies and crackers and pasta most days. I was never overweight, 5‘1“, 105 pounds. The problem is, all of these foods were filled with chemicals. And lacked true nutrition. Eliminating all of the big crops, such as wheat, corn, soy, rice, oats, potatoes, coffee, and sugar, was the best thing I ever did. Don’t miss any of it now because my palate & brain have recalibrated. I do eat a ton of fruit though.
Start where you’re at. Start slowly. Eliminate one thing at a time. Fall seven, rise eight.
Getting rid of prescription drugs, which are nothing but chemicals, was also a big part of my healing. I weaned from those extremely slowly.
Yes foods: Grass fed beef, pastured chicken, pastured eggs, wild caught fish but not more than 1x a month because of pollution, homemade yogurt, homemade bone broth, grass fed cheese, grassfed whole milk, organic fruit/veg, homemade sauerkraut, avocado , coconut oil, grass fed butter, nuts, dark chocolate (85-90%), honey, garlic, ginger, salt.
No : processed foods, soda, energy drinks, coffee, wheat, corn, soy, rice, potato, oats, added sugar except what’s in dark chocolate, seed oils, breads of any kind or pasta of any kind, no restaurants (including deli shops, take-out or sit down places).
Exceptions: Thanksgiving dinner, xmas dinner, weddings, and one restaurant meal per day when traveling which is about 10 days a year.
I used to be more social and would eat about 25 meals a year in restaurants on date nights but date nights are at home now or I pack us a picnic. But restaurants all use seed oils and have foods with pesticides so I finally stopped that about 3-4 years ago or so. Don’t miss it.
I realize it sounds extreme but I don’t limit quantity or go hungry ever. Everything is a habit. And it works for me. It’s probably too restrictive for most. I keep a cooler in the car with “my food” if I head out for a day of errands so I can snack or have a meal if hungry. I gain weight when I eat too much dairy so sometimes I’ll cut back on that a bit and increase my other foods. Usually I don’t have a weight problem even though I eat plenty.
No: prescriptions, over the counter meds.
Coffee is probably ok if organic, chemical & mold free but it’s just not my habit.
I’m 62 . No chronic health issues or problems.
I started slowly with these habits and inched my way here over 15 years. I keep refining things as I learn of yet another toxic problem with our food supply. I’m waiting for wild caught fish to be contaminated enough that I skip it altogether but man I love seafood so that will be a shame.
I muscle test raw milk and purchase for pets, from local farms. They drink it up and I think it’s very good for them. They will eat raw milk yogurt and kefir too. Very beneficial for gut health. Raw milk is only legally sold for pet use in Florida, as of June 2026.
It’s a pricy way of eating but avoiding restaurants/processed foods/and doctor bills balances it out.
My main beverage is reverse osmosis water. No flouride, etc. I add electrolytes/salt. I drink about a gallon a day. But I tend to be thirsty in Florida, so I’m not pushing it on myself but just naturally seem to drink this much.
My son had arthritis at almost two years old. He had it for about three and a half months, leading to it being labeled as "chronic idiopathic juvenile arthritis". He would wake up one day every few weeks with flare ups crying non-stop for days until it would calm down. Every time we would go through an excruciating experience of having to work our way up through an emergency room, where they would begin the process of ritual not knowing, on up to the children's hospital where he would be admitted to stay.
At the children's hospital they would subject him to a regimen of tests. Blood tests every day. Weighing diapers. Tests that required immobilization. Doctors parade through, each expecting their turn to examine him in every way.
You can imagine the fear that developed, to needles and being restrained, to the uncomfortable, painful, and sleep-disturbing presence of rotating medical suits . All pretending to be nominally nice, at best, some just expecting to put in the needle with as much sensitivity as placing a stick into unfeeling putty.
Not a single test yielded any helpful information. Not one. A rare moment of bedside manner might serve for a moment of sympathy, but true insight or a truly helpful practical plan were never an outcome of the medical torture. Nothing helped.
Medical torture. An almost 2 year old comes into the hospital crying with unbearable joint pain. The only minimal but necessary comfort is a bouncing embrace and endless singing that mom provides for days, non-stop, until it calms down. Strangers appear throughout the day, each expecting to touch the body anywhere they want, many without even asking permission not giving warning. A needle could happen anytime. These experiences happen while awake, but, if the poor exhausted kid manages to sleep a moment, that sleep is broken by the next person coming to undress him, handle his body as their right, restrain it, squeeze it, stick needles into it, and mother has to hand him over. Sometimes he is held forcibly, if he screams and struggles. Placed into a claustrophobic machine, alone, strapped down, passed out from fear, while I tried to sing to him from outside.
A desperate parent submits at first. These are the people who have seen this, who can figure it out, who can find a way to help. We'll put up with it because the baseline is pain and fear, so we can put up with pain and fear in order to resolve the unbearable pain that we came in with. If anyone can help, it must be them. Right?
But, then the betrayal becomes too clear to ignore. There is no help. Nothing is suggested that will help. Needles, confinement, ownership over the body at any hour in any way. The authority of the medical professional is a ruse, a rude, a coat, an inscrutable non-communication that relies upon the faithful having faith. Faith feeds submission. Faith that surely there is a good reason for it, a wise mind, a depth of knowledge, a medical meaning that means something related to feeling better! At the very least, in the hour of most need, faith that there is in the medical uniform a heart for helping, a human hand that is also humane. Every step on the path to "help" is painful, intrusive, disrespectful, traumatic; the treatment is torture.
The bedside manner no longer facilitates keeping in down this dark dark road. It is as though the good cop - bad cop dynamic turns transparent. Even a kindly face cannot make a bad system good. Authority emptied is...what?
The etymological roots of the diagnosis "chronic idiopathic juvenile rheumatoid arthritis" mean that a child is observably in pain, and nobody knows why, and it keeps happening. They have no clue, and they are taking us for a horrific ride to nowhere.
The betrayal is ultimate. We needed help. They hurt us and damaged us for life. They convinced me to do it to my own child, the one I would never betray. The one I would die for myself without hesitation. I didn't even know when I was supposed to see it and know better. These experiences have no undoing, and seemingly no end. I can see the fallout decades later.
One day in the children's hospital, the nurse came. The little boy was finally sleeping, after so many hours of crying in pain. Isn't it obvious that those in pain need rest, reprieve? A needle?! Now?! Again?! Right here in bed, in Mom's arms, where he should be able to feel safe.
No
No.
No.
A doctor comes. We're doing a test. Well, what will that be like for the little one? Immobilized, painful, long. And what will the results of it tell us? What action will we take depending on the results? Nothing. It would tell us nothing, of no utility, with no helpful potential. And, so, you want to subject a helpless child to a long painful invasive procedure, by himself, tied up tight, closed in, and you cannot even make a case for why?
No
No
No
After 3 and a half months the flare ups stop happening. Doctor checkup. Mother directs the doctor: you have to first tell us what you want to do, before you do it, and wait for our consent. You have to say how you wish to touch my child and wait for permission, BEFORE you do it. Vaccine time.
No
No
No
I cannot provoke an immune system that, to my limited understanding, has behaved in such a painful way.
I don't know if the arthritis was provoked by vaccines. At that time before arthritis it did not occur to me to question them. There is a massive vaccination that occurs at 18 months, and likely that appointment happened sometime after that marker, not long before.
Shortly after that appointment, whenever it was that it happened exactly, my child became very sick. Fever, vomiting, diarrhea, enough to go to the emergency room and be given iv liquids. The next month, arthritis seemingly out of nowhere.
I don't know, but, no more shots. The medical faith was dispelled.
Somewhere way back in the Unbekoming archive is an interview that I did, related this child deciding he was a woman, my failure of the trans affirmation test, and my excommunication from his life. It describes my own health crisis, and gratefully, it's resolution. Ironically, or fittingly, I suffered from arthritis myself during this crisis, as well as extreme bleeding, an insightful and pivotal white coat encounter, and ended with a profound and rapid resolution of the health problem.
I did find it. It is somewhat circuitous, but, oh well. It is not audio, though. Unbekoming has a very private interview method, which is in written format. Let me know what comes up for you upon reading it, if you do read it.
Wow. I was so moved (and enlightened) by your interview. You’re a very beautiful writer, Runa. I love the unique way you articulated such deep and difficult thoughts and experiences. As I said, it was very moving.
Have you had pain in your knees since the initial resolution of symptoms? I ask (and it’s one of the reasons I was very interested in your interview) because I had an experience recently where within one hour of finding out my friend had died from cancer, one of my toes seemed to have an arthritic attack. It became swollen, red, and extremely painful. It’s a couple of weeks later now and it’s still swollen and sore, though not acutely painful anymore, however various finger joints are flaring up as well now.
The toe that flared up is a toe that was flared up about 8 years ago for about a year, however it had had zero pain since then - until receiving the news that my friend had died. I have also had one sore and swollen joint in a little finger on and off since having my most recent baby a couple of years ago, but I have never experienced multiple finger joints being sore and swollen the way I have the last two weeks. I'm so curious about the connection between this "flare up" and the news that my friend had died... and whatever other emotional influences might have been at play. I feel I am beginning a journey of discovery, but am unsure in this moment exactly where to start. But your own story gives me hope and surety that I as well can understand my body's wisdom.
I have had knee pain since then. I even had some knee pain prior to the time in the story. I've danced a lot. Maybe that pain is talking to me at times. It is so much more modest now. It is more like waking up in the night to reset my position sometimes, put a pillow between my legs. I wouldn't say I never ever feel anything again, but now like I have a relationship that is pretty easy. I can sleep amazingly and do plenty of life-ful movement.
I've gotten a little "magical" with my thinking. I will happily talk to me knee if needed and just tell it whatever encouragement it might need. If something comes to mind that needs attention, I just stop the rational disbelieving mind and say, "why not?" If cleaning my house seems like it will help with a seemingly unrelated problem, I'll just invite them to be of help to each other. Lol!
I am slowly perusing a book by Beata Jencks, "Biofeedback". It is both imaginative and useful. Lots of fun.
I can tell you are a great friend to whoever is so fortunate to have, or have had you. The generous regard you do quickly offered to me must have also touched your friend who passed. I would like to imagine that all of the ways that we touch each other, friends to each other, mothers and children, all of the paths walked together, are profoundly continued even in the passing through of death. I don't understand all of how, but it feels natural and easy for me to imagine it this way.
My daughter often worries about me dying. The more that I love her, the more certain I feel that there is this contiguous path, or that, somehow a loving hand's touch by its true nature is so immediate and forever and going through to everything of me and her, both physical and of fleet spirit. I just know that even as I give myself 100% to living, that there is just no way around the obvious truth that there is goodness in and between and beyond that cannot be stopped. It's just going to keep going and touching and walking.
Oh thank you for finding it! I prefer to read than listen so this is perfect for me. Thank you again and I will definitely let you know my thoughts after I read it.
Unbekoming, After getting this article in my inbox this morning, I immediately forwarded it to my dad, whose not exactly a young guy, but a guy who's willing to listen. Here is his comment back. I am posting under my account because I did not want to try and talk him thru the steps to do it himself.
Russ,
I had an appointment with my rheumatologist, yesterday. She was "pleased" when I told her about your substack. Thought it was rather ironic to see this article the next day. I've been able to read most of it - great stuff (sounds like you). Also wanted you to know how much I appreciate all of your research over 30+ years. Guess you must have garnered some of that curiosity from those old sets of encyclopedias we used to have around the house. -Dad
Also, Unbekoming, thanks for your breakdown of Price's N&D (not to mention Jethro Kloss's Back to Eden) - I own both. People are familiar with Price's book, but few people have heard of Kloss - I am VERY impressed. Would love to see you tackle Becker's Body Electric if you haven't done so yet. Thanks for all you do.
The mayo clinic page used to be my go-to, until they chose the side of the vaxxinators. I used to support the Mcdonald houses. Until they blocked the uvaxxed from coming. We finally saw the real face of some of these 'well' institutions.
I see a doc only when everything else fails. And now our vet, whom I thought was quite good, messed up twice in a row. I am now also doctoring my dog, and just got a cat back to health (yoghurt and salmon did it).
The body attacking itself? What a crock of BS. This is another reason why I abhor the modern stone age medical mafia. Why would the body be designed to attack itself? In the same manner, why would the body create an excess of cholesterol to clog the arteries and present a heart attack?
We are constantly told that doctors are some of the smartest people in the universe...oh really? You couldn't tell by the stupidity they engorge themselves with. It's outright foolish to trust organizations like the Mayo Clinic...another controlled anti-health clown show.
One other therapeutic to consider here, niacinamide. Kaufman found that taken in high doses, throughout the day, it was highly beneficial for arthritis.
My cousin’s eight-year-old daughter died from rheumatoid arthritis. The tragedies caused by the medical establishment’s subservience to pharmaceutical influence make me heartsick. It seems there is a supreme lack of curiosity and scientific inquiry among our physicians.
same as with so many other diseases - men was not meant to put needles in his skin, certainly not injecting all kind of stuff that is not for ingestion, let go injection! With all the chemical garbage injected, ingested, sprayed, it is no wonder people get sicker. Back to small farms, back to nature, is what we need. Done with all the BIG.
You mentioned Hashimotos in here as an autoimmunity. How would I know if I still have it or just being hypothyroid means I do? I have arthritis but not sure if it's RA. I've had PMR three times and I've been on prednisone for 10 months and should be off it next month. So I'm not sure where I am pain wise. I wish I knew what kicks it off each time. I don't eat any processed foods or eat out at all. Eat my own soudough breads. Don't get any vaccines. I've used cbd, DMSO, and a little caster oil on my joints. They seem to work for me. I'm 73 yo and still pretty active.
RA affects joints simultaneously. When I first came down with RA, it was in my knees and they were very red and hot to the touch. I have used DMSO, CDS along with castor oil. It hel0s some but doesn't put me in remission. CBD ointment does nothing for me. I think I have gone down almost every rabbit hole!
Margo, like you, I've been doing ALL the rabbit holes. Every suggestion in this article I've been doing for 15 years, at least until I developed an Alpha Gal allergy which severely impacted my organ consumption. And guess what? None of it has worked. If I stop doing all these things, I do feel worse, for sure, but staying clean as a whistle has done nothing to prevent my joint destruction. I'm glad you benefit from DMSO somewhat. I gives me horrible insomnia (I have the same reaction to MSM though, and DMSO converts to that in the body, so that must be why), so I have never been able to use it for long enough to see much benefit. CBD is basically worthless as far as I can tell. Boron also does nothing for me, though I keep taking it as part of my mineral complex in any case. I never had dental work to start with. Anyhow, my heart goes out to you, but I feel it's necessary to say for the masses: this article is a great starting point, but for some patients, there's an X factor that we haven't found yet. I firmly believe that.
Yes! Loved that last sentence, so true! I keep waiting for the heavens to part and sing Hallelujah! CBD cream etc doesn't help much with the pain. I keep thinking what is the missing link because it has to be right under my nose!
Another rabbit hole to go down is try boron. A pinch of Borax in a liter of water or, make a base Borax with 1 t spoon of Borax in 1 liter of warm water. Then take 5 ml of the base in 8 oz of water twice a day. It will strengthen bones and maybe cure arthritis. Maybe why I haven't gotten bad arthritis.
That's awesome. I love the quotable quote "A condition whose cause is officially unknown is a condition whose cause has been ruled out of the search".
May I add this snippet of information ..
When you mentioned the 2002 paper by David and Mark Geier, and that the onset of arthritis was "eleven days after the rubella shot and sixteen days after the hepatitis B shot" I immediately thought of the work of Viera Schiebner as she detailed in her book Vaccination: 100 Years of Orthodox Research (1993).
She describes inventing with her husband a "Cotwatch breathing monitor" to aid in understanding cot death.
The device (quote from Leo AI)
"identified specific "critical days" following vaccination when the risk of adverse events, including death, is heightened.
The data from her Cotwatch breathing monitor led her to describe a three-stage stress response in infants after vaccination:
1. Alarm reaction: Occurs within the first 1-2 days.
2. Stage of resistance: Peaks around days 5 to 7.
3. Stage of exhaustion: Occurs around day 16.
She identified this 16th day as a critical point of exhaustion and heightened risk, it's when the deaths occur". End quote.
I recall from reading the book 30 years ago that the deaths were at about 7 days post vaccination, also about 14 days. It seemed there was a shock cycle in the body that reverberated at those intervals.
Fascinating story, reminded me that some 30 years ago my mother, whose thumbs and fingers were crippled with arthritis had all of her teeth pulled out, and slowly but surely her arthritis disappeared
Excellent article. After 15 years of being sick with multiple autoimmune illnesses, I burned out on Western (US) medicine because I did everything they said, but saw no improvement. I actually got worse over time.
In desperation, I saw a Traditional Chinese Medicine doctor. He insisted on the protocol described in this article. I started by correcting my diet and eliminating prescriptions. I admit that I never really ate organ meats, though. Bone broth, yes. I was mostly strict otherwise. If I strayed, especially in the first two years of this protocol, it was a setback in my health. Eventually, I realized it wasn’t worth it to stray from these most excellent foods.
It took two years to become 80% better. And in another three years I was 99% well. So 5 years total.
This protocol has been my daily lifestyle for two decades now. Super healthy. Age 62. No prescriptions or over the counter meds. No chronic illnesses. I occasionally get an acute illness like 1x per year, probably from toxin exposure in the environment. I let it run its course.
If I can do it, you can do it. I had a sugar & flour habit, even though I mostly ate what I thought was healthy. Meat, veg, fruit, grains, dairy. Plus a few cookies and crackers and pasta most days. I was never overweight, 5‘1“, 105 pounds. The problem is, all of these foods were filled with chemicals. And lacked true nutrition. Eliminating all of the big crops, such as wheat, corn, soy, rice, oats, potatoes, coffee, and sugar, was the best thing I ever did. Don’t miss any of it now because my palate & brain have recalibrated. I do eat a ton of fruit though.
Start where you’re at. Start slowly. Eliminate one thing at a time. Fall seven, rise eight.
Getting rid of prescription drugs, which are nothing but chemicals, was also a big part of my healing. I weaned from those extremely slowly.
Excellent story. Yes...no big pharma drugs or vaccines is a major key to becoming healthier.
What does your daily diet consist of now, Celeste?
Yes foods: Grass fed beef, pastured chicken, pastured eggs, wild caught fish but not more than 1x a month because of pollution, homemade yogurt, homemade bone broth, grass fed cheese, grassfed whole milk, organic fruit/veg, homemade sauerkraut, avocado , coconut oil, grass fed butter, nuts, dark chocolate (85-90%), honey, garlic, ginger, salt.
No : processed foods, soda, energy drinks, coffee, wheat, corn, soy, rice, potato, oats, added sugar except what’s in dark chocolate, seed oils, breads of any kind or pasta of any kind, no restaurants (including deli shops, take-out or sit down places).
Exceptions: Thanksgiving dinner, xmas dinner, weddings, and one restaurant meal per day when traveling which is about 10 days a year.
I used to be more social and would eat about 25 meals a year in restaurants on date nights but date nights are at home now or I pack us a picnic. But restaurants all use seed oils and have foods with pesticides so I finally stopped that about 3-4 years ago or so. Don’t miss it.
I realize it sounds extreme but I don’t limit quantity or go hungry ever. Everything is a habit. And it works for me. It’s probably too restrictive for most. I keep a cooler in the car with “my food” if I head out for a day of errands so I can snack or have a meal if hungry. I gain weight when I eat too much dairy so sometimes I’ll cut back on that a bit and increase my other foods. Usually I don’t have a weight problem even though I eat plenty.
No: prescriptions, over the counter meds.
Coffee is probably ok if organic, chemical & mold free but it’s just not my habit.
I’m 62 . No chronic health issues or problems.
I started slowly with these habits and inched my way here over 15 years. I keep refining things as I learn of yet another toxic problem with our food supply. I’m waiting for wild caught fish to be contaminated enough that I skip it altogether but man I love seafood so that will be a shame.
Thats extremely helpful, Celeste, thank you very much for sharing all of that! Do you drink raw milk or just grass fed/organic?
I muscle test raw milk and purchase for pets, from local farms. They drink it up and I think it’s very good for them. They will eat raw milk yogurt and kefir too. Very beneficial for gut health. Raw milk is only legally sold for pet use in Florida, as of June 2026.
It’s a pricy way of eating but avoiding restaurants/processed foods/and doctor bills balances it out.
My main beverage is reverse osmosis water. No flouride, etc. I add electrolytes/salt. I drink about a gallon a day. But I tend to be thirsty in Florida, so I’m not pushing it on myself but just naturally seem to drink this much.
When will people realize doctors are literally trained NOT to cure anything!!!
My son had arthritis at almost two years old. He had it for about three and a half months, leading to it being labeled as "chronic idiopathic juvenile arthritis". He would wake up one day every few weeks with flare ups crying non-stop for days until it would calm down. Every time we would go through an excruciating experience of having to work our way up through an emergency room, where they would begin the process of ritual not knowing, on up to the children's hospital where he would be admitted to stay.
At the children's hospital they would subject him to a regimen of tests. Blood tests every day. Weighing diapers. Tests that required immobilization. Doctors parade through, each expecting their turn to examine him in every way.
You can imagine the fear that developed, to needles and being restrained, to the uncomfortable, painful, and sleep-disturbing presence of rotating medical suits . All pretending to be nominally nice, at best, some just expecting to put in the needle with as much sensitivity as placing a stick into unfeeling putty.
Not a single test yielded any helpful information. Not one. A rare moment of bedside manner might serve for a moment of sympathy, but true insight or a truly helpful practical plan were never an outcome of the medical torture. Nothing helped.
Medical torture. An almost 2 year old comes into the hospital crying with unbearable joint pain. The only minimal but necessary comfort is a bouncing embrace and endless singing that mom provides for days, non-stop, until it calms down. Strangers appear throughout the day, each expecting to touch the body anywhere they want, many without even asking permission not giving warning. A needle could happen anytime. These experiences happen while awake, but, if the poor exhausted kid manages to sleep a moment, that sleep is broken by the next person coming to undress him, handle his body as their right, restrain it, squeeze it, stick needles into it, and mother has to hand him over. Sometimes he is held forcibly, if he screams and struggles. Placed into a claustrophobic machine, alone, strapped down, passed out from fear, while I tried to sing to him from outside.
A desperate parent submits at first. These are the people who have seen this, who can figure it out, who can find a way to help. We'll put up with it because the baseline is pain and fear, so we can put up with pain and fear in order to resolve the unbearable pain that we came in with. If anyone can help, it must be them. Right?
But, then the betrayal becomes too clear to ignore. There is no help. Nothing is suggested that will help. Needles, confinement, ownership over the body at any hour in any way. The authority of the medical professional is a ruse, a rude, a coat, an inscrutable non-communication that relies upon the faithful having faith. Faith feeds submission. Faith that surely there is a good reason for it, a wise mind, a depth of knowledge, a medical meaning that means something related to feeling better! At the very least, in the hour of most need, faith that there is in the medical uniform a heart for helping, a human hand that is also humane. Every step on the path to "help" is painful, intrusive, disrespectful, traumatic; the treatment is torture.
The bedside manner no longer facilitates keeping in down this dark dark road. It is as though the good cop - bad cop dynamic turns transparent. Even a kindly face cannot make a bad system good. Authority emptied is...what?
The etymological roots of the diagnosis "chronic idiopathic juvenile rheumatoid arthritis" mean that a child is observably in pain, and nobody knows why, and it keeps happening. They have no clue, and they are taking us for a horrific ride to nowhere.
The betrayal is ultimate. We needed help. They hurt us and damaged us for life. They convinced me to do it to my own child, the one I would never betray. The one I would die for myself without hesitation. I didn't even know when I was supposed to see it and know better. These experiences have no undoing, and seemingly no end. I can see the fallout decades later.
One day in the children's hospital, the nurse came. The little boy was finally sleeping, after so many hours of crying in pain. Isn't it obvious that those in pain need rest, reprieve? A needle?! Now?! Again?! Right here in bed, in Mom's arms, where he should be able to feel safe.
No
No.
No.
A doctor comes. We're doing a test. Well, what will that be like for the little one? Immobilized, painful, long. And what will the results of it tell us? What action will we take depending on the results? Nothing. It would tell us nothing, of no utility, with no helpful potential. And, so, you want to subject a helpless child to a long painful invasive procedure, by himself, tied up tight, closed in, and you cannot even make a case for why?
No
No
No
After 3 and a half months the flare ups stop happening. Doctor checkup. Mother directs the doctor: you have to first tell us what you want to do, before you do it, and wait for our consent. You have to say how you wish to touch my child and wait for permission, BEFORE you do it. Vaccine time.
No
No
No
I cannot provoke an immune system that, to my limited understanding, has behaved in such a painful way.
I don't know if the arthritis was provoked by vaccines. At that time before arthritis it did not occur to me to question them. There is a massive vaccination that occurs at 18 months, and likely that appointment happened sometime after that marker, not long before.
Shortly after that appointment, whenever it was that it happened exactly, my child became very sick. Fever, vomiting, diarrhea, enough to go to the emergency room and be given iv liquids. The next month, arthritis seemingly out of nowhere.
I don't know, but, no more shots. The medical faith was dispelled.
Somewhere way back in the Unbekoming archive is an interview that I did, related this child deciding he was a woman, my failure of the trans affirmation test, and my excommunication from his life. It describes my own health crisis, and gratefully, it's resolution. Ironically, or fittingly, I suffered from arthritis myself during this crisis, as well as extreme bleeding, an insightful and pivotal white coat encounter, and ended with a profound and rapid resolution of the health problem.
Mikhaila Peterson also was diagnosed with RA at a very young age and went through a great deal of hardship.
Fortunately for her, there was a happy ending, once she discovered a strict carnivore diet. But not before she endured a lot of suffering.
Lion Diet!!
How very sad and painful.
Medicine has, for so many, become a torture chamber, for patient and doctor alike.
What a heartbreaking story. I am so very sorry your son has chosen not to be in your life. Hugging you.
Thank you for caring to say so.
Do you happen to have a link to your interview that you mentioned? I would really like to listen to it.
I did find it. It is somewhat circuitous, but, oh well. It is not audio, though. Unbekoming has a very private interview method, which is in written format. Let me know what comes up for you upon reading it, if you do read it.
https://unbekoming.substack.com/p/the-trans-test?utm_source=share&utm_medium=android&r=8vck8
Wow. I was so moved (and enlightened) by your interview. You’re a very beautiful writer, Runa. I love the unique way you articulated such deep and difficult thoughts and experiences. As I said, it was very moving.
Have you had pain in your knees since the initial resolution of symptoms? I ask (and it’s one of the reasons I was very interested in your interview) because I had an experience recently where within one hour of finding out my friend had died from cancer, one of my toes seemed to have an arthritic attack. It became swollen, red, and extremely painful. It’s a couple of weeks later now and it’s still swollen and sore, though not acutely painful anymore, however various finger joints are flaring up as well now.
The toe that flared up is a toe that was flared up about 8 years ago for about a year, however it had had zero pain since then - until receiving the news that my friend had died. I have also had one sore and swollen joint in a little finger on and off since having my most recent baby a couple of years ago, but I have never experienced multiple finger joints being sore and swollen the way I have the last two weeks. I'm so curious about the connection between this "flare up" and the news that my friend had died... and whatever other emotional influences might have been at play. I feel I am beginning a journey of discovery, but am unsure in this moment exactly where to start. But your own story gives me hope and surety that I as well can understand my body's wisdom.
I have had knee pain since then. I even had some knee pain prior to the time in the story. I've danced a lot. Maybe that pain is talking to me at times. It is so much more modest now. It is more like waking up in the night to reset my position sometimes, put a pillow between my legs. I wouldn't say I never ever feel anything again, but now like I have a relationship that is pretty easy. I can sleep amazingly and do plenty of life-ful movement.
I've gotten a little "magical" with my thinking. I will happily talk to me knee if needed and just tell it whatever encouragement it might need. If something comes to mind that needs attention, I just stop the rational disbelieving mind and say, "why not?" If cleaning my house seems like it will help with a seemingly unrelated problem, I'll just invite them to be of help to each other. Lol!
I am slowly perusing a book by Beata Jencks, "Biofeedback". It is both imaginative and useful. Lots of fun.
We can talk more if you like. I have to go
I can tell you are a great friend to whoever is so fortunate to have, or have had you. The generous regard you do quickly offered to me must have also touched your friend who passed. I would like to imagine that all of the ways that we touch each other, friends to each other, mothers and children, all of the paths walked together, are profoundly continued even in the passing through of death. I don't understand all of how, but it feels natural and easy for me to imagine it this way.
My daughter often worries about me dying. The more that I love her, the more certain I feel that there is this contiguous path, or that, somehow a loving hand's touch by its true nature is so immediate and forever and going through to everything of me and her, both physical and of fleet spirit. I just know that even as I give myself 100% to living, that there is just no way around the obvious truth that there is goodness in and between and beyond that cannot be stopped. It's just going to keep going and touching and walking.
Oh thank you for finding it! I prefer to read than listen so this is perfect for me. Thank you again and I will definitely let you know my thoughts after I read it.
That's completely brilliant, the best article on the subject I've yet seen.
Unbekoming, After getting this article in my inbox this morning, I immediately forwarded it to my dad, whose not exactly a young guy, but a guy who's willing to listen. Here is his comment back. I am posting under my account because I did not want to try and talk him thru the steps to do it himself.
Russ,
I had an appointment with my rheumatologist, yesterday. She was "pleased" when I told her about your substack. Thought it was rather ironic to see this article the next day. I've been able to read most of it - great stuff (sounds like you). Also wanted you to know how much I appreciate all of your research over 30+ years. Guess you must have garnered some of that curiosity from those old sets of encyclopedias we used to have around the house. -Dad
Also, Unbekoming, thanks for your breakdown of Price's N&D (not to mention Jethro Kloss's Back to Eden) - I own both. People are familiar with Price's book, but few people have heard of Kloss - I am VERY impressed. Would love to see you tackle Becker's Body Electric if you haven't done so yet. Thanks for all you do.
Thanks Russell and appreciate your fathers comment
Here is Becker
https://unbekoming.substack.com/p/the-body-electric?r=lo15j&utm_campaign=post&utm_medium=web
Stupid me, Unbekoming. I doubt I am able to come up with a classic you haven't written on. Incredible!
I would love to see any thing on Hulda Clark .
I did a VERY brief post on parasites 12 years ago where I mentioned Clark (https://doctorschierling.com/blog/parasites-in-america), but other than that, I've never written about her. It will be up to Unbekoming.
I think it was, some 3 months or so ago, because I bought it and read it (almost, I skipped some animal issues).
In whose interest is it that the Mayo Clinic does not know the cause of rheumatoid arthritis..?
Cui buono..?
The mayo clinic page used to be my go-to, until they chose the side of the vaxxinators. I used to support the Mcdonald houses. Until they blocked the uvaxxed from coming. We finally saw the real face of some of these 'well' institutions.
I see a doc only when everything else fails. And now our vet, whom I thought was quite good, messed up twice in a row. I am now also doctoring my dog, and just got a cat back to health (yoghurt and salmon did it).
The body attacking itself? What a crock of BS. This is another reason why I abhor the modern stone age medical mafia. Why would the body be designed to attack itself? In the same manner, why would the body create an excess of cholesterol to clog the arteries and present a heart attack?
We are constantly told that doctors are some of the smartest people in the universe...oh really? You couldn't tell by the stupidity they engorge themselves with. It's outright foolish to trust organizations like the Mayo Clinic...another controlled anti-health clown show.
Thank you, awesome advice to live by 💥💟💥
Wow, this article was super helpful.
One other therapeutic to consider here, niacinamide. Kaufman found that taken in high doses, throughout the day, it was highly beneficial for arthritis.
Incredibly important and helpful article - thank you🙏🏼
My cousin’s eight-year-old daughter died from rheumatoid arthritis. The tragedies caused by the medical establishment’s subservience to pharmaceutical influence make me heartsick. It seems there is a supreme lack of curiosity and scientific inquiry among our physicians.
Such is the medical profession.
https://baldmichael.substack.com/p/medical-profession-whats-in-the-phrase?utm_source=publication-search
What Is Rheumatoid Arthritis?
Vaxx injury is what. Considering there is little to no mention of it in six thousand years of written history before the year 1800 that is...
same as with so many other diseases - men was not meant to put needles in his skin, certainly not injecting all kind of stuff that is not for ingestion, let go injection! With all the chemical garbage injected, ingested, sprayed, it is no wonder people get sicker. Back to small farms, back to nature, is what we need. Done with all the BIG.
Thank you! So good to hear this read!!
You mentioned Hashimotos in here as an autoimmunity. How would I know if I still have it or just being hypothyroid means I do? I have arthritis but not sure if it's RA. I've had PMR three times and I've been on prednisone for 10 months and should be off it next month. So I'm not sure where I am pain wise. I wish I knew what kicks it off each time. I don't eat any processed foods or eat out at all. Eat my own soudough breads. Don't get any vaccines. I've used cbd, DMSO, and a little caster oil on my joints. They seem to work for me. I'm 73 yo and still pretty active.
RA affects joints simultaneously. When I first came down with RA, it was in my knees and they were very red and hot to the touch. I have used DMSO, CDS along with castor oil. It hel0s some but doesn't put me in remission. CBD ointment does nothing for me. I think I have gone down almost every rabbit hole!
Margo, like you, I've been doing ALL the rabbit holes. Every suggestion in this article I've been doing for 15 years, at least until I developed an Alpha Gal allergy which severely impacted my organ consumption. And guess what? None of it has worked. If I stop doing all these things, I do feel worse, for sure, but staying clean as a whistle has done nothing to prevent my joint destruction. I'm glad you benefit from DMSO somewhat. I gives me horrible insomnia (I have the same reaction to MSM though, and DMSO converts to that in the body, so that must be why), so I have never been able to use it for long enough to see much benefit. CBD is basically worthless as far as I can tell. Boron also does nothing for me, though I keep taking it as part of my mineral complex in any case. I never had dental work to start with. Anyhow, my heart goes out to you, but I feel it's necessary to say for the masses: this article is a great starting point, but for some patients, there's an X factor that we haven't found yet. I firmly believe that.
Yes! Loved that last sentence, so true! I keep waiting for the heavens to part and sing Hallelujah! CBD cream etc doesn't help much with the pain. I keep thinking what is the missing link because it has to be right under my nose!
Any possibility some combination of fenbendazole and ivermectin could help you?
I feel the same, and if you figure it out, shout it from the rooftops girl! :)
Another rabbit hole to go down is try boron. A pinch of Borax in a liter of water or, make a base Borax with 1 t spoon of Borax in 1 liter of warm water. Then take 5 ml of the base in 8 oz of water twice a day. It will strengthen bones and maybe cure arthritis. Maybe why I haven't gotten bad arthritis.
I have tried it but didn't get any results. Maybe I'll try again!
That's awesome. I love the quotable quote "A condition whose cause is officially unknown is a condition whose cause has been ruled out of the search".
May I add this snippet of information ..
When you mentioned the 2002 paper by David and Mark Geier, and that the onset of arthritis was "eleven days after the rubella shot and sixteen days after the hepatitis B shot" I immediately thought of the work of Viera Schiebner as she detailed in her book Vaccination: 100 Years of Orthodox Research (1993).
She describes inventing with her husband a "Cotwatch breathing monitor" to aid in understanding cot death.
The device (quote from Leo AI)
"identified specific "critical days" following vaccination when the risk of adverse events, including death, is heightened.
The data from her Cotwatch breathing monitor led her to describe a three-stage stress response in infants after vaccination:
1. Alarm reaction: Occurs within the first 1-2 days.
2. Stage of resistance: Peaks around days 5 to 7.
3. Stage of exhaustion: Occurs around day 16.
She identified this 16th day as a critical point of exhaustion and heightened risk, it's when the deaths occur". End quote.
I recall from reading the book 30 years ago that the deaths were at about 7 days post vaccination, also about 14 days. It seemed there was a shock cycle in the body that reverberated at those intervals.
Fascinating story, reminded me that some 30 years ago my mother, whose thumbs and fingers were crippled with arthritis had all of her teeth pulled out, and slowly but surely her arthritis disappeared