ARTHRITIS: CORTISONE PROVIDED BY NATURE
Under favourable circumstances of correct diet, our adrenal glands can create very small quantities 199 of cortisone every day. Without this minute supply, everyone would be an arthritic. We all must have this hormone, but victims of arthritis require a certain type of cortisone which has heavier consistency. Why?
Arthritics need a special “heavier” cortisone containing a “sticky quality.” (This kind of cortisone can be obtained only by adding vitamin D oil to our daily diet.) What does the “stickiness” accomplish for our joints? It holds the lubricating oils in place and prevents them from seeping away from the joints.
A similar action is believed to take place in our connective tissues which surround our joints, as well as in the joint linings that we have been discussing.
Connective tissues contain collagen, a glue-like substance. Cortisone may increase the consistency of collagen—add an even greater “sticky quality.” In other words, cortisone will help hold oils in their proper place throughout this whole general area. The very area where an arthritic needs oil most.
Many medical experts now agree on the use of cortisone. Dr. R. H. Freyberg, a specialist at New York Hospital in Manhattan, believes that cortisone may have a working relationship with those tissues of our body known as “connective tissues.”
The present popularity of cortisone to combat arthritis is due to Dr. Freyberg and other outstanding rheumatologists throughout the United States. They have been champions of this drug, and have conducted extensive research to prove its effectiveness. The widespread use of cortisone today is a tribute to their initiative, when we stop to think that it was introduced to the medical world only a very few years ago.
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