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# From Jan Kwasniewski: Homo Optimus #
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RHEUMATOID ARTHRITIS



It is an auto-aggression disease which is caused by a certain type of diet. It is a serious disease which very often leads to permanent disability, quite often to a serious degree of incapacity. There are at least 10 variations of the disease, including one affecting children also known as Still-Chauffard disease. The acute type of rheumatoid arthritis (RA) ends with the death of the sufferer within a short time. The current treatments are very expensive, the drugs are not very effective, giving different results in different patients. Some drags can improve the condition of the patient, (e.g, gold) others, although temporally helpful, do cause serious side effects. Currently the disease is being treated symptomatically. The causal treatment is optimal nutrition because the main cause of all auto-aggression diseases is incorrect nutrition. This treatment is successful in every case. The health and the general condition of the patient are always improved. This treatment always results in a reduction of the ESR, and a reduction or withdrawal of pain. A complete cure, without the recurrence of symptoms, can be achieved in most cases. A child aged 7, suffering since the age of 3 years, was brought to me in 1970. For the previous 4 years her health had been getting progressively worse as she went through a number of clinics and hospitals. The girl was however, pleasant, patient and trusting; she allowed me to have her blood sample taken. Her 1-hour ESR was 130. During the consultation Prof. Wanda Werminska entered my surgery. When I addressed her: "Dear Professor, please have a look at this child", the girl froze and changed into a frightened animal; she started to shake and to sob loudly. For her the term "professor" was associated with a lot of pain and suffering based on her experiences from visits to numerous specialists! The girl was a daughter of a forest administrator. I visited her a month later. When I saw her, she was eating cottage cheese with a piece of pork rind. Already, after one month the pains were gone, her ESR was down to 42; after six months it was down to 2! I decided to visit the clinic of the professor who decided to let her go home to die. I presented the results of girl's treatment and the results of other patients suffering from RA whom I have successfully treated. I suggested: "Why do you not try, maybe you can help those who needlessly suffer, these poor children who can 149be saved from being crippled". The professor had a dumb-looking face and was at least 30 kg overweight. He obviously felt threatened. His methods of treatment, although not successful, were threatened. And of course, he did not agree to the collaboration as did not dozens of other professors and specialists whom I had approached with propositions of collaboration in the causal treatment of many diseases. I had to try. Maybe it would have worked. But it did not work. It could not have worked!


After 9 years the girl and her parents came to visit me in Ciechocinek. She was a beautiful and healthy girl. Almost all pathological changes in the joints had dissolved altogether Deformations of the spine and her posture had self-corrected. Only a shifted patella remained but was corrected surgically soon after.


Optimal nutrition is the causal treatment in RA, also known as progressive arthritis; in those on the diet it can be described as "regressive" arthritis. RA affects mainly the poor; it rarely affects the well-off. In the USA the incidence of RA is the lowest in the upper class white Protestant suburban neighbourhoods. In the populations living in the inner city (poorer) the incidence is much higher. A much higher incidence of RA was also observed in Blacks compared with the Whites, however the highest incidence occurred in the native Indian reservation populations.


The production of hormones in the body is governed by the supplied substrates or simply speaking - nutrients. With "trough-like" nourishment the quantity and the type of the produced hormones is different to that with "pasture-like" nourishment. Taking oral contraceptives causes similar effects to those produced by the oversupply of hormones due to a "trough-like" diet. When a patienl eating a "pasture-like" diet, and therefore suffering from RA, is given the hormones, which occur in excess with a "trough-like" diet, the patient's metabolism changes accordingly, to that which results from that type of diet. Consequently, certain changes in a patient's diet are forced-in by that hormonal change, to which both the patient and his medic are oblivious. Under the influence of encorton or dexamethasone, both of which have been used extensively in the "treatment" of RA, the condition of the patient improves, the ESR decreases, and the patient often puts on weight.


Smoking of cigarettes by RA sufferer increases the dominance of [he sympathetic system, narrows peripheral arteries, worsens the blood supply of peripheral tissues, exerts an effect on the diet pushing it towards the "pasture", which in its effect causes the acceleration of the disease. That is the effect of cigarettes at the dose, which causes stimulation of the sympathetic system, i.e, 10-15 a day. In those smoking 40 or more a day, or more than 25 for irregular smokers, paralysis of the sympathetic system occurs; consequently the domination of the parasympathetic system develops and a beneficial effect for RA is achieved. Those suffering from RA typically smoke cigarettes in the number which stimulates the sympathetic system. Obviously, they should not try to increase the number to 40 or more. Their bodies are weak, devastated by the disease, and have no reserves. The beneficial effect may be minor or might not occur at all because of the damaging properties of cigarettes.


The causal treatment consists of the optimal diet. Of course, the diet has to be modified somewhat. It has to include far more collagen: cartilage, jelly, pigs' hocks, tripe, lungs and - egg yolks. The most necessary are thick stock soups — the best is beef stock. The meat, and ihe cartilage too has to be cooked for a long time until it is very soft. Different types of pressed jelly-meats are excellent, the best are ones with blood. They also accelerate the treatment of anaemia so often present in RA sufferers. One has to make sure to eat a lot of fat: butter, cream, lard, pork rind and bacon. Pig's skin is recommended. One has to eat as much as wanted. The amount of food should not be limited. However one should never "overeat". The ESR should decrease at the rate of 40% every two weeks. Joint pains should abate within a few, or a dozen days. The dosage of drugs should then be reduced and later stopped. The use of the selective currents stimulating the parasympathetic system markedly accelerates the treatment of RA. Nevertheless, cold feet and hands, so typical in RA, will receive more blood after a certain period of time with the help of the diet alone.


The new diet improves the supply of the whole body in nutrients almost immediately, but as is the case in any society, so too in the body, there are always those that are equal and those that are more equal. The privileged organs scoop the benefits first and intensively regenerate themselves whilst using a lot of energy. Therefore, at the 750 151beginning tissues that are less well-supplied miss out - they have to wait their turn. However, to aid their supply we enrich the diet in the very materials needed by these less privileged tissues, the products I have mentioned above. Thus, initially the proportion of protein to fat should be approx. 1 g : 2 g, respectively. Later, when the 1-hour ESR falls to 30, the proportion should be changed to 1 g of protein to 4-5 g of fat.


In cases when the sympathetic system has an overall advantage within the body, the selective PS currents are applied to the central nervous system in order to rapidly remove that influence. The currents are also applied to the peripheral areas such as the legs, the hands or sometimes the spine, in order to rapidly remove the narrowing of the arteries and thus increase the regional blood supply. Typically, the selective current treatment is sufficient when applied only once. The benefits should last for about one year, and that period of time should be sufficiently long for all the symptoms of the disease to recede; the deformities of the affected joints should either be repaired or markedly improved.


Is the diet able to cure every RA sufferer? In more than 90% of cases - yes! But there are exceptions. Surgical treatment is needed for those with advanced deformations and muscle contractions. However, that has to wait until the 1-hour ESR falls to between 10 and 20. Quite often the pathological function and/or the overgrowth of the synovial sack are present. In such a case surgical removal is necessary. If more than one joint is affected the operation may not be very successful - the symptoms of RA, although reduced, will persist.


During the first 2 years of the existence of Arkadia, 234 RA sufferers, 213 women and 21 men, were admitted for treatment. The average age at which RA developed was 40.3 years (2-64). The most common coexistent disease was neurasthenia and incontinence - only in women. Infrequent coexistent cases of hypertension, coronary heart disease, ulcer, migraine, sclerosis of the upper or lower arteries (3 cases only) occurred in patients who were treated for lengthy periods with steroids. Within the group of those not treated with steroids, there were single cases of scleroderma, inoperable cancer, lupus erythematosus, MS and ALS, Raynaud's syndrome, or diseases from the group of so-called "pasture-origin" syndromes.


The results of the treatment were the following: neurasthenia was aired in all (44) patients, incontinence in 38 (only women); these patients were cured with the help of SVU currents. Cases of hypertension, migraine and ulcer were also cured. Those RA patients who were pathologically thin put on weight from 1 to 5 kg during (he 12-day treatment period. The obese ones lost on average 3.7 kg. From day one of the stay, medications were withdrawn in 190 patients. For others, the amount of drugs taken was reduced 17-fold. During the slay, the pain had stopped in 88 patients, was markedly reduced in 132, failed to reduce in 4 even though the ESR was down in these patients. The mean ESR on day one of the stay was 54.9 (2-149), on day 12 it was 31.7 (0-113). The average fall of the ESR was 23.1 or 42%. All patients reported that they no longer felt cold; all pathological changes including oedema, muscle spasms, joint deformities, skin ulcerations, etc., resolved or improved markedly. Rapid and marked improvements in the psychophysical condition of all patients were observed. Only two patients from the total of 234 reported deterioration of their health at home; in both cases they abandoned the optimal diet.