Arthritis & Inflammation Reframed. Inflammation Comes First. Joint Breakdown Follows. (en Inglés) - Scott Woodworth ND

The textbook says osteoarthritis is non-inflammatory - wear and tear, mechanical and structural breakdown. Yet anti-inflammatory medications often reduce the pain substantially, and the medical literature has been quietly documenting, for over a decade, that many "osteoarthritis" cases carry a real inflammatory component the standard workup does not detect.

The same picture extends across the inflammatory arthritis conditions - rheumatoid arthritis, psoriatic arthritis, ankylosing spondylitis. The inflammation is real. The question is what is feeding it.

Drawing on twenty-five years of clinical practice and the published research, Inflammation & Arthritis Reframed walks through that question. The clinical reframe that distinguishes mechanical change from inflammatory disease. The mechanism, molecular mimicry, that connects specific foods in a patient's diet to the inflammation in their joints. The structured investigation that identifies, for any individual patient, what their specific triggers are.

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Written in plain language for the patient, with the published research grouped at the back for the reader or clinician who wants to follow up. For anyone who has been told their joint disease can only be managed, this book argues that the inflammation has a source, the source can be identified, and the work of identifying it is worth doing.

Dr. Scott Woodworth, BSc, ND, is a Naturopathic Doctor with over twenty-five years of clinical practice focused on chronic inflammatory and immune-mediated conditions. He is the author of the Chronic Inflammation and Your Diet series and practices through ImmuneND.com.