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Stephan Cooter, Ph.D.

Bone Spurs, Minerals, Herbs,

Sunshine, Color

by Stephan Cooter, Ph.D.

When I was experiencing intense pains in a frozen shoulder, I

followed my doctor’s advice to alleviate the problem: I exercised, I

stretched, and I used heat. But my pains were becoming much

worse.

My wife, seeing me in constant pain, suggested reversing my

strategies to that of using ice rather than heat, rest rather than exercise

and stretching, and to stop whatever new treatment had been advised

by my physician.

I had been diagnosed as an almost universal food reactor, aller-

gic to all foods but eggs, oats, and garlic, so I had just begun taking

allergy shots which involved minute doses of the food particles I

was allergic to. I stopped the shots, I used ice, and I rested. Sure

enough, my pains improved.

At the time, no one pointed out that frozen shoulder is fre-

quently connected with Rheumatoid Disease (RD) and has been

successfully treated with anti-amoebic [antimicroorganism] medica-

tions like copper sulfate and metronidazole [and other of the 5-n-

nitroimidazoles]. Dr. Roger Wyburn-Mason, The Causation of Rheu-

matoid Disease and Many Human Cancers

, 1983, believed he

had found a limax amoeba which he named Amoeba chromatosa

infesting areas of arthritic injury, resembling human macrophages in

both appearance and behavior among cellular debris in injured tis-

sue. [Ed. Note: This finding has never been verified, although the

treatment protocol derived from the hypothesis has been emminently

successful.]

Dr. Wyburn-Mason also noted that the Rheumatoid Disease

amoeba was attracted to heat. Ironically, orthodox heat-treatment for

RD involves everything I was told to do for my frozen shoulder, and

everything that is the exact opposite works for active arthritic prob-

lems. In active stages of RD, heat and exercise work against inflam-

mation and pain. Cold and rest work to help.

Unknowingly, I had happened on using one essential character-

istic of Wyburn-Mason's RD amoeba’s behavior to my advantage.

His Amoeba chromatosa was attracted to heat. Their thermotrophic

or heat-seeking behavior has been used to make RD amoeba migrate

out of inflammed human tissues. It could well be that this very

simple characteristic is partly why my use of ice worked to reduce

my pain. RD amoeba may have been driven into warmer territory, or

may have been put to sleep.

Are these hypothetical RD amoebas attracted to already injured

and hotly inflammed tissues, are they organisms responsible for

causing the inflammation in the first place, or are their by-products

additional causes of cartilege, joint, and other tissue injury? Whether

their by-products are free radical irritants like Candida albicans’

aldehydes, and whether these by-products bind with calcium to form

excessive mineral deposits are unanswered questions. The course of

RD is believed to be halted when the microbe [or some other un-

known organism] is killed, but mineral deposits remain at the sites of

injury. So the course of the disease is altered, but the aftermath of

earlier injury remains, and EDTA chelation therapy seems unable to

resolve the problem. [See "Candidiasis: Scourge of Arthritics" and

"Chelation Therapy," http://www.arthritistrust.org.]

One aftermath is bone spurs. Excess mineralization of bone

from one cause or another is assumed to be one player in Rheuma-

toid Disease bone spurs, and chelation therapy has been tried to

correct the problem. Ideally, chelation therapy takes heavy metal

toxins, other irritants, inorganic mineral deposits, cadmium, lead,

copper and calcium excesses out of the body’s tissues. The good

news is that it removes up to eighty percent of calcium plaques in the

peripheral arteries. Many symptoms dramatically improve because

of improved arterial volume and greater nourishment to all tissues.

Although pain levels and flexibility improve, it has not been reported

to have an effect on mineral deposits known as bone spurs or large

plaques in arteries.

Unfortunately, chelation also removes essential minerals at the

same time it removes deposits, and essential minerals are usually

added to the end of the chelation process. I have an awful suspicion,

though, that this approach may be almost the exact reverse of what

should be tried by many people suffering from Rheumatoid Disease

bone spurs.

John Mock, a friend of mine, had suffered from a painful shoul-

der for many years and had restricted his calcium intake assuming at

the time together with his health counselor that excessive calcium

partly precipitated the problem and was responsible for bone spurs

that showed up on his X-rays.

Laurie Marzell, N.D.

, suggested that his bone spurs were not

caused by excessive calcium but a calcium deficiency, and put him on

a supplement program of 1500 mg of calcium and 750 mg of magne-

sium each day. Six to eight months later, new X-rays revealed that

the bone spurs had dissolved along with the pain he used to feel in

his shoulder

Most authorities suggest that calcium-magnesium supplemen-

tation should be 2:1, two parts calcium to one part magnesium, just

as Gus J. Prosch, Jr., M.D.

, found effective in treatment of arthri-

tis, roughly the ratio found in dolomite 1.65:1 made from living

organic fossil remains. White, Handler, Smith and Stetton, in The

Principles of Biochemistry, recommend a 5:1 calcium-magnesium

ratio that these authors found to be normal for human physiology.

Now many physicians are recommending equal parts calcium and

magnesium. One ratio might work better for some than others.

From Supplement to The Art of Getting Well Cooter's Com-

ments: Sunshine Deficiency Diseases (Sunshine and Health);

Deadly Alkaloids in Pesticides; Sodium Fluoride: The Obedi-

Jack M.Blount Foundation for Eradication of Rheumatoid Disease

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