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Reddish-brown in colour—and weighing on the average 1700 grams (three and a half pounds)—the liver is situated to the right of the stomach and astride the small intestine.
Like every organ in the body, the liver has duties that are varied and complex. Here is a summary of what the liver does:
Involved in maintaining water balance in the body.
Formation and secretion of bile.
Involved in anti-body formation.
Deals with blood formation.
Concerned with acid-base balance.
Detoxifies foreign organic compounds.
Concerned with some hormones.
Deals with enzyme action.
Participation in vitamin metabolism.
Metabolism of inorganic salts, carbohydrates, protein compounds.
And extremely important to arthritics— metabolism of oils!
So, now you can see why the liver is referred to as the pantry of the human anatomy.
More than 500 different chemical actions are known to take place in this gland. All this activity is fostered by the location of the liver, which gives it first choice of just about everything you eat.
Serving, as it does, as the gateway to circulation within our body, the liver can gobble up the choicest particles of our food—without any protest from the rest of our anatomy.
The exception to this dictatorship by the liver is dietary oil.
Any oil leaving your stomach does not necessarily have to enter this toll-gate known as the liver. The oil does have an opportunity to by-pass the greedy liver.
It is this chance to shuttle oils around the liver that arthritics should take advantage of. Certainly one organ should not be allowed to benefit at the expense of adding to our arthritis pains. If we have the common sense to maintain good eating habits, we can have healthy livers—and healthy cartilages and joint linings as well.
Here’s how. How to get oils past the liver . . . so they can lubricate arthritic joints. . . .
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My first question to Dr. Essen concerned the meaning of the term biological medicine. The concept of biological medicine is very exactly defined by Dr. Essen in Vidi Nova, a special publication for biological medicine issued by him, which deals with the practical results of applied biological methods. As the foremost representative of biological medicine in Sweden and the leading spirit behind the new and growing movement of progressive doctors following the principles of biological medicine in their practice, Dr. Essen was indeed a man well qualified to answer my question: “What is biological medicine?”

“May I, instead of using dry, scientific definitions, illuminate this with a concrete example,” said Dr. Essen. “A doctor is treating a case of infectious disease by the conventional methods. The determining factor for a successful result of this kind of treatment is to identify the kind of bacteria considered responsible for the infection in question. When the intruder is identified, the patient is given a specific chemical or antibiotic drug, which, as a rule, accomplishes the immediate results: the bacteria are destroyed and the patient is free from symptoms.

“After a while, it may happen that the same patient will turn up with a new infection. The diagnosis shows that either it is a question of the same kind of bacteria, which this time, however, is already immune to the specific drug, or there are new bacteria involved. Accordingly, new and more potent drugs are prescribed, which bring about immediate results, as far as the fighting bacteria is concerned. But in spite of the “success” of the treatment, the patient’s resistance to infection seems to progressively weaken and various complications set in. Now, perhaps, such potent drugs as cortisone—pain-killer and symptom-remover—and other highly toxic synthetic drugs enter the picture. The body, already weakened by the disease, must now, in addition, cope with the toxic and damaging side effects of the poisonous drugs.

Then, one day, we stand by the deathbed surprised and shocked. The patient had received all the correct treatments in accordance with medical science’s conventional practices and regulations. The laboratory tests proved that we made no errors! Bacteria samples showed that the bacteria, which our treatment was aimed at, were ‘successfully’ eradicated. As far as the direct cause of the symptoms was concerned (the bacteria) our treatment was a complete success. The only problem was the patient died! We succeeded in killing the bacteria, but we failed to save the host organism, where our war on bacteria was so successful It also could be said that the treatment was successful, but unfortunately, as a result of the treatment and resultant complications, the patient died. Or, The operation was successful but the patient didn’t survive.’

“Now, actually, this kind of a result is not so surprising, is it?” continued Dr. Essen. “After all, what did we treat? Our treatment was directed at micro-organisms which we considered pathogenic or disease-causing. In the meantime, the biological environment for this micro-organism, the host organism, the living, delicate, sensitive, and easily damaged human body, has actually been completely neglected. The man hardly comes into the picture at all. What we actually treat today are diseases, not the diseased people. The sick body, however, is subject to very different biological laws than those which could be applied in primitive germ war with chemical and antibiotic germ-killers.

“A parallel to this can be seen in today’s damage and destruction of life and natural environments as a result of man’s indiscriminate use of insecticides and other poisonous chemicals. Is there any intelligent human being who is so naive as to assume that these poisons will be less devastating to the human body, with its endlessly more intricate and delicate living mechanism? The biological laws of life are quite different from the laws which regulate chemical reactions observed in laboratory tubes. When we fail to see the difference between the two, catastrophic conditions will be the result, and we have to accept the consequences of our unwise actions.”

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These problems are all very similar. Tennis players absorb the shock of the ball on their racquets at the elbow, golfers get it in the wrist, and skiers absorb the shocks from their poles in their arms and shoulders.

Their knees also get a good workout. Football, hockey, and soccer players get knocked about all over.

Athletes and former athletes are among our most numerous and most contented users of CMO. Often their problems don’t show up for years, but when they do they can be crippling. CMO functions very well in reversing arthritic problems caused by sports injuries. Athletes are always amazed at the relief they get with CMO.

We’ve said before that arthritis starts long before any symptoms appear. It starts the moment macrophages are called upon to clean up the debris of damaged cartilage. It may take years, even dozens of years, before the destruction of cartilage reaches the point where it is felt as a painful symptom.

We feel quite certain these impact related arthritic problems could be nipped in the bud if CMO were used as a preventive. Taken occasionally during an athlete’s active phases CMO could alter the arthritic process very early on so as to prevent arthritis from ever developing. Unfortunately, it will take a twenty or thirty year study to confirm that theory.

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