Lynne McTaggart - Arthritis: Drug-Free Alternatives to Prevent and Reverse Arthritis

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Most of us accept that, as we get older, well be more likely to start suffering from aches and pains. Even in early middle age, many people suffer back pain that is so severe that they have to take time off work.

We may not even call it arthritis: it might start out as a twinge that just gets progressively worse. Only half of us even bother to see a doctor about our aches and pains, most likely because, like the medical profession, we are resigned to accept it as an unwelcome consequence of growing older. Its just wear and tear, as our family doctor might put it.

But these worn-out joints have reached pandemic levels in the Western world. A chronic condition that bedevils conventional medicine, its one of the most common diseases associated with old age, and one of the biggest causes of disability at any time of life.

An estimated 10 per cent of the worlds population over the age of 60 currently displays osteoarthritis symptoms. Arthritis can strike at any age, within any ethnic population although according to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention in the USA, Hispanics, Asians and Pacific Islanders are almost half as likely to develop the disease as non-Hispanic whites and non-Hispanic Afro-Americans.

According to the National Health Interview Survey in 2011, more than 50 million people in the United States reported having been diagnosed with some form of arthritis, including some 300,000 children. The situation is no better in Britain, where unofficial estimates suggest that nine out of every 10 people will suffer from it in some form before they die.