Arthritis-- When you see arthritic changes on your x-ray you are usually seeing the effects of two stages , the dissolving stage and the depositing stage. Either stage can dominate over time. Page found that when you take in a glob of sugar or refined carbohydrates the serum calcium goes up during a 24 hour period (depositing stage) and the serum phosphorus drops .Then unless more sugar or refined carbohydrate is taken in there is a rebound effect and the serum phosphorous rises to more than 40% of the serum calcium (dissolving stage). This is when the acute pain occurs. Page recommended a modified diabetic diet to help this condition. Actually, the Adkins diet that we hear so much about today was probably borrowed from Page’s work. Page also recommended taking trace minerals and B-complex because these items are usually lacking in a high sugar and refined carbohydrate diet. A quick fix for the pain of arthritis is to take a tablespoon of honey with each meal. It doesn’t have the deleterious effect that sugar has and it raises the serum calcium and lowers the phosphorous to help get you out of the painful stage. Page then went a step farther and recommended microhormone supplementation to optimize your calcium /phosphorous balance. Thus his treatment was microhormone supplementation, vitamins and trace minerals, and the modified diabetic diet. (His work was sustantiated with over 40,000 blood tests over 30 years.) To get his trace minerals and vitamins contact Nutritional Development at 1-800-741-5498