OSTEOARTHRITIS

Now when it comes to osteoarthritis we’re talking about events or circumstances that shock, damage, or exert excessive pressure and wear on the joints. Even normal but vigorous sports activities, not just injuries, can trigger the arthritic process. So can an automobile accident or a fall. So can working a jackhammer or regularly operating a keyboard. The former can seriously damage your joints and the latter can result in carpal tunnel syndrome.

Things like that are not hard to identify. And what would happen if someone were to take CMO shortly after such events?

Remember, we already know the arthritic process can start when macrophages encounter damaged or unhealthy cartilage and start their cleanup job, and then report their activities back to the Memory T-cells that program autoimmune processes. Well, there it is, the beginning of the autoimmune process that can result in arthritis sometime sooner or later.

Please note that we say can, not will, because it may be that every such event does not trigger the autoimmune arthritic process. But we well know that the great majority of athletes, jackhammer operators, and joint trauma victims do eventually develop arthritis in the affected joints. We see or hear from them every day.

But could CMO have nipped it in the bud? The answer is, as before, probably. There’s very likely a matter of timing involved. If a course of CMO capsules were taken only once before the whole macrophage cleanup action was completed, then the ongoing cleanup process would continue to affect the Memory T-cells and the autoimmune arthritic process would probably still be triggered.

But if the course of CMO capsules were taken after the whole macrophage cleanup process was completed, then it would probably correct the existing Memory T-cell programming and halt the arthritic process before it ever reached a stage where any symptoms would ever become evident. That would be true, of course, only if their were no additional traumas or damage to the areas.

On the other hand, for those who suffer repeated joint trauma, it is likely that taking CMO a couple times a year could well prevent arthritis from ever occurring. Or it could be taken after the events are no longer likely to occur – like retiring from football or changing jobs.