Excerpt reprinted from a memo released by Dr. Len Sands, Director of the San Diego International Immunological Center

The Arthritis Process Step-By-Step with CMOT Intervention

• 1. Infection, trauma, or excessive wear affects some joints. (Usual infections are rheumatic fever, flu, or bacteria. Traumas include auto wrecks, falls, sports injuries, etc. Excessive joint wear comes from being overweight, or from repetitive stress such athletic exertion, use of keyboards, jackhammers, etc.)

• 2. #1 causes damaged or infected cartilage particles to become dislodged. This happens regardless of whether it's "osteo" or "rheumatoid" or "reactive" arthritis.

• 3. Macrophages of the immune system begin cleanup of dislodged cartilage particles.

• 4. Macrophages report their activities to dormant memory T-cells (m/T-cells).

• 5. Dormant m/T-cells programs activate and develop aggressive anti-cartilage cleanup programs, which do not distinguish between healthy and damaged cartilage.

• 6. The m/T-cells programs stimulate more macrophage activity, which in turn activates even more dormant m/T-cells.

• 7. Increased m/T-cell population stimulates even more macrophage activity, and the self-perpetuating cycle of cartilage destruction expands. Because m/T-cell programs don't limit macrophage activity to damaged cartilage only, destruction of healthy cartilage also occurs. It has developed into a destructive autoimmune syndrome. But, until sufficient cartilage has been destroyed, symptoms are not evident. The initiating factor (infection, trauma, or wear) may have disappeard months or even years ago, but the destructive autoimmune process remains active. It is self-perpetuating and no longer dependent upon the initiating factor.

• 8. The cycle is compounded by the fact that the mechanism which should deactivate certain m/T-cells (those that have completed their mission) fails to function, because the constant restimulation of the m/T-cells keeps them active. So now there is an overabundance of m/T-cells propelling macrophage cartilage destruction. The immune system is totally out of control and massive cartilage destruction begins. Early symptoms of pain and inflammation appear.

• 9. Cartilage destruction accelerates. The cycle reaches critical mass. Macrophages are now scouring the body to find and destroy any cartilage anywhere it can be found. Symptoms become more severe. Pain, inflammation, and joint deformity appear at new sites as they suffer macrophage attacks.

• 10. Symptoms of pain, stiffness, swelling, nodules, and deformation often reach intolerable and crippling levels - especially as joint cartilage disappears and bone-on-bone erosion occurs. Conventional arthritis medications take their toll on the liver, kidneys, and heart. Normal life span is often shortened by up to ten or twenty years from both the ravages of arthritis and side effects of medications used.

Dr. Len Sands, PhD, now deceased, was the clinic director of the San Diego Immunological Center and the author of the books Arthritis Defeated at Last - the REAL Arthritis Cure and Arthritis Beaten Today, which have been translated into five languages so far, including Chinese.

After ten years working on classified government projects, Dr. Sands began his direct active participation in clinical matters in 1970, as an associate of Manhattan Fifth Avenue Clinic in New York City. Within the next four years, he opened and became the owner and director of six medical clinics, as well as acquiring Southland General Hospital in Texas. Later, he opened two medical clinics in Mexico. He became involved in medical research projects concerning autoimmune diseases, viral diseases, diabetes, and cancer.

By the mid-1980s, he was thoroughly disillusioned by the limitations of conventional medicine and spent the next ten years traveling the world researching innovative therapies involving both conventional and alternative medicines, especially seeking those which were documented by exacting clinical trials in the major European countries. He also explored many unconventional as well as documented therapies in various Asian, Middle Eastern, Latin American, and Oceanic countries.

As clinical director of the San Diego Immunological Center, he encouraged his researchers and medical staff to specialize in what he calls "curing the incurable" - diseases for which convetional medicine offers no hope of remedy.

Curing the Incurable was the title of a one-hour interactive weekly radio program Dr. Sands hosted in 1997.

Early in his career, he produced scientific and marketing material for industrial corporations, as well as for Parke-Davis and the pharmaceutical division of the Dow Chemical Company and others.

It was Dr. Sands' own bone-grinding arthritis that prompted him to relentlessly prod his research associates into finally finding a lasting cure for arthritis. The research resulted in the development of the world's first and only true immunomodulator, a naturally occurring substance that should impact the course of medical history, but probably won't since it is not a patented medicine. However, it certainly is changing the way autoimmune diseases will be addressed in the future.

That discovery, CMOT (cerasomal-cis-9-cetylmyristoleate) in 1995, is proving to be of great value for numerous other incurable diseases with strong autoimmune factors, like multiple sclerosis, fibromyalgia, lupus, ALS (Lou Gehrig's Disease), emphysema, Crohn's disease, scleroderma, sarcoidosis, and myasthenia gravis, among others. It is also relieving or curing ankylosing spondylitis, psoriasis, carpal tunnel syndrome, prostate inflammation, Sjogren's syndrome, TMJ, Behcet's syndrome, macular degeneration, Reiter's syndrome, sciatica, tendonitis, and more - all of which have strong autoimmune components.

CMOT is now being used to treat autoimmune diseases on every continent in the world. As its phenomenal success with these diseases uncovers more options, the research goes on. Nothing would have pleased Dr. Sands more, including the continuing research and clinical studies on even more diverse incurable diseases.

Therapies using CMOT combined with the proper supportive nutritional products and proper diet for a minimum of the first 30 days have been proven to be beneficial for all autoimmune diseases like those mentioned above, plus muscular dystrophy, chronic fatigue syndrome, Alzheimer's, Parkinson's, Raynaud's, hypertension, and heart and vascular diseases, as well as ridding the body of conditions caused by environmental, dental amalgam, medicinal, chemical, metallic, and other toxins.

CMOT is the world's first and only true adaptogenic autoimmune immunomodulator product.

CMOT is not an immunosuppressant or an immunostimulant. CMOT is considered "adaptogenic", meaning: it is capable of altering the course of a disease in a positive direction, because of its corrective and restorative immunomodulatory properites for autoimmune diseases and inflammatory processes. Other so-called "immunomodulators" are not true immunomodulators. They function as immunosuppressants or immunostimulants. They are capable of one principle action, either temporarily suppressing or stimulating immune function, not correcting or restoring it. CMOT, on the other hand, permanently corrects the programmed autoimmune attacks controlled by the memory T-cell (m/T-cells) themselves. That is why a single 30-day CMOT therapy program of three 90 caplsule bottles (270 caplets) (3 capsules, 3 times a day) ordinarily lasts indefinitely without any need to repeat the therapy or use any additional medications of any kind thereafter.

Some practitioners have theorized that, in the case of arthritis for example, CMOT merely acts upon pain receptors at the arthritic site. It that were so, their theory cannot explain why CMOT has the following effects:

• It benefits virtually any and all ailments associated with autoimmune diseases.
  
• It lowers blood sedimentation in lupus patients.
  
• It relieves certain symptoms of multiple sclerosis.
  
• It reverses lung inflammation in emphsema.
  
• It lowers the need for insulin in diabetics.
  
• It reverses prostate inflammation.
  
• It corrects Crohn's disease.
  
• It reverses fibromyalgia.
  
• It improves the health of ALS (Lou Gehrig's Disease) patients.
  
• It lowers high blood pressure, yet elevates low blood pressure.

CMOT is a general remedial immunomodulator that acts upon the memory T-cells, which control the autoimmune processes within our bodies. It is also important to understand the CMOT acts only upon memory T-cells and does not inhibit the activities of any of the several other types of T-cells that are responsible for combating infective microorganisms or invading substances. Unlike the immunosuppressants commonly used to try to temporarily control the symptoms of autoimmune diseases, CMOT does not leave the body vulnerable to attack by disease-causing agents. Neither does it inhibit the body's resistance to tumor formation, as do the dangerous new tumor necrosis factor (TNF) suppressants of some new arthritis drugs.

Authentic CMOT, as reasearched and developed by the San Diego Immunological Center is the primary ingredient of Dr. Jeff's Joint Health™

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Dr. Jeff's Joint HealthT which combines CMOT and MSM was developed using the combined research of Dr. Sands, Dr. Grange, Dr. Bennert, and a host of other professionals, who collectively believe this is the most effective combination of ingredients available on the market today to combat and prevent autoimmune disfunctions. It is important to follow the directions. Take 3 bottles, 90 count each, totalling 270 caplets for the first 30 days, three upon waking, one hour before eating, three one hour before lunch, and three before dinner. Dr. Jeff's Joint CreamT will help for immediate pain and dull aches. For full effectiveness follow the recommended diet, and on an ongoing basis supplement Dr. Jeff's Joint HealthT by drinking at least 1 1/2 quarts of Marine Bio Coral Calcium (scroll down the products list to "Sango Coral Calcium") treated distilled water daily and taking digestive enzymes RBC's Digestion Formula (Scroll down the list to "Digestion Formula"), Omega 3 Oil RBC's IQ (Scroll down the list to "I.Q."), anti-oxidants RBC's Microhydrin Plus (Scroll down the products list to "Microhydrin Plus") and Dr. Jeff's BioPro with SBOs (soil-based organisms).

After your condition is reversed, to maintain your health on a monthly basis, we recommend one bottle of Dr. Jeff's Joint HealthT and a monthly supply of the other support ingredients mentioned above.

The San Diego International Immunological Center (SDC) is a research and treatment facility and does not sell or benefit from the sale of CMOT or any other product. We do, of course, dispense CMOT and the supporting nutritionals to subjects enrolled in our studies and to clinic patients who may be part of our diagnosis and treatment programs. CMOT counterfeiters seem to show up every week. Most are hit and run artists and quickly disappear. CMOT is made in 6%, 11%, 40%, 50%, 80%, and 100%. It is difficult and confusing to know if you have found the real 100% authentic CMOT source or some ineffectivbe imitation.

The reliable sourse for authentic CMOT is Dr. Jeff's Joint HealthT and Dr. Jeff's Joint CreamT Use the "Products" link on the upper left of this page or the links within this article to find these products.

NOTE: This document is supplied for information and educational purposes only. It is not intended to recommend or prescribe any treatment for any condition or illness. Contact a doctor or medical professional who is trained in natural nutritional supplements before adding any new protocol or when starting any health or exercise program.

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