THE CURE FOR ALL DISEASES
Allergic Arthritis........................................................................
A prominent food toxin that is said to affect knees is piper-
ine, found in the pepper family which includes black and white
pepper (not cayenne). The Solanaceae family of plants (potatoes,
tomatoes, eggplant, tobacco!) also has a common “allergen” that
produces joint pain. Try going off these for two weeks to see if it
helps. Two more chemicals that can trigger arthritis-like pain are
hippuric acid and phenylisothiocyanate (PIT).
Your body makes large amounts of hippuric acid, up to a
gram a day. It is the product of benzoic acid detoxification by the
liver. Quite a few fruits contain natural benzoic acid. But we can
easily triple and quadruple our benzoic acid intake by consuming
commercial beverages and pastries where benzoic acid is used
as a preservative. It is indeed a “natural” preservative. All of it
must be detoxified, though, and this gives us way too much
hippuric acid. The kidneys are unable to excrete such overloads
of hippuric acid, so it distributes itself in our organs. I suspect a
simple mechanism could explain its pain-triggering action:
hippuric acid molecules could attach themselves to our cell's
conductance channels keeping the gates jammed open. This might
invite bacteria and viruses to enter there. But there are also
hippuric acid-loving bacteria that feed on it. Perhaps hippuric
acid can cause pain without the help of bacteria. This requires
further study. It is only sensible for persons with chronic pain not
to consume benzoic acid (or benzoate) preserved foods.
PIT is a food chemical found especially in chicken, eggs, the
cabbage family, peas. PIT is also part of the body's own chem-
istry, taking place in the liver, and involving detoxification of
cyanide-containing foods. Many vegetables, notably the cabbage
family, contain such cyanides, giving them protection from
insects, disease, and grazing animals. It can take the liver a