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From: "Thomas Dekany"

> Theola - what is your diet like?

Generally, pretty darn good.  Coffee, some dairy for coffee, salt, and
sometimes a little butter to cook with are my only usual departures from
"paleo."  However, I have endulged in several departures over the past 3
months.  BUT my arthritis pain predates those by a looong shot.

I had an interesting thing happen back in Sept., I think it was, when my
brother's dr recommended he go on the Zone diet.  I was reading the Omega Rx
Zone and got a hankering for oatmeal, which I hadn't had in probably two
years or more.  I had virtually NO pain the next morning.   It was an
incredible difference.  I scrambled to re-read and figure it had to do with
the GLA.  At the time I had been taking high dose fish oil (4 gms EPA/DHA in
8gms of fish oil) since July.  Maybe I had killed off too many of the good
eicosanoids. And then I had a series of immune issues, I think, with a
succession of illnesses, each about a month apart.  I can't prove a
connection, but think maybe I had lowered my immune system  with the fish
oil.  I currently am taking 1-2 gms of fish oil/day and am wondering if
that's enough or too much.  I laid off of it for a few weeks and couldn't
tell any difference in my arthritis pain.

>First you want to get rid of the cause
> and then include supplements. Otherwise, even if you get relief by using
> supplements, it will only last as long as you take it.

Agreed.  But I don't mind taking supplements, especially if faced with a
choice of taking prescription meds.  Most supps have a far longer safety
record.

>BTW, what is your
> blood type?

O+ but admit I'm skeptical of metabolic typing.

Theola