Painful Nightshades?

If you have arthritis, or a family history of arthritis, avoid nightshades. Nightshades, solanaceae, are plants that grow by the light of the moon, not the sun. These vegetables include TOMATO, POTATO, EGGPLANT and BELL PEPPER as well as tobacco, henbane, mandrake and belladonna.

Nightshades are high in alkaloids and can cause an overconsumption of vitamin D. Too much vitamin D causes an increase of calcium and phosphate in the blood and can cause calcification of soft tissue, including aorta, kidneys, lungs and the back of the neck. Calcification of soft tissue is possibly the most pervasive physical symptom in modern industrialized cultures. This "calciphylactic syndrome" is directly linked to arthritis, arteriosclerosis, coronary disease, cerebral sclerosis (senility), kidney stones, rheumatoid arthritis, chronic bronchitis, osteoporosis, lupus erythmatosis, hypertension and certain forms of cancer.⁽¹⁾ Nightshades subtly remove calcium from the bones and deposit it in joints, kidneys, arteries and other areas of the body where it simply does not belong.⁽²⁾

People who have avoided nightshades report remissions in arthritic pain, rheumatoid arthritis, osteoarthritis, bursitis, tennis elbow, gout, lower back pain, headaches and high blood pressure.⁽²⁾

Excerpt from Start with One New Scary Vegetable (or Health Advice for the Rest of Us) by Adrienne Matt, HHC

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