If you have chronic arthritis, consider stopping all food intake to find out if food factors are contributing to the disease. Recovery can start with a period of reduced food intake or a food holiday.  Alpha ENF can be used as a fully nourishing food-replacement that requires little or no digestion. Our preference is to try to stop the inflammatory activity as soon as possible. All inflammation is likened to a fire. You get out the fire extinguishers and go to work. A food holiday and optional prednisone are used to reduce inflammation quickly. Careful food intake is used to control the disease long-term.

 A 10 day Alpha ENF holiday is usually enough time for the joint inflammation to subside. Symptoms often increase for a few days before they improve. Longer food holidays may be required for chronic and severe inflammatory disease. Alpha ENF supplies extra nutrients that may be in short supply - such as amino acids, B vitamins, vitamins D and B12 and minerals such as calcium, magnesium, potassium, zinc.

After pain and swelling have subsided, slow food reintroduction follows the plan described in the Alpha Nutrition Program. Each returning food is carefully screened for arthritis-triggering effects.

You hope that food allergy caused the problem and that food control can be successful controlling the disease in the long-term. If food control proves to be inadequate, then other treatments can be instituted. 

The Alpha Nutrition Program steers you away from high-risk foods and toward foods that tend to be well-tolerated and safer in the long-term.

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