Osteoarthritis affects 10 million people in France (17% of the population).

It is the leading cause of functional disability for people over 40.

Osteoarthritis is a fatal disease.

That’s normal. for hundreds of thousands of years, human beings have taken cartilage wear for granted and accepted it as an inevitability against which nothing can be done.

Dr Trotta has had the good fortune to work several times as a doctor in a small hospital in Ecuador, at an altitude of 4,000m. Here, the Quechua Indians live in poverty and destitution that we can scarcely imagine. The poor diet, cold, humidity and lack of heating in their thatched clay huts lead to degeneration of the hips and knees, facilitated by the arduous and difficult work of the land. As it happens, these poor Indians, who can’t afford the surgeon’s fees and prosthesis (until 2005, there was no social security in Ecuador), end up “gatear”, i.e. crawling on all fours like children on their doorstep! Because their hips and knees, destroyed by osteoarthritis, gave them so much pain and incapacity that they could no longer walk upright, and were eventually found moaning and groaning, spending their day on all fours, sitting on their doorstep. A sorry sight for a doctor.

All this to say that, apart from the last 50 years in Western countries, most people have become accustomed to osteoarthritis from one generation to the next.

Dr Trotta can tell you that osteoarthritis is not inevitable. A healthy lifestyle, a healthy diet and cartilage-protecting supplements can limit wear and tear.

Isn’t the aim of a good doctor to prevent recourse to a surgeon at all costs? Even if surgeons, who are extraordinary men of the art, are able to replace destroyed joints, which is a fabulous advance, the doctor’s aim is to do everything possible to prevent the destruction of the joint, and thus ultimately the need for recourse to the surgeon.

We Westerners are spoiled, because in the event of joint destruction, we can go to highly skilled surgeons and replace our joint with a brand-new, risk-free artificial prosthesis. And it’s all paid for by the community! The French need to recognize that this is their good fortune and their privilege. That, despite all the criticism, we still have a fabulous healthcare system, which enables farmers and company directors alike to have a prosthesis paid for by the community, whether in Paris or deep in the Creuse. Our Hippocratic oath forbids us to select patients on any pretext whatsoever (race, religion, sex, health, treatments, etc.). Let’s hope that this inadmissible selection does not return and that we never again impose selection criteria on doctors at the entrance to our public hospitals and clinics, which must be open to all. At least, that’s how I see medicine, and the honor of the profession I have chosen by vocation, and which I intend to practice without coercion or inhuman constraint.

What is osteoarthritis?

Osteoarthritis is a degenerative disease. It is the progressive degeneration of cartilage.

Articular cartilage is a connective tissue in perpetual renewal thanks to the action of chondrocytes, which constantly build and destroy the matrix.

Cartilage is the joint’s shock absorber.

Its wear and tear leads to repeated shocks that gradually damage the bone, deforming it and rendering the joint painful and impotent. On this arthroscanner performed by Dr Trotta (ex-Radiologist) in 2010, you can see (left) in white a small crack like a fingernail in the articular cartilage (cartilage is black to X-rays because it lets them pass through, whereas bone, which absorbs a large proportion of X-rays, appears white) of the patellar facet, the first stage of cartilage wear.

This white crack in the cartilage of the kneecap is the beginning of osteoarthritis and will cause pain in the knee when going up and down stairs or sitting down.

At this stage, osteoarthritis can be treated naturally without anti-inflammatories, thus avoiding surgery later on. That’s why it’s so important not to rush into taking anti-inflammatory drugs, which only treat pain (and will make holes in your stomach and intestine), but to take supplements designed to nourish and repair cartilage.

In the final stage of osteoarthritis, on this picture of the left hip joint on the right, we see the head of the femur, which is normally round, totally deformed and flattened, pressing against the acetabulum of the pelvis, causing pain and making it impossible to flex the hip and walk normally. In this ultimate case, it’s too late for medical treatment: the hip must be replaced and a prosthesis fitted.

In osteoarthritis, to avoid the need for anti-inflammatories, infiltrations and prostheses, here’s what to do:

1/ avoid the pro-inflammatory diet that promotes osteoarthritis: excess red meat (more than 2-3 times a week), cow’s milk products (more than 2-3 times a week), fried foods and white sugar.

2/ regularly eat foods that protect and nourish your cartilage: fish skin, which contains collagen; broths with bones, which provide collagen and silica; walnuts, sardines and mackerel, which provide anti-inflammatory fats.

3/ Correct any architectural imbalance that may be putting excess pressure on your joints. This is why newborns are given ultrasounds to detect congenital subluxation of the hip (not so rare) which, if corrected during the first four months of life, can prevent osteoarthritis by the age of 30.

4/ Play sports in moderation, as it’s well known that major professional sportsmen and women (soccer, rugby, skiing, trail running, etc.) suffer early joint wear due to the overloading of their joints. I’m in a good position, as I practiced radiology in rural mountain areas for 20 years, and saw the early wear and tear of menisci in competitive skiers.

5/ Keep your menisci as much as possible, as the C- or O-shaped menisci prevent the cartilage of the round femur from sliding over the flat cartilage of the tibia, and thus protect the cartilage from repeated and excessive friction, leading to premature wear. We must therefore try to treat all meniscus pain and lesions as medically as possible (conservative treatment), and only resort to surgery for partial or total removal of the meniscus if all medical and natural techniques for treating the meniscus have failed. This is because the over-reliance on meniscectomy (removal of the meniscus) in the 80s and 90s has shown, 20 years later, a very significant increase in osteoarthritis in those who no longer had a meniscus compared to those who had retained it.

6/ Take the following supplements:

– FLEXIDOCTA

To provide your cartilage with all the micronutrients it needs for maintenance and repair.

If you have little osteoarthritis, I recommend a three-month course of treatment.

On the other hand, if your osteoarthritis is advanced, take a one-year course.

After a year, you’ll have another X-ray or a functional assessment of your pain, and you’ll decide whether or not to continue, possibly with my advice (in a telemedicine consultation or on site).

FLEXIDOCTA is Doctor Trotta’s all-natural way of regenerating worn cartilage in osteoarthritis and joint pain.

It also helps regenerate menisci and intervertebral discs.

Its rich, carefully studied composition provides natural nourishment for cartilage, menisci and discs, reducing wear and tear, regenerating them and thus preventing as far as possible the aggravation of osteoarthritis and its ultimate consequences: functional impotence followed by surgical prosthesis.

– OMEDOCTA

This supplement will lubricate your joints, ligaments and tendons. It’s as if you were putting oil directly into them, to prevent painful grinding and rubbing. Its EPA composition will reduce painful inflammation. Like FLEXIDOCTA, it needs to be taken over the long term, which is why Dr Trotta has set up discounts (-10% for 3 FLEXIDOCTA for a 3-month treatment) to make treatment and follow-up easier for you, for the good of your joints and to avoid surgery as much as possible.

USE

Boxes of 60 capsules. Treatment for 1 month / for 3 months if you take the pack, more economical for a background treatment recommended by the Doctor.

Dr Trotta’s advice:

Basic treatment of osteoarthritis: three-month course, repeated 2-3 times a year

FLEXIDOCTA 2 capsules per day.
OMEDOCTA 2 capsules per day.

Either 4 for breakfast (if you’re worried about forgetting the evening ones)
Either 2 for breakfast and 2 for dinner.

– C-DOCTA Dr. Trotta’s Vitamin C, very important for reducing oxidation and wear on your joints.

Vit C prevents rheumatism, skin ageing and cardiovascular disease, particularly atheroma, as it is essential for collagen production: it enables the transformation of 2 amino acids, proline and lysine, into the building blocks of collagen (30% of the human body’s proteins), our main structural agent; if C deficiency occurs, this opens the door not only to joint and skin ageing, but also to all the pathologies that affect collagen: rheumatism, arthritis, back pain etc. and cardiovascular disease, as demonstrated by Nobel Prize winner Linus Pauling.

– SILIDOCTA Dr. Trotta’s organic plant silicon. Recommended if you’re losing your hair, have brittle nails or suffer from stiff joints. Silicon will bring suppleness to all your tissues, restoring flexibility to your joints. SILIDCOTA, with its many minerals and trace elements, will restore vitality to your skin and scalp.

To make treatment easier for you, we’ve put together the osteoarthritis pack to start a month’s treatment. This pack offers you a 10% discount.

Treatment of acute inflammatory osteoarthritis :

– Harpagophytum TM (mother tincture): 20 drops morning and evening for 2 months,
to be repeated 2 months later if pain recurs.

– Copper oligosol: one phial three times a day under the tongue for 15 days

– ANTIDOLTA pain relief gel

massage into the painful joint to help the crisis pass more quickly.

3 massages a day at first, then increase to 1 massage a day as pain diminishes and mobility is regained.

+++effective pain-relieving gel that treats pain naturally and promotes the elasticity of your joints, tendons and ligaments.

Use on any painful joint.

For more personalized advice, you can consult Dr. Trotta personally.

– or remotely via telemedicine

– or on site at the Institut de Médecine Naturelle in San Sebastian, Basque Country

Dr Pascal Trotta,
Former intern at the Hôpitaux de Paris, Specialist Physician, Radiologist, Homeopath, Founder of the San Sebastian Institute of Natural Medicine
Paseo de los Fueros 3, 20005 San Sebastián, Basque Country

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