This is an interesting book with chapters interleaved with thoery and real life cases studies. Doctor Thomas Mc Pherson explain the causes of the arthritis and it's mode of treatement. He also talks about the actual research approches of the treatement of the disease. His approch is different. If we summarize, arthritis is an infection related disease, that can be cured by a simple antibiotic (monocyclin) a derivative of tetracyclin. Both antibiotics can be used for the treatment. He explains that a common bacteria (mycoplasm) that live in everybody may outgrow normal levels and trigger immune reaction that is misinterpreted as an autoimmune disease. He give also many evidences for its theory. During his years of pratice doctor Thomas McPherson Brown cured thousands of patients of this terrible disease.

I wanted to submit this review because we convinced an arthritis specialist to apply this approch to a relative at an advanced stage of arthritis. This relative was illed since many years. Within an year the disease completly disappear from the body of this person. Blood tests show today that there is no more arthritis.

Many interests are reluctant to caution this approch. In some way this an ideal disease for a pharmaceutics company. A disease that is considered uncurable, and for which you are condamned to take forever drugs that are more expensive as the disease progress. Many searchers who investigate the autoimmune theory and worked in that direction for years are reluctant to consider that there is a such easy solution to this problem.

I would heartily recommend this book to anyone who has this disease.

Not only have I read this book, I have used its remedy. In July, 1996 I was diagnosed with Lyme Disease, then later with rheumatoid arthritis. I was treated for Lyme Disease for about 45 days (which has similar symptoms). Then my husband found The Arthritis Breakthrough book at our local Waldenbooks. Once I read the book, it was just a matter of finding someone who would try the treatment according to the book. I couldn't believe how difficult this was! Rheumatologists are not conditioned to think "cure", they think "symptomatic". Therefore, even though the treatment is so low risk, nobody I called wanted to listen. Depending on the severity of the disease, the book recommends a beginning low dose of minocycline and anti-inflammatory. Since I was diagnosed early, I began 50mg, 3X per week and and anti-inflammatory daily. After 3 mos., I discontinued the anti-inflammatory and began taking Aleve as I needed it. Over the span of the last 18 mos., the minocyline has been increased gradually to the dose I take now of 200mg, 4X a week. I expect to be cured by this November. Before this book, I could barely walk. Now I am back to a normal life of golf, gardening, swimming, etc. If I could give this book 10 stars, it certainly deserves it! It has changed my life.