Question about production numbers

--- In spacesettlers@yahoogroups.com, wrote:
> Ancestry strong with arthritis... again, not meaning to belittle
your condition Rich. I can't imagine what it is like to have that
going on a day, much less 40 years.

One of Nature's little jokes. I seem to be one of these people that
painkillers don't work for. At least, I've never found any
painkillers that work for me.
>
> I don't have a ready answer for you, but one MUST think that the
human body was not designed to be a hindrance... we wouldn't have
survived as a specie if we were hobbled in our daily work, so there
must be a reason WHY it's doing this. Something wasn't right in
environment somewhere along the way to make your body react the way
it is for you and your ancestors.
>
Or a bit of radiation that altered our DNA slightly.

Intelligent design? or like Topsy, our bodies just growed?

> It's gona be a major detective story to figure it out, and not many
doc's these days have the time or inclination to play Columbo..
>
> Think of many of those of African ancestry with sickle cells,
designed to help fight malaria. Or many that are predisposed to
diabetes because it was designed to help survive in times of famine.
>
> There is probably some simple thing that is causing this
condition...and so far not many answers other than pain killers or
steroids or even scraping the bones with surgery.
>
> The Chinese have their acupuncture, but a nerve expert believes that
the needles release small pockets of body chemicals akin to endorphins
that are the real reason people get relief with the needle
treatment....not a mystical "chi" or energy system.
>
> My wife's 86 year old grandmother suffers from arthritis as well,
but she has been better lately. She has cut fluoride from her water
for over two years now (Tenn. pumps it into public water). X-rays of
her bone spurs on her heels and elbow are smaller. Maybe a
coincidence. It probably is not the answer for all your condition,
Couldn't hurt to try for a while.
>
I live on what's left of the family farm. I rarely drink fluorinated
water. Our water comes from about 114 feet almost straight down.

> In the mean time, Virgin Airlines IS going to be probably awarding
passage for a sample of "space" in the near future as a promotional
gimmick...maybe you will get lucky and hitch a ride.