“Progesterone, thyroid [meds], vitamin D, calcium and aspirin are helpful/curative for autoimmune problems, including lupus; unopposed estrogen is the basic factor in autoimmune diseases.” – Ray Peat.
Inflammatory and rheumatoid arthritis are considered autoimmune diseases (among many, many other autoimmune diseases and maladies).
From my notes of Peat’s suggestions for arthritis management, I have often used Penicillin VK 250 mg tablets (Sandoz used to make a plain brand) for antibiotic needs in the past. Along with tetracycline and erythromycin, real penicillin and these two are the only antibiotics I’ve ever seen referenced by Peat to use.
And this brand penicillin tablet only had penicillin and tableting agents, no other drugs mixed with it.
Real penicillin is off patent and not favored because it is inexpensive and easily made and highly effective. Penicillin is still a prescription item and is hard to otherwise find now because it can’t be price controlled by Big Pharma.
My Mexican pharmacy now carries it as “Pota-Vi-Kin” by a different lab than Sandoz.
This pharmacy is highly responsive to questions if you want to ask them about the Sandoz product and if this version is similar.
Physicians are reluctant to prescribe penicillin (or tetracycline or erythromycin) because there is no profit motive with it and the Pharma captured agencies therefore advise against it like they do over off-patent Ivermectin and hydroxychloroquine for Covid infections and vaccine injuries (which Ivermectin you can also get from this Mexican pharmacy without prescription). (In my notes, Peat has mentioned he thinks Ivermectin works because its anti-inflammatory).
As a note, I have heard in interviews with ivermectin expert, Dr. Pierre Kory, MD, that he suggests, since August 2022, that ivermectin no longer works as well with the newer, more mild covid strains.
As well, if looking up side effects of ivermectin, USE CAUTION using it if any heart problems at all, prior to covid, or from covid vaccine injury. It can potentially cause heart tachycardia and exasperate heart arrhythmia issues.
But back to penicillin. There was a time I would take 5 of these penicillin tablets per day and it would greatly relieve my arthritis as it calmed the inflammation.
Some have used old fashion penicillin and real food to solve maladies that in current day and instead of penicillin, are maladies now commonly prescribed by traditional medical personnel with instead far more dangerous antibiotics to calm symptoms (but that for most often creates different, more painful and dangerous symptoms from using the newer antibiotic pharma drug versions).
And read here for more on eating real food instead of relying on deathly dangerous Pharma drugs.
The following is more information for some of the highly dangerous antibiotics:
Children’s Health Defense CHD-TV with Dr. Brian Hooker, PhD. featured a whistleblower about Levofloxacin (Levoquin) in particular.
Here are other dangerous antibiotics disclosures:
Cipro with more devastating side effects information reported here.
From the CDC on it.
Announcements by the FDA (years late) on the dangers.
Another FDA announcement about the dangers of antibiotics.
List of Related Drugs
Prednisone, albuterol, amoxicillin, doxycycline, azithromycin, cephalexin, metronidazole, levofloxacin, clindamycin, Augmentin
And this is the Black Box warning for Cipro, provided by drugs.com and only added in 2018 after multiple lawsuits:
