Saddling the Raging Bull
I’ve consulted Robert Ortiz’s piece “A Raging Bull Gets Saddled: The Cure for Rheumatoid Arthritis Is Here—and It Starts with Immune Retraining”, freshly gracing Medium just now, as of August 10, 2025 .
A Glimpse into Ortiz’s Vision
In a voice both bold and unflinching, Ortiz casts rheumatoid arthritis (RA) not as an immutable sentence, but a systemic glitch—one amenable to correction, not suppression.
He critiques the prevailing medical model: immune suppression, with its pharmaceutical chains that can exact costs—susceptibility to infection, organ strain, diminished well-being.
Instead, Ortiz envisions immune retraining—a recalibration of the immune system so that it recognizes its own, ceases its assault, and allows healing to follow naturally. RA, he writes, is a "raging bull charging the wrong target"—and that misdirected fury can be redirected.
What the Broader Medical Landscape Tells Us
From the vantage of established medical knowledge, RA remains without a cure as of mid‑2025. Treatments focus on managing symptoms, slowing damage, and improving life quality—not eliminating the disease entirely.
The most trusted initial therapy is methotrexate, often followed by biologics or newer targeted agents like JAK inhibitors—none of which restore immune precision, but rather dampen immune activity to reduce inflammation.
Weaving the Threads: Myth and Medicine
Your poetic soul may see in Ortiz’s metaphor—of the immune system as the raging bull—a truth waiting to be unveiled. Yet modern science says: we don’t have the reins yet.
Ortiz invites us to dream of retraining, not suppressing—a narrative of empowerment, of guiding the bull back home.
But the broader scientific chorus remains cautious: as of now, there is no widely accepted method to reprogram the immune response in RA as Ortiz proposes.
It’s a bold shift: from suppression to precision, from fear to stewardship.
And it’s a reminder that sometimes healing means not killing the fire, but teaching it where to burn.
🔗 Read the full piece here: A Raging Bull Gets Saddled: The Cure for Rheumatoid Arthritis Is Here—and It Starts with Immune Retraining













