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Arthritis - Arthritis Caused by this Destructive Emotion
There
are plenty of studies that show how depression
contributes to poor health in elderly people. Emotions can have powerful
effects on the physical body, as seen in cases where spouses die within days of
each other.
Depression can be destructive,
and it seems like the sadder you are, the more likely you are to have physical
ailments too. So, it should come as no surprise that arthritis
is made worse by strong emotions.
A
new study in the journal, Psychology and Aging shows that anger is actually a
more destructive emotion than sadness during old age because it increases our
risk of inflammation.
The
study’s authors collected health information from 226 people living in
Montréal, Canada. They had them do a questionnaire to record their age-related
chronic illnesses, and blood samples to record the most common inflammatory
markers, interleukin-6 and C-reactive protein.
Crucially,
they also spent a week recording how angry or sad they felt, to see if there
was a link between stronger emotions and those inflammatory markers, as this
might show a link to chronic health conditions like arthritis,
heart disease, cancer,
etc.
They
divided their participants into two age groups: those in early old-age between
59 and 79 years, and those in advanced old age—80 and older.
Not
surprisingly, they found that those participants who were angrier than their peers
had higher levels of the pro-inflammatory chemical interleukin-6 in their
blood. And if they were over 80, they were also more likely to suffer from
chronic conditions like arthritis,
too.
It’s
interesting that the 59 to 79-year-olds didn’t suffer the same effects from
daily anger, and that daily sadness didn’t affect either group in the same way
either.
It’s
also interesting that the sad people had lower levels of inflammation
and fewer chronic conditions. Sadness just didn’t seem to be treating them as
badly.
Psychologists
call this effect the discrete emotion theory of affective aging. This says that
the angrier you are as you get older, the more destructive the effects on your
body. Sadness does less damage, and they think that it might even be helpful.
So,
why does this happen?
The
idea behind this theory is that our physical and mental abilities decline as we
get older. We can’t do the same things that we once enjoyed, so we stop playing
the piano, running marathons, hitchhiking, or whatever else we thought was fun,
because our joints hurt, our memories go, and doing them becomes too difficult.
As
a result, we either become angry or sad. The sad people grieve for the things
they used to enjoy, while the angry people carry on trying to do them and get
increasingly irate when they can’t.
Anger
isn’t all bad, and it does have its uses. It can motivate and energize people
in early old age to continue with their activities, but when their bodies let
them down in advanced old age, this anger becomes toxic.
When
that happens it’s much healthier to disengage from favorite activities and
replace them with others. Sad is better than angry for your health.
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Arthritis - Arthritis Caused By Bacteria in These Popular Foods
A
new study from the University of Central Florida published in the journal Frontiers in Cellular and
Infection Microbiology reveals amazing news for arthritis patients.
It
can lead to a complete cure for your disease by cutting out just a couple of
food items – maybe even temporarily.
Mycobacterium
avium subspecies paratuberculosis, or simply MAP is a common bacterium that
appears in about half of the cows that provide our milk and beef.
One
of the scientists in the team had previously found that people with Crohn’s
disease were infected with MAP, and since rheumatoid arthritis and Crohn’s disease stem from the same genetic variants
and are often treated with the same immunosuppressive drugs, they wondered
whether MAP was involved in rheumatoid arthritis too.
They
examined 100 arthritic patients and discovered that 78% of them have the same genetic
mutation as people with Crohn’s disease. It is in a gene called PTPN2/22.
Of
these, 40% were infected with MAP.
From
these findings, they concluded that people with a PTPN2/22 mutation who are
then exposed to MAP have a higher risk than the general population to develop rheumatoid arthritis.
Being
medical scientists, they are obviously thinking in the direction of treating
people with rheumatoid arthritis with antibiotics, as doctors have already started doing
with Crohn’s disease patients.
But
since there are already so many antibiotics around in the world that bacteria
are increasingly becoming resistant to them, it is hardly a good idea to stuff
more of them into our bodies.
Moreover,
as with Crohn’s disease, antibiotics against MAP may not stop the arthritis,
but simply control the symptoms.
In
fact, Crohn’s disease patients must remain on the antibiotics permanently, and
these antibiotics puts patients at risk of colitis, which must then be treated
with another antibiotic.
For
these reasons, the better approach may be to find out whether you have the
PTPN2/22 gene mutation, and to then steer clear of milk and beef.
The
problem with MAP is that, unlike other bacteria, it is heat resistant and not
killed by cooking, pasteurization, and other common food processing methods.
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Arthritis - Eliminating Arthritis Exhaustion (New Study)
As
all people with arthritis
can testify, their condition is not only painful and disabling, but also
exhausting.
In
a new edition of the journal Arthritis Care & Research, a research team put a
simple method to the test and the results on arthritis fatigue were
breathtaking.
Best
of all, this method is so simple you can start today, and it doesn’t cost you a
dime.
They
recruited 96 arthritis patients and split them into three groups:
1.
One that received standard educational material on arthritis fatigue.
2.
A second that received a pedometer and a step-monitoring diary to complete.
3.
A third that received a pedometer, a step-monitoring diary to complete, and
step targets to meet.
They
were monitored for 21 weeks so that the scientists could compare their activity
and fatigue levels from before and from after the study.
The
researchers were mostly interested in their self-reported fatigue levels, but
also asked them to report their disease activity, physical function, pain,
and depression.
This
is what they found:
1.
The education material group decreased their daily steps by 747 steps and their
fatigue
dropped by 1.6 points on the fatigue
questionnaire.
2.
The pedometer and step-monitoring group increased their daily steps by 1,441
steps and their fatigue
dropped by 3.2 points on the fatigue questionnaire.
3.
The pedometer, step-monitoring, and step target group increased their daily
steps by 1,656 steps and their fatigue dropped by 4.8 points on the fatigue
questionnaire.
Therefore,
the group that set itself step targets and monitored their daily steps
experienced the largest drop in arthritis-related fatigue.
The
latter two groups also reported an improvement in physical functioning and
disease activity.
Pedometers
are widely available and inexpensive, and you can compile your own step
monitoring diaries and set your own step targets.
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This
post is from the Arthritis Strategy Program. It was created by Shelly Manning,
a former arthritis sufferer and a health
consultant.
A Brief Background on
the Author
Like you, Shelly
Manning also suffered from arthritis, particularly osteoarthritis. This was due
to her weight and desk job. Her condition eventually took a toll on her
relationship with her (former) husband.
It was when she went
to Hong Kong that she met Janerdquo, an old woman who owned the restaurant
where she ate. Janerdquo supposedly offered her a bowl of a weird-smelling
soup, which helped ease her joint pain. She ate there each day for 10 days
until she was completely healed from arthritis.
Shelly Manning
decided to research this natural remedy and to create a step-by-step treatment
plan to others who are suffering from different types of arthritis, such as
gout, rheumatoid arthritis, osteoarthritis, fibromyalgia, and psoriatic
arthritis.
That’s why she
created “The Arthritis Step By Step Strategy.” According to her claims, this
unique strategy will get rid of joint pain and stiffness, repair your damaged
joints, and treat the underlying cause of your arthritis.
Shelly teamed up with
Christian Goodman, the owner of Blue Heron Health News, a publishing company
that aims to help people to take responsibility for their own health by using
natural health alternatives for preventing arthritis in fingers and knees
naturally.
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