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Most arthritis tips to feel better do not teach how to live better. Rheumatoid arthritis is debilitating, and not everyone can tolerate the medications. The joint damage makes it hard to overcome the discomfort. The stiffness, swollen joints, and pain can make this condition very unpleasant.

What Works

Arthritis is a condition that you can turn around with natural means. It is a condition that ends with itis, such as colitis, bursitis, bronchitis, diverticultis, nephritis, and osteoarthritis. There are others, but the picture is the same inflammation plays a role.

The side effects of many of the medications mean you need other methods. So the bottom line: diet and lifestyle predict both the onset and course of the condition. There is a connection to how you feel and what you foods you consume and your stress level. Stress control can help.

Weight Control

Weight control can help. Obesity is a way to exasperate the condition. Being overweight puts extra stress on joints, and that increases the wear and tear that breaks them down. Also, fat produces hormones and chemicals that increase inflammation. Inflammation is part of the arthritis picture.

Omega-3

Omega-3 fatty acids work to relieve pain caused by inflammation.  Most people aren’t aware that the omega-3 from green lipped mussels is known to relieve the pain, swelling, and stiffness from arthritis. This is one of the best Omega 3 for this condition. All omega-3 fatty acids can decrease symptoms in rheumatoid arthritis.

The best dietary sources are wild salmon, herring, mackerel, sardines, anchovies, rainbow trout, flaxseed, and walnuts.  

Extra-Virgin Olive Oil

Extra-virgin olive oil contains good monounsaturated fat, which is protected against inflammation because it contains antioxidants called polyphenols. This helps reduce inflammation.

Antioxidants

Antioxidants come from the diet. There is research that shows that some antioxidants may help prevent and relieve many of the symptoms.

Fruits and vegetables are high in vitamin C, selenium, carotenes, and bioflavonoid. Spices have anti-inflammatory effects, especially ginger and turmeric.

Avoid tras fats and simple refined carbohydrates that are behind inflammatory responses.

The Nervous System

The central nervous system can profoundly influence rheumatoid arthritis. According to research the central nervous system controls physiologic responses, such as immunity and inflammation.

This is one of the reasons that Upper Cervical Chiropractic Care is successful at helping alleviate the pain and discomfort of this condition. When a misalignment occurs at the top of the neck it can interfere with the brain stem, which controls the nervous system.

All the above options are worth trying. The harsh side effects of standard medication have many patients looking to alternative solutions. Many people have gotten relief by turning to natural methods. Knowing yourself means finding what works for you.

Drugs are a prescription for disaster for both the patient and the planet.  In Worcester, Mass the Drug Enforcement Administration coordinated a one day effort to clean out the areas medicine cabinets. Vicodin, Percocct, and Lorazapam, which are taken for anxiety, were among the drugs collected with other medications that had been sitting in people’s bathrooms for decades.

People brought bags of pills including types of powerful painkillers and anti-anxiety drugs. This program was coordinated by the Drug Enforcement Administration which is coordinating the program nation wide. The goal was to empty homes of legal, but dangerous drugs that the authorities say are driving addiction and crime around the country.

The collected drugs will be incinerated instead of flushed down the toilets, which can release them into the water way. Think of it this way tap water may hold the key to pain and anxiety relief.

Medicine is What Ails You

Medicine is what ails you, because pharmacology is the market driver of health care. Embracing this new approach to health is causing the business landscape to prosper, while hampering our health, and destroying our natural environment. The environment impact will linger on for generations.

Avoiding medication means the solution to health care has to take a 360 degree turn. Fuzzy thinking and greed has brought us to this point. The human body has an untapped potential for healing, and every drug used on a long term basis dampers that possibility.

Prescription Revolution

The prescription revolution means we have to thing outside the bottle, and explore the world of natural healing. Medicine is an alarmist; all it does is tout the dangers of almost everything. Our systems are always in a state of flux. Blood pressure changes by the hour, sugar may spike, an ache or pain may pop up. What we have to do is connect each symptom to what we are doing and then gear up a plan for change. There are bumps and dips in our health, however taking pills make it harder for our systems to go up or down on their own.

Green and natural living is the foundation for true health. Health is an inside job, pills may have ingenious advertising to back them up, but pills can’t clear the way for optimal health.

Leafy greens foil type 2 diabetes in studies.

Leafy Plants

Researchers from Leicester University in the UK analyzed pooled data from six studies examining links between fruit and vegetable consumption and type 2 diabetes found that the increased intake of green leafy vegetables lowered the risk of developing type 2 diabetes.

They said it should be investigated further. They also cautioned that further research is needed before this can be used for giving specific advice to individuals.

Greens 

To recommend a diet high in greens may be dangerous. Not so much to the patient, but to the green paper coming in from the prescription pad.

It amazes me that this needs further study, while drugs are being used on a regular basis. It is either researchers, and doctors are so well educated by the drug companies that they now have tunnel vision, or they have no understanding of how a body functions.

Diet and Nutrition

Diet and nutrition are the two missing ingredients when talking about chronic health problems in America. This fact is bankrupting the nation while causing undue suffering.

On the other hand it is the pharmaceutical companies and health care that brings in the big bucks. This may have a lot to do with the direction of health care or sick care depending how you look at it.