Nopalea Fights Chronic Pain and Inflammation

It's long been a secret problem
- now scientist are discovering it's the cause of so many different kinds of pain and serious disease

Chronic inflammation is linked to a wide variety of conditions, including many types of pain, heart disease, diabetes, cancer, Alzheimer's and even gum disease!

For the longest time, chronic inflammation remained hidden and unknown as an extremely serious health problem. It wasn't until not too long ago that it was discovered to be so dangerous. So much so that TIME Magazine even published a story about it on its cover.* Now, scientists are finding more and more links between chronic inflammation and a wide variety of conditions including:

Many types of pain
Heart disease
Diabetes
Cancer
Alzheimer's disease
Gum disease

Although inflammation hasn't been pinpointed as the cause of all these conditions, it has been well-documented* as playing a part in them - often intensifying the symptoms and effects.

So what exactly is inflammation, how can it affect you and how can you help reduce it?

First things first: What is inflammation?

Inflammation is your immune system's response to damage. This damage can arise from trauma, bacterial, viral or parasitic infection, stress, genetic abnormalities, metabolic disorders and a host of other sources. Certain lifestyle conditions can also contribute to inflammation: poor diet, stress, being overweight, a sedentary lifestyle and smoking. Inflammation can cause redness, swelling, heat, pain and loss of function.

When you're injured, the inflammatory response immediately moves into action. White blood cells rush to the scene of the damage and begin to destroy the damaged cells, while sending out chemical signals that call for more help. Part of this response process creates free radicals, which attack the damaged area and help correct the problem. Finally, at a certain point, the body overcomes the damage, repairs the tissues, and equilibrium is restored.

However, if the body can't overcome the damage and restore equilibrium, then the inflammation continues unabated. Those free radicals, instead of stopping, continue attacking the body's tissues, and now start damaging healthy cells. This new damage leads to yet the continuation of inflammation, which mistakenly causes more damage, which results in further inflammation, and so on. This is the cycle of chronic, never ending inflammation. And it's what causes all the serious trouble.

How chronic inflammation worsens your health over time

Though you may not see or even feel chronic inflammation, it could be silently causing trouble within your body right now. Over time, it can result in two kinds of damage: first to the immediate area of your body that's chronically inflamed; and second to your overall health as well. Common problems can include:

Heart Problems - chronic inflammation is believed to contribute to the formation of plaque in blood vessels, as well as the formation of blood clots. When these blood clots break free into the blood, they can block blood flow to the brain or heart, resulting in a heart attack or stroke.

Brain Problems - chronic inflammation plays a role in Alzheimer's disease, yet scientists are still uncertain what that role is. However, one theory is that inflammation kicks into gear because of the plaques and tangles in the brains of Alzheimer's patients. In trying to solve the problem, inflammation just makes matters worse.

Joint Problems - chronic inflammation of the joints can result in destroyed ligaments and tendons, damage to joint cartilage and bone and even bone erosion. This leads to pain, deformity and an inability to perform daily tasks - drastically affecting quality of life.

Mouth and Gum Problems - dental researchers once thought bacterial infections caused gum disease, but now it is thought that some of the more severe symptoms of gum disease are attributable to chronic inflammation. The National Institute of Dental and Craniofacial Research, part of the National Institutes of Health, report that inflammation can even break down bone and connective tissue that keep the teeth in place.

Emotional Health Problems - chronic inflammation may even play a role in your emotions. Scientists at the University of Illinois (Champaign/Urbana) discovered that an enzyme secreted by the immune system caused inflammation-related, depression-like symptoms in mice. Because inflammation is linked with conditions often accompanied by depression - such as diabetes, cancer and heart disease - researchers expect that this study will provide insight into chronic inflammation's role in depression.

Cancer Problems - although researchers haven't discovered the exact mechanism of chronic inflammation's role in cancer, they believe it encourages cancer growth. According to the American Cancer Society, inflammation creates just the right conditions for cancer cells to grow and multiply.

TIME Magazine called it "The Secret Killer"
...and here's how to help protect against it

In 2004, TIME Magazine ran an astonishing story about inflammation and its destructive effect on the body's health.*

In the years following TIME's story, medical science went on to find even more links between chronic inflammation and highly debilitating conditions, including allergies, chronic aches and pains, IBS and others.

These links were dumbfounding: so many different conditions can all stem from just one problem - chronic inflammation.

And the type of chronic inflammation that is being studied is not just that "sore, swollen muscle and joint" kind that so many naturally think of. It also includes the deeper, internal types of inflamed tissues affecting vital body systems, such as:

Chronic cardiovascular inflammation in the heart and arteries
Chronic pulmonary inflammation in lungs and airways
Chronic digestive inflammation in the stomach, esophagus and intestines
Chronic inflammation in the other major organs (liver, kidneys, etc.) and glands
Chronic widespread body cell inflammation existing throughout the body

All of these different types of chronic inflammation can lead to many different kinds of severe health problems, such as:

Ongoing, never ending pain in parts of the body
Allergies and asthmatic reactions
High blood pressure and deteriorating heart and blood vessel health
Ulcers and Irritable Bowel Syndrome
Constant, overall tiredness and lethargy
Normal inflammation is good

Whenever your body is subject to threatening elements or events, it may counter these attacks with one of its defense mechanisms - inflammation. This is normal.

The threats that could trigger the body's inflammatory response could be little things, such as an injury like a pulled muscle. Or, the threat could be a bacterial intrusion. Stressful feelings and events can also trigger inflammation to flare up in any number of your body's tissues. And, nutritionally deficient diets can lead to inflammatory flare-ups.

Finally, one of the biggest causes of inflammation could be today's world, which relentlessly exposes your body to an overwhelming flood of micro-sized dangers, such as toxins, pollutants, bacteria, viruses and chemicals from ... the air you breathe ... the water you drink ... the foods you eat ... and even the things you touch.

But chronic inflammation is very bad

Due to all of the causes of inflammation, it's highly likely that right now, as you read this, your body has many sites that are inflamed. This isn't the problem, though. The problem is all of sites in your body where, for a variety of reasons, your inflammation isn't being turned off. Instead, the inflammation just keeps going and going. This is chronic inflammation.

There are several factors that can keep your body from turning off its inflammation response, but three factors are especially prevalent:

Chronic Stress - it keeps your body constantly "revved up," wasting nutrient stores and impairing its ability to stop inflammation from becoming chronic

Chronic Nutritional Deficiencies - without the right nutrition, on a daily basis, your body may not have the right resources to put a halt to ongoing inflammation

Chronic Toxin Overload - in today's world, your body is constantly fighting off toxins, pollutants and contaminants from so many sources that it simply can be too overwhelmed to stop the never ending, triggered inflammation

You'll notice that there's one thing in common with all three of the above factors: Chronic. When these adverse factors are chronic (constant), it greatly increases the chance that your body's inflammation will be chronic, too. And it's exactly this type of inflammation - the chronic kind - that the TIME Magazine story warned about because it can be so damaging to your health.

Some common examples of how you could be suffering from various kinds of chronic inflammation and their related health problems include:

Muscle, joint and bone inflammation - causing ongoing body pain
Respiratory inflammation - causing allergies and breathing difficulties
Arterial inflammation - causing heart health problems
Digestive tract inflammation - causing ulcers and IBS
Widespread body cell inflammation - causing overall fatigue.

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