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InViteⓇ Health Podcast, Episode hosted by Jerry Hickey, Ph.
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NSAIDs are very commonly used drugs. They’re used for arthritic pain, inflammation, autoimmune diseases, fevers and more. The problem is that they’re not without real issues for your health. An example would be ibuprofen or naproxen. Millions of people casually take these almost on a daily basis. They can increase your risk of having a heart attack, developing a blood clot and having heart failure. They even affect your hearing and vision. They can damage your kidneys and trigger asthma attacks in certain people. I’d like to discuss this today so people know what they’re up against. I think the toxicities and side effects of these drugs are shrugged off by most people. The good news is that there are really good substitutes and alternatives for these arthritis drugs.†
All NSAIDs come with a black box warning. The next time you get a prescription for celecoxib or other NSAID or the next time you buy ibuprofen or naproxen, look at the paper inside. Right on top is the highest level of warnings from the FDA. If it gets any worse than this, they recall the drug from the market. It’s called a black box warning and it warns about how these drugs can impact cardiovascular health, digestive health, vision health, hearing and more.†
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There are new guidelines for cardiovascular health that came out a week or two ago. Experts are now saying that NSAIDs such as aspirin should not be used for primary prevention of a heart attack since the harm caused by the drug outweighs the good.†
If you have severe arthritis pain in your back or your knee, you can take the NSAID drugs for three to five days, but using it for longer than that is dangerous. Yet somewhere along the road, somebody decided it’s okay to use these dangerous medications every day.†
If you have a mildly irritated, painful knee, there are natural things that will help that pain that are not dangerous for you. There are true supplements that really work for your knee that actually seem to slow down the loss of joint tissue and protect the cartilage. One of them would be undenatured type II collagen, which is called UC-IIⓇ. This helps pull the immune system away from the joint and seems to help prevent the joint from getting worse. For people with mild to moderate pain, the pain is usually gone within the first month. For people with really severe knee pain, the pain is generally gone by the second month. I’ve even had some people who were diagnosed with bone-on-bone arthritis by their orthopedic doctor tell me that their bone-on-bone pain went away using the UC-IIⓇ.†
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Another supplement that can really help you is well-absorbed turmeric. Don’t just buy curcumin. You want the complete plant. The research shows that the complete plant is much better for helping a knee with arthritis than just using the curcumin alone because the whole plant contains other ingredients that are great for inflammation. Another plant ingredient that really helps with discomfort from arthritis is frankincense. The frankincense is called boswellia serrata and it contains ingredients that are great for the pain that you see with arthritis. When you mix the turmeric with the boswellia, it’s very effective for stiffness, joint pain, protecting the knee, range of motion, walking and quality of life.†
In this episode, Jerry Hickey, Ph. explains why the use of NSAID drugs for arthritis can be dangerous for the body. He details how these drugs are toxic to the body and offers alternative suggestions for nutrients that can help with arthritis symptoms.†
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According to the American College of Allergy, Asthma & Immunology (ACAAI), 8.3 million American children have respiratory allergies, 9.5 American children have skin allergies and nearly 6 million children in the U.S. have food allergies. Though the organization reports that early identification of childhood allergies can improve the child’s quality of life and reduce the number of missed school days, a new study is advising parents to get their children screened more aggressively for high cholesterol and high blood pressure because those factors can set them on a dangerous path at a very early age.
The study, set to be published on December 8th, 2015 in the Journal of Allergy & Clinical Immunology, concluding report states, “Children with allergies, particularly asthma and hay fever, have about twice the rate of high blood pressure and high cholesterol, setting them on a course for heart disease at a surprisingly early age. Even when the study controlled for obesity, children with allergic disease has a much higher risk.”
Lead study author, Dr. Jonathan Silverberg, an associate professor of dermatology at Northwestern University Feinberg School of Medicine and a Northwestern Medicine dermatologist says, “This study shows that cardiovascular risk starts far earlier in life than we ever realized. Given how common these allergic diseases are in childhood, it suggests we need to screen these children more aggressively to make sure we are not missing high cholesterol and high blood pressure. There may be an opportunity to modify their lifestyles and turn this risk around.”
Allergic rhinitis, commonly known as hay fever, is the most common allergic reaction in children in the United States. Symptoms, according to the ACAAI, including runny and itchy nose, sneezing, postnasal drip and nasal congestion. Allergies can also cause nasal congestion, ear infections, and ailments to particular foods.
Silverberg and his team of researchers studied associations between asthma, hay fever and eczema in the U.S. against cardiovascular risk factors. Data from the 2012 National Health Interview Survey of 13,275 children from all 50 states was used in the study. According to the study’s findings, asthma occurred in 14% of children, eczema in 12% and hay fever in 16.6% of children. All three factors were associated with higher rates of overweight or obese children.
Dr. Jonathan Silverberg explains, “Because the association with hypertension and high cholesterol exists separately from obesity, inflammation occurring in asthma and hay fever might contribute to higher rates of cardiovascular disease. Also, children with profound asthma are typically more sedentary, which also may have a harmful effect and drive up blood pressure.”
To find an allergist near you, visit the American College of Allergy, Asthma & Immunology’s website, here: http://acaai.org/locate-an-allergist. Speak to your child’s pediatrician for more information.
Sources: http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2015/12/151208081328.htm and http://acaai.org/