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    User's Guide to Inflammation, Arthritis, and Aging: Learn How Diet and Supplements Can Reduce Inflammation and Slow the Aging Process
    User's Guide to Inflammation, Arthritis, and Aging: Learn How Diet and Supplements Can Reduce Inflammation and Slow the Aging Process
    User's Guide to Inflammation, Arthritis, and Aging: Learn How Diet and Supplements Can Reduce Inflammation and Slow the Aging Process
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    User's Guide to Inflammation, Arthritis, and Aging: Learn How Diet and Supplements Can Reduce Inflammation and Slow the Aging Process

    By Ron Hunninghake and Jack Challem

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    Inflammation causes the aches and pains of arthritis, the discomfort of allergies, and the breathing obstruction of asthma. But over the past several years, medicine has recognized that chronic inflammation is a key underlying factor in heart disease Alzheimer's, some cancers, and the aging process itself. In this User's Guide, Dr. Hunninghake explains exactly how inflammation is involved in these diseases, how it can be easily measured, and the foods and nutritional supplements that can help you prevent and reverse inflammation.
    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherTurner Publishing Company
    Release dateJul 15, 2005
    ISBN9781591206842
    User's Guide to Inflammation, Arthritis, and Aging: Learn How Diet and Supplements Can Reduce Inflammation and Slow the Aging Process
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    Ron Hunninghake

    Dr. Ron, as patients at The Clinic fondly refer to Ron Hunninghake, MD, is a native Kansan. He served his medical internship at Wichita’s Wesley Medical Center in 1979 and completed his residency at the Smoky Hill Family Practice Program in Salina, Kansas in 1982. Dr. Ron began his career as a small town doc in Minneapolis, Kansas where he first started teaching clinic-based wellness. Later, he joined nearby Salina Family Physicians and was instrumental in founding WellPlan, a comprehensive lifestyle modification program. Seeking even greater involvement in helping patients learn innovative ways to rebuild and maintain their health, he joined the Riordan Clinic in 1989 as its Medical Director.

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      User's Guide to Inflammation, Arthritis, and Aging - Ron Hunninghake

      INTRODUCTION

      Are you in pain? Do you wake up stiff and tired each morning? Has your weight been creeping up in spite of your best efforts to control it? Is your doctor concerned about your cholesterol and blood pressure? Has a gnawing sense of depression been creeping into your life? Do you come from a family with arthritis or heart disease in its background?

      If you find yourself answering Yes to many of these questions, there is hope. This health guide offers a new understanding that can help you overcome the symptoms of bad inflammation naturally. (A more complete list of questions is available in the Bad Inflammation Inventory at the end of Chapter 1.)

      Most of us are familiar with acute inflammation: the redness and swelling that accompanies any painful injury or infection. We all get hurt from time to time. It’s not unusual to get sick. We expect to heal.

      But what if healing eludes us? What if pain persists or infection revisits us all too often? What if this protective system we once depended on now erodes our joints, plugs our arteries, and hurries our process of aging?

      For the human species to survive, it had to have a competent inflammatory healing system. Otherwise injury and infection would have devastated our ancestors, given their primitive living conditions. Instead, experts have found the remains of early humans to be surprisingly free of disease. Something about the way they lived kept their inflammatory healing system sound.

      Not so in modern America. Although we live longer than our ancestors, we do not live better. We are overweight, tired, and diabetic. Heart disease, rare in the nineteenth century, has now become our number-one killer. Our digestive systems are inflamed (acid blockers are the number-one selling drugs on the planet). Our joints hurt (more than 70 million Americans). We are fraught with allergies and asthma (56 million). Osteoporosis, macular degeneration, hepatitis, and hundreds of chronic -itis diseases plague us. We may be both the wealthiest and sickest society in history!

      These chronic illnesses have a common denominator: inflammation! Not the healing kind mentioned earlier. This inflammation is bad! This is chronic inflammation, the kind that damages as it lingers. The good inflammation that helped our ancestors survive has turned bad. This is why you hurt, why you are tired, and why you are at risk for silent diseases of aging.

      This health guide will not only explore the why of this, but a very important how: how to heal your inflammatory system. You can overcome chronic inflammatory illness without resorting to costly anti-inflammatory medications with potentially life-threatening side effects.

      You will learn what triggers bad inflammation, what regulates it, what balance factors you might be missing, and how dietary shifts have created it. Case studies will illustrate how implementing this new understanding can solve serious illness. You will rediscover our ancestral diet as well as five pathways to better health and slowed aging.

      This health guide is based upon twenty-five years of caring for patients in a way that fostered their growth into colearners—that is, people who actively participate in their own healing. The colearner concept originated with the late Dr. Hugh Riordan, founder of the Center for the Improvement of Human Functioning International in Wichita, Kansas (also known as the Brightspot for Health, whose web address is www.brightspot.org). Practicing at this wonderful center under the direct tutelage of Dr. Riordan, I learned how to develop a caring, therapeutic relationship with my patients. As their preceptor, I asked them to become more involved in the detective work of discovering the underlying causes of their illnesses. Colearners assume responsibility for their health and well-being—and then go make it happen!

      You can be a colearner too, and overcome the bad inflammation in your life. Inflammation, Arthritis, and Aging can serve as your guidebook.

      CHAPTER 1

      GOOD AND BAD INFLAMMATION

      Remember the last time you cut yourself? Through a step-by-step process of recognition, response, and repair, your body proceeded to demonstrate its remarkable ability to heal.

      Long ago ancient physicians studied this phenomenon of healing. They observed that the injury site appeared to get worse before it got better. Injuries became inflamed, then proceeded to heal.

      As far back as the first century A.D., Celsus enumerated the four cardinal signs of inflammation: swelling, redness, heat, and pain. A century later, loss of function was added as the fifth key sign of inflammation.

      These descriptive terms helped ancient physicians to identify inflammation. But it took the invention of the microscope to help modern physicians understand inflammation.

      The Biology of Acute Inflammation

      The five signs of inflammation are the visible manifestation of the body’s highly orchestrated response to injury. Hidden from sight, five microscopic steps comprise the biology of acute inflammation:

      • Step 1—Trigger: Bacteria that inhabit the skin or the object that broke the skin immediately invade the wound. Injury and the threat of infection trigger the inflammatory system.

      • Step 2—Activate: Special messenger chemicals called cytokines are activated and released into the bloodstream.

      • Step 3—Mobilize: The cytokines mobilize and direct germ-fighting white blood cells to the injury site. The cytokines also loosen the junctions between the cells that comprise the blood vessel’s wall.

      • Step 4—Eradicate: The white cells migrate out into the arena of damaged tissue where the germs are methodically engulfed and eradicated through a process called phagocytosis. Damaged cellular debris is then cleaned up with powerful enzymes that are released from the white cells.

      • Step 5—Repair: Finally, repair and growth chemicals from fibroblasts coordinate the replacement of damaged cells with scar tissue.

      Cytokine

      A cell-communication molecule that regulates inflammatory activities.

      The word acute conveys a time frame that means immediate. Acute care means care that is given right away. The body’s inflammatory system treats the trigger threat as an immediate priority. Thanks to acute inflammation an infection is usually prevented, the wound is cleaned up, new cells are laid down, healthy scar formation occurs, and the body is returned to nearly 100 percent functionality.

      Chronic Inflammation

      But what about joint-destructive rheumatoid arthritis, those annoying seasonal allergies, the soaring rates of asthma, sports injuries that refuse to heal, decades-long dermatitis, unrelenting and sometimes bloody colitis, chronic sinusitis, and the insidious liver destruction of hepatitis C?

      These are examples of conditions caused by chronic inflammation. Chronic is the opposite of acute. Acute gets right on the job—and gets it done! Chronic means that the job is prolonged and drawn out, often with adverse consequences. Healing is delayed and the imbalance responsible for the delay results in mounting injury.

      In chronic inflammation, one or more inflammatory triggers will not go away. Either the irritant is entrenched like an environmental chemical exposure;

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