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What Causes
Arthritis, Joint Inflammation and Degeneration?
Arthritis and Joint Degeneration are not simply due to
"stress" on the Locomotor system or wear and tear on the
weight bearing joints. Arthritic problems and Joint
Degeneration are exacerbated or caused by 3 major
factors:
(1) Overly aggressive Autoimmune Reactions,
(2) The Neovascularization of Cartilage and
(3) Congenital Malformations.
Factor1:
Autoimmune Reaction
Rheumatoid Arthritis is an Immune Deficiency Syndrome or
Autoimmune Reaction where antibodies develop against
components of joint tissue, and mistakenly and
aggressively attack the joints, destroying cartilage,
synovial fluid, bone and joint tissues. Rheumatoid
Arthritis is a chronic inflammatory condition that
affects your entire body. It usually involves several
joints in the onset, typically in a symmetrical fashion
(i.e. both hands, both wrists, both hips), causing
inflammation, stiffness and immobility.
Factor 2:
Neovascularization of Cartilage
Over
time, imbalances within the biochemistry of your body,
due to either an excessive immune response and/or the
triggering of specific autosomal recessive traits, may
produce inappropriate peptides and cytokines. Cytokines
are powerful mediating peptides which can wrongly
stimulate the neovascularization of cartilage and other
nonvascularized surrounding tissue, causing blood
vessels to grow into tissues where they shouldn't, while
creating cascades of unwanted destructive enzymatic
activities. The neovascularization of cartilage leads to
its collagen matrix becoming calcified, and subsequently
brittle and inflexible. With decreasing resilience,
hardened cartilage begins to quickly wear away at any
opposing surface. Moreover, misdirected
neovascularization leads to displacement of water while
decreasing the volume and viscosity of synovial fluid,
further lessening the flexibility and cushioning power
of the joint, until the surfaces of raw unprotected bone
painfully begin to wear against each other, as it
happens in conditions of Osteoarthritis, the most common
form of arthritic degenerative joint disease, and
congenital Joint Malformations.
Factor 3:
Congenital Malformations
Congenital malformations are basically inborn recessive
genetic errors of development which directly affect the
integrity of skeletal structure. Thus, cartilage, bones
and joints may not be fully developed. Having less
physical strength than normally developed joints, an
underdeveloped or malformed joint becomes more prone to
injury, disease and accelerated wear, increasing the
probability of being vulnerable to overly aggressive
Autoimmune Reactions (Factor 1) or the
Neovascularization of Cartilage (Factor 2). Congenital
malformations also involve biochemical errors wherein
certain enzymes or other biochemical mediators are not
produced, interfering with both growth and maintenance
functions of cartilage, bones and joints. Deterioration
can be slowed, and sometimes reversed, by supplementing
with appropriate nutrients and hormonal cofactors which
specifically fill-in the missing biochemicals the genome
has failed to activate
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