Arthritis, Joint Inflammation and Degeneration

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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