This is according to the National Institute of Arthritis and Musculoskeletal and Skin Diseases.

You might not know it, but you could be suffering from rheumatoid arthritis causes. Although rheumatoid arthritis is commonly associated with the older generation (people over the age of 65), the disease is found in younger generations – even including children. How could you tell if you have it? 

Well, if you’re experiencing morning stiffness for no apparent reason (feeling like you had done a lot of strenuous exercises the night before, for example), you might be suffering from one of its symptoms and potentially one of the signs of rheumatoid arthritis. As mild as you might think morning stiffness is, you really ought to give it some serious thought and consult with your doctor because if that morning stiffness is related to rheumatoid arthritis causes, you can work to prevent it from disabling or crippling you later on down the road to a point where you can barely function. But rheumatoid arthritis isn’t just a physical condition. It has the propensity to tax your mental and emotional state of well-being too as an autoimmune reaction.

This is because rheumatoid arthritis causes can change the way you work, the way you interact with your family, and the way you entertain yourself with recreational activities. You might even know someone with signs of rheumatoid arthritis and have observed how this disease changed not only his or her mobility but also his or her outlook on life. Those of us without rheumatoid arthritis causes tend to take our ability to move anyway we want for granted, but when that ability slowly disappears right before our eyes, it’s no surprise that we get depressed about it.

But it doesn’t necessarily have to be that way. With proper diet, medications, supplements, education, support, and prescribed exercises, you could work to prevent the most severe forms of the disease – or at least prolong the worst-case symptoms.

Arthritis works in two ways. First, it inflames the muscles, ligaments, and cartilage that sit in-between joints. And it’s this inflammation that causes the pain, swelling, and heat. Those are symptoms that are typical indications of an injury and they’re vital to understanding more about this disease. Second, arthritis works by releasing enzymes that basically consume or otherwise destroy the muscles, ligaments, and cartilage that have become inflamed to a point where they’re not very useful and don’t allow for easy movement. In the worse cases, cartilage disappears completely and as you can guess, this is extremely crippling and uncomfortable.

That’s why we call rheumatoid arthritis an autoimmune disease. Typically, inflamed muscles, ligaments, and cartilage are the result of an injury, like falling on the knees for example. But with arthritis, no injury has to occur. In fact, arthritis is a type of autoimmune disease and the cartilage inside joints is one of the things that it destroys. And any joint can be affected – one, two, maybe even more but most of the time, the disease targets fingers, hips, feet, and knees.

Many of the rheumatoid arthritis causes are over toxicity, genetic predisposition, nutrient deficiencies, and the like. Signs of rheumatoid arthritis can include swelling, pain, stiffness, and difficulty moving. If the body does not have enough nutrition going in and is accumulating toxicity it is possible (with genetic predisposition) that the body develops rheumatoid arthritis. 

Rheumatoid arthritis has a criteria of diagnosis involving at least one joint with swelling that is not explained by any other disease process. In the diagnostics of RA the presence of rheumatoid factor, elevated C-reactive protein, complete blood count with differential, an ANA, as well as various functional labs are commonly used to evaluate the underlying rheumatoid arthritis causes. 

Rheumatoid arthritis can also have excess morbidity and mortality contributed to cardiovascular disease. Inflammatory mediators, peptides/proteins, immune responses, oxidative, and endothelial dysfunction are contributing factors to the link between RA and Cardiovascular diseases. With these overlaps it is vital to be able to address underlying metabolic rheumatoid arthritis causes. Improving nutrition, improving metabolism, and properly detoxifying the body can take pressure off the system so that the body is able to heal naturally. 

References

https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/22150658/ 

https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/29685876/ 

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