Anything that improves the circulation will encourage more oxygen to the muscles and joints, improving detoxification, reducing acidity, encouraging healing, reducing inflammation and pain. 1) Cinnamon spice into your diet every day – it is a warming spice, known to increase the blood circulation especially to the joints. This will encourage nutrients and waste to...
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Water is good for you, everyone knows it and would agree. You are probably thinking to yourself this is rather obvious and  doesn’t need stating. However, research is revealing a different picture, I might be stating the obvious but most people are ignoring this simple fact. You seriously need to think about your...
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These are important aspects that accelerate the aging process and speed up degeneration in general, contributing to a poor quality of life with more suffering than necessary, especially in most forms of arthritis. 1)   Inflammation can be triggered by a number of things, what you eat and drink has a huge impact on your...
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So why would improving your calcium absorption help relieve arthritis? The body would be less likely to dump calcium in inappropriate places like the joint or muscle tissue causing stiffness and pain for some people. For others it could mean gall stones or kidney stones. It’s not just about consuming calcium...
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For acute injury – remember this If you have just injured yourself (acute) like a strain from doing sport or walking the dog, DO NOT use heat on the injury for the first 24 to 48 hours, or any heating herbs and spices. The R.I.C.E method must be used. R...
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I wrote an article a little while ago about magnet therapy and their benefit- Actually, their lack of benefits. It’s a 5 billion dollar a year industry but there are next to no studies that have shown any clinical results. Here are the results of a study just conducted by a group of researchers...
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By supporting the organic movement, we help to minimize chemical damage which poses a real threat to the future of humanity. We need to think hard before choosing an intensively produced product over an organic product simply because of the small extra cost. Organic food is free from insecticides, pesticides, growth hormones, antibiotics,...
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Sonia Jones ND from the Haven Spa and Health Clinic 1) Hair follicles can be affected by some drugs. Check with your doctor or research for yourself the side-effects for your medication. Some cancer treatments, immune suppressants, some arthritis treatments can affect hair growth. Solution – talk to your doctor. 2) Bold patches could be caused by...
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Sonia Jones ND from the Haven Spa and Health Clinic When we think of inflammation we might think of pain and the inflammatory conditions like arthritis or gout. However, inflammation and the destruction it causes can be silent, painless and go un-noticed. Inflammation is so widely linked to heart disease, diabetes, cancer and...
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Sonia Jones ND from the Haven Spa and Health Clinic, Boquete, Panama Sleep can be a problem for many due to pain and anxiety. Somehow pain seems to get worse while we lie there in the early hours, trying not to focus on the pain. For others just lying down in bed seems to aggravate...
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