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Hi Doctor Osborne here with Web Wellness University. Today I want to talk a little
bit about joint and muscle pain.
Joint and muscle pain are the top reasons that people go to see a doctor on a regular basis.
It's mainly because we have these lifestyles that are best very sedentary.
We sit at a computer desk all day, we can be several hours in a car.
So the posture is always going for it, it's always, the neck is always under
excessive pressure. The joints are not adequately moved in. So the old saying
goes: "use it or lose it". One more sedentary and we're not using the joints,
then they start to deteriorate.
It's one of the first things that people were drag for, is a drag for pain medications.
There are different types of pain medications.
But I want to talk specifically about a type of pain medication
that people take very commonly that has an influence
on certain vitamins and minerals in the body. In that class of medications
are called NSAIDs. And NSAIDs is an acronym and it stands for
Nonsteroidal Anti Inflammatory Drugs, Okay?
So NSAIDs are drugs like Napproxen.
There are drugs like Ibuprofen, Okay?
These you can buy, some of these you can buy over the counter, some of them are prescription grade.
Other classes of drugs that we have are called ***-2 inhibitors and that would be like Celebrex.
That would be an example of Non Steroidal Anti Inflammatory. So let's talk about some of the problems with
these particular types of medications.
One, we're trying to reduce pain.
So in essence, the drug is designed to reduce pain by blocking a chemical,
different chemicals depending on the type of drugs. So these two would
block a chemical called a r?? acid, and this one will block
another chemical cycle ogsygene?? and so.
That's not important to memorize, but the point being that block chemicals that
induced inflammation and because it's inflammation that actually causes pain.
So what we're doing is were blocking chemicals to reduce pain.
Now, the bigger question would always be
why the pain is there in the first place, but that's for another day.
But what I want to talk about or in the side-effects of using
NSAIDs the long period of time.
Most people when they had chronic pain issues and they take an aspirin a day or
they taking ibuprofen today have no idea what is actually occurring
internally with their internal chemistry.
So that's what I want to talk about. The vitamin and mineral deficiencies that
are induced as a result of being on these medications.
One of the things that happens with side-effect wise with chronic
nonsteroidal anti inflammatory use
is that we actually interfere with vitamin C.
Ok? Number two we interfere with another nutrient
called Folic acid. It's a B vitamin. And number three we interfere with iron.
So, these medications interfere with these particular nutrients. So let's talk about
some of the functions of these nutrients. Remember
joint and muscle pain, the goal of taking NSAIDs
is to reduce pain, right?
So if by reducing pain
and at the same time of reducing pain we induced these deficiencies and these
deficiencies have an effect on how we perceive pain
and now it just created a chronic situation.
So, let's talk about vitamin C. One of the things,
it's important to understand about vitamin C, is vitamin C first of all is
necessary for the formation of collagen.
Collagen is a protein that your body makes
and it's the backbone protein your body uses to make muscles
to make tendons ligaments as well as to make joints.
So when we had induce a vitamin C deficiency what ends up happening
is we have a reduction in joint healing.
So we get reduced joint healing, which internally leads to
a joint it is more predisposed injury. So, we were taking these
medications for reducing the pain and as we've got less pain we go out and we try
to do more than what we should maybe did so maybe we re try to run a marathon we
go out it would become a weekend warrior and so. We do something
already predisposed towards joint not healing because we've been
contributor vitamin C-deficiency so now worsened also pounded injury. So we go
out only we're weekend warrior this weekend and we injure something
and because of the vitamin-C deficiency we end up needing to take more of the medication
so one of the things this medication does is it induces vitamin C-deficiency
vitamin C-deficiency causes a reduced joint healing but also causes
the reduced ability, okay, for the protein
structures in your joints muscles and ligaments the form, so we get weaker
joints, muscles, ligaments.
One of the symptoms of vitamin-C deficiencies is bleeding gums because your
gums are made out of that collagen protein and so we have weak gums they
start to bleed. All the same thing happens internally, we have weak
collagen you have weaker bones, weaker muscles, weaker tendons, weaker ligaments, weaker joints.
So you affect your joints in your muscles and therefore subsequently increase
joint muscle pain problems. So that's one element
avoid NSAIDs, do they can create a vitamin C-deficiency that can lead to those issues.
And number two we can also create a folic acid deficiency.
Now, it's important understand about folic acid,
this folic acid is a B-vitamin and one of these jobs in the body
is to help to produce energy it helps your body to make
components of energy so that you can get up in the morning you can start your day
without a cup of coffee without a boost or a dose of caffeine
because of its role also folic acid plays a role in
join integrity just like vitamin C. You actually can't form
cartilage without folic acid. So if you are low in folic acid you can have a reduced
ability to form cartilage. Well that leads to
the degradation of cartilage. So let's think about that in terms of the joint
and all joint surfaces are lined by cartilage
and cartilage does not have a direct blood supply so what we get,
is we get thin cartilage it becomes malnourished.
And thin cartilage in his malnourished becomes inflamed when it's used
and so then we end up with joint and muscle pain
as a result of having folic acid deficiency.
The other nutrient that we have is iron.
Iron is an extremely important nutrient for multiple functions, but one of the main
functions iron serves, is it makes a structure in your red blood cells called
hemoglobin, and that helps you carry oxygen.
And remember its oxygen, oxygen is delivered into your muscles
your muscles can contracting/relaxing make energy and they can work effectively.
If we're have an oxygen deprivation and actually the what we call that is anemia
and so we are lethargic, we have brain fog we are tired, we can sleep for twelve hours,
and we still wake up exhausted, we have muscle spasm and we have muscle pain
so again we're talking about taking a medication
Nonsteroidal Anti Inflammatory Drugs to reduce joint muscle pain.
We end up taking this medication chronically over a long period of time
we can end up inducing these vitamin and mineral deficiencies
inducing these vitamin mineral deficiencies can actually now lead to
the same problem that we started out trying to treat the first place.
So it's kind of of another situation where were chasing our own tail, trying
to treat the proved the symptom without addressing the origin.
So I hope this was helpful for you.
This is Doctor Osborne with Web Wellness University, wishing you actually health,
have a great day!