Water: Nature’s Elixir To Optimal Health

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Water is essential to our health. When the body lacks water, maintaining the blood becomes a priority over the cells. The body will allow cellular damage to occur before the viscosity of the blood is permitted to be lost.  When it comes to water distribution, the brain is the most important because it contains the highest concentration of water (85%), and for the work it executes as controller over bodily functions.  So losing out on hydration is possibly the worst thing you can do to your body.

Water performs many vital tasks within the body, like breaking down food particles, running the body’s hydroelectric pumps, removing toxins, cooling and carrying nutrients to cells.  Without water the body simply can not perform its necessary functions, and vital processes will shut down.  You need to know when your body is dehydrated and work to counteract the problem.

Arthritis: A Grating Pain With Little Relief

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Remember how the hair on the back of your neck stood on end when the kid with a sheepish grin dragged his fingernails across the black board. Grating wasn’t it? Well, take that sensation and magnify it into true pain to imagine the agony millions suffer with arthritis. Instead of fingernails on a blackboard it’s bone against bone resulting in inflammation, stiffness and joint deterioration.

Of the over 100 forms of arthritis there are two which the majority of people suffer, Osteoarthritis (OA) and Rheumatoid Arthritis (RA). The cause of either has not been found, but certain clues about both have been discovered.

Osteoarthritis (OA)

Remedies For Arthritis That Help Relieve Pain

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It is nearly mind-boggling the number of alternative remedies created for the treatment of arthritis. Many are peculiar, like the suggestion of filling a canvas bag with the chaff from the bottom of a horse trough, then taking a bath with the bag. But, this remedy leaves one wondering if the curative agent is the hay, or horse saliva left on the hay. Either way, most people would rather sit in mud, which may actually have more curative properties than wet horse hay.

Because everyone, and their pets, seems to have a favorite remedy many of them end up contradicting each other. For instance, aspirin has been used for years to help arthritis sufferers, because of its anti-inflammatory properties. However, new research has indicated that the drug, and ones like it, may actually contribute to osteoarthritis for it inhibits the bodies natural ability to repair cartilage.