Inflammatory Heart Disease - Foundational Facts
Inflammatory heart disease is any disease of the heart caused primarily by inflammation. There are three major categories based on which heart tissue is inflamed. They are:- Endocarditis -Inflammation of the heart's inner lining. Endocarditis frequently damages the heart's valves.
- Myocarditis - Inflammation of the muscle tissues of the heart itself.
- Pericarditis - Inflammation of the fluid filled sac around the heart.
There are three major causes for inflammatory heart disease as well. The inflammation may be caused by bacterial infection, viral infection, or by an auto-immune reaction. However, unfortunately, even when a viral or bacterial infection starts the inflammation, the inflamed condition sometimes continues after the health challenge that started it has disappeared. Treatment for inflammatory heart disease varies depending on the type you're diagnosed with, as well as what caused the inflammation. If a virus or bacteria was the cause of the inflammation then antibiotics, or anti-viral drugs may well be prescribed. In addition, anti-inflammatory drugs may be prescribed to calm the inflammation. But if an auto-immune reaction has caused the inflammation, it can be much more difficult to treat. Another consideration, frequently ignored, is that inflammation is a suspected cause behind all types of heart disease, not only those labeled "inflammatory". So to prevent inflammatory heart disease for sure, and possibly all types of heart disease, we need to further explore inflammation.
Understanding Inflammation -
Key to Prevention or Recovery
 Inflammation isn't something we want to prevent entirely because it is an essential part of an effective immune system. However, although inflammation is needed to mobilize our immune systems when we get hurt or sick, if it becomes a long term condition, it can actually become life threatening.If you don't understand it, inflammation is defined as "localized redness, swelling, heat, and pain in response to an injury or infection", according to Webster's Pocket Dictionary. Our immune systems cause inflammation so our body's defenses are mobilized to overcome a threat caused by injury or disease. Once the injury is healed, or the infection is conquered, the inflammation should disappear. If it doesn't, then we'll begin to have chronic health problems, because if the threat to our health has been conquered, but the inflammation continues, it becomes "chronic". And chronic inflammation threatens our health just as much, or more than the infection or injury that started it did. Additionally, you'll notice the first word in the preceding definition is "localized" which means a small area of the body at a time. If instead of localized inflammation, the inflammation becomes "systemic", meaning throughout our whole body, it's also a problem. Whole body,or systemic, inflammation is currently a suspected cause for many of the most serious diseases we struggle with today. Inflammatory heart disease is just one of these. Researchers now suspect all heart disease, arthritis, allergies, asthma, and many other diseases may be caused, at least in part, by systemic inflammation as well. Some diseases, such as allergies, asthma, rheumatoid arthritis, and lupus are known as auto-immune diseases. This means that the body's immune system is attacking normal body tissues. One of the major contributors to auto-immune diseases is systemic, chronic inflammation. So the key to preventing these disease lies in learning to effectively...
Regulate Inflammation
Conventional medicine uses several different anti-inflammatory drugs to do this, but unfortunately they don't work well long term, because they don't work by regulating the causes of inflammation, but simply by controlling the symptoms.A much more natural, yet economical approach, is to regulate those causes by using supplements, and forming eating habits, that enable your body to heal and balance itself properly. So these natural approaches also become the best...
Ways to Prevent Inflammatory Heart Disease
What are these natural ways to prevent inflammatory heart disease? There are several... The first is an L-arginine supplement, combined with citruline. These two nutrients improve your body's ability to produce nitric oxide. Nitric oxide works in the body to relax the blood vessels and improve circulation. For more information about this product, and ordering information, please click on the banner above. A second supplement is a concentrated super food. It was developed within the past ten years after extensive studies showed, when taken in high enough doses, the super food enabled your body to release adult stem cells. The concentrated product was then developed so high enough doses of the super food could be easily taken. With two pills, your body is able to release 25 to 30% more adult stem cells for four to six hours after each dose. That translates to an extra three to four million circulating stem cells to help you heal. This supplement has been a great help to both my husband's health, and to mine. For all the details of our story please read the super food supplement page where I share our stories. For more details about Stem Enhance, or to order, please visit the the Stem Tech website where you can read all about how it was developed, the double blind studies that have been done, and other testimonials from those it has helped.
The final supplement was developed by the same company that makes the concentrated super food supplement. It is a combination of anti-oxidants, proteolytic enzymes, and whole body cleansers. Although it was developed specifically to boost circulation so stem cells released after taking the super food concentrate mentioned in the previous paragraph, could reach all the body's cells, it is likely it works, at least in part, by lowering systemic inflammation. So by adding this supplement you'll both improve circulation and lower inflammation. Additionally, you can lower your inflammation by following an eating plan that will enable your body to more effectively regulate its inflammatory responses. A detailed explanation of this approach to reversing inflammation is available in a book written by Floyd H. Chilton with Laura Tucker, called Win the War Within. It is available from Amazon for a very reasonable price. A second book I've recently read that deals with the same problem from a slightly different angle is called, Toxic Fat: When Good Fat Turns Bad by a doctor named Barry Sears. Both might also be available from local libraries if buying the books won't fit in your budget.
Conclusions about Inflammatory Heart Disease
Any type of heart disease is best prevented, but if you're already struggling with inflammatory heart disease, please don't despair! The ways to prevent inflammatory heart disease, mentioned above, will also provide powerful nutrition to enable your body to heal. So you can reverse this disease, if you're already struggling with it. However, nothing ventured, nothing gained! You will need to get these supplements and use them regularly, or get Dr. Chilton's book and follow his eating plan regularly, to see your hyper active inflammation subside. Is it worth it? Only you can make that decision, but to me health is probably the second most valuable gift we've been given, right under life itself. I believe it is well worth investing in supplements to keep your health, or recover it, if you've already lost it.
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