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Nopalea is a superfruit wellness drink unlike the other wellness drinks on the market as they are merely antioxidant or energy drinks. Nopalea has anti-inflammatory properties and helps to detoxify the cells in your body.
Below are excerpts from an article from the International Wellness Directory which explores the dangers of Chronic Inflammation as it is now believed to be the root cause of many illnesses and conditions we deal with:
"Depression, asthma, pancreatitis, Parkinson's, lupus, anemia, kidney failure, psoriasis, and fibrosis might just be the start. All of these diseases have a suspected root cause of chronic inflammation.
Seemingly unrelated illnesses “often exhibit excess levels of pro-inflammatory markers:
- Allergy — Inflammatory cytokines induce autoimmune reactions
- Alzheimer's — Chronic inflammation destroys brain cells
- Anemia — Inflammatory cytokines attack erythropoietin production
- Aortic valve stenosis — Chronic inflammation damages heart valves
- Arthritis — Inflammatory cytokines destroy joint cartilage and synovial fluid
- Cancer — Chronic inflammation causes many cancers
- Congestive heart failure — Chronic inflammation contributes to heart muscle wasting
- Fibromyalgia — Inflammatory cytokines are elevated
- Fibrosis — Inflammatory cytokines attack traumatized tissue
- Heart attack — Chronic inflammation contributes to coronary atherosclerosis
- Kidney failure — Inflammatory cytokines restrict circulation and damage nephrons
- Lupus — Inflammatory cytokines induce an autoimmune attack
- Pancreatitis — Inflammatory cytokines induce pancreatic cell injury
- Psoriasis — Inflammatory cytokines induce dermatitis
- Stroke — Chronic inflammation promoted thromboembolic events
- Surgical complications — Inflammatory cytokines prevent healing
Lets take a closer look at some diseases and their inflammatory connection.
Cancer: in an article entitled “Chronic Inflammation and Cancer,” by Emily Shacter, PhD published in Oncology, she sums up her findings thus:
A substantial body of evidence supports the conclusion that chronic inflammation can predispose an individual to cancer, as demonstrated by the association between chronic inflammatory bowel diseases and the increased risk of colon carcinoma. Chronic inflammation is caused by a variety of factors, including bacterial, viral, and parasitic infections, chemical irritants, and nondigestible particles. The longer the inflammation persists, the higher the risk of associated carcinogenesis. This review describes some of the underlying causes of the association between chronic inflammation and cancer. Inflammatory mediators contribute to neoplasia by inducing proneoplastic mutations, adaptive responses, resistance to apoptosis, and environmental changes such as stimulation of angiogenesis. All these changes confer a survival advantage to a susceptible cell. In this article, we discuss the contribution of reactive oxygen and nitrogen intermediates, prostaglandins, and inflammatory cytokines to carcinogenesis. A thorough understanding of the molecular basis of inflammation-associated neoplasia and progression can lead to novel approaches to the prevention and treatment of cancer. [ONCOLOGY 16:217-232, 2002]
Aging: why do people age? One reason is the inflammatory process. This is why you see people who appear much older than their age, and you see people who look much younger than their age. One of them suffers from chronic inflammation. Macular Degeneration: JAMA, in Feb of 2004 linked this one to inflammation.
Fibromyalgia and Chronic Fatigue Syndrome: we still don’t know which came first, the problem or the inflammation, but these two are often found together. In her article “Cytokine and other immunological markers in CFS,” Dr Nancy Klimas believed that the unusual amounts of cytokines might lead to hormonal imbalances. Often called the most mysterious of illnesses, and hard to diagnose, we do know that chronic inflammation accompanies both, and that treating the terrain is a person's only hope for long term recover.
Osteoporosis: as we've seen with chronic periodontal disease, inflammation leads to bone loss. Studies using people with inflammatory bowel disease are also showing that bone loss progresses as the disease progresses.
Arthritis: earlier we mentioned that the inflammation eats away cartilage. In Rheumatoid Arthritis, the inflammation is systemic eating away at the entire body, an autoimmune disorder.
Multiple Sclerosis: this is a tough one. MS has been described as an inflammatory disease of the central nervous system. According to Professor V Hugh Perry, the macrophage population in MS brains are much more activated than in others, and that inflammations can be further amplified with age, injuries, infections, and surgeries. "
Best of all, Nopalea is not a drug. There is no fear of the common side-effects such as those which come from anti-inflammatory medications prescribed by the medical industry.Do you know someone who suffers from chronic inflammation? Nopalea could be a solution for them.
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