The best way to reduce pain and inflammation without medication

Does it sometimes seem that joint pains and muscle aches don’t bother you as much when you’re more active?

Well that’s not just your imagination.

A new study has found that getting moving might be the key to keeping pain at bay.

But since the relief exercise offers is only temporary, you do actually need to do it every day.

The researchers injected mice with a substance that triggers an inflammatory protein. The protein is linked to conditions ranging from inflammatory bowel disease to arthritis.

And tests done on the mice found the protein had less effect in the ones that exercised.

Exercise, they concluded, “generates a true biological response.”

“Our results show the benefits that exercise could have in decreasing the great burden of rheumatic diseases,” said study author Dr. Nicholas Young of The Ohio State University Wexner Medical Center. These include over 200 causes of disability.

So the next time you think it’s too much of a “pain” to get moving, remember, you’ll have a lot less of one once you do.

Sources:
“Regular exercise beneficial in suppressing inflammation in rheumatic disease” European League Against Rheumatism” June 12, 2014, Science Daily, science daily.com