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Getting older is definitely one of life’s great adventures. Depending on how you look at it, aging can be a wonderful thing full of learning and adjusting to new walks of life. As aging happens there are some concerns that pop up about inflammation and aging and how this can affect you.
Here, you’re going to find out about how inflammation has connections to aging and how to help yourself in each of the situations listed.
Inflammation caused by free-radicals (substances that attack your cells) can cause a great deal of issues with the brain. Your brain can actually swell and not do as well as you thought it could when it comes to inflammation. From foggy brain to headaches, there are many ways to see if you have some sort of neural inflammation.
Because aging results in more susceptibility when it comes to inflammation this means that your neurons are going to be more susceptible as well. To give a little bit of a background on how signals work in the brain, there are cells called neurons that receive electrical signals from your brain and central nervous system or CNS.
When your brain is sending signals through each cell, the inflammation around the cells can decrease the amount of information that is sent because of the pressure on the nerves. Inflammation causes plenty of swelling around the body and can also cause swelling around nerves and neurons. The pressure from the swelling around the neurons is what slows down responses, decreases motor movement and can create brain fog.
Throughout the years the body faces plenty of wear and tear. Our joints have protective fluids and sacks that help keep them healthy and well lubricated. This lubrication is what allows our joints to move so much and so well.
Unfortunately, over time, these liquids and sacks begin to dry out and the lubrication decreases in the body. This is just something that happens over time.
Well, when this does happen, the bones in the joints begin to rub against one another or they begin to develop arthritis. This causes inflammation in the joints.
Sometimes this inflammation can be so much that it is hard to move your joints which is why this type of inflammation is connected to aging. Joints can swell to several times their size and make movement extremely difficult.
One of the largest side effects of inflammation especially when it is connected to age is pain. There is plenty to learn more about inflammation and how it can be helped.
Something to keep in mind is that with age there is chronic pain and chronic inflammation that can be caused by a multitude of things. The diet is one of the first places to look because that is where several foods can cause internal inflammation which just adds to any external inflammation or joint inflammation.
As you age your body is going to process foods differently and because of that, you will have to adjust your diet as much as possible. It is a good idea to attempt to go on a more anti-inflammatory diet and see what foods cause inflammation for you.
Over time, you will find the right diet that helps support lower levels of inflammation in the body. It’s not something that is immediate in anyone’s body and age does mean that there is more variability in how long it will take to find what it is that works best for you.
To help yourself, taking turmeric is a great way to decrease inflammation, especially in the brain. Turmeric is a known anti-inflammatory that works on the capillary action in the body to make sure that blood goes where it is supposed to go.
While turmeric can’t take care of everything, it is important to remember that supplements in general are going to help with inflammation but are not going to get rid of it. Decreasing your sugar intake as well as processed food intake can also help decrease inflammation and help you feel eons better.
Continuing to move and walk is another great way to decrease inflammation. While it may be painful, some sort of movement, even something like yoga or stretching will help decrease inflammation due to the movement of the fluid through your lymphatic system.
It is important to do everything in moderation and slowly but surely work through different stages of what you can do to help yourself so that you can see what works and what doesn’t work.
Aging is a wonderful process that many people are either not prepared for or are afraid of. This is something that is perfectly normal but shouldn’t be feared! Aging has its own processes that come along with it and one of those processes is higher rates of inflammation.
Eating a different diet, taking supplements and continuing movement are all great ways to decrease inflammation and keep your body in tip top shape.
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