Treat Injuries - Sports Injury & Knee Injury & Others Naturally

Nobody gets through life unscathed and without injury and subsequent swelling. As long as we move through live we can encounter a sports injury, knee injury, or even brain injury. From the time we are little children, we come to understand the meaning of bruises, scratches, sores, infections and inflammation. But what is not well known is that inflammation is a process of great importance, and not something to regard as a disease itself. In fact, inflammation is a process that the body encourages, yet the medical community treats “bad”. The goal of many doctors in natural health care is to find a balance by helping the body move smoothly and rapidly through the process of inflammation.

Adjunctive Nutritional Schedule
* Anti Inflammation: 6 capsules a day (2 every other hour with acute inflammation)
* Whole Calcium Supplement: 8 tablets a day
* Fish Oils: 4 capsules a day
* Alkaline Food: 8 tablets a day

For injuries of the joints, muscles, bone, tendons, cartilage, add
* Bone-Joint Nutrients, 6 tablets a day

For pain, add
* Healthy Heart: 4 tablets a day

It takes A LOT OF NUTRIENTS to help the inflammation process.

More on Inflammation
Modern science treats inflammation as a health problem, which is misleading. To compound this problem, the word "infection" is used very often to describe inflammation, and is applied to ear aches, arthritic swelling, head colds, flu, congestion, sore throat, sinus problems, fever, cuts and scrapes, urinary tract problems and even the body's reaction to toxic exposure. The word infection is not really accurate.

An infection is defined as: "Invasion by and multiplication of pathogenic microorganisms in a bodily part or tissue, which may produce subsequent tissue injury and progress to overt disease through a variety of cellular or toxic mechanisms; An instance of being infected; An agent or a contaminated substance responsible for one's becoming infected; The pathological state resulting from having been infected." (dictionary.com)

Inflammation is not infection. When body tissues are insulted or suffer an injury, as with trauma, excess stress, fatigue, drastic temperature changes, exposure to toxins and poisons, or nutritional deficiencies, there is some damage or breakdown of cells. The body's reaction is a process called the biochemistry of inflammation and repair.

Symptoms are presented at each stage of inflammation, and these are often misinterpreted as "bad," to be halted with drugs, chemicals, or even herbs. Yet, if the process is interfered with, the body may not fully accomplish its mission to fully repair the tissue.

Certain requirements are needed by the cells to accomplish its process of inflammation and repair:
> A constant blood supply to the area;
> Aconstant nerve supply to the area; Natural vitamin complexes, enzymes, minerals, trace elements, bioflavonoids, amino acids, etc.
> If all these items are not present in sufficient supplies, the original problem is prolonged and repair may not be properly completed. With inflammation comes swelling, blood flow, white blood cells, removal of damaged cells, mucus, pus, enzyme activity, nutrients, heat and pain. These are all natural occurrences that tell us the body is trying to heal itself.

Five basic symptoms of inflammation, known since ancient Greek and Roman eras, are:

1. redness
2. swelling
3. heat
4. pain
5. limited/impaired function

NUTRITIONAL NEEDS (See Adjunctive Nutritional Schedule above)
Inflammation carries with it a call for specific nutrients to aid in the repair process, which in turn eliminate inflammation. Needed are specific vitamins (Vitamin A, Vitamin C, Vitamin E, Vitamin K, etc.), minerals (calcium, phosophorus, zinc, selenium, potassium, etc.), and bioflavonoids (rutin, quercetin, hesperidin, et.al.) to increase the strength of capillaries (blood vessels) and to regulate their permeability. Bioflavonoids assist vitamin C in supporting collagen, the intercellular "cement" and; are essential for the proper absorption and use of vitamin C, prevent Vitamin C from being destroyed in the body by oxidation, are beneficial in hypertension, help hemorrhages and ruptures in the capillaries and connective tissues, and build a protective barrier against infections.


Disclaimer
Always coordinate your health program with a qualified health care practitioner. The nutrients in each Adjunctive Nutritional Schedule are not meant to treat or cure disease, injury or inflammation, or any type of injury but rather to support health. The FDA has not evaluated any statements made herein. All products have been formulated based on sound scientific and medical research. No artificial ingredients are used.