Posted on 08/26/2019 8:52:53 PM PDT by Tolerance Sucks Rocks
For many runners with chronic illnesses, managing their condition in order to continue doing the sport they love can be a challenge. But the benefits they gain from it—a calmer mind, a reduction in stress, for instance—help motivate them to keep pushing forward.
But for 37-year-old Annabelle Winters, running through chronic illness hasn’t just given her a mental boost: It may have literally saved her life.
Winters is a lifelong runner. She started running in third grade, as part of an after-school club in her hometown in southern New Hampshire. While the team competition side of running never quite struck a chord, she has run continuously since age 10 because, in her words, “I just love doing it.”
Just like she has run for most of her life, Winters has also dealt with ulcerative colitis, a chronic inflammatory bowel disease, for most of her life, too—although she didn’t necessarily know it.
“I had celiac symptoms as a baby,” she says to Runner’s World. “In 1982, my parents were advised to remove gluten from my diet. They did, sort of, and my symptoms subsided.”
Winters lived fairly symptom-free for nearly 20 years before the disease really started to impinge on her life. At age 25, she started to be bothered by chronic gastrointestinal distress (i.e., the recurring, urgent need for a bathroom), along with cystic acne, and eczema.
Interestingly, it may be thanks to running that her disease stayed at bay for so long.
And that may have to do with how exercise—especially running—affects inflammation in your body, explains Brian P. Bosworth, M.D. chief of medicine at NYU Langone.
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Run all you want, good for you. Most people in my neighborhood don’t know how. They run on pavement—not good, or they run without the natural foot movement of back to front pressure on the side of their foot.I have even seen some run as if they were in an opera—all the pressure on the toes. Some even do the bone jarring jogging, never knowing it is not good; few really “run.” I walk, 6-9 miles a day. That is enough for me to work up a heavy sweat.
Runners always seemed like masochists to me.
I always figured that if God wanted me to run there’d be some big f***er chasing me. When I joined the Marine Corps, sure enough one was.
Ulcerative colitis and other digestive disorders .... TRY Alternate / Herbal remedy
Boswellia Serrata
It’s Cheap. May have to try a couple brands to get what works for you. Can do while getting other treatments.
Some of the research links to have your doc look at
https://www.cancer.gov/about-cancer/treatment/clinical-trials/intervention/boswellia-serrata-extract
What a crock. Believe this tripe at your own peril. She should sue her doctors. “Why?” You ask? Because failing to treat her condition led to a dangerous state of colon health she rationalizes now but will ultimately worsen.
Furthermore, a doctor was CURING his patients of Celiac over 70 years ago.
I’m so sick of this type of garbage.
Will do.
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