Posted on 08/23/2021 8:13:41 AM PDT by ConservativeMind
Passive exposure was broken down into three categories, including maternal smoking during pregnancy, parental smoking during childhood, and years lived with smokers since age 18. Even with personal smoking accounted for, passive exposure to parental smoking during childhood was found to increase risk of incident seropositive RA by 75-percent.
"There has been intense interest in mucosal lung inflammation from personal smoking as a site of RA pathogenesis," said senior author Jeffrey A. Sparks, MD. "But the majority of RA patients aren't smokers, so we wanted to look at another inhalant that might precede RA."
RA is an inflammatory disease characterized by arthritis at multiple joints and is associated with morbidity and mortality outcomes.
A 75-percent higher risk of RA was found in individuals who experienced passive childhood exposure to parental smoking. This risk increased in participants who themselves became active smokers. Over the median follow-up of 27.7 years, 532 women in the cohort developed confirmed incident RA cases—the majority (352) of which were seropositive (positive for RA autoantibodies). Maternal smoking during pregnancy and years lived with smokers beyond age 18 showed no significant association with incident RA risk.
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Looks like the final notes on tobacco smoke are being written. Good thing RA is such a benign condition.
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The same can’t be said of marijuana, with its effect on a growing brain.
My wife (age 80) has terrible arthritis and no one in her immediate or near family smoked. None of her siblings have arthritis. So far none of our 50+- something DNA pools and nieces and nephews have arthritis.
My mother and her siblings were depression/WWII teens/adults.
They all smoked until their late 20’s, and all of them had severe arthritis which got worse as they aged. They all lived to be 80 something.
So far my cousins,siblings, and I have avoided constant arthritis. We have wear and tear arthritis from basically sports injuries.
Cold weather sets that off, like this morning 55 degrees outside and 65 inside. Voltaren Gel dabbed on and rubbed into the key sore areas, works, when it gets too bad.
I strongly encourage you to look into boron and an eggshell membrane supplement.
For the most severe osteo, patients were given 12 mg/day for two months.
By the 8th week, 75% had quit using pain medicines. By the 4th week, 50% of patients had lost all joint rigidity. More in pages 39-40 in this paper:
http://imjournal.com/openaccess/pizzorno144.pdf
The form of boron in the studies is the one in apples, calcium fructoborate. It is hard to find that form, but it is the sole boron in the only the following supplement:
https://smile.amazon.com/gp/aw/d/B07B6B4PWQ
One of those pills has 5.5 mg of boron, so two a day would get you 11 mg a day, which is close to the 12 mg a day in the study. The upper tolerable limit for boron is 20 mg a day, so you should do well with it. I take multiple borons getting me to 10+ mg a day.
Also, look into eggshell membrane. It naturally has standard stuff of common Move Free-type supplements, but it has a few other components that appear to go beyond any other similar supplement.
The one I take is this one:
According to the paper, some of the inflammatory activity of rheumatoid arthritis would be lessened with boron and it might help loosen things up for your wife, too.
Both of my parents smoked until I was age 13. RA is the bane of my existence. Ibuprofen daily. Turning 65 on Thursday. The ibuprofen is less effective as time passes.
I’m a Boomer, b1949. I myself never smoked. But both parents and virtually every adult I knew was a heavy smoker. Every place I worked until the early nineties was a smoking environment. Commercial airliners had ashtrays in the armrests. Everyone smoked. Everywhere. Movie theaters and churches were about the only exceptions.
I have rheumatoid arthritis. Fighting hard to old down inflammation.
Only someone who doesn't have it could say that. I would bet you don't even know anyone who has RA.
I have never heard of anyone who was interested in mucosal lung inflammation for any reason whatsoever, intense or otherwise.
That's where I was at 65. Suffering from gout, psoriasis and RA as well and walking with a cane.
Drastic dietary changes, (Basically eliminating all of my favorite food and drink), a little exercise and the introduction of CBD changed all that. At 72, I no longer take any pain meds. Just CBD. I miss the fried shrimp, beer and cheeseburgers. But I can walk a mile up to the post office without pain (Or a cane) and I can get a good nights sleep.
On the plus side, Living in Southeast Alaska, I can have all the salmon and wild game I want - AND - I'm healthy enough to go harvest it myself.
“Looks like the final notes on tobacco smoke are being written. Good thing RA is such a benign condition.
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The same can’t be said of marijuana, with its effect on a growing brain”.
The slash sign (/) was to indicate sarcasm (/sarcasm). I don’t know what the occasional pains I have in my wrists are, but I empathize with anyone suffering through the same pain.
Thanks for confirming that anti-pot zealotry and tobacco nazism walk hand in hand.
I never smoked, but have COPD. My mom smoked like a chimney while she was pregnant and for years until her death from lung cnacer.
I had two VO2 Max tests done about 25 years ago when I was very physically fit.
It showed I was borderline COPD in my 20s.
What is your current diet, aside from tasty fresh meat?
You’ve made an incredible reversal and you help prove to others that an endemic health issue, isn’t.
Do you take anything for your COPD?
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