[nopardons]

It's junk science and then some.And remission of arthritic symptoms,during pregnancy,doesn't have anything at all to do with breast feeding.

Soooooooooo...is a cure for arthritis to be constantly pregnant now?

Egyptian mummies and the remains at Pompeii have been studied by forensic scholars.They've found arthritis in many remains.This doesn't jive with this article's positions.

[neverdem]

A series of hormonal changes commence from the onset of pregnancy until and after the end of breastfeeding. If you're not a physician and don't know about how pregnancy affects patients who already have RA, that's OK. Remission during pregnancy is not a cure. I was just trying to make you understand that hormones are a very important influence.

They still don't know why people get RA. One of the ways they try to study disease is with epidemiological studies where they try to understand risk factors, just like smoking, high blood pressure, diabetes, age, sex and family history are risk factors for coronary artery disease. RA is just one type of arthritis. This is an epidemiological study that says among other things, women will have a lower risk of getting RA the longer that they breastfeed. It doesn't say it will prevent RA, just lower the statistical risk.