Inflammation and Hyaluronic Acid: an antagonistic relationship

Townsend Letter for Doctors and Patients,  May, 2004  

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Inflammation and Hyaluronic Acid (HA) are antagonistically related. Inflammation destroys HA, and HA, injected into joints, decreases inflammation. In addition, it appears inflammation may reduce a cells ability to produce HA. An understanding of the mechanisms of inflammation in the body requires an understanding of HA and the many roles it plays in the body.

Over the past few years, HA has become a buzzword synonymous with youth, beauty, pain relief, and accelerated healing. Found highly concentrated in our skin, corneas, cartilage, and joints, our body produces about 5000mg of this substance daily, and, once produced, it has a half life of about a day. At a cost of $500 per 1000mg injectable, or $120 per 1000 mg in pill form (excluding filler), the pure HA our bodies produce has a value of about $6000 per day!

Our cells don't always produce HA efficiently. When HA production dwindles, or when inflammation processes degrade HA, we often suffer from joint pain, myofascial rigidity, skin aging, dryness and wrinkles. Since HA is also closely associated with coherence of the cell wall and intracellular barriers, and transport of nutrients to tissues without vasculature such as tendons, deficient HA may also contribute to impeded muscle and tendon healing and such things as leaky-gut syndrome.

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Controlled research by Ronald J. Riegel, DVM, using the inflamed hocks of genetically similar horses going through very similar training, and eating the same diet, shows that Infratonic Therapy[TM] reduces inflammation as measured by infrared thermography, accelerates recovery of damaged muscle cells, as measured by serum CPK and AST, (indicating increased cell wall coherence) and substantially increases production of HA in joints. Infratonic Therapy can be applied to the local area of pain or inflammation, projecting a therapeutic signal several inches into the body, through thick muscle groups and into joints.

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To review the report Inflammation and HA, please check our website: www.chi.us or call CHI Institute at (800)743-5608

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