If you’ve noticed a little puffiness in your face and achiness in your joints lately, you may be suffering from water retention, otherwise known as inflammation. This can occur temporarily in sync with your monthly cycle, causing bloating and weight gain that goes away after a few days. But if it becomes an ongoing condition, you may have systemic low-grade inflammation, a precursor to metabolic disease.
Exposure to extreme cold via whole body or localized cryotherapy can help reduce inflammation and eliminate the symptoms it triggers. When combined with lifestyle modifications, regular cryotherapy can help you combat stress and improve your overall health.
Causes and Symptoms of Chronic Inflammation
Stress, poor sleep, an unhealthy diet, and destructive lifestyle habits can lead to chronic low-grade inflammation, an autoimmune response triggered by your body in defense against perceived threats.
The following factors are among the leading causes of chronic inflammation:
- Autoimmune disorders that attack healthy tissues
- Untreated acute inflammation stemming from infection or injury
- Exposure to environmental toxins
- Obesity
- Chronic overuse from sports or exercise
- Excessive alcohol consumption
- Smoking
- Inadequate sleep and inconsistent sleep patterns
- Processed food diet
- Chronic stress
The following factors are among the leading causes of chronic inflammation:
- Osteoarthritis
- Hypertension
- Heart disease
- Insulin resistance (a precursor to diabetes)
- Arterial plaque
- Skin disorders
- Unhealthy gut biome
- Depression and anxiety
Treatment Options to Fight Chronic Inflammation
There are several ways to tackle your chronic inflammation for long-term relief. Some of these methods only provide only temporary relief, while others target the root cause, restoring balance to your body and eliminating excess fluids.
1. Supplements like vitamins A, C, D, fish oil, and Zinc can reduce inflammation and help your body to repair itself.
2. Nonsteroidal anti-inflammatory drugs (NSAIDs) are over the counter medications like ibuprofen, aspirin, or naproxen, to temporarily relieve symptoms.
3. Corticosteroid injections target inflamed joints and muscles, and are often used by arthritis sufferers. The effects wear off over time, and ongoing use can cause negative side effects
For more long-term results, you can reduce inflammation by improving your lifestyle:
- Drink one ounce of filtered water for every two pounds of body weight daily
- Exercise for at least 30 minutes daily to improve circulation
- Reduce your intake of grains and sugar
- Eat a diet rich in antioxidant-rich foods like red grapes, tree nuts, and green leafy veggies
- Avoid all processed foods
- Get 7-8 hours of sleep nightly
- Regularly expose your body to natural sunlight
- Abandon destructive habits like smoking, drinking and recreational drug use
Vitamin IV Therapy for Inflammation
Changing your diet and other lifestyle habits can significantly reduce inflammation and its associated symptoms. However, lifestyle changes take time. To speed up relief from your symptoms, consider IV vitamin therapy to replenish depleted nutrients.
In particular, NAD+ therapy delivers a vital nutrient directly to your bloodstream, to support your body’s cells. The intravenous therapy bypasses your digestive system, where nutrients are normally processed before traveling to your cells.
NAD+ therapy infuses nicotinamide adenine dinucleotide directly to your bloodstream. NAD is an essential coenzyme that is critical for cellular processes, including DNA repair. It supports energy production, can reverse signs of aging, and helps to normalize your immune response, to eliminate excess inflammation.
Localized and Whole Body Cryotherapy for Inflammation Treatment
Localized cryotherapy provides instant relief to inflamed joints and tissues by delivering a stream of icy nitrogen gas directly to the affected area, to reduce swelling. Local cryotherapy is especially useful for treating arthritis and reducing inflammation after soft tissue injuries.
Whole body cryotherapy exposes your entire body to a 3-minute icy blast of nitrogen, causing superficial blood vessels to constrict, and shunting excess fluids and toxins out of soft tissues for elimination. Not only can you reduce inflammation with cryotherapy, but the treatment can enhance your body’s immune response and help to rejuvenate skin by stimulating collagen production.
Benefits of cryotherapy for inflammation include:
- Speeds up recovery from sports and exercise
- Promotes healing of soft tissue injuries
- Can be used as a cancer treatment
- Promotes healthy skin
- Works as an effective fibromyalgia treatment
Cryotherapy in NYC
To get effective and convenient cryotherapy treatment, you don’t need to travel far. InVita Wellness in Manhattan offers whole body and localized cryotherapy, and CryoFacial, along with a full selection of IV nutrient cocktails and nutrient injections, to keep you vital, active, and healthy. Contact InVita Wellness today and get fast relief from chronic inflammation.
Sources:
https://my.clevelandclinic.org/health/symptoms/
Links:
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Patel, K., et. al., “Whole-Body Cryotherapy in Sports Medicine”, Current Sports Medicine Reports, 18(4):p 136-140, April 2019.
2. https://paahjournal.com/articles/10.5334/
He, Y., et. al., “The Effect of Cryotherapy on Balance Recovery at Different Moments after Lower Extremity Muscle Fatigue”, Physical Activity and Health, 5(1), pp.255–270. DOI.
