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EARTHDATE: August 21, 2016

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REAL LIFE NEWS: WHY WE FEEL STIFF IN THE MORNING

by Hazed

Do you feel stiff and achy when you wake up in the morning? Most people do, and of course that feeling gets worse as you get older. In fact, as the joke goes, once you reach a certain age, if you wake up in the morning and you don’t feel any pain, it means you’re dead!

Now scientists have figured out why mornings hurt so much.

It’s because the body’s natural painkillers haven’t started working yet. During the night, the body’s biological clock supresses the production of a natural ibuprofen, and when you get up and start moving around, it takes a while for the anti-inflammatory proteins to start flowing again.

This discovery was made by scientists at Manchester University, who hope it could help to develop drugs to treat inflammatory diseases such as arthritis.

Dr Julie Gibbs, a researcher at the Centre for Endocrinology and Diabetes at the University of Manchester’s Institute of Human Development, said: “By understanding how the biological clock regulates inflammation, we can begin to develop new treatments, which might exploit this knowledge.

“Furthermore, by adapting the time of day at which current drug therapies are administered, we may be able to make them more effective.”

As someone who is starting to suffer from arthritis, I hope that turns out to be the case!

Source: http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2016/08/07/why-do-we-wake-up-stiff-in-the-mornings-scientists-discover-the/

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