Hello! I have been a doctor for 21 years. My name is Georgy Olegovich Sapego. In this article I will tell you about how obesity spoils the joints in the fingers.
We have already talked about excess weight from which knees fall apart. But what does the hand have to do with it? We don't lean on our fingers with all our weight. It turns out that it's all about the substances that adipose tissue secretes into the blood.
Hormones
Fat is practically the same endocrine gland as the pancreas or thyroid. It releases hormones that affect the entire body. These hormones penetrate the smallest and most distant joints and can also damage them.
An interesting story happens with the knees. They have their own fatty body. It hides under the kneecap.
This fatty body can also release hormones. They do not need to scour the entire body to find a victim, because the fatty body has its own knee by its side. The hormones from the patellar fat body are right there in place and will work.
Adipose tissue spoils our joints in two ways.
First way
They are inflammatory substances. We have already discussed with you the inflammation in obesity, from which the blood vessels and heart suffer. So the fat secretes these fighting inflammatory substances, they float into the joints and start a war there.
Some parts of the joints are destroyed by inflammation. Swelling, redness, pain are all associated with inflammation. You don't even need to step on the joint with all your weight, but it will still sag and fall apart.
Second way
The second way is trickier. These are the hormones of adipose tissue themselves. Hormones are generally insidious substances. They don't always act predictably. So they spoil the joints in an unusual way. They not only provoke inflammation, but also deceive the cartilage cells.
The hormones make the cartilage believe it has been stepped on with all its weight. The cartilage thinks it will be crushed. He starts to panic, he rebels and resists. But any disorder and turmoil inside the joint ends badly. The joint becomes inflamed and slowly collapses.
It turns out that by keeping our weight within normal limits, we protect not only our knees, but also our fingers. These are the pies ...
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