Arthritis is an incredibly common condition in the UK, that affects more than 10 million people. A new study has found one of the best treatments to help reduce pain due to its increased ‘cannabis-type’ substances.

Exercise increases the body’s own cannabis-like substances, which in turn helps reduce inflammation and could potentially help treat certain conditions such as arthritis, cancer and heart disease.

In the study, published in Gut Microbes, experts from the University of Nottingham found that exercise intervention in people with arthritis did not just reduce their pain, but it also lowered the levels of inflammatory substances (called cytokines).

Exercise was also shown to increase levels of cannabis-like substances produced by their own bodies, called endocannabinoids.

Interestingly, the way exercise resulted in these changes was by altering the gut microbes.

Source: | This article first appeared on Express.co.uk

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