Weather and YOUR body...

This week it's been COLD! I am feeling the season change, along with the darker afternoons and my chilly walk to work... I feel like a bear who wants to hibernate.  Why?

Weather affects our bodies for many reasons, so many that we have scientists constantly investigating biometerology -- the study of how weather affects people, plants, and animals, and importantly, how weather can affect your health.

There are so many factors included in weather (temperature, wind, an increase or decrease in precipitation...) that it's hard to tell specifically why we feel different when the weather changes.  Our emotional health, joints, body pain, mood.... so much to consider.  One reason we DO know that our joints often ache is the change in barometric pressure -- that's known.  The change in pressure also affects your blood pressure which in turn affects EVERYTHING about your body.  This we know.

Dr. Pawan Grover tells us this falling barometric pressure....

"frequently precedes a storm alters the pressure inside joints. Those connections between bones, held together with tendons and ligaments, are surrounded and cushioned by sacs of fluid and trapped gasses."

So, with the change of weather upon us, be prepared for your body to change.  You may feel more aches and pains, more exhausted, off balance.... your body may demand more rest, more fluids...

Listen to it. Give it what it wants, and enjoy the start to winter that will be coming soon :)