I read this in the latest AARP magazine, and was quite surprised, but intrigued.
It's in an article about Caregivers, and says that caregivers have greatly elevated levels of a chemical that's linked to chronic inflammation, and puts them at risk for heart disease, arthritis, diabetes, CANCER, and other diseases.
It's interesting to me because I was a caregiver to my Mom last year, and it was extremely stressful.
I was dx'ed with IDC just a couple months after Mom passed, and my sister believes that the stress of taking care of Mom caused me to have BC.
I know it probably contributed to my health decline, but wasn't seriously considering that to be "a cause" of my BC.
Now I'm wondering.
Not that I'd change that. Mom needed me and I'd do it 100 times over, no matter what the cost to me.
This just has me curious and wondering what that "chemical" is.
http://www.aarpmagazine.org/family/c...caregiver.html
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