Help Arthritis Ireland by buying Clarins Body Oil

Now, for every Clarins Tonic Body Treatment Oil sold, CLARINS will make a donation to Arthritis Ireland to fund research in Ireland. For more than 25 years, Clarins has been committed to supporting arthritis research. Last year, in partnership with the Fondation Arthritis, Clarins launched an international search for research projects in order to identify and finance the best one which focused on how environmental factors might in influence joint disease, and the winner picked was the MIRIAD project.

MIRIAD stands for MIcrobiome Research Initiative on spondyloArthritis and Disbyosis. Led by Prof. Maxime Bréban from Ambroise-Paré Hospital in Paris (France) along with the National Institute for Agricultural Research (INRA) and the Institute of Biotechnology in Flanders (Belgium), the MIRIAD project will study the in influence diet and the environment might have on inflammatory rheumatic diseases via intestinal flora.

So what is Micro flora?

This term refers to all of the micro-organisms found in the intestines that help ensure essential functions such as digestion while protecting against “bad” bacteria. When we are ill, is it because our intestinal micro flora is unbalanced? If we often hear “you are what you eat”, is there a link between micro flora and food? If so, what is that link? And what if, by adapting our diet, we can also help relieve a disease’s symptoms?

How does Arthritis affect people?

• 93% of people in France (where this study was conducted) say they suffer from painful joints

• 1 out of 2 people say they suffer from pain so strongly that it impacts their daily life.

All too often associated with old age, but arthritis can also affect young adults, teens and children (4000 in France) and sadly even newborns. Sadly, there are not many effective treatments available which is why the Fondation Arthritis has supported this kind of research for the past 27 years and hopes to be able to offer real therapies for these sometimes fatal diseases

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