Causes of Hemorrhoids – Food, Environment, Lifestyle

Hemorrhoids represent a disease as old as the beginning of our rational era,  but all this time that has passed didn’t really improve people’s knowledge about the causes of hemorrhoids. Yes, it is known that swollen veins in the anal region and thrombophlebitis, besides constipation, contribute to the developing of hemorrhoids.

Nonetheless, so far it was believed that it had an hereditary component, but this supposition has been infirmed since the members of a family live (eat, drink, have common habits, etc) together for many years, thus are affected in a similar way by the environment factors. The most recent theories about hemorrhoids took into consideration all the data available and the most logical explanation for the causes of hemorrhoids was that this disease was the result of both environmental factors and certain structural individual factors – such as the immune system, predisposition to circulatory or bowel diseases etc. Laboratory tests on animals are hard to be conducted, considering that hemorrhoids cannot be induced to animals very easily. This gives us another hint on the actual causes of hemorrhoids – they are not to be found in viruses or in an intrinsic malfunction of the veins.

When it comes to finding the causes of hemorrhoids, we can easily take a look at what doctors recommends to us: drink enough water in order not to get constipated, exercise more, eat healthy food (fibers, vegetables, etc) and no spicy food at all, quit smoking, don’t sit for long in a chair. In other words, improve your life by actually thinking and organizing every aspect of your lifestyle – what you eat, what you do, how you do things and for how long you do it. Have a balanced life, with no extremes.

These things that constitutes themselves in causes of hemorrhoids are the result of poor health education and poor concern from parents, families or teachers towards the body. We learn from what we see. If we don’t see people who take their body seriously every day and every hour, we won’t do the same – we don’t learn the importance of these aspects. Yes, we read it there and hear it here, but we don’t see other people concerned or valuing such things. Thus, we learn that lifestyle, food or environment do not mean very much.

I chose this holistic approach on the subject because I firmly believe that nothing can improve in our life if we keep doing the same old things, if we preserve our habits. And the hemorrhoids case relies even more on our action and getting out of our comfort zone.  No surgery can be the ultimate cure for such disease, but our decisions.

Of course, you can say that other things may be involved, since there are so many people that eat junk food, have a disastrous lifestyle and live in a polluted, unhealthy environment. We are unique though and those individual structural factors that I mentioned about the causes of hemorrhoids could be exactly what makes the difference between the sick and them – some of us possess a less robust body and are more sensitive to some of these factors. Why do I put so much emphasis on the causes of hemorrhoids? Because every single factor that worsens this disease can be eliminated with a little will power and less commitment to comfort.

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