What is fibromyalgia?
 What causes fibromyalgia?
 How does Ribocor help in fibromyalgia?

What is fibromyalgia?
There is still relatively little known about fibromyalgia although the word means pain in the tendons, ligaments and muscles. Fibromyalgia pain is reported to affect the whole body, sometimes causing muscles to twitch or giving a burning sensation. The disease is more common among women than men and most sufferers agree that the symptoms resemble that of a bad flu virus or a post viral state. Experts in the field believe that chronic fatigue syndrome may be closely linked to fibromyalgia syndrome with some even concluding that they are in fact one and the same.

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What causes fibromyalgia?
There is very little known about what causes fibromyalgia and furthermore the disease in general. Women tend to be more susceptible but the disease can occur in either men or women and at any age. More commonly fibromyalgia strikes women in their thirties and forties and doctors believe that the disease can be triggered by certain events. People who develop fibromyalgia as a result of these events or diseases are described by doctors as having already been predisposed to the condition.

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How does Ribocor help in fibromyalgia?
Fibromyalgia is a syndrome that is manifested by generalized muscle pain and additional systemic symptoms of fatigue, tenderness and stiffness in multiple joints, sleep disturbance, and alterations in bowel activity.

Ribocor has been shown to improve the energy recovery time in skeletal muscle and to relieve fatigue, soreness, and stiffness after intense exercise. Ribose is a naturally occurring carbohydrate with documented medical benefits in patients with cardiovascular disease.

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