New ways to prevent joint pain....
Today's Post: Friday, 1-8-2010
1. Prevent the damage that causes osteoarthritis.
Here are three ways to prevent osteoarthritis. If your natural cartilage is still protecting your joints and cushioning them properly, you completely avoid one of the main causes of joint pain.
a) Subject them to far less wear by avoiding gaining excess fat or getting rid of any you’ve gained. This helps prevent excess wear in the joints in your feet, knees, and hips. (Many of our posts list ways to avoid gaining excess fat or getting rid of any you’ve gained. And, later this year we will publish an eBook and set up an ongoing online service to help people do this as well.)
b) Take supplements that tend to prevent your cartilage from breaking down. Most people have heard that glucosamine may do this and seems to have some positive effect on reducing joint pain. But the new information I just found out about recently is that a supplement known mostly as an antioxidant and cancer fighter, selenium, was found to help prevent osteoarthritis.
In his email yesterday, Dr Al Sears says that a Press Release from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill on Nov 18, 2005 talks about a study showing that your risk of getting osteoarthritis can be reduced by 15 to 20 % or more by getting enough selenium. Apparently the greater the selenium intake the less likely osteoarthritis became.
Selenium is thought to help prevent cancers by helping your body kill them off in their early stages. The evidence for preventing specific cancers is mixed. But some studies have found that effect. And, since there was a study finding the death rate from some cancers was lower in people taking selenium, selenium may help in treating cancers also. (Note that since selenium is an antioxidant, this may not be the case while undergoing chemotherapy.)
Taking a 200 mcg supplement of selenium each day provides a robust amount of it. And, now we know that if you want to avoid joint pain by not having your cartilage break down, it may make sense to take that much for that reason alone.
(HOWEVER, note that you should NOT take more than that in supplement form.
Except for brazil nuts each of which has more than 200 mcg supplement of selenium, you may get between 5 & 60 mcg a day of selenium from your food if you eat other nuts and organically grown produce. That 200 mcg a day plus that much from your food is very clearly desirable to have and may prevent osteoarthritis and joint pain if you get that much selenium.
But two times that much every day or more begins to be toxic. So only take 200 mcg a day of selenium and not twice that much or more. And, only eat one brazil nut occasionally if you take the 200 mcg of selenium. With selenium more than the optimum amount is worse NOT better.)
c) I’ve not seen the studies myself. But the owner or my local health food store says that taking the supplement, hyaluronic acid, will also help prevent or even partially reverse damage to your cartilage by causing your body to grow new cartilage cells. In one study of knee osteoarthritis doctors actually injected it directly into the knee and stopped the joint pain.
2. Prevent excess inflammation. This can prevent joint pain even if you do have osteoarthritis.
a)Turmeric supplements can prevent inflammation and they also may prevent cancer and Alzheimer’s disease. Turmeric may even help reverse early stage Alzheimer’s disease. You can also take curcumin supplements as this is the main active ingredient in turmeric. And there is enough turmeric in curry to be protective if you eat foods spice with curry often. (Turmeric is what makes curries yellow.)
For joint protection, turmeric not only turns down inflammation, it helps avoid having your body build extra new blood vessels into the inflamed area which also helps avoid having irritated joints become painful.
One man I read of had joint degeneration bad enough that it normally would have caused him pain in his hips. But by taking several capsules a day of turmeric he was able to delay getting hip replacements for many years as he had no pain from it.
b) Taking 2,000 iu a day or more of vitamin D3 has many of the same positive effects as turmeric we now know. And just this week a friend told me he found that taking that much D3 worked so well on his pain and inflammation that we was able to stop taking Motrin for his pain.
c) Taking purified fish oil capsules daily and eating two or three servings a week of a wild caught fish high in omega 3 oils like salmon or sardines, herring, or anchovies also reduces inflammation well enough to enable people taking aspirin or NSAID’s like Advil or Motrin for joint pain to get somewhat better pain relief with the fish and omega 3 supplements than with the pain relievers! (I take two capsules a day of Nordic Naturals’ Omega 3 supplement, one capsule of DHA by Jarrow since that omega 3 has brain protective and enabling effects. And, I eat a can and half of wild caught salmon each week.)
d) As long as you don’t overdo it when you are actively injured, regular exercise actually has been found to reduce levels of inflammation.
e) It also helps to eat very little sugar, no refined grain foods, and only eat meat once or twice a week and then eat either very lean grain fed meat or meat from animals grass fed only which is naturally lean from that diet. Eating that way minimizes inflammation. The foods you avoid cause inflammation.
I recommend you do all of the above. Not only will that tend to prevent or reduce joint pain by reducing your inflammation, reducing your inflammation also has been shown to reduce your risk of heart disease!
3. Prevent gout. Gout literally puts sharp uric acid crystals into your joints!
a) Only eat meat once or twice a week and then eat either very lean grain fed meat or meat from animals grass fed only which are naturally lean from that diet. Eating grain fed meat once or twice a day or more tends to cause gout.
b) Avoid averaging too much alcohol intake per week and per day. Drinking in excess tends to cause gout or make it worse.
For men, don’t drink more than four drinks in a single day even if you aren’t driving or 14 or more in any week and never keep drinking over that for weeks at a time. (Most women by reason of being smaller and not metabolizing alcohol nearly as well should max out at half those numbers.)
c) Eat sour cherries, drink 100 % cherry juice some days, &/or eat organic dried sour cherries or take cherry extract. The active ingredient in sour cherries has been shown to lower the uric acid that causes gout.
d) Also take two or three capsules a day of celery seed extract. The active ingredient in celery seed extract apparently lowers the uric acid that causes gout -- and reduces inflammation too! In addition, you also get a mild blood pressure lowering effect of something like 9 points by taking that much.
I’m pleased to say that I recently began taking two capsules a day of celery seed extract and found that some mild joint pain I’d begun to develop in my joints mostly stopped.
So, there are three ways to stop or reduce joint pain. Keep your cartilage healthy and intact. Minimize any pain by keeping inflammation low. And prevent gout.
None of them require aspirin or NSAID’s to work.
Today's Post: Friday, 1-8-2010
1. Prevent the damage that causes osteoarthritis.
Here are three ways to prevent osteoarthritis. If your natural cartilage is still protecting your joints and cushioning them properly, you completely avoid one of the main causes of joint pain.
a) Subject them to far less wear by avoiding gaining excess fat or getting rid of any you’ve gained. This helps prevent excess wear in the joints in your feet, knees, and hips. (Many of our posts list ways to avoid gaining excess fat or getting rid of any you’ve gained. And, later this year we will publish an eBook and set up an ongoing online service to help people do this as well.)
b) Take supplements that tend to prevent your cartilage from breaking down. Most people have heard that glucosamine may do this and seems to have some positive effect on reducing joint pain. But the new information I just found out about recently is that a supplement known mostly as an antioxidant and cancer fighter, selenium, was found to help prevent osteoarthritis.
In his email yesterday, Dr Al Sears says that a Press Release from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill on Nov 18, 2005 talks about a study showing that your risk of getting osteoarthritis can be reduced by 15 to 20 % or more by getting enough selenium. Apparently the greater the selenium intake the less likely osteoarthritis became.
Selenium is thought to help prevent cancers by helping your body kill them off in their early stages. The evidence for preventing specific cancers is mixed. But some studies have found that effect. And, since there was a study finding the death rate from some cancers was lower in people taking selenium, selenium may help in treating cancers also. (Note that since selenium is an antioxidant, this may not be the case while undergoing chemotherapy.)
Taking a 200 mcg supplement of selenium each day provides a robust amount of it. And, now we know that if you want to avoid joint pain by not having your cartilage break down, it may make sense to take that much for that reason alone.
(HOWEVER, note that you should NOT take more than that in supplement form.
Except for brazil nuts each of which has more than 200 mcg supplement of selenium, you may get between 5 & 60 mcg a day of selenium from your food if you eat other nuts and organically grown produce. That 200 mcg a day plus that much from your food is very clearly desirable to have and may prevent osteoarthritis and joint pain if you get that much selenium.
But two times that much every day or more begins to be toxic. So only take 200 mcg a day of selenium and not twice that much or more. And, only eat one brazil nut occasionally if you take the 200 mcg of selenium. With selenium more than the optimum amount is worse NOT better.)
c) I’ve not seen the studies myself. But the owner or my local health food store says that taking the supplement, hyaluronic acid, will also help prevent or even partially reverse damage to your cartilage by causing your body to grow new cartilage cells. In one study of knee osteoarthritis doctors actually injected it directly into the knee and stopped the joint pain.
2. Prevent excess inflammation. This can prevent joint pain even if you do have osteoarthritis.
a)Turmeric supplements can prevent inflammation and they also may prevent cancer and Alzheimer’s disease. Turmeric may even help reverse early stage Alzheimer’s disease. You can also take curcumin supplements as this is the main active ingredient in turmeric. And there is enough turmeric in curry to be protective if you eat foods spice with curry often. (Turmeric is what makes curries yellow.)
For joint protection, turmeric not only turns down inflammation, it helps avoid having your body build extra new blood vessels into the inflamed area which also helps avoid having irritated joints become painful.
One man I read of had joint degeneration bad enough that it normally would have caused him pain in his hips. But by taking several capsules a day of turmeric he was able to delay getting hip replacements for many years as he had no pain from it.
b) Taking 2,000 iu a day or more of vitamin D3 has many of the same positive effects as turmeric we now know. And just this week a friend told me he found that taking that much D3 worked so well on his pain and inflammation that we was able to stop taking Motrin for his pain.
c) Taking purified fish oil capsules daily and eating two or three servings a week of a wild caught fish high in omega 3 oils like salmon or sardines, herring, or anchovies also reduces inflammation well enough to enable people taking aspirin or NSAID’s like Advil or Motrin for joint pain to get somewhat better pain relief with the fish and omega 3 supplements than with the pain relievers! (I take two capsules a day of Nordic Naturals’ Omega 3 supplement, one capsule of DHA by Jarrow since that omega 3 has brain protective and enabling effects. And, I eat a can and half of wild caught salmon each week.)
d) As long as you don’t overdo it when you are actively injured, regular exercise actually has been found to reduce levels of inflammation.
e) It also helps to eat very little sugar, no refined grain foods, and only eat meat once or twice a week and then eat either very lean grain fed meat or meat from animals grass fed only which is naturally lean from that diet. Eating that way minimizes inflammation. The foods you avoid cause inflammation.
I recommend you do all of the above. Not only will that tend to prevent or reduce joint pain by reducing your inflammation, reducing your inflammation also has been shown to reduce your risk of heart disease!
3. Prevent gout. Gout literally puts sharp uric acid crystals into your joints!
a) Only eat meat once or twice a week and then eat either very lean grain fed meat or meat from animals grass fed only which are naturally lean from that diet. Eating grain fed meat once or twice a day or more tends to cause gout.
b) Avoid averaging too much alcohol intake per week and per day. Drinking in excess tends to cause gout or make it worse.
For men, don’t drink more than four drinks in a single day even if you aren’t driving or 14 or more in any week and never keep drinking over that for weeks at a time. (Most women by reason of being smaller and not metabolizing alcohol nearly as well should max out at half those numbers.)
c) Eat sour cherries, drink 100 % cherry juice some days, &/or eat organic dried sour cherries or take cherry extract. The active ingredient in sour cherries has been shown to lower the uric acid that causes gout.
d) Also take two or three capsules a day of celery seed extract. The active ingredient in celery seed extract apparently lowers the uric acid that causes gout -- and reduces inflammation too! In addition, you also get a mild blood pressure lowering effect of something like 9 points by taking that much.
I’m pleased to say that I recently began taking two capsules a day of celery seed extract and found that some mild joint pain I’d begun to develop in my joints mostly stopped.
So, there are three ways to stop or reduce joint pain. Keep your cartilage healthy and intact. Minimize any pain by keeping inflammation low. And prevent gout.
None of them require aspirin or NSAID’s to work.
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posted by David at 1:55 PM
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I have been taking the tart cherry capsules for my arthritis for the past year and they work wonders. My doctor recommended the Fruit Advantage tart cherry after she learned about them at a medical conference. She said she is recommending tart cherry to all of her arthritis patients.
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