Keep your joints pain free....Today's post:  Tuesday, 9-18-2018

1.  High chronic inflammation CAUSES your joint cartilage to break down and increases the pain when it does.

But you CAN turn it off!

So, when you learn how to turn your inflammation from very high to very low and do it, you stop this process AND what damage you have stops hurting or hurts dramatically less.

a)  Most unfortunately many people still eat many foods each day made out of refined grain hybrid wheat flour.  And, they use cooking oils and oils in their salad dressings like corn oil and soy oil and foods containing canola oil.

They eat meat and dairy foods from cattle fed grain.

This causes their bodies to have over 20 times too much pro-inflammatory omega 6 oil.

Worse, they often eat no fish high in omega 3 oil or take omega 3 supplements.

b) This is very well described in the book Anti-Cancer because the resulting high chronic inflammation acts like Miracle Grow for some kinds of cancers.

Dr Servan-Schreiber found that stopping ALL intake of these foods and semi-foods and eating organic vegetables, mostly the ones like onions and broccoli and Brussels Sprouts that prevent cancer removes the excessive omega 6 oils and prevents or slows many cancers.

He also found that restoring the one to one balance of omega 6 and omega 3 oils by also eating wild caught fish high in omega 3 oils and or taking omega 3 supplements derived from such fish drops chronic inflammation to low.

And, he found that eating turmeric and taking curcumin both turns cancers down or off plus reducing chronic excess inflammation to very low.

(Ginger is a cousin botanically to turmeric and does much the same thing.)

Eating dairy foods and meat and eggs from animals fed only grass or their natural foods and zero grains also helps with this.

c) Besides dropping your risk of cancer and stopping joint destruction and pain, these actions also help prevent Alzheimer’s disease and heart disease!

2.  Taking boswellia and eating things that help your body build collagen begins to restore your joints ability to operate without friction!

(Nature’s Way makes a boswellia tablet; and Solaray makes a boswellia capsule. I take two a day of each one.   Boswellia is the anti-inflammatory and joint restoring ingredient of Frankincense.)

Vitamin C from the organic vegetables and supplements helps your body build healthy cartilage.

Eating organic berries and cherries and taking their extracts such as bilberry and grape seed and cherry and cranberry extract can help your body build healthy cartilage even when vitamin C is low.  Getting both really helps keep your joints sound and helps restore damage.

Taking the amino acid proline and glycine in tri-methyl glycine provides the proteins you body uses to make collagen.

3.  New research found that taking the unusually protective supplement n-acetyl-cysteine or NAC for short PREVENTS joint breakdown.

Besides high chronic inflammation, excess oxidation causes your joints to break down.  NAC was found to block excess oxidation so well it prevents joint break down.

This research was publicized by a listing in Medical News Today this past Saturday, 9-15.

Taking one or two 500 mg capsules a day of NAC also helps you recover faster from colds and flu and survive bad strains of the flu by blocking some of the oxidative damage the viruses cause.

Doing this also is known to help prevent Alzheimer’s disease.

So we now have 3 sets of things that you can do that are proven to prevent joint damage and even reverse it.  They also remove any joint pain or turn it down so low you can usually ignore it.

4.  The over the counter pain pills have side effects like liver damage and increased risk of heart attacks and fatal internal bleeding.  Worse, the NSAID’s have been found to increase joint damage!

So they are actually contraindicated for joint pain! To the extent they work, they are symptom removers only.

Curcumin and ginger reduce inflammation well and reduce pain about as well as these OTC pills.  And, they actually help remove the cause of the pain!

So taking all these 3 actions allows you to avoid the OTC pain removers short of needing a stronger prescription pain killer.

And, since the stronger pain killers are dangerous and addictive, doing all three of these things well is likely a much safer alternative.