Health and Fitness
Here’s How I Reduced Joint Pain Naturally.
A natural substance helped me fix my painful joints and prevent them from occurring.
This short post is a quick summary of how using two simple dietary intakes contributed to reducing my joint pain.
For numerous years, my chronically inflamed joints caused me a lot of suffering. I introduce a natural substance in two forms that reduce the joint problem and prevent it from re-occurring.
As a bonus, it naturally contributed to fixing my leaky gut and improving my sleep quality during ketogenic diets and intermittent eating regimens.
I used to run and enjoy the great feeling afterward. Cardio was giving me a lot of pleasure. I thought it was the best workout for me on those days.
Nowadays, I have a different workout regime. My focus is on high-intensity interval training, calisthenics, and resistance training to maintain a better hormonal balance.
After a while, my joints started hurting, caused by running and excessive cardio. I also experienced severe muscular back pain caused by arthritis.
The pain and suffering turned out to be unbearable. My body was producing excessive inflammation. I couldn’t move much and had to give up exercising. I started gaining weight.
The awful pain signals in my joints and back woke me from a deep sleep. Restless nights were contributing to the growth of my pain.
I got advice from my medical advisors. They offered me powerful painkillers and anti-inflammatory medicine. The medicine temporarily helped reduce inflammation, but they were upsetting my stomach.
Pain killers were numbing the pain but suppressing the natural alarms of my body.
The pain notified me that something was wrong, but medication shut the messenger and silenced it unnaturally. I was young and uninformed. I did not understand this profound point. All I wanted was to reduce the pain.
The chronic pain in my joints and back continued for over a decade. I felt disabled and couldn’t meet my basic needs.
Rheumatologists confirmed chronic inflammation, causing lower back and joint pain. They prescribed me to use high-dose anti-inflammatory for a lifetime. Each rheumatologist gave me different anti-inflammatory each time.
I used Celebrex, Viox, and Voltaren on those days to reduce pain. They offered me more potent pain killers in injection form if symptoms got worse and stopped me from functioning. I tried injection once, which helped, but it increased my fatigue. Thus I continued with Voltaren most of the time.
Anti-inflammatory medications helped me and gave me a brief breathing space. However, they were creating lots of side effects. My situation was getting worse and worse.
I started gentle swimming, hydrotherapy, and peaceful walks. These gentle exercises helped me a bit, but my pain never ceased.
Limping in the office and social environments lowered my self-esteem. I was trying to hide my limping as much as possible.
I was reading the medical literature and alternative therapies.
One day, I had a consultation with a naturopath. She examined my situation and recommended some lifestyle changes. Initially, she gave me some herbs, but my body did not enjoy plant extracts.
However, this experienced naturopathy doctor introduced me to a new type of protein called hydrolyzed collagen.
I knew the importance of collagen for muscle, skin, connective tissues, tendons, and ligaments, but I did not realize a supplementation may require. My body needed it.
I purchased a high-quality hydrolyzed collagen and drank a few cups every night. Within a month, the pain started diminishing. I was feeling more active, mobile, and flexible.
As I mentioned in my article about fixing my leaky gut, I also started drinking bone broth which contains gelatin.
I fed two birds with one stone. My painful joints and muscles got recovered, and my leaky gut was fixed. And I fed another bird. I will reveal it shortly.
After many years, even though I don’t experience joint and muscle pain anymore, I still drink a few cups of bone broth with a spoon of hydrolyzed collagen every night.
I prepare bone broth at home. I boil the bones in a slow cooker for 24 hours.
These natural substances (hydrolyzed collagen and gelatin) prevent the decay of my joints and protect my gut linings.
When I drink them an hour before bed, they provide sufficient relaxing amino acid glycine contributing to a restful sleep.
Since I have high-quality sleep, my stress got lowered, and reduced stress also helped heal my joints and muscle.
I am healthier and happier with solid joints and muscles.
Thank you for reading my perspectives. I wish you a happy and healthy life.
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