ARTHRITIS DEFENCE: DIET, SUPPLEMENTS AND EXERCISE

Diet:

•   Avoid coffee, tea, soft drinks, sugar, alcohol, and all refined carbohydrates

•   Increase your intake of vegetables.

•   Increase your intake of vegetables

•   Eat more raw vegetables.

•   Exclude foods in the nightshade family of vegetables, such as potatoes, tomatoes, and aubergines among others.

•   Increase your intake of vitamin-C-rich foods. Arthritis is essentially a collagen disease, and vitamin С is necessary for the formation of collagen.

Supplements:

•   High-potency multiple vitamin with chelated minerals (time release preferred), a.m. and p.m.

•   High-potency chelated multiple mineral, a.m. and p.m.

•   Vitamin C, 1,000 mg., 1-3 times daily (if you take aspirin, you’re losing a lot of vitamin C)

•   Vitamin В complex, 100 mg., 1-3 times daily

•   Vitamin B12, 100-200 mcg. daily

•   Niacin, 50-500 mg., daily

•   Yucca tabs, 1-3, 3 times daily

•   Pantothenic acid, 100 mg., 3 times daily

•   Vitamin A, 10,000 IU, 3 times daily for 5 days (stop for 2)

•   Vitamin D, 400 IU, 3 times daily for 5 days (stop for 2), or cod-liver oil, 1-2 tbsp., 3 times daily (if capsules, 3 caps, 3 times daily) Again, take for 5 days and stop for 2.

Exercise:

It’s true that inflammation is reduced by rest, but too much rest can cause tendons to weaken and bones to soften, while exercise can relieve pain, strengthen endurance, and prevent arthritic conditions from worsening.

Find a doctor qualified to design a personalized exercise programme that’s suited to your individual needs and abilities. Your local arthritis foundation should be able to recommend one.

After consulting with a physician, find ways to incorporate exercise into your daily routine.

Avoid exercise that puts a burden on weight- bearing joints (tennis, jogging, and so on), and think more about activities such as swimming or yoga.

Keep your weight down to avoid unnecessary stress on joints.

Keep up a regular sex life. Sex can act as a pain reliever, according to Dr. Jessie E. Potter, director of the American National Institute for Human Relationships, through adrenal stimulation. Any kind of sexual arousal – self-stimulation, petting, oral sex – leads to cortisone release and can give patients from four to six hours of relief from arthritis pain.

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