I’ve said it before and I’ll say it again, you can’t treat a chronic condition with medicine alone. When something is going to be with you for the rest of your life then you need to use your life to treat the condition. It’s no good drugging yourself through the pain, you’re looking to prevent the damage from taking place in the first place not treat the symptoms once the damage has already occurred.
Arthritis is an inflammatory condition and as such understanding certain things will help you treat it. The first is that your diet contains both anti-inflammatory foods and inflammatory foods and the second is that you’re going to want to focus on the anti-inflammatory and try and remove the inflammatory. It sounds a little convoluted but worry not, we’ve put together a list of foods you should be trying to bring into your diet, use the following guide to easy your symptoms and improve your day to day life!
Blueberries, cranberries, raspberries, strawberries and blackberries are stuffed full of antioxidants which help to fight disease and repair damage in the body. Try and eat a portion of these a day as it could well help you regain some mobility and ease whatever pain you may be currently experiencing!
Cayenne pepper is one of my favourite things. It’ll boost your metabolism which will help you lose weight, this is great for arthritic patients as being lighter means less stress on your joints. Cayenne is also starting to be used in certain drugs as an anti-inflammatory agent and as such putting as much as you can handle in any food you cook is going to improve your health in two potent ways!
Tart cherries are powerful anti-inflammatory foods which can easy mobility and may well be as much as ten times as powerful as aspirin when it comes to pain relief!
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