Hydrate.
- Find it hard to drink enough water? Here are some ideas to get it in you.
- Have water around you all the time. At home, have a jug of water out on the table so that every time you walk past it, you have some.
- If you’re out on the go all day, keep some water bottles with you, or in your car (ideally not plastic ones).
- Don’t like the taste?
- Try it cold, keep some water in a closed glass container in the fridge at all times.
- Add some fresh lemon or lime to your water. Even try cucumber, mint, and or a variety of fruit such as berries.
- Drink one tall glass of water first thing when you wake up daily.
Move Your Body! Do it Often.
- Get off your butt often! And when you’re stuck on your butt, keep shifting your posture around.
- Motion is Lotion. Have a daily mobility routine. It causes the synovial lining of the joint to produce new synovial fluid; which is the lubricating oil and nutrition for the joint.
- Chiropractic is Key here, Chiropractic will help lubricate those rusty hinges and help you gain leaps and bounds with your mobility.
Eat Clean Food
- Your tissue and joint quality is directly related to the quality of the food you eat and drink.
- Foods with an ingredients list of numbers and things you don’t recognise are not nourishing.
- Eat lots of vegetables and fruits. Make them your snacks to increase consumption.
- No refined sugar
- Limit grains that have not been prepared properly (soaked or fermented, such as genuine sourdough bread - note that most store bought sourdough is not genuine, do your homework)
- Daily Bone Broth is a great way to get a hit of nourishment for your body. It is my “multivitamin”. Just try making it, it’s much simpler than it seems.
Don’t Sweat The Small Stuff
- Don’t stress about the things you can’t control. It will unnecessarily increase your cortisol hormone levels and therefore inflammation, which in turn will flare up your arthritis.
Supplement Nutrients During Transition
- The goal is to get all the good stuff from your food. This is a work in progress. As you transition to improved clean eating, supplement in some key nutrients that will help reduce your inflammation. These include:
- Fish Oil (Omega 3 Fats come naturally from fish, and also from the fat of wild and pasture raised animals - Not grain fed animals)
- Vitamin D (naturally from the sun and cod liver oil)
- Curcummin (naturally from Tumeric, add it to your food in cooking or drinks)
