Natural ways to help joint pain and inflammation.

There are many ways to help reduce joint pain and inflammation such as changing your diet, natural supplements, changing your habits and there are even prescribed medications.

Some dietary changes are:

• Eat lots of fruits, vegetables, and wild seafood. - Add generous amounts of brightly-colored vegetables to your meals and snacks for their fiber and natural anti-inflammatory compounds. Many herbs and foods such as turmeric, oregano, garlic, green tea, blueberries, and ginger contain bioflavonoids and polyphenols that limit free radical production.
• Add essential fatty acids to your diet. - Since it is omega-3 fatty acids that are in shortest supply in our modern diet, we recommend you take a daily supplement with omega-3’s to rebalance your diet. You can also include a small handful of nuts and seeds in your diet daily, especially walnuts and freshly ground flaxseed, which are good sources of omega-3.
• Eliminate certain foods from your diet. - The most important thing to cut out of your diet are sugars and refined carbohydrates. Next would be gluten-containing foods like wheat and corn. These and so many other additives and preservatives are often hidden in processed and packaged foods, making them even more difficult to avoid.

6 Natural Anti-Inflammatory Supplements:

1. Add a high-quality daily multivitamin/mineral complex to your daily intake. Folic acid, other B vitamins and vitamin D have been known to have an anti-inflammatory effect, and vitamins C and E are widely celebrated as powerful antioxidants, countering the harmful effects of free radicals.
2. Bioflavanoids are over 5000 plant chemicals that our bodies metabolize in such a way that offers us strong anti-oxidant, anti-cancer, anti-allergenic and anti-inflammatory effects. Bioflavanoids, also called flavones or flavonoids, include compounds such as quercetin, epicatechin, and oligomeric proanthocyanidins (OPC’s).
3. Boswellia (Boswellia serrata). Also known as Indian frankincense, Boswellia serrata has long been recognized in Ayurvedic medicine for its anti-inflammatory benefits.
4. Ginger (Zingiber officinalis). Valued for centuries the world over for its medicinal qualities, ginger today is being studied by biochemists and pharmacologists interested in its analgesic, anti-inflammatory, anti-nausea and sugar-moderating effects in the body.
5. Turmeric (Curcuma longa), also known as cucurmin, it is a mild COX-2 inhibitor, but works differently from the prescription-strength drugs that can increase your risk of myocardial infarction or stroke. Like Boswellia and ginger, it seems to inhibit joint inflammation by preventing the production of prostaglandins and activation of inflammation-regulating genes through its effects on cell-signalling.
6. Glucosamine–Chondroitin. Glucosamine sulfate and Chondroitin sulfate are important building blocks in healthy cartilage. As we age, our bodies cannot create these compounds as readily. Glucosamine–Chondroitin supplements may help repair damaged tissues, but they are felt to act principally by delaying the progression of joint inflammation and alleviating its symptoms.
    

Other ways to help reduce inflammation:

• Adopt healthy habits and get some physical activity every day. Fuel your body with natural anti-inflammatory agents and keep your joints flexible and well-nourished by exercising daily.
• Relax. Find some time to relax. Relaxation can calm inflammation by lowering cortisol, your stress hormone. Find an activity or group that helps to relieve stress.
• Get plenty of rest it’s the perfect inflammation antidote. You need to sleep between seven and nine hours a night to give your body time to heal from the previous day’s demands.
• Break your bad habits. Substances like alcohol, caffeine, nicotine, and marijuana place a burden on your system, so eliminate them or limit your intake. One of the fastest ways to reduce inflammation is to stop smoking and using stimulants. Try quitting for a week or two and see how good you feel. That will encourage you to quit forever.
• Look into alternative therapies to deal with pain management. If pain medication and steroids are not what you want to use look into other options like physical therapy, massage therapy or even acupuncture.

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