Super Food For Joint Pains

Joint pain is becoming more and more common and being temporally relieved by a range of 'over the counter' prescriptions or even surgeries. The most common form of joint pain is known as osteoarthritis and can be caused by family history, obesity or an injury. I have two friends in their 20s who both struggle with osteoarthritis and have both found not only temporary relief but also ongoing benefits to their joint pains through natural medications, modifications to their diets and exercise.

Most of us have grandparents who have suffered from major joint breakages or damage to knees, hips and shoulders where surgery has been involved and joints have been replaced with foreign bodies designed to outlive in some cases the original joints.

So shouldn't we be thinking of how we can keep our joints healthy now? Not simply maintaining their conditions or for those of us with friends and family who are suffering from joint pains and osteoarthritis finding ways for them to improve their health and reduce the pain they are suffering to create a better future for them.

So what are the answers nature has provided for us to relieve and repair joint pains?
The first and cheapest is increasing your water intake, one of the causes of joint pain can be dehydration (not enough water getting to the joints). Your body is made up of 80% water and this needs replenishing.
Ginger is a root that contains numerous medical benefits including salicylates. Salicylates is a compound found in ginger that acts as an anti-inflammatory and as an added bonus it is aids digestion.

Gelatin is a natural compound commonly used is cooking to set desserts among other things. It contains the amino acids praline and glycine. In school we are taught amino acids are the building blocks of protein, they also in this combination help rebuild cartilage. Cartilage is the rubbery substance found is joints to stop the bones from painfully rubbing against each other.

There are also many recipes and websites available to us now thought the wonder of internet that stock a range of products combining natural ingredients to proactively reduce the pain of joint pain.