This is not a depression specific topic however if you have depression and arthritis life could become too much. If you have trouble with joints you may not exercise and if you're not exercising your health might decline and depression can become worse over time.
I'm going to share this with you and this is a major surprise I discovered. I have removed sugar from my diet and more important I have removed carbohydrates from my diet. Doing this is not that simple and is tricky to learn all and do all that is needed to keep going without running into serious problems.
So after about three weeks I realized that my joints and tendons are incredibly strong. I have trouble with one of my elbows because of an accident and my knees can get fragile and lifting weights becomes difficult because of these problems. Now I can lift weights and I have zero problems, I feel very strong in parts that I once had weakness. I was interested in why this improvement has taken place and found an article about glycation.
Glycation is caused by too much glucose in the blood. It causes joints to break down and other awful things like aging and eye sight going bad.
It is ironic that my mother is a nurse in a rheumatology department (arthritis). My mother is a sugar bug and helps doctors in the prescription drug world. Most of her patients eat diets high in fruit and sugary yogurt to supposedly get the right nutrients to help out their arthritis, yet their problems worsen even with medication. They blame it on age or genetics. Most drink alcohol or the supposedly healthy glass or four of wine a night and coffee in the morning. Both of these are diuretics and vasoconsticters which narrow blood vessels. This is a problem for smaller blood vessels that take blood in small amounts to areas of the body. Not enough blood is getting to these areas and this can contribute along with the glycation, causing severe gout or arthritis. Do I even need to mention nicotine?
Maybe your doctor has hit on some of these points and maybe he has not. Maybe he wrote you a prescription and went to lunch.
Check out my blog about sugar if you need some info to help kick it out. Getting carbs out is possible and it maybe worth it to you if you're suffering from arthritis pain. I do know people with spine issues and they eat sugar, drink caffeine, and alcohol. Surgery after surgery and no fix.
Could there be other reasons that arthritis could occur? I won't argue with that and have no need to. Sure there could be. I will put myself out there and say that these issues that I have covered are the main reasons.
You won't know unless you find out for yourself.
If you're interested in getting the carbs out check out my next post about transitioning.
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