Surprising Way to Relieve Knee Pain –
From a Common Supplement
If you have arthritis in your knee, you know how painful it is just to walk across the room. Instead of opting for surgery or pain-masking medications, I may have another solution. One that treats the cause, not the symptoms. The solution may be for you to simply take more of a common nutrient. And it’s probably a nutrient you don’t normally associate with pain relief.
In fact, increasing your intake (if you’re deficient) could reduce your pain considerably. That’s what the research presented at the American College of Rheumatology’s Annual Scientific Meeting says.
Their researchers recently conducted a two-year trial on 100 people in their 60s. All of them had pain in their knees. The researchers tested the participants’ vitamin D levels at the beginning of the study. They found that 47% of them were deficient. In fact, their levels were below 30 ng/ml (optimal levels are above 50 mg/ml).
The researchers found that this deficiency contributed to their pain and difficulty in walking. The lower their levels of vitamin D, the greater their pain - and the slower they walked.
The researchers concluded that there is a clear association between low vitamin D levels and pain in your knees.
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