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As always, I will be looking at everything from a mind, body, and spirited perspective.

We will start with your lifestyle, diet, and exercise:

 Exercises that are Non-weight bearing exercises like swimming or cycling would help.

 Doing weights is essential for your bone health and for your joints. Walking, Nia Dance or other dance forms and team ball sport would be good for you too.

 Yoga, Pilates, and Nia Dance again are Resistance, non-impact exercises that help you to build your core strength whilst giving stability and balance to your joints. These movement forms will also help you to reduce stress levels, which is super important. If you are stressed, your cortisol levels are high, which in turn causes inflammation in your body and causes pain in your joints. When you move gently and enjoy yourself, you release endorphins that make you healthy and happy.

 Making sure your body is in the normal range helps your joint too. Obesity contributes to a large percentage of joint pains.

 Breathing exercises and relaxation is also a good way to destress and help your mind, body, and spirit.

 How about a fortnightly massage if you are able to afford this?

 Alkalise your body with alkaline foods and cut out the acid-forming foodsOne example of alkaline foods are leafy greens and you should do well to eliminate acidic foods like sugar, meat, coffee.Vitamin D, Calcium, Magnesium, and Selenium levels should be at the optimal level too.

Here are three supplements that can help your joints:

 Glucosamine

 Chondroitin,

 Methylsulfonylmethane (MSM)