Arthritis

Here's an article by James Crownover, MD called Your Joints on Cake. They've connected osteoarthritis to insulin resistance and a high carb diet. Wow. crownmd.net/your-joints-on-... Yet another reason to go low carb. If the admins would rather not put in a link, just google Your Joints on Cake.

[Lesley1234567]

Too much information, some I don’t fully understand and it scares the life out of me.

I thought I was fairly active but after reading this article clearly not.

I don’t have any chronic disease or arthritis. But after reading this article I feel I should or they are waiting around the corner, if I don’t do something drastic about my exercise regime.

Having said that I have spent best part of an hour sitting down in one position reading this article.

Might just stop reading stuff like this and just get on with living.

Does anyone else feel as I do?

[cheritorrox in reply to Lesley1234567]

A lot of the science floated past me but I was interested in sarcopenia - I've definitely lost muscle and strength in upper body (not that I ever had much!).

Since I started new lifestyle back in June (LCHF from August) it includes loads of walking, pilates and swimming. Legs feel well-exercised and generally I guess everything is more toned, but I decided to add going to the gym to try for at least stronger arms!

It's only been a few weeks and most weeks I only go twice so progress so far is very slow (but novelty value hasn't worn off yet plus it's friendly). I'm really bad at doing anything in the house but there are lots of videos on Youtube - here's one example for arms which doesn't have a jarring US accent (Aussie instead!)

youtube.com/watch?v=Q_fpbv3...(Not working as expected?)

It's easy to think bloody hell not yet another thing to worry about (my thoughts, not suggesting you feel the same) but I think the bottom line of what the guy says makes a lot of sense.

[Daisychain12 in reply to Lesley1234567]

Yes. Definitely. But it’s happy medium. We need education xxx

[cheritorrox]

I followed it thru to the "Why your doctor should tell you to lift" which is also interesting.

[Lesley1234567 in reply to cheritorrox]

I do feel the same and what he says does make sense. Like you my upper body strength is weak, I did quite a bit of walking but slowly dropped off. I have recently begun to increase the amount I do and I am active around the house and garden too. I don’t do any real lifting though. I think building your strength is similar to losing weight a gradual process.

[cheritorrox in reply to Lesley1234567]

Yep - just got to keep at it! It's quite funny when I go on the machines and reset the weight from 15kg to 1.5! I'm going to try to get in routine of doing the exercises above every non-gym day with 2 litre water bottles.

[Lesley1234567 in reply to cheritorrox]

That’s a good idea making your own gym equipment, I think I shall give it a try

[cheritorrox in reply to Lesley1234567]

Til down to last 2 bottles for drinking....

[Lesley1234567 in reply to cheritorrox]

I have two empty milk bottles so I shall try those, filled with water of course. Tried to do plank lasted ten seconds. I used to be able to do that, but I can still touch the floor with my fingers with knees straight

[cheritorrox in reply to Lesley1234567]

Have you seen the plank challenge started a couple of days ago?

healthunlocked.com/nhsweigh...

Might be a bit of motivation (definitely best tried when warmed up!)

[Lesley1234567 in reply to cheritorrox]

Yes that’s why I gave it a go, I could do this not so long ago with very little effort too, and the side plank. I have filled my bottles, they weigh a kilo each, left them on my kitchen worktop to do as and when.

[Hidden]

Yeah, the science goes straight over my head; so many of these people are way too technical for me to understand. I just thought his theory is interesting and perhaps another reason to go LCHF. There are lots of conditions that are now suspected of being triggered by a high carb diet, but it's all very new.

[cheritorrox in reply to Hidden]

The times they are a-changin ... slowly! I think some people get put off by strict keto but would be surprised at what they can eat on say 50g carbs a day. I guess breaking habits of spuds bread pasta takes some getting used to tho (not too bad for me as I didn't eat large amounts of them anyway)

[G1nny]

Thank you, just finished reading it. Guess I’ll be signing up for resistance training.