My Alternative RA Life

Some important things you should consider before running out and buying turmeric for those creeky joints.   1. Your turmeric supplement must have Black Pepper (also commonly referred to as Piperine or Bioperine on the back of supplement bottles). Turmeric and black pepper go together like peanut butter and jelly. By taking turmeric with the pepper you increase the ABSORPTION of the turmeric in your body. Therefore making it more effective for your joint pain.   2. I have tried many different Turmeric supplements trying to find the right one and one important thing to keep in mind is look for it in capsule form. Turmeric is STRONG so there’s nothing worse then waking up in the morning to take your vitamins and having to taste this strong spice taste in your mouth while you drink your morning coffee. This one is my favorite:  https://amzn.to/3fYdgRq   3. Be sure to take the recommended dose. Take dose is one capsule two to three times a day. Yes I know it’s a lot but c...

I actually stumbled into Collagen for joint pain by complete accident. I had decided to drastically change my diet in hopes to relieve my joint pain so I was pretty much only eating organic meat, fruit and vegetables. This strategy took a long time to help with the immediate pain, which I was expecting from my research.  I was in pain right then and there so preparing 3 meals a day from scratch was not ideal. That being said I drank a lot of smoothies those first 6 weeks. After a while I started looking for alternative protein options (other then nut butter and avocados) for my smoothies and came across the grass fed collagen suggestion in a blog so I begun adding it to my smoothies. Within 2 weeks my swollen fingers were significantly less swollen. I chalked this up to the diet change and thought I was just lucky it worked faster for me then everyone else. Well after skipping my daily smoothies a few days in a row my fingers swelled right back up. I was crushed! What had chan...