John Arts Abundant Living www.johnarts.co.nz

I often say I have the best job in the world. I get to help the courageous people who've been prepared to make often considerable changes in order to maintain, regain or just improve their health. It's a terrible cliché but there really are no free lunches with good nutrition.

For example, during the last four months I've been helping someone with significant arthritis pain in a knee. This had reduced her mobility to the point where she could no longer exercise and lived on painkillers.

With diet we added a range of anti-inflammatory compounds with antioxidant-dense foods, less sugar and carbohydrates and significantly boosted anti-inflammatory fats from flax seeds, almonds, walnuts, oily fish, olive oil and avocado.

We then added a broad spectrum multi antioxidant/mineral and vitamin complex. To this we added a stabilised Omega 3 fish oil booster to reduce tissue inflammation around the damaged knee joint.

For specific joint support we added a complex of high grade chondroitin with a 95 per cent turmeric extract. We then added a temporary anti-inflammatory complex to rapidly reduce joint inflammation. This included potent anti-inflammatory agents such as ActiVin grape seed extract, resveratrol, acai extract and others.

After four months she's now mostly pain-free and for the first time in years no longer needs painkillers.

You can see the delight on her face now she's able to start doing the things she loves. As a bonus her general wellbeing has improved significantly.

The really interesting thing is the arthritis which caused the pain is still there. Her cartilage is still worn and damaged. What we have done is shut down unwanted inflammation. The result is significantly improved mobility. Give me a call or email john@abundant.co.nz if you need more information. Join my full weekly newsletter at www.abundant.co.nz

John Arts is a qualified nutritional medicine practitioner and founder of Abundant Health. Contact John on 0800 423 559.