Many silver-haired people will have joint pain due to degenerative arthritis. If you want to relieve the pain, you can actually rely on food to relieve it. Nutritionists suggest that in addition to eating more fresh fruits and vegetables, you can also eat two kinds of food, one is spicy food, and the other is food containing omega-3 fatty acids.

1. What food can you eat to recuperate your body?

Eat more fresh food+spicy ingredients

Liu Yili, a nutritionist, said that if you want to prevent degenerative arthritis, you should eat more fresh foods, especially fruits and vegetables, which contain many phytochemicals and B vitamins, which are important components that can inhibit inflammation. There are also spicy ingredients such as onion, ginger, garlic and onion, which can relieve pain because they contain sulfur and have antioxidant effect.

Eat more foods containing omega-3 fatty acids.

In addition, you can eat more foods containing omega-3 fatty acids. Nutritionist Liu Yili pointed out that foods containing omega-3 fatty acids can also inhibit inflammation in the body, while foods containing omega-3 are mostly deep-sea fish, especially small fish such as saury and salmon, and there is no problem of heavy metal deposition, or nuts also contain omega-3 fatty acids. Eating one tablespoon a day is enough, and nuts can also inhibit inflammation.

Foods containing collagen can be eaten in moderation.

In addition, foods containing collagen also help to prevent degenerative arthritis; Nutritionist Liu Yili pointed out that foods containing collagen include pigskin, fish skin and chicken feet, but when you eat these foods, you will also consume fat. Therefore, in addition to moderate consumption, you should also eat more vegetables.

Staying up late, smoking, drinking, sweets and stress are all incentives.

There are still many problems that can lead to degenerative arthritis; Nutritionist Liu Yili further pointed out that besides aging, staying up late, smoking, drinking, loving sweets and stress are all causes of degenerative arthritis. Therefore, don't forget to avoid these factors when supplementing these foods to improve.

2. What is degenerative arthritis?

Degenerative arthritis refers to the degeneration, thinning or disappearance of cartilage after long-term use, which leads to the decrease of joint's ability to absorb impact. When the joint is stressed or used more, it will feel joint pain.

Due to the disappearance of cartilage, bones directly collide with bones. Through X-ray examination, it can be found that the edge of the joint will produce sharp protrusions, commonly known as "bone spurs". Spur is a manifestation of degeneration, sometimes spontaneous arthritis occurs, and patients often wake up in the middle of the night. Degenerative arthritis mostly occurs in joints with large load and activity, such as hip joint, knee joint, interphalangeal joint at the end of fingers, ankle joint, cervical vertebra and lumbar vertebra in the spine, etc., which are all prone to occur. According to statistics, men are more likely to occur in the hip joint, while women are mostly knee joints.

The typical symptoms of degenerative arthritis are: patients often feel joint stiffness and pain, especially when they get up, and gradually get better after a period of activities, but they move or stand for too long. It hurts again. If not.