Are you in pain?

Pain, arthritis, and inflammation are often signs your body is struggling, sometimes in ways you can’t see. One key area? Insulin resistance—when your body’s cells don’t respond well to insulin.

This leaves more sugar and bad fats floating around, which then send out distress signals, sparking persistent, low-level inflammation. Over time, this “background fire” makes joint pain and arthritis worse and has even been linked directly to Auto-immune diseases.

Understanding your unique biology helps target these issues. Methylation testing (how your body uses B vitamins, repairs DNA, and manages inflammation) reveals genetic or vitamin shortfalls.

Checking for deficiencies (B12, vitamin D, iron) and toxins (like lead, bad gut bacteria, chemicals) uncovers other sneaky inflammation triggers. Hormone tests round out the picture—imbalances in estrogen, testosterone, cortisol, or thyroid hormones can all magnify pain, stiffness, or fatigue.

Lifestyle is your healing playground—start with what you eat! Cutting out ultra-processed foods (UPFs), sugar, wheat, corn, soy, fructose, and common seed oils (soybean, corn, cottonseed, sunflower, safflower) can dramatically lower inflammation.

These foods can aggravate your immune system and ramp up pain. Going grain-light—or skipping wheat, corn, and soy altogether—has shown anti-inflammatory benefits, particularly for sensitive people. UPFs in particular are tied to high inflammation and increased disease risk.

Movement matters, but it should be enjoyable, not punishing. Go for daily walks, easy bike rides, a swim, or dance—activities that keep you moving without stress on your joints. Add in resistance training a couple of times a week; focus on slow, controlled movements (“anti-glycolytic” style) rather than heavy, high intensity workouts.

Don’t underestimate sleep—7–9 hours per night keeps your inflammation in check. Tack on daily stress management (breathing, journaling), and aim for at least four hours of direct sunlight per week. Sunlight itself—beyond just boosting vitamin D—has direct anti-inflammatory effects on the immune system.

ACTIONABLE ITEMS

Action	Minimum Weekly Target
Walking	30min/day (3–4hrs/week)
Resistance Training	20min, 3x/week
Fun, Low-Impact Cardio	1–2x/week (bike, swim, dance)
Sleep	7–9hrs/night (asleep no later than 10pm)
Stress Management	10min/day
Direct Sunlight	4+hrs/week
Diet	No UPF, avoid wheat-corn-soy, avoid top 5 seed oils

By following this action plan and focusing on these root causes, you’ll give your body a real shot at feeling better, moving freely, and reducing inflammation from the inside out.

This is attacking the risk markers = root causes and the vast majority of people can put arthritis into remission. 

How long should this take? The body can become insulin sensitive in 2 weeks of correct eating.

To eliminate most of the symptoms could take 3-6months - but most people love the pain free experience this can lead to !

Stay healthy and happy  !

(This is NOT medical advice - purely looking at science, evidence, history, human physiology to discover the truth)